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The latest promotion from Community Fibre runs until 14th October 2026 and is essentially doubling the speeds of various packages. All these packages are for new customers and are based on a 24 month contract, with a £3 price increase each April. 12 month contract options are available where an entry level tariff of 35 […]

We are all used to Ofcom investigating sites that have not implemented age verification but Ofcom has just started an investigation into Pornhub that is owned and run by Aylo. The basis of the investigation is to determine whether the site is complying with its duties to prevent children encountering pornographic content. The trigger for […]

The altnet Trooli has added a 5 Gbps symmetric speeds package to its broadband line-up with a price of £44.99 a month if you take out a 24 month contract. “The way households use broadband has changed. Demand for speed and capacity is only going to increase; families may be streaming, gaming, working and making […]

The official position on Gigabit coverage is that it is available to 88% of homes and businesses in the latest DCMS/BDUK report on the progress of Project Gigabit across the UK based on January 2026 data. 88% is impressive given it was 20% in May 2020, but a reminder that a large chunk of the […]

Broadband Altnet Netomnia which runs alternative full fibre infrastructure across the UK and especially in the Manchester area has recently evicted an intruder from their network. Following internal alarms of customer ONTs (the boxes on the walls of homes where full fibre connections terminate) losing signals last Sunday, an engineer was sent to investigate and […]

The latest postcodes and addresses to see full fibre arrive under the Kent Project Gigabit contract may not be massive at around 20 postcodes added in the last week to our maps but it shows CityFibre is still delivering. The latest addresses going live are around Teynham which sits midway between Faversham and Sittingbourne. While […]

To help people visualise what is and is not available in their part of the UK, we have over the weekend added the most recent Ofcom Connected Nations data to our broadband maps. The postcode resolution data for Gigabit availability in each postcode, has been plotted with six levels of colour banding ranging from Ofcom […]

ITS confirms 9 towns and cities are now ready for service ITS broadband is now available in 9 towns and cities after the company announced plans to expand its full fibre service into 13 new locations. Businesses in Aberdeen, Bath, Bournemouth, Chester, Coventry, Huddersfield, Loughborough, Plymouth and Swansea are now able to order services, with […]