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The altnet Lightning Fibre is concentrated on the south coast of England and with over 80,000 addresses passed it is celebrating the milestone of passing 20,000 actual customers. The network is focused around Eastbourne, Hastings, Hailsham and smaller footprints in Heathfield, Tenterden and Haywards Heath. “Achieving 25% residential take-up in this highly competitive market shows […]

The target of Openreach hitting 25 million premises Ready for Service with FTTP by the end of 2026 is looking a close run thing. Our tracking is currently suggesting we will be reporting on the figure being reached between 16th January 2027 and 19th February 2027. So it seems possible that Openreach may have passed […]

Telecom Acquisitions is to take on 13,500 residential broadband and telephone customers from TalkTalk, with the customers being moved to its Fleur Telecom brand the beginning of September 2026. The affected customers who have started to be notified by TalkTalk about the change will not see any changes to their pricing or terms. The company, […]

We knew it was on the way and now we have mapped the first 250,000 premises where Virgin Media O2 has launched a 2 Gbps service that utilises its old DOCSIS 3.1 network. The footprint we’ve mapped so far is just 250,000 premises and while we expect there for be more it is clear this […]

TalkTalk sells 120,000 customers to Rise Fibre TalkTalk has agreed to sell off 120,000 of its customers to Rise Fibre, after the company had already sold 29,000 to Utility Warehouse for £5m earlier this year. The deal is thought to mainly involve the CityFibre-based customers will increase Rise Fibre’s customer base up to around 250,000. […]

Back in October 2024 APFN acquired the customer base of Brillband and now as APFN (All Points Fibre Networks) continues its repositioning as a purely wholesale operation utilising the aquila platform the Brillband customers have now been acquired by Olilo. “Brillband has built something really special, and we’re not coming in to rip everything up. The product, pricing, and […]

The steady progress of the various full fibre rollouts continues and while the pace is still well below the heady heights of 2019 to 2024 every address that gains access to full fibre is another home or business joining the 21st century at last for broadband. Wales is now tying with the East of England […]

Truespeed has launched its retail products on the Freedom Fibre network and this is the first phase of the merger completing to create Freedom Truespeed Group. The merger closed in May, so this launch is just 3 months and much faster than some other altnet mergers. “Three months ago, we set out to prove that […]