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The ASA has issued a ruling on a Virgin Media advert which aired in late September 2024, following a complaint by rival BT challenging its claim of being “Awarded Best Broadband Experience”. It included a voiceover with the statement: – The ad showed a walrus, facing the camera, on a speedboat going through the water, […]

Baroness Liz Lloyd who holds the post of UK Digital Economy Minister has visited Fibrus to gain an insight into the work Fibrus has been doing in Northern Ireland where under Project Stratum they built full fibre to over 81,000 premises. The full fibre alt-net was awarded a further contract in December 2025 to deliver Gigabit […]

At the beginning of the year, Storm Goretti which hit the UK and Channel Islands caused some extensive broadband outages, with Jersey Telecom reporting issues due to both power outages and damage to overhead cables. What none of those people anticipated is an ongoing problem lasting into mid-February with five-week outages. BBC News today reported […]

Our weekly brief is out with some articles that may be of interest this week. Telecoms Consumer Charter signatories update Following the announcement of the Telecoms Consumer Charter this week, which aims to make mobile and broadband providers treat consumers fairly, the government have updated the list of signatories to the charter to also include […]

A community-owned broadband network, which has been running for 21 years, is planned to be turned off this summer. The network operates on the most westerly Hebridean island, Tiree and serves the island community, which has a population of around 650 people. Openreach has worked to install full-fibre broadband across the island under a Scottish […]

On a visit to Openreach’s training centre in Crawley, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has praised BT Group’s investment into full fibre and 5G+ mobile networks which it says has reached 69% of UK homes and businesses. Back in 2021, BT made a strategic investment decision to roll out full fibre to 25 million premises […]

Wildanet, a full fibre Altnet based in the South West of England has withdrawn from the full build on two Project Gigabit contracts in the Southwest and Central Cornwall (lots 32.02 and 32.03) having completed rollout to 13,200 premises so far, leaving 7,700 premises outstanding. BDUK is looking for alternative suppliers to roll services out […]