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TOTSCo consults on monitoring and improvements to One Touch Switching

TOTSco, the body which runs the broadband One Touch Switch (OTS) platform, believes there are improvements that could be made to OTS performance and has launched a consultation to engage with providers to facilitate collaboration in making these improvements to the system. The system is now 18 months old and has handled around 2.5 million […]

Wholesale

EXCLUSIVE March 2026 update on Openreach full-fibre roll-out

After a smaller set of figures back in February than usual everything seems to be back to normal, as we’ve tracked an additional 363,513 Openreach full fibre premises in the last four weeks. Worries that Openreach had scaled back its rollout can now recede into the background, and the issue seems to be a big […]

Content

Ofcom tells tech platforms to stop underage children using them

The days of simply entering your date of birth when signing up for a new social media or other tech platform is ending. Age Verification was a core part of the Online Safety Act to do more to ensure only adults could access pornographic content, and Ofcom is calling on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, […]

Altnets

INCA State of the Altnet report says altnets moving towards monetisation

Altnet full fibre coverage had reached 19.7m premises at the end of 2025 according to INCA’s State of the Altnets report, and they have over 3.5 million live connections. The number of premises passed has grown by 20% year on year, but the number of live connections has grown by 32%. The report points out […]

Altnets

All Points Fibre Networks now offering 1.7 Gbps and 2.3 Gbps CityFibre full fibre

The wholesale aquila platform has had CityFibre services available over it for some time, but a new platform release means that APFN (All Points Fibre Networks) is now able to offer 1.7 Gbps and 2.3 Gbps through the system. This means partners can now offer XGS-PON speeds matching other platforms that sell the CityFibre services. […]

Internet Service Providers

Home Unity launches retail services over Freedom Fibre network

Home Unity has added Freedom Fibre as another altnet to the list of networks they sell services across. The Freedom Fibre footprint is largely based across the North West and West Midlands, with some smaller areas elsewhere. We presume that in time once the Freedom Fibre/Truespeed partnership is up and running that this will also […]

Wholesale

Virgin Media owner considering other broadband takeovers

Virgin Media owner, Telefónica, has advised that it will consider further takeovers of broadband providers to try and strengthen Virgin Media O2’s position against Openreach. Telefónica owns 50% of VMO2 alongside shareholder Liberty Global. VMO2 recently announced that it was acquiring broadband altnet Netomnia following agreement of a deal worth £2bn for the firm to […]

Mobile Broadband

Shared Rural Network hits 50 mobile mast milestone in Wales

Across the UK as a whole some 119 mobile have seen work under the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, and 50 of those are in Wales. The SRN rollout is upgrading masts in locations where there is limited network coverage, so after the upgrade coverage should be available from the four networks i.e. EE, Three, […]

thinkbroadband

Full fibre availability now increased to 83% of UK premises

It has taken two months but we’ve made it to the next full percent point of full fibre coverage in the United Kingdom. Our figures as of the morning of 8th March 2026 have the UK at 83.04% full fibre availability up from 82.18% on 4th January 2026. The pace is a lot slower than […]

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