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Broadband services tend to be sold on the basis of 12-, 18- or 24-month initial contracts. Sometimes you need to renew these for equal terms to avoid switching onto a higher tariff, a bit like “Standard Variable Rate” mortgages. In other cases you can stay on reasonable costs after this time, without tying yourself to […]

On Tuesday 3rd February 2026 a new set of DSIT Open Market review (OMR) files dropped and the data mismatch in the Project Gigabit supplier column fixed. On Tuesday afternoon and evening we scanned the 41 million UPRN records and have updated the Project Gigabit supplier entries that show on our broadband maps. The various […]

The investigation that Ofcom started into X on 5th January 2026 is at the position where they’ve requested information from X and are waiting for X to respond to the legally binding information requests. Ofcom has published the timeline update as the Information Commissioner’s Office is launching its own investigation into Grok as part of […]

Over the Christmas break, we started to see some oddities with addresses where Openreach full fibre has previously been recorded as available, and now, a month later, we can share what looks to be happening at some scale across Great Britain. In the last few weeks, we’ve removed Openreach FTTP availability for over 18,000 addresses […]

It’s been reported in the Financial Times that Telefonia and Liberty Global, the owners of Virgin Media O2, along with their investment partner InfraVia, are closing in on a £2bn takeover of Netomnia, the UK’s fourth largest broadband network, with the company to be rolled into Nexfibre. The deal will see the retail brands Brsk […]

While no doubt the absolute vast majority of people don’t abuse Openreach staff who can be working on their own at all hours of the day there has been a rise in the level of abuse, both verbal and physical. In the last year there have been 700 recorded incidents of physical or verbal assaults […]

Back in September, the Independent Parliamentary Standard Authority (IPSA) which regulates and manages the business costs of the 650 or so Members of Parliament, announced a public procurement for a broadband service/broker to manage the broadband services and ‘IPSA-funded living accommodation’: “IPSA would like to put in place a contract to provide high-quality reliable broadband […]