Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

The slow but steady progress for the Project Gigabit contracts across England and Wales has had its monthly update, with the data uploaded to our maps on Monday afternoon. Some areas have seen no increases e.g. the Call Off contract Openreach holds for Lancashire, West Berkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire is showing the […]

The new Prime Minister has been in office for just a few hours and announcements and changes are coming thick and fast. After rumours of DSIT been scrapped in the last couple of days emerged, it has now happened and the Department for Science, Technology and Innovation has been closed and will be merged with […]

The historic medieval village of Alfriston in East Sussex has joined the modern Internet age as CityFibre has recently gone live with its full fibre service, sold by a variety of retailers including Vodafone. The rollout is not to every property in the village, so hopefully more addresses will go live in the coming weeks. […]

* Up to 25GB per billing period (month?) Sky has a programme which many, even its customers are unaware of called Sky VIP. This is designed to give its most loyal customers (usually those who pay the most due to price increases, although negotiated discounts are always available when your contract is expiring) some extra […]

We reported on network issues suffered by users on the OFNL network earlier from one of the games earlier this week which was affecting both OFNL’s own network customers (i.e. routed by OFNL) as well as some resellers. We can’t always confirm the wholesale network on some providers so we’re looking at which retail providers […]

At the end of June we highlighted how Gigaclear users found their broadband connections struggling during the England v Ghana game with increased streaming putting the provider’s LONAP peering connections under increased strain. The issue was resolved within a few days and new capacity installed. A user on our forum reported some early morning issues […]

How does paying less per month compared to always having the top-tier product sound, with a default much slower speed, but if you are using the service a lot, your speeds can increase all the way to the top tier? This is what a new product TalkTalk is offering seems to be doing with TalkTalk […]

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 […]