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Openreach Pole Problem Triggers Long Broadband Outage in Welsh Village UPDATE

24th July, 2025 (0 Comments)

Residents in the tiny rural Gwynedd (Wales) village of Llangwnnadl have been left without access to fixed broadband and phone services for several weeks. Local news reports claim that the situation began after a telecoms pole replacement was carried out by Openreach, which is unusual as normally such work is carried out to fix and not cause a fault.

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VodafoneThree UK Hits 1.65 Million Broadband Users as Mobile Tops 28.76m UPDATE

24th July, 2025 (14 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone has published their first combined Q1 FY26 financial results with Three UK. The figures show that the merged entity has 1.654 million fixed broadband customers (up by 44k in Q1 vs 61k in the previous quarter) and a huge combined mobile base of 28.765m – making them the “biggest mobile network operator in the UK“.

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BT See Loss of 169k Openreach UK Broadband Lines and Appoints New CFO

24th July, 2025 (72 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT Group just published a short trading update to the end June 2025 (Q1 FY26), which reveals that Openreach lost another 169,000 total broadband lines to rival networks over the past quarter (down from 243k in the previous quarter). But they also saw their “full fibre” (FTTP) coverage grow to over 19 million premises (up by 1m) and take-up increased to 37% (up from 36.13%).

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Openreach List Next 137 UK Areas for Copper to FTTP Switch – Tranche 21

22nd July, 2025 (36 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today published the next (Tranche 21) batch of 137 exchanges in their “FTTP Priority Exchange Stop Sell” programme, which reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option).

Openreach Makes UK Fibre Broadband Checker a Bit More Informative

22nd July, 2025 (48 Comments)

Broadband access provider Openreach (BT) appears to have recently made their “Fibre Checker” a bit more informative via the addition of several new status messages to reflect different stages of network availability. This is primarily useful for those still awaiting the arrival of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

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Openreach Recycles UK Home Broadband Kit to Help Slash Plastic Use

17th July, 2025 (17 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today announced the launch of a new range of Optical Network Terminals (ONT) from Nokia – the wall-mounted optical modems that get installed in homes alongside their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP lines, which use re-engineered casings made from 85% recycled plastic.

Openreach Extend FTTP Uninhabitable Broadband Locations Pilot for 12 Months

16th July, 2025 (16 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach has decided to extend the ongoing UK pilot of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband lines for “Uninhabitable Locations” for a further 12-months (i.e. where the service is used to connect non-traditional end points such as CCTV cameras, bus shelter signs, EV charging points, lift lines etc.).

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ICO Rules BT and Openreach are Subject to UK Environmental Info Requests

15th July, 2025 (32 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT and Openreach are appealing a recent decision by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which made them subject to public information requests about their UK broadband network under the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). The decision could potentially provide communities and rivals with a new avenue for extracting useful info.

Openreach Testing Relaxed Rules for UK Exchange Closure Pilot

12th July, 2025 (23 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) are testing a relaxation of their FTTP broadband Priority Exchange Stop Sell rules and Copper line re-arrangement in the Kenton Road Exchange area. This is one of the three exchanges taking part in their initial pilot project to test approaches, before eventually closing c.4,600 of their legacy exchanges from 2030 onwards.

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Openreach Speeds Up Proactive FTTP Broadband Upgrades by UK ISPs

11th July, 2025 (25 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has tweaked their Proactive FTTP Upgrades process for ISPs, which allows providers to optionally reduce the normal lead time of 6 weeks. Just to be clear, it’s normally consumers that initiate an upgrade, but with proactive upgrades the initiator is your ISP (this can help with copper broadband [ADSL/FTTC/G.fast] to full fibre migrations).

Openreach Start Rural UK FTTP Broadband Rollout Under Project Gigabit

10th July, 2025 (22 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has today announced that they’ve kicked off the construction phase for several of their recently awarded Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contracts with the government (BDUK), including in remote rural parts of Lancashire, Wales, Devon, Hertfordshire, Staffordshire and Wiltshire.

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ISP Sky Broadband Offers UK FTTC Customers Free Upgrades to FTTP

10th July, 2025 (23 Comments)

Customers of Sky Broadband’s “superfast” (part-fibre) packages (FTTC or SOGEA), specifically those living in areas where Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines now exist from either Openreach or CityFibre’s networks, have started to receive Texts (SMS) and WhatsApp messages inviting them to upgrade to their Full Fibre 100Mbps (18Mbps upload) service “at no extra charge“.

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Neos Networks Completes Oxfordshire UK GigaHubs Full Fibre Build

9th July, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) and Neos Networks have today confirmed the completion of their £7.25m “GigaHubs” project, which has now connected 192 public sector sites (schools, hospitals etc.) to a new 1,500km long gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network.

Sky Broadband Launch WiFi 7 Router and 5Gbps UK Broadband via CityFibre UPDATE

9th July, 2025 (66 Comments)

Internet provider Sky Broadband has today gone fully live via CityFibre’s growing Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband network. The change is being launched alongside a new Wi-Fi 7 router – “Gigafast+ Hub” (SCER11BELUKS) – and two new packages – Full Fibre 2.5 Gigafast+ (2.5Gbps) and Full Fibre 5 Gigafast+ (5Gbps).

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Eir Take BT to Court in £67m Damages Claim Over N.Ireland Contract UPDATE

8th July, 2025 (0 Comments)

Irish network operator Eir is taking BT (Openreach) to the High Court in London over a claim for damages worth £67m, which relates to a long-running dispute over the UK broadband giant’s Northern Ireland Public Sector Shared Network (NIPSSN) contract to provide connectivity services; the same one that attracted a £6.3m fine from Ofcom in 2020.

Yayzi Owner Establishes New UK Home Broadband ISP nufibre UPDATE

5th July, 2025 (15 Comments)

The current owners of internet provider Yayzi Broadband appear to be in the process of establishing a new provider called nufibre, which is due to launch in about a month and will be offering FTTP broadband packages via a selection of network operators (the website shows logos for Openreach, Trooli, Freedom Fibre, MS3, CityFibre and others).

New Study Examines UK Full Fibre Broadband Take-up by Age of Network

4th July, 2025 (15 Comments)

Strategic consultancy firm Eight Advisory has today published the third edition of their Takeup Tracker, which examines the rise in take-up across the UK’s many alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks (altnets) and compares it with that of Openreach (BT). This edition also takes a deeper dive into take-up by age of network – a key factor in gauging progress.