UK Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

GoFibre broadband, an independent Scottish altnet, has announced that they have begun fibre build to almost 1,000 homes and businesses across Aberdeenshire. The firm has announced that the build is underway in St Fergus, Inchmarlo, Kincardine O’Neil, Collieston, and Newburgh, and also Kingswells in Aberdeen. The company will be offering speeds of up to 1Gbps […]

A bit of fun or a table highlighting the scale of work left if the WLR switch off is to complete by end of January 2027. There is little time left for homes and businesses that are using a copper based telephone line (Wholesale Line Rental/WLR) service to switch to a VoIP (Digital Voice) or […]

The last BDUK update in August 2026 suggested that Fibrus has delivered 37,060 premises with the option of full fibre out of a contracted total of 53,540 premises. Today sees a small change notification issued for the contract in relation to addresses where wayleaves or other third-party permissions, while the number of premises that will […]

AI is the darling of the moment, but it does have practical uses and while many worry about it coming for their job, if used right it can help firms to do more and utilise staff. Of course, some firms are going to see AI as a chance to get rid of support teams and […]

While the integration of the FibreNest ISP into OFNL is being reported as complete from checks of 10 FibreNest locations only 2 are showing availability to OFNL based Internet providers. FibreNest was a single retailer ISP ran by the house builder Persimmon, OFNL (Open Fibre Networks Ltd) has been building full fibre on new build […]

The Openreach rollout of full fibre to 25 million premises by the end of 2026 is said to be on track by those speaking for Openreach, but in terms of verified Ready for Service (RFS) the current pace is suggesting we can report on that figure between 29th January 2027 and 19th March 2026. Openreach […]

A quick roundup of broadband news from the last week we haven’t otherwise covered. Airband was sold to Voneus for just £4.6m after racking up £312m of creditor claims Aberdeen Group stands to lose more than £228m of secured debt and its equity after administrators sold the Airband business from administration to Voneus for £4.6m. […]

Shareholders of Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) are looking to reduce costs at the company as its debt pile has grown to over £22.5bn. Liberty Global and Telefónica have, according to the FT, asked the company to find a mix of reductions through job cuts and reducing operating and capital expenditure. Financial markets have been adjusting […]