Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

We’ve just published a guide on the PSTN/Analogue Switch Off, the move by BT Openreach to transition from copper-based technologies to full fibre. Eventually, copper-based phone lines will be removed completely, but the first step of this process is to migrate the telephone service (voice calls) from being plugged directly into your phone line to […]

The latest BT Group trading update has been released, covering the quarter ending 31st December 2025. On the one hand, we have a record rollout of full fibre and some 8.2 million premises connected and subscribed to a full fibre service. On the other hand, we see declining revenue of 4% compared to the same […]

Broadband services tend to be sold on the basis of 12-, 18- or 24-month initial contracts. Sometimes you need to renew these for equal terms to avoid switching onto a higher tariff, a bit like “Standard Variable Rate” mortgages. In other cases you can stay on reasonable costs after this time, without tying yourself to […]

On Tuesday 3rd February 2026 a new set of DSIT Open Market review (OMR) files dropped and the data mismatch in the Project Gigabit supplier column fixed. On Tuesday afternoon and evening we scanned the 41 million UPRN records and have updated the Project Gigabit supplier entries that show on our broadband maps. The various […]

The investigation that Ofcom started into X on 5th January 2026 is at the position where they’ve requested information from X and are waiting for X to respond to the legally binding information requests. Ofcom has published the timeline update as the Information Commissioner’s Office is launching its own investigation into Grok as part of […]

Over the Christmas break, we started to see some oddities with addresses where Openreach full fibre has previously been recorded as available, and now, a month later, we can share what looks to be happening at some scale across Great Britain. In the last few weeks, we’ve removed Openreach FTTP availability for over 18,000 addresses […]

It’s been reported in the Financial Times that Telefonia and Liberty Global, the owners of Virgin Media O2, along with their investment partner InfraVia, are closing in on a £2bn takeover of Netomnia, the UK’s fourth largest broadband network, with the company to be rolled into Nexfibre. The deal will see the retail brands Brsk […]