Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

The news is that the UK has finally made it to 91% Gigabit broadband availability, through the combination of the full fibre rollouts and Virgin Media O2 cable network coverage. We reported on hitting 90% back in February 2026 so that additional point of coverage has taken 5 months. The expectation is that future point […]

INCA commissioned research reveals that 1 in 10 people are considering switching to an alt-net such as Community Fibre. Community Fibre is available to more than 1 in 3 properties in the London region and has services that start at £19/m for a 100 Mbps symmetric full fibre broadband service. Current offers mean 1 Gbps […]

Sky and ITV both have streaming services in the form of NOW TV and ITVX but the agreement for Sky (Comcast) to acquire ITV is headlined as creating a streaming champion for the UK. The agreement means Sky will acquire ITV Media & Entertainment from ITV plc for £1.6 billion formed of £1.2 billion in cash, […]

With a few days under 6 months to go our tracking of the Openreach full fibre rollouts show they have built full fibre to some 23,004,858 premises where we’ve been able to identify them as Ready for Service. The build rate has been running at 1 million premises a quarter so the ambition to reach […]

Good news for FTTP availability as our tracking of the many full fibre footprints is showing 85.05% of UK premises are now covered by one or more Ready for Service options. The time taken to go from 84% to 85% is a lengthy 78 days. The slow down in the full fibre rollouts from almost […]

VodafoneThree to use Vyntelligence in network upgrades Vyntelligence will be used by VodafoneThree to help support engineers to upgrade thousands of mobile sites more efficiently and safely. This follows other companies such as Cornerstone (mobile tower site operator on behalf of Vodafone / O2) and Gigaclear, who are both looking at the technology to improve […]

Runnymede Borough Council is reporting problems with its phone lines and online services. Actual details are sparse but with the Addlestone control centre handling something like 20,000 Careline calls a year if the problems become protracted some vulnerable locals may not receive prompt care. A council account has posted on Facebook saying ‘BT have cut […]

Quickline was awarded its Project Gigabit contract for North Yorkshire back in June 2024 and has delivered full fibre to some 10,980 funded premises. With the delays in getting press releases put together this is likely over the 11,000 premises milestone now. The altnet has a total of four contracts in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and […]