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Several possible reasons for why Ofcom is reporting that broadband complaints have fallen to a historic low, with just six complaints per 100,000 customers in the months January, February and March 2026. Back in 2011 complaints recorded by Ofcom were running at 40 complaints per 100,000 customers. So what are the possible reasons: A key […]

The end of the quarter on 30th June 2026 means its financial results time during July and BT Group has issued a short trading update. A fuller set of results is expected in October. A key take-away is that full fibre take-up continues to grow with the group now having 9.4 million premises connected via […]

With the demise of DSIT which is now part of the Department for Business, Innovation Science and Trade it was not clear what was going to happen to the Digital Infrastructure and BDUK parts of the old DSIT. Two days later we have a better idea, the Department for Culture Media and Sport is to […]

Virgin Media O2 is calling for the UK Net Neutrality rules to be reformed, specifically for mobile infrastructure. Its position is that the rules are outdated and are holding back mobile investment and constrain networks as agents AI starts using up bandwidth on its own. It has commissioned as report which argues that the requirement […]

A new Prime Minister can mean lots of changes but we are waiting to see if Andy Burnham has big changes in mind in the fixed line broadband sector. While full fibre and Gigabit rollouts have in the past done amazing things for the state of broadband in the UK since 2018, those left waiting […]

The slow but steady progress for the Project Gigabit contracts across England and Wales has had its monthly update, with the data uploaded to our maps on Monday afternoon. Some areas have seen no increases e.g. the Call Off contract Openreach holds for Lancashire, West Berkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire is showing the […]

The new Prime Minister has been in office for just a few hours and announcements and changes are coming thick and fast. After rumours of DSIT been scrapped in the last couple of days emerged, it has now happened and the Department for Science, Technology and Innovation has been closed and will be merged with […]

The historic medieval village of Alfriston in East Sussex has joined the modern Internet age as CityFibre has recently gone live with its full fibre service, sold by a variety of retailers including Vodafone. The rollout is not to every property in the village, so hopefully more addresses will go live in the coming weeks. […]