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27th March, 2026 (44 Comments)
The Director of Home and TV at BT, Luciano Oliveira, yesterday confirmed that broadband ISP EE had “connected its first customer to an 8Gbps full fibre service“, which he said made them the “first major ISP in the UK to reach this milestone” – obviously ignoring smaller players like Youfibre [Netomnia] and B4RN etc. that have done it for a while.
25th March, 2026 (1 Comment)
Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group (EE, Plusnet, Openreach etc.) has confirmed to ISPreview that, as part of their ongoing programme to modernise and consolidate the number of offices they have across the United Kingdom, they’ve decided to close their Contact Centres in Accrington, Blackburn and Doxford.
25th March, 2026 (0 Comments)
Network operator Openreach (BT) has moved to expand its existing partnership with Google Cloud, which involves adopting their AI (Artificial Intelligence) services to help plan the logistics and engineering for their ongoing deployment of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP technology.
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24th March, 2026 (0 Comments)
Network operator Openreach (BT) has reached a new access agreement with the London Borough of Enfield, which will enable them to deploy their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across “thousands of flats and apartments” in the area – initially starting with 1,500 properties across over 50 buildings.
24th March, 2026 (7 Comments)
The UK Government appears to have published a revised Fixed Telecoms Modernisation Charter (FTMC), which sets out the steps that fixed line broadband and phone providers must take to ensure that customers “remain safe” during the current switch-off of analogue phone (PSTN) services and future closure of thousands of Openreach’s legacy exchanges.
24th March, 2026 (1 Comment)
Network operator Openreach (BT) has informed communication providers that, following Ofcom’s recent Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR), they’ve increased the exemption amount for Excess Construction Charges (ECC) on new Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) lines and Dark Fibre circuits (1-2 Access Link variants) from £2,800 to £3,680 ex. VAT.
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24th March, 2026 (1 Comment)
The UK Government has published its first annual progress report on their new Digital Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP), which was launched in Feb 2025 alongside support from various broadband and mobile providers. The plan contained a series of “urgent actions” that it hoped would “begin fixing digital exclusion“ and the new report appears to be broadly positive.
24th March, 2026 (19 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has informed UK broadband ISPs that they are now “fully withdrawing” the service option of a Multiport Optical Network Terminal (ONT / ONU) device and the related Box Swap service (i.e. replacing an existing / older ONT with a new Multiport ONT) on full fibre lines. The move follows last year’s complaints about “technical issues” with the service.
20th March, 2026 (49 Comments)
Broadband and phone provider BT (EE) has today revealed that the majority of its landline phone using customers, over 3 million UK households, have now successfully switched to its IP-based Digital Voice service. But there’s still more to go ahead of the analogue phone switch-off in January 2027. Some 80% of BT’s business voice customers have also switched.
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17th March, 2026 (15 Comments)
The UK telecoms regulator has today published the outcome of their major Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR), which largely tweaks their existing approach to market regulation in order to help promote competition and investment in gigabit broadband (1000Mbps+) and business connectivity. But not everybody is going to be happy.
16th March, 2026 (4 Comments)
National UK broadband operator Openreach (BT) has apologised after reports (Facebook) indicated that their unexpected decision to close Ystrad Road and Llewellyn Street on 11th March 2026, which occurred in the rural Welsh village of Pentre and impacted a major local route, caused “Traffic Chaos“. But there was a good reason for it.
13th March, 2026 (17 Comments)
National network operator Openreach (BT) has published a new March 2026 update on their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP technology. The update reflects all the recent changes and progress with their existing locations (doesn’t add new areas) and has also tweaked their info. to give people “clearer information about when to expect full fibre build to start“.
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13th March, 2026 (33 Comments)
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today launched a new address checker, which enables homes in England and Wales to see whether they’ll be able to benefit from the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband networks under their publicly funded £5bn Project Gigabit programme. But at the time of writing it’s “currently unavailable due to a technical problem“.
12th March, 2026 (6 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed some of the first results from their ongoing trial of a new technology (here), which harnesses the operator’s existing fibre optic broadband network to detect mains water leaks. In just three months, it’s already pinpointed 100+ leaks and is estimated to be saving 2 million litres of water a day.
10th March, 2026 (11 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) are understood to be preparing a new 100Gbps capable Cablelink (Ethernet) solution to support their future 8.5Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband products for UK homes. But initially any retail providers taking part in the XGS-PON pilot will need to use multiple 10G Cablelinks for capacity.
10th March, 2026 (1 Comment)
National UK broadband operator Openreach (BT) has announced that their current Acting Director for Northern Ireland, Lauren McGaughey, has formally been appointed to the role on a permanent basis. She replaces Garret Kavanagh in the role, who recently became their MD for Complex Engineering.
5th March, 2026 (40 Comments)
A week has passed since we reported that broadband ISP EE (BT) had started sending out invites to those wishing to help trial Openreach’s new XGS-PON powered Full Fibre (FTTP) technology (here), which is capable of delivering internet speeds of up to 8.5Gbps down (850Mbps upload). The main update this week is that the provider has also detailed which areas are covered by the trial.
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