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With the demise of DSIT which is now part of the Department for Business, Innovation Science and Trade it was not clear what was going to happen to the Digital Infrastructure and BDUK parts of the old DSIT. Two days later we have a better idea, the Department for Culture Media and Sport is to […]

Virgin Media O2 is calling for the UK Net Neutrality rules to be reformed, specifically for mobile infrastructure. Its position is that the rules are outdated and are holding back mobile investment and constrain networks as agents AI starts using up bandwidth on its own. It has commissioned as report which argues that the requirement […]

A new Prime Minister can mean lots of changes but we are waiting to see if Andy Burnham has big changes in mind in the fixed line broadband sector. While full fibre and Gigabit rollouts have in the past done amazing things for the state of broadband in the UK since 2018, those left waiting […]

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 […]