Complaints about new broadband poles being installed in residential streets have been common over the last couple of years as alt-nets try to build new networks to compete with Openreach in an ...

The last 30 days has seen us find and add 510,223 premises to the network operators full fibre footprint. This is just shy of the record amount for a single months deployment which we covered in March ...

Amble on the Northumberland coastline is one of the latest places to find us spotting the nexfibre XGS-PON rollout, currently sold by Virgin Media O2 and giffgaff. The town is not the most northern ...

Regulator Ofcom has this morning provided an update of its enforcement activity under the controversial Online Safety Act. In total it has begun 21 investigations (into 69 web sites and apps) and 5 ...

Slight weekend tangent which may be of interest. In this weekend’s LBC Legal Hour with Barrister Daniel Barnett took a call from an employee who used to work for a ‘fairly large fibre optic company’ ...

Vodafone in the UK appears to be suffering a network outage affecting both broadband and mobile-broadband data services (phone services seem to be working). A quick check has also shown that their ...

The Openreach Stop Sell programme aims to transition areas with high FTTP coverage (over 75%) to full fibre connectivity. To achieve this, Openreach halts the sale of analogue and part-fibre services ...

In December 2024, it was announced that Voneus and BDUK had mutually terminated their Project Gigabit contract for Mid West Shropshire. At the time, not much was known about the reasoning. The ...

We’ve written about the Age Checks in the Online Safety Act and how VPN sign-ups boomed after the introduction of age checks on websites with content which shouldn’t be accessible to children. We even ...

Altnet Gigaclear has announced it has already begun work in Gloucestershire to fulfil its £10.8 million Project Gigabit contract covering subsidies to 3,550 premises (originally 4,400 premises), ...

When Openreach announced that it had made its FTTP service available to 20 million premises, our footprint tracking was showing a figure of 19.67 million premises RFS. Jumping forward two weeks and we ...

The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA UK) has published a ruling which upholds a complaint against altnet Community Fibre. The adjudication addresses whether claims about being the number one ISP or ...