UK Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

The Project Gigabit contract for Cumbria is held by Fibrus and they’ve been building for a while now and apparently the first phase is complete having brought full fibre to something like 37,700 homes or businesses in the County. The footprint for Fibrus across the North West and Northern Ireland is between 470,000 and 480,000 […]

The West Herefordshire and the Forest of Dean contract between BDUK and FullFibre Ltd was terminated in May 2026, as the two parties agreed to mutually terminate it. The alternative plans that BDUK talked about at the time have been updated so that both areas are now covered by Openreach. A few weeks ago there […]

Our broadband maps have had some additional data added to them, so that people in Scotland can now see Project Gigabit Open Market Review status of their address based on the Scottish Governments review. Previously we only had data for Scotland for the September 2024 data set, but we have in the last day added […]

CallFlow was a rarity in that they did sub loop unbundling and deployed their own VDSL cabinets to serve some areas of Kent. Leaping forward to today and we have residents concerned about their broadband in the village of Hunton, Kent as Trooli who have been running the CallFlow cabinets has recently informed them of […]

DCMS has announced that the rollout of full fibre by Gigaclear under the Project Gigabit contract awarded to the broadband provider in North Oxfordshire has completed and brought Gigabit to some 3,880 premises across the contracted area. Our map updated on the morning of the 13th October to add a few hundred premises where Gigaclear […]

Opensignal has launched a map tracking direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connections, showing mobile phones connecting directly to satellites, avoiding 4G/5G mobile networks. Direct-to-satellite services can be particularly helpful in very rural areas where mobile coverage can be very patchy, although it should be noted that this can extend to some areas in the suburbs, it is […]

CityFibre released its financial results last week, which we reported on at the time, and within the quote from the CEO Simon Holden was the fact that they were in discussion with lenders about stabilising the long-term capital structure of the business. The Telegraph (paywall) revealed yesterday that this will involve the lenders for CityFibre […]

The Openreach target of 25 million premises by the end of 2026 is looking increasingly likely to slip into 2027. We suspect they may be able to declare premises passed, but once you count Ready for Service, which we track, the date is firmly in January 2027 and is sliding into February 2027. The rolling […]