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GoFibre who are based in Scotland and are busy building full fibre both commercially and as part of its Project Gigabit contracts has announced a milestone for the town of Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders. It is saying it has connected over 1,000 customers to its full fibre network in Eyemouth. Update 11:12am We originally […]

Back in February 2026, a consortium of companies closely aligned with Virgin Media O2 / nexfibre announced its intention to acquire Altnet Netomnia, including its YouFibre consumer customers as well as the Brsk customers/network which was being integrated following a previous merger. This merger was highly anticipated following suggestions of similar talks between CityFibre and […]

A summary of news pieces that may be of interest from the last week. Octopus Investment reported in advanced talks to buy PXC from TalkTalk Sky News reports that TalkTalk advisers are planning to enter advanced talks with Octopus about buying PlatformX Communications (PXC). Sky is linking this to Fern Trading, which is managed by […]

The Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme is set to run until January 2027, and there is plenty more to come on top of the 150 live 4G mast milestone. The programme has been aiming to improve coverage of mobile 4G services in rural areas and bringing 4G to places for the first time, or bringing […]

The altnet Lightning Fibre is concentrated on the south coast of England and with over 80,000 addresses passed it is celebrating the milestone of passing 20,000 actual customers. The network is focused around Eastbourne, Hastings, Hailsham and smaller footprints in Heathfield, Tenterden and Haywards Heath. “Achieving 25% residential take-up in this highly competitive market shows […]

The target of Openreach hitting 25 million premises Ready for Service with FTTP by the end of 2026 is looking a close run thing. Our tracking is currently suggesting we will be reporting on the figure being reached between 16th January 2027 and 19th February 2027. So it seems possible that Openreach may have passed […]

Telecom Acquisitions is to take on 13,500 residential broadband and telephone customers from TalkTalk, with the customers being moved to its Fleur Telecom brand the beginning of September 2026. The affected customers who have started to be notified by TalkTalk about the change will not see any changes to their pricing or terms. The company, […]

We knew it was on the way and now we have mapped the first 250,000 premises where Virgin Media O2 has launched a 2 Gbps service that utilises its old DOCSIS 3.1 network. The footprint we’ve mapped so far is just 250,000 premises and while we expect there for be more it is clear this […]