Weekly Brief – 22nd August 2025
Here are some shorter articles that we haven’t covered otherwise this week: TOTSCo 2026 pricing TOTSCo have confirmed that pricing for using the switching platform will remain unchanged for 2026, and stay at the current £0.28 unit charge per residential customer and £350 subscription fee per RCPID. River Severn Partnership Completes Mobile Coverage Survey The […]
Grain arrives in Nottingham and is expanding its full fibre service in City
Grain Connect has announced that is FTTP network in Nottingham is expanding. Roadwork permits indicate the expansion is extending the roads already serviced by the altnet in the Sneinton away of the City. Looking at the footprint we’ve mapped so far it is almost a complete overlap with the Openreach full fibre rollout in the […]
Latest 200,000 premises from Virgin Media O2 Project Mustang rollout mapped
After a confusing Tuesday when Virgin Media O2 made full fibre announcements for 5 different urban areas, we believe we have resolved the confusion. The short version is that these areas have seen Project Mustang rollout and therefore for those whose home has never had a coax cable service before any install will now be […]
Children’s Commissioner calls for VPN sign-ups to be age verified
The Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has told BBC Newsnight that she believes VPNs should be required to verify the age of anyone subscribing to their service. This follows the massive uptake of VPN services following the Online Safety Act’s age verification requirements kicking in. The website 4chan yesterday told Ofcom where to stick […]
Virgin Media O2 announces 280,000 more homes with access to full fibre UPDATED
Virgin Media has announced some precise figures for its full fibre rollout in 5 urban areas: Immediately on seeing the Belfast figure we knew the figure was a mistake by Virgin Media O2 or they are counting the combined footprint from the nexfibre joint venture XGS-PON roll-out, and the Project Mustang upgrade programme overbuilding the […]
AllPoints Fibre Networks the FTTP network built but hard to buy access to
The news last week that the retailer Brillband previously acquired by AllPoints Fibre Network (APFN) is now selling via the aquila wholesale platform prompted us to look at what is happening to the old Giganet, Swish Fibre and Jurassic Fibre footprints. Between July 2024 and July 2025 the footprint we’ve been able to track as […]
Ofcom issues 4chan a provisional notice under Online Safety Act
The battle is warming up with regards to the Online Safety Act, as 4chan has responded to the provisional notice of contravention that Ofcom issued to the sites operator recently. “Provisional Decision: Information Notice duties In accordance with section 130 of the Online Safety Act 2023, we have today issued 4chan Community Support LLC with […]
GoFibre raises £125m of funding to support full fibre rollout to 130,000 premises
Funding is now in place to support two Project Gigabit contracts that GoFibre holds in Scotland. The funding comprising of £45 million from the Scottish National Investment Bank and £80 million from Hamburg Commercial Park. “This is a significant step-change in GoFibre’s position both as a major independent broadband provider, and as a significant company […]
Three 5G Router firmware bug resets connection every hour
Users are reporting a problem with the Green Packet Y5-210MU Router designed for outdoor use with Three. The issue appears to be an issue which is causing the connection to drop exactly every hour, supposedly due to a TR-069 inform interval setting which restarts the model session. TR-069 is a protocol used by service providers […]
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