A few brief bits of news from this week. Extending High Speed Broadband Framework Agreement for Wales signed The contracts for the Welsh Extending High-Speed Broadband (EHSB) scheme have now been ...

In the less than two years since the One Touch Switching platform started handling migrations it has seen 3 million switches completed. In May 2026 alone there was 147,894 switches completed. While ...

The period 12th May to 12th June has been an average month for mapping Openreach full fibre ready for service (RFS) premises with us adding 259,240 to the footprint which is now standing at 22,776,815 ...

The latest BDUK delivery performance report has been published by BDUK. The data shows how many premises in the UK have received a gigabit-capable broadband connection due to a BDUK subsidy. The data ...

Richard Tang has released the most recent of his interview series, this time with Juliette Scott of Openreach. Juliette is the Senior Manager for all IP Migrations and Exchange Exit. This means that ...

Connect Fibre was awarded the Project Gigabit contract for Derbyshire back in 2023, and the contract has just been modified to increase the number of premises covered and due to see Gigabit broadband ...

The Financial Times is reporting that troubled broadband provider TalkTalk has received a bid from VodafoneThree (FT.com subscription required) for its consumer retail operations. Back in March 2026, ...

Our broadband maps have been updated and now feature the data from the Project Gigabit Open Market Review with the data being collected in January 2026 and released as a 31 million row data set in the ...

Availability of full fibre broadband across the UK continues to improve, but the roll-out pace is still massively slower than a couple of years ago. A lot of this is networks focussing on getting ...

With the first Scottish game set to start at 2am UK time on 14th June it is likely that many Scottish fans will stay up to watch it live, to avoid the usual app alerts giving away any result. The ...

BDUK has advised that the National Rolling Open Market Review (NR OMR) has now closed. It collected data from the 6th January to 6th February 2026, with BDUK requesting suppliers to submit their ...

Ofcom has released a report it commissioned from Streetwave detailing the poor performance of mobile connectivity on trains. The report shows that mobile and Wi-Fi performance was deemed poor on ...