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EE is now offering 2.3 Gbps and 8 Gbps options utilising the upgraded Openreach full fibre network which is now able to deliver XGS-PON in parts of the UK. The launch still has something of a soft launch feel to it, as you need to register rather than sign up via the usual EE pages. […]

If you live under a rock you won’t know that Openreach is planning to turn off its final WLR (PSTN – Public Switched Telephone Network) hardware on 31st January 2027 which is just 6 months away. For those that don’t know, or have being putting off the switch from analogue voice to a modern VoIP […]

The eight call-off regional contracts Openreach holds with the aim of delivering Gigabit capable broadband using full fibre has seen a number of the contracts change in value. All the changes are detailed on our Project Gigabit page which tracks the changes as the Project Gigabit team update their own pages. The total value of […]

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA UK) has published a ruling that partly upholds a complaint about Utility Warehouse’s (UW) “unlimited” SIM-only marketing. The ASA accepted that the 500GB Fair Usage Policy (FUP) did not make the “unlimited” claim itself misleading, but ruled that the restriction was not clear enough. The pages in question, seen on 5 March […]

Ofcom has started a one month consultation to garner support or opposition to its proposal to force Openreach withdraw its ‘Incremental New to Openreach Offer’ as the regulator considers the charges as potentially harmful to network competition. This would be the first time that Ofcom has blocked a commercial offer from Openreach. The Openreach proposal […]

This is a story of a reader in social housing in Central London who went years without access to full fibre broadband due to a Housing Association that wouldn’t budge, and what we tried to do to help him. We have a fairly full mail bag from users struggling with broadband problems, be it speed […]

The Openreach Stop Sell programme is in full swing, and Openreach state that 15.4 million premises as of 20th August 2026 will be under active Stop Sell. This number is growing all the time and today has seen the next batch of 112 exchanges that will in a years time enter the Stop Sell phase. […]

Some news bits from the week that are worth a read on Friday night or over the weekend. INCA and altnets calls on new Labour Government to put telecoms at the heat of growth agenda Paddy Paddison Chief Exec of INCA had this to say “The government must not assume that the broadband rollout is […]