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Some news bits from the week that are worth a read CityFibre notifies 200 staff of possible redundancy CityFibre has put forward organisational changes that may result in up to 200 roles being impacted. A consultation has been started. It’s been described as being due to slower progress on consolidation in the market. Hat tip […]

In an effort to reduce the amount of money people loss through sophisticated scam messages that use the SMS system Ofcom is introducing new rules to make it harder for criminals to target people. Fraud amounted to 45% of all reported crime in England and Wales in 2025, and something like £1.28 billion was lost […]

The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA UK) published a ruling in which it partly upholds complaints made by competitors Sky and Vodafone made in response to an EE digital poster. The poster which was shown as recently as the start of June 2026 stated “MORE PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING EE BROADBAND [..] SWITCH TO THE UK’S FASTEST […]

While the rollout is said to have been completed in January 2026, we suspect the wait until July for an announcement from Wessex Internet and Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) was due to the auditing process the Project Gigabit contracts undergo and the release of the Project Gigabit OMR January 2026 data a few weeks […]

Residents, businesses and visitors to Clocaenog in Denbighshire will now have 4G for the first time. EE has deployed a mini mast on an existing lamp post in the village. The village has extensive Openreach full fibre so the new 4G service is about removing a mobile not spot, and allowing people to be connected […]

When the broadband USO became reality back in 2020 with a 10 Mbps download sync speed it was hoped it would lead to lots more full fibre appearing in hard to reach areas, but for many the reality was actually a 4G fixed wireless service. Leap forward six years and ISPreview is reporting that Starlink […]

Moody’s has published a report that takes a look at the UK broadband and compares penetration and take-up rates with the collective EU+UK. For years the UK was lagging seriously with regards to full fibre availability compared to the EU 27, but since around 2024 when the UK drew level rollouts have continued. Of course […]

We covered our Openreach full fibre tracking hitting the 23 million milestone back on 4th July 2026, and now it is time for our regular 12th of the month summary of the Openreach FTTP rollouts. The pace of 1 million premises going Ready for Service a quarter appears to have been broken, and while the […]