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The Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy Scheme in Scotland has opened up the tender for Lot 4 once more, with an estimated contract value of £28 million with the aim to deliver Gigabit (full fibre) broadband to around 17,830 premises. The tender is for a contract that will run for 11 years, with 4 years in the […]

Clive Selley who has taken Openreach through a decade of massive change is to be succeeded by the current Deputy CEO Katie Milligan on 1st April 2026. “I’m thrilled and privileged to be given the opportunity to lead Openreach. Our role in connecting communities, underpinning the UK economy and driving the benefits of digital inclusion […]

Scottish Altnet GoFibre has announced another 2,000 homes and businesses in Oxton, Coldingham, St Abbs, Jedburgh and Lauder are being rolled at the next stage of its Project Gigabit project which aims to connect 20,000 premises across the Borders and East Lothian “We’re a Borders-born company, so every new community we connect in this region […]

Back in September 2025, we launched a Postcode Subscription feature to track changes to broadband availability in postcodes you subscribe to. This is a free feature to all users for up to five postcodes (although we will add more on request on an account if justified). This tool monitors the postcodes for changes on a […]

The steady progress continues with the full fibre rollouts, but the last few weeks has seen a big slow down in what is being found in terms of new full fibre rollouts. This is not just because of the rollbacks from Openreach, but there is a general slowing across many of the networks we are […]

Our usual weekly article on some broadband-related news that we didn’t cover in a full article. Broadband ISP Vispa ceases trading Manchester-based ISP Vispa has announced that it has ceased trading and will commence liquidation proceedings, with customers advised that they need to find an alternative provider. This will, of course, cause some upheaval but […]

We have focussed on Stevenage because it looked likely as a place where we might find Openreach pausing Ready for Service availability on lots of addresses. After a couple of days of checking addresses we are in a position to share the results, at the start of 2026 Openreach full fibre coverage in the Stevenage […]