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Openreach full fibre is by our reckoning available to 44% of premises across the UK now. We take our monthly look at whether this is all new build homes or whether older housing stock is seeing Openreach build full fibre to them too.

The XGS-PON services built by nexfibre and currently sold by Virgin Media O2 are now available to parts of Crewe and a larger area of Sandbach.

A resident was told to "get used to it" after IX Wireless installed a new pole outside her property. The firm appear to be overbuilding three other gigabit networks which are available in Burnage, an area of south Manchester

700 homes in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland have been taken offline by a cable theft of over 400m of copper from the telephone network.

Millisle, Co. Down is the latest town to see Fibrus FTTP coverage added, providing 1,268 premises with a fibre broadband option.

517 exchange locations have been announced by Openreach as the next areas to receive full-fibre broadband. 2.7 million homes and businesses, including 400,000 rural areas are in this latest batch set to be upgraded by the end of 2026.

Nexfibre has received a fine for roadwork offences in Bridgewater. Somerset

Openreach have requested network operators using their duct network in the Surrey village of Bramley to refrain from accessing the network "under any circumstances" due to a leak of petrol into their underground assets.

Hard to reach areas of Cheshire are to receive fibre broadband from Freedom Fibre after the company has been awarded a £43 million contract as part of the government's Project Gigabit rollout.

Consultancy firm EightAdvisory has put out a strategy document providing solutions for alt-nets to increase penetration and profitability.