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Weekly Brief – 10/04/2025

Zyxel deploy 500,000 ONT’s with Openreach Over half a million sustainable ONTs made by Zyxel have been deployed by Openreach engineers. The GPON devices use recycled plastic in their construction and are shipped in zero-plastic, minimal packaging made from recycled materials. The Zyxel casings for the ONTs are made from 95% recycled plastic pellets, which […]

Broadband

North Lanarkshire Council seeking provider for full-fibre rollout to Social Housing

North Lanarkshire Council is seeking expressions of interest from “suitably qualified and experienced” broadband infrastructure providers who can provide “1Gbps-capable” full fibre broadband services to its social housing estate. The opportunity is valued at £40 million and expects to cover around 36,000 social housing properties across North Lanarkshire. “This programme forms a core element of […]

Government names preferred Ofcom chair candidate despite experience questions

The government has named Sir Ian Cheshire as its preferred candidate for Ofcom Chair, subject to a parliamentary hearing before the final appointment is confirmed. Cheshire was previously chair of Channel 4 and Chief Executive at Kingfisher plc, and held other roles as Chair of Barclays UK. He brings strong governance experience to the table, […]

Gigaclear lenders take control of indebted altnet

Lenders will take over the broadband altnet Gigaclear after the company has been struggling with its near £1bn of debt. The news from the FT yesterday Gigaclear is a rural fibre altnet across 26 counties in the UK and has 600,000 premises ready for service, and reports around 160,000 customers. The latest from the FT […]

Community Fibre — Double the Speed Promotion Returns

London-focussed Broadband Altnet Community Fibre has re-launched its popular Double the Speed promotion which sees it upgrading its package speeds. These increased speeds will be valid across the 24-month contract period with prices fixed until April 2026 when they go up by £2/month as part of annual prices increases (and £4/month at the end of […]

Regulation

Automatic compensation payments for telecoms faults rise with inflation

The compensation payments that are paid out that a number of the larger telecoms firms have signed up to increased on 1st April 2026. The amounts are paid out for things like delayed repairs, staff missing a booked appointment or a new service starting later than originally planned. The automatic compensation scheme is not compulsory, […]

Wholesale

Openreach has installed 500,000 Zyxel ONT to reduce plastic waste

The Zyxel ONT constructed with plastic that is 95% recycled plastic has been installed in over 500,000 places across the UK and is a key part of Openreach reducing its environmental footprint. Sustainable business practices may not always be the flavour of the month but by using only 5% virgin plastic in the casing of […]

Mobile Broadband

Train Wi-Fi is just awful — Our journey from Cardiff to London

When we talk about travel, we often say trains are better than other forms of transport due to being able to work. If you rely on Internet connectivity however, this is optimistic to say the least. On a receipt trip to Cardiff, we found the Wi-Fi service from GWR to be almost unusable due its […]

Broadband

EXCLUSIVE: March 2026 update on broadband availability across the UK, nations and regions

The full fibre rollouts continue and with the end of March last week and the start of a new financial year it looks like another bumper rollout month for Openreach further boosting the overall UK gigabit figures so that this stands at 90.49%. The commercial and Government funded rollouts of full fibre (Gigabit) in Wales […]

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