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UK Gov Launch Address Checker for Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE

13th March, 2026 (20 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“.

FarrPoint Claims Universal UK Gigabit Broadband May Boost Economy by £8.6bn

11th March, 2026 (0 Comments)

Consultancy firm FarrPoint has today published new independent analysis, which claims that the United Kingdom’s economy could gain a boost of more than £8.6 billion if gigabit-capable broadband connectivity was universally available to every single home and business – helping to create or sustain more than 156,000 jobs and support over 13,000 businesses.

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Milestone as Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reaches 90 Percent of UK UPDATE

27th February, 2026 (30 Comments)

The latest independent data has revealed that 90.04% of premises across the United Kingdom can now access a gigabit-capable broadband ISP connection (1000Mbps+) via fixed lines, which is up from 85% in October 2024 and 80% at the end of 2023. But the figure does drop a little to 82.71% when only looking at full fibre (FTTP) lines.

Some Existing Virgin Media UK Broadband Customers Get Extended Discounts

21st February, 2026 (14 Comments)

Over the past few months we’ve noted how quite a few existing customers of UK ISP Virgin Media’s (O2) home broadband packages are, at the end of their first contract term, now being offered significant automatic extensions to their existing discounted service price – often lasting for another 12-months.

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nPerf Names Fastest UK Fixed Broadband ISPs by Nation in 2026 Study

18th February, 2026 (4 Comments)

France-based internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has this morning published the results from their annual 2026 crowdsourced study into fixed broadband ISP speeds across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The results cover Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, Vodafone, TalkTalk, Fibrus (NI) and Ogi (Wales).

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Virgin Media O2 See Broadband Customers Fall by 16.7k as UK FTTP Build Slows

18th February, 2026 (19 Comments)

The latest Q4 2025 results from Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have just been published and reveal that their gigabit broadband network increased its UK coverage by 115,100 premises in the quarter (down from 139k in Q3), while related customers fell to total 5,687,600 (down by -16.7k in Q4 vs +60.8k in Q3). But their mobile base grew and 5G outdoor population coverage hit 87%.

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK Introduce Bill Credits up to £250 for Switching

17th February, 2026 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to switch to broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) may like to know that they’ve just introduced “Bill Credits” (i.e. Switching Credits or Contract Buyout), which will be available until 1st April 2026 and are said to be worth up to £250 on their top packages.

Virgin Media Start Opening FTTP Upgrade Areas to Existing UK Customers

28th January, 2026 (20 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve finally started to make their new XGS-PON powered full fibre (FTTP) network upgrade (aka – Project Mustang or Fibre Up), which is being deployed alongside their existing coaxial cable (HFC / DOCSIS 3.1) areas, available to existing customers too.

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World Broadband Lines Top 1.56bn as UK Full Fibre Growth Slows in Q3 2025

27th January, 2026 (1 Comment)

New research from Point Topic has revealed that global fixed broadband lines grew by 1.46% or 22.42 million in Q3 2025 (up from 1.12% in Q2 2025) to total 1.56 billion connections. The subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks also remained strong in the UK at almost 7%, but this is down from 11.7% in Q4 2024.

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Top 10 Fastest and Slowest Streets for UK Fixed Broadband Lines in 2026

6th January, 2026 (9 Comments)

A new study from Broadband Genie has analysed 145,926 internet speed tests in order to identify the top slowest and fastest ten UK streets for broadband. The slowest street was found to be Heol-Y-Fedw (Cymmer) in Wales on an average download of just 0.81Mbps (Megabits per second), while the fastest was Inglewood Avenue in Derby (England), where residents enjoy speeds of 1.21Gbps (1,210Mbps).

Virgin Media UK Reveal XMas 2025 and New Year 2026 Broadband Traffic

3rd January, 2026 (10 Comments)

Internet provider Virgin Media (O2) has kindly furnished ISPreview with some general traffic stats from their fixed broadband network over the festive period, which for example reveals that Christmas Day internet traffic was up 11% on last year (broadly in line with traffic growth generally). But compared to an average Thursday in 2025, traffic was up by 22%.

Gigabit Broadband Cover Reaches Nearly 90 Percent of the UK in H2 2025

2nd January, 2026 (7 Comments)

ISPreview has today published our biannual H2 – 2025 summary of fixed broadband coverage, which reveals that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP networks have grown to reach 81.89% of UK premises (up from 78.06% in H1) and 89.6% are within reach of “gigabit” 1000Mbps+ speeds (up from 87.84%) – close to the major milestone of 90%. Read on to see details for England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland.

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Virgin Media UK’s Winter Broadband Sale Cuts 2Gbps to £49.99

29th December, 2025 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to join Virgin Media (O2) may like to know that they’ve kicked off their Winter Sale today, which will run until 4th February 2026 and offers a variety of discounts across their various broadband packages, TV bundles (these all include Netflix Standard) and triple-play deals with O2’s mobile SIMs.

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Opensignal 2025 Study Ranks Big UK Broadband ISPs by Quality and Speed

17th December, 2025 (5 Comments)

Internet connection testing firm Opensignal has today published their 2025 Fixed Broadband Experience report, which gauges the performance of major ISPs across the UK including BT (inc. EE), Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Three UK, Virgin Media and Vodafone. Overall, Virgin Media scored wins in every single national connectivity category.

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Autumn UK Budget 2025 Brings Little New for Broadband and Mobile UPDATE

26th November, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Chancellor of the UK Government, Rachel Reeves MP, has today announced her Autumn 2025 Budget and there appears to be no current sign of anything significantly new for broadband and mobile infrastructure (except an update on pushing gigabit broadband into MDUs). In addition, there’s no indication that any of the recent calls for targeted business rates relief on digital infrastructure have been heeded.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Expand 5G and Gigabit Broadband in Scotland

25th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 has revealed that more than 50% of Scotland’s population can now be reached by their 5G mobile network, while its next generation 5G Standalone (5GSA) network has so far gone live across 54 Scottish towns and cities. On top of that, Virgin Media has invested £330m to expand gigabit broadband to more than 1.5 million Scottish premises.

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Ofcom Predict 97 Percent of UK Covered by Gigabit Broadband in Jan 2028

8th November, 2025 (9 Comments)

Somehow, we overlooked that the telecoms regulator had published the fourth edition of their forecast for Planned Network Deployments, which has revised down its expectations of future coverage after UK broadband operators did the same. The report now predicts that full fibre (FTTP) lines will reach 86-95% of homes by January 2028 – rising to 91-97% for gigabit-capable networks (i.e. FTTP and Cable).