Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

Our tracking of the UK and its constituent councils and 650 constituencies has the UK at 90.04% Gigabit broadband coverage as of 25th February 2026. 90% Gigabit coverage is a significant milestone on the way to the political ambition of 99% Gigabit for 2032, and follows on from the UK reaching the 85% milestone back […]

GoFibre was awarded a Project Gigabit contract for North East Scotland last summer with a contracted value of £105 million to deliver Gigabit capable broadband to 63,000 premises. The altnet full fibre operator who has an existing network in North East England and Scotland has announced work starting in Stonehaven, St Cyrus, Laurencekirk, Auchenblae, Letham […]

Ofcom research has arrived at ten suggestions for how people can save on their broadband, in addition to the measures the regulator introduced such as end of contract alerts, simpler contract summaries and easier broadband switching. The ten ideas are with a few additional words from ourselves: The headline of prices failing will no doubt […]

Virgin Media O2 has announced they have launched O2 Satellite, its direct-to-device service using Starlink to improve mobile coverage in the UK. This is the first service to launch in the UK, albeit on a limited basis, not supporting standard voice calls (WhatsApp calls should work). Several networks have been running services in other countries […]

The Information Commisioner’s Office has concluded an investigation into Reddit and how it handles the processing of children’s information. The conclusion reached is two large failures at Reddit with respect to data processing for children. “It’s concerning that a company the size of Reddit failed in its legal duty to protect the personal information of […]

One of the most significant acquisitions in the Altnet world was announced last week when InfraVia, Liberty Global and Telefonica, the shareholders who own Virgin Media O2 and Nexfibre, announced their £2bn deal for Nexfibre to acquire Netomnia. We also published an analysis on what this deal means for the VMO2 and Nexfibre networks. The […]

The latest fine Ofcom has levied under the Online Safety Act has been announced and an overseas company is the latest to get fined for not having effective age assurance to prevent children accessing pornographic content. 8579 LLC has been fined £1.35 million due to the lack of age verification and an additional £50,000 for […]