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BDUK Update Figures for Openreach’s Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts

29th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has updated the latest contract values and contracted premises figures for their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contracts with Openreach (BT), which takes account of recent changes to show that all of the contracts combined are now worth £850m and will bring FTTP to around 358,000 premises.

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Alternative UK Full Fibre Networks Call on Prime Minister to Focus on Broadband

23rd July, 2026 (4 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK market’s alternative broadband networks, has this afternoon become the latest industry organisation to press the new UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, and his leadership team to “give broadband and telecoms the political attention and clear ministerial ownership they deserve“.

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Government Responsibility for UK Broadband and Mobile Returns to DCMS

23rd July, 2026 (1 Comment)

After a few days of conflicting messaging, the Government in Westminster did yesterday confirm that responsibility for all things broadband and mobile related – this includes programmes covered by the Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency and related aspects – has been shifted back to a re-named Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). But now the ‘D’ stands for Digital (I guess.. DDCMS?).

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July 2026 Contract Progress of UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

20th July, 2026 (11 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today released their July 2026 update on the delivery progress of contracts awarded under the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The update reveals that some 287,510 contracted premises (up from 271,460 in Jun 2026) have so far been covered out of a planned total of 838,490 (34% complete).

Concern for Telecoms as New UK Prime Minister Scraps Tech Department UPDATE

20th July, 2026 (11 Comments)

The incoming UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, is reportedly planning to abolish the Government’s central Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), which also oversees broadband and mobile connectivity (telecoms) – partly via the Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency. The proposal plan could see DSIT’s functions being spread across other departments.

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Wiltshire Council Praise Wessex Internet’s Rural Gigabit Broadband Build Progress

18th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

The Wiltshire Council in the South of England has praised rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet for exceeding 40% of its connectivity targets under their £18.8m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract for South Wiltshire (Lot 30), which has so far expanded full fibre broadband to reach 7,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas.

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Wessex Internet Complete Full Fibre Rollout Contract in Devon and Somerset UK

14th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet has today announced that they’ve completed their publicly funded deployment of full fibre broadband under the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme, which has seen 4,190 hard-to-reach rural homes and businesses across South Somerset in England gain access to their gigabit speed network.

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Building Controls Updated to Fix Stalled Fibre Broadband Rollouts for Big Buildings UPDATE

9th July, 2026 (7 Comments)

The Ministry of Housing (MHCLG) and UK ISP Association (ISPA) have today unveiled crucial changes to address the current problem with the Building Safety Regulator’s (BSR) approval processes in England, which are known to have caused big delays and increased costs for broadband and mobile operators trying to deploy full fibre networks into large buildings (MDUs etc.).

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Openreach Build to 7 New Areas Under Scotland’s Project Gigabit Broadband Scheme

8th July, 2026 (1 Comment)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has issued a progress update on their £157m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract for the ‘Rest of Scotland’ area (here), which originally aimed to upgrade 65,000 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas to full fibre (FTTP) broadband and has just started building across several new locations.

BDUK Tweak Connect Fibre’s Derbyshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

7th July, 2026 (5 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has tweaked alternative network ISP Connect Fibre’s (Fibre Assets) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Derbyshire (LOT 3) in England again. The contract now has a reduced “total scope” of reaching 12,876 hard-to-reach premises via a public subsidy £34.64m.

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Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reaches 91 Percent of the UK in H1 2026

7th July, 2026 (10 Comments)

We’ve today published our biannual summary of fixed broadband coverage for the first half (H1) of 2026, which reveals that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP networks have grown to reach 85.05% of UK premises (up from 81.89% in H2 2025) and 91% are within reach of “gigabit” 1000Mbps+ speeds (up from 89.6%). Read on to see details for England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland.

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Quickline Connect 10,980 North Yorks Premises to Subsidised Gigabit Broadband

2nd July, 2026 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Quickline has announced that they’ve covered “almost” 11,000 premises across North Yorkshire (England) via their gigabit-speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, which has occurred two months ahead of schedule as part of their £70m+ publicly subsidised contract under the government’s Project Gigabit scheme.

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UK ISP Quickline Tweaks Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout for Lincolnshire

30th June, 2026 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, appears to have had its Project Gigabit contract for Lincolnshire and East Riding tweaked. The result is a reduction in their contracted coverage target for the intervention area.

Openreach Slightly Expand Worcestershire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Build

30th June, 2026 (0 Comments)

The government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has posted a contract modification for Openreach’s (BT) £42m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit Call Off 7 contract for Worcestershire (England), which originally aimed to expand their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to around 22,600 hard-to-reach premises, but will now cover around 23,000.

Openreach Start Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout for Worcestershire

25th June, 2026 (2 Comments)

The Worcestershire County Council (WCC) in England has today announced that Openreach have connected the first homes to their new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network as part of the £41m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract, which currently aims to cover 22,600 premises across the county’s hardest-to-reach (mostly remote rural) areas.

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Gov Consults on UK Plan for Terrestrial TV Switch Off and Broadband Support

23rd June, 2026 (36 Comments)

The Government has today proposed to switch-off terrestrial TV signals in either 2034 or 2044 as part of a wider change to reflect the move to internet-based streaming, provided broadband coverage is ready to support the transition (they expect it to be). Support will also be provided to the UK homes that may struggle to afford broadband, possibly backed by a new subsidy scheme.

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The Hidden Impact of CityFibre’s UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts Retreat

22nd June, 2026 (22 Comments)

At the end of last month CityFibre announced that they’d reached an agreement with the Government to significantly cut the roll-out scope of their Project Gigabit broadband contracts. At the time this was expressed as being because commercial builds by rivals would reach further than originally expected. But this overlooked the hidden gap of premises that have been left with no alternative plans.