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The national security review is expected to announce that government spending on broadband should be classified as defence spending, helping the government to reach a 5% target of GDP to be spent on ...

Over the weekend, the Financial Times (FT.com) reported that BT’s wholesale infrastructure division Openreach was threatening to cease to provide new services to TalkTalk (subscription required) ...

The niche broadband altnet Runfibre has made minor updates to its packages which are now reflected in our broadband package search. Runfibre operate a fibre altnet in the area North of Bristol.

The Spending Review has been talked about for some time now as the government adjusts departmental budgets with each department arguing the case for more funding, retaining the current funding or even ...

Virgin Media O2 is today reminding eligible pensioners to claim discounted broadband and mobile services following research commissioned by the company showing that a third of pensioners feel more ...

Over the weekend, we covered that the Financial Times was reporting that Openreach was considering suspending provisioning new services to TalkTalk due to unpaid bills (which have since been paid).

Another month closer to the 2026 deadline for Openreach delivering 25 million premises passed and in the last 31 days we have added 323,437 premises to our Openreach FTTP Ready for Service footprint.

CityFibre have announced that their rollout of 10 Gbps XGS-PON has enabled them to increase the coverage of their Business Ethernet services to over 260,000 UK businesses, up from 80,000. The new FTTP ...

The two Project Gigabit contracts that Quickline is working to deliver in West and South Yorkshire are delivering full fibre and they appear to be ahead of the targets. The Project Gigabit contracts ...

As mentioned in our earlier article this morning, It has been announced today that VodafoneThree will add the Community Fibre’s full fibre network to its portfolio allowing it to sell services to ...

TOTSCo has announced that one-touch switching has delivered over 1.13 million successful broadband switches and that there are now 332 different brands live on the system. The following graph shows ...