Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

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 […]

While no doubt the absolute vast majority of people don’t abuse Openreach staff who can be working on their own at all hours of the day there has been a rise in the level of abuse, both verbal and physical. In the last year there have been 700 recorded incidents of physical or verbal assaults […]

Back in September, the Independent Parliamentary Standard Authority (IPSA) which regulates and manages the business costs of the 650 or so Members of Parliament, announced a public procurement for a broadband service/broker to manage the broadband services and ‘IPSA-funded living accommodation’: “IPSA would like to put in place a contract to provide high-quality reliable broadband […]

A summary of some articles that we didn’t write about this week Zen CEO to climb 5-storey HQ building for charity Richard Tang, the Zen Internet CEO, has announced that he will be climbing the 5-storey Zen HQ building in Rochdale to raise money for the Women’s Housing Action Group, based in Rochdale. In the […]

Gigaclear holds the East Gloucestershire Project Gigabit contract and while the scope was reduced to around 3,550 properties in the summer of 2025, work started on 18 different areas. Kemble is the first area where Gigaclear has announced live services are available, which with a direct rail link of 75 minute duration to London Paddington […]

The last few weeks has seen an uptick in scammers using the urgency of the copper switch off as a tactic to get people to sign up to a ‘satellite service’ with them. This is probably a classic attempt to get users’ credit/debit card and other personal information (for identity theft or further scams) rather […]

A new memorandum of understanding was signed in November between Ofcom and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to build foundations for the IWF to help Ofcom in its duties as the online safety regulator. Ofcom is required to make sure that people in the UK are protected from illegal content online, and the spread of […]