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The period 12th May to 12th June has been an average month for mapping Openreach full fibre ready for service (RFS) premises with us adding 259,240 to the footprint which is now standing at 22,776,815 premises. The goal of 25 million premises passed by December 2026 means another 2.25 million premises need to built and […]

Our broadband maps have been updated and now feature the data from the Project Gigabit Open Market Review with the data being collected in January 2026 and released as a 31 million row data set in the last couple of days. The January 2026 data joins the previous sets from Sept 2025, May 2025, Jan […]

Richard Tang has released the most recent of his interview series, this time with Juliette Scott of Openreach. Juliette is the Senior Manager for all IP Migrations and Exchange Exit. This means that she is in charge of getting the 5,500 telephone exchanges reduced to a new estate of just 959. The PSTN (public switched […]

The latest BDUK delivery performance report has been published by BDUK. The data shows how many premises in the UK have received a gigabit-capable broadband connection due to a BDUK subsidy. The data covers the period April 2025 to March 2026. The headline estimate for the number of gigabit broadband capable connections that BDUK has […]

With the first Scottish game set to start at 2am UK time on 14th June it is likely that many Scottish fans will stay up to watch it live, to avoid the usual app alerts giving away any result. The first England match is 17th June and with a 9pm kick-off is likely to not […]

BDUK has advised that the National Rolling Open Market Review (NR OMR) has now closed. It collected data from the 6th January to 6th February 2026, with BDUK requesting suppliers to submit their national broadband infrastructure plans so that they can confirm where gigabit broadband exists and where providers plan to build it over the […]

Ofcom has taken an unusual step in that it has written to online service providers who operate in the UK about the increased risk of their services being used to stir up hatred and promote violence. This is specifically regarding civil unrest in Belfast. This is not the first time that Ofcom have taken the […]

Connect Fibre was awarded the Project Gigabit contract for Derbyshire back in 2023, and the contract has just been modified to increase the number of premises covered and due to see Gigabit broadband (i.e. full fibre) delivered. The new contract sees an increase in the value by £1,577,558 to £35,011,555 and covering an additional 790 […]