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Wholesale alt-net CityFibre has released its full-year results to date ending 31st December 2025, and it shows the company has now exceeded 20% penetration across its consumer FTTP footprint. The company has confirmed that with £2.3bn of financing agreed during the year, they have a renewed ambition to consolidate the sector and extend their services […]

Following recent reports of lenders circling around Gigaclear, Point Topic have looked into the business case for potential acquirers of Gigaclear within the altnet space, identifying three potential suitors. Firstly to set some context, here’s the Largest Full-Fibre Networks chart from our State of Broadband Report from September 2025 (next iteration due in April): This […]

Back in the day of ADSL where your broadband (and telephone) service terminated at the telephone exchange, you’d find that even during a power cut, your phone line would continue working as long as you had an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) to power your router (and of course using a computer/device with batteries). This was […]

CityFibre has announced that it has expanded the availability of its business FTTP broadband service to now cover its entire ready-for-service network footprint. This means businesses, small or home offices, and home workers can now get access to symmetrical products with speeds up to 2.5Gbps. Previously, symmetric business products were only available to the business […]

Broadband alt-net Gigaclear is likely to be taken over by its creditors, Natwest, Lloyds and the National Wealth Fund (formerly the UK Investment Bank), according to news reported by the FT. The news comes after the company failed to generate interest from potential buyers following its plans to sell the company to help reduce its […]

There are across the UK around 12.5 million properties where the Openreach Stop Sell rules are active, and with the announcement of Tranche 23 another 132 exchanges have started their countdown to the rules applying to them. Openreach gives 12 months notice to the many communication providers that use its full fibre and copper networks […]

BT Group has set out its plans for price rises in 2026 and for customers on a mobile or broadband service who are out of contract there are changes afoot. The exact date that it will affect individuals will be confirmed to each individual customer in a price change notification, and given in contract fixed […]