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Gloucestershire UK Celebrate Over 98 Percent Superfast Broadband Cover

13th March, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) in England has today celebrated how their Fastershire programme, which was jointly conducted alongside Herefordshire Council, has now helped to enable 98.5% of properties in the county to access a “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) connection, up from only 39% in 2012 and 36% in 2011.

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BDUK Release UPRN Level Data for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

13th March, 2025 (12 Comments)

The Government’s executive Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today published fresh data that reveals the current levels of broadband connectivity, future commercial plans for gigabit broadband, and any premises included in BDUK’s publicly funded interventions (e.g gigabit vouchers and Project Gigabit contracts) down to the individual premises (UPRN) level.

Mayor of London Releases Interactive Map of City Broadband Speeds

12th March, 2025 (13 Comments)

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has this week published a new interactive map that shows how broadband speed availability varies across the city by postcode and where improvements may be needed.

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CityFibre Target 850k UK Homes Covered by Full Fibre Altnets for Consolidation

11th March, 2025 (39 Comments)

A new research note from James Ratzer at New Street Research has claimed that CityFibre, which have already deployed their full fibre broadband (FTTP) ISP network to cover 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS), is making progress on their plans for future consolidation and already has “up to” 850,000 homes served by other alternative networks “under M&A exclusivity“.

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Hope for Broadband and Mobile Boost as UK Gov to Publish Planning Bill

10th March, 2025 (6 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has called on the government to be “bold and brave” when they publish their new Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) tomorrow, which it’s hoped may contain some measures that will benefit the roll-out of gigabit broadband and 4G / 5G mobile networks.

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Freedom Fibre Drops Out of Project Gigabit Broadband Contract for Cheshire UK

7th March, 2025 (26 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has just unexpectedly announced that alternative network provider Freedom Fibre has “mutually agreed to terminate” the £43m (state aid) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Cheshire (Lot 17), which would have expanded a full fibre (FTTP) network to 15,000 premises in hard to reach areas.

INCA Calls on UK Gov to Focus on Full Fibre in New Industrial Strategy

6th March, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative gigabit broadband operators, has today called on the UK government to ensure that their future Industrial Strategy “prioritises digital infrastructure“. The group wants this to be supported by a national campaign to promote full fibre-adoption, among other things.

Quickline Build FTTP to 2 Villages in Yorkshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

28th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator and UK ISP Quickline has today issued a small progress update on their £44m state aid supported gigabit broadband roll-out contract for South Yorkshire (Lot 20 – here) in England, which aims to reach 32,100 additional premises in hard-to-reach rural areas (plus 29,000 via a complementary commercial build).

Quickline See Project Gigabit Broadband Progress in Lincolnshire and the East Yorkshire

25th February, 2025 (1 Comment)

UK ISP Quickline has today given a progress update on their £118.9m state aid backed contracts under the Government’s Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme for Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire (Lot 23), which will see their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network being expanded to cover 72,000 premises in hard to reach rural areas.

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BDUK Close Gigabit Broadband Vouchers for Newcastle and North Tyneside

25th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has made a change this week that closes their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) for Newcastle and North Tyneside (Tyne and Wear), which means that local homes and businesses in poorly served rural areas can no longer apply for big grants to help get a much faster broadband ISP network installed.

Mobile Operator Scores Key Court Win in Dispute Over UK Mast Leasing and Renewal UPDATE2

21st February, 2025 (2 Comments)

Mobile network operator Vodafone UK has won a key court case against leasing firm AP Wireless (inc. the affiliated Icon Tower company). Some operators believe the firm could risk damaging their roll-out of 5G based mobile broadband technology, such as by pushing up their costs and threatening the viability of future deployments.

GoFibre Win Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract for Scottish Borders UPDATE

20th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

Edinburgh-based ISP GoFibre has secured a third contract under the UK government’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme, which is worth £26.2m (state aid) and will see them expand their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover around 11,000 premises across hard-to-reach rural areas in the Scottish Borders and East Lothian regions.

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Gigaclear Start New Oxfordshire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

18th February, 2025 (7 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural ISP Gigaclear has today announced that they’ve kicked off the construction phase of their £25.4m (state aid) Project Gigabit contracts for South Oxfordshire (Lot 13.01 – c.5,500 premises) and North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02 – c.4,200 premises), which will extend their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to around 9,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas.

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BDUK Reopens Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme to Devon UK UPDATE

11th February, 2025 (12 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has made a change today that re-opens their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) for parts of Devon in England, which means that local homes and businesses in poorly served rural areas can apply for big grants to help get a much faster broadband ISP network installed.

First Hints of New UK Gov Measures to Tackle Broadband Pole Complaints

10th February, 2025 (33 Comments)

The UK Government will shortly attempt to deliver on their pledge to “end the deployment of unnecessary telegraph poles” (here) by publishing an updated Code of Practice for broadband operators to follow, which will set out new guidance on the divisive issue. We now have a good idea of what that new code will include.

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New Map Shows Project Gigabit Broadband Status in England and Wales

7th February, 2025 (17 Comments)

A new interactive map has today been published by Thinkbroadband that rather handily provides a visual overview of the government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out across England and Wales, which drills down to premises level by factoring in a total of 30 million Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRN).

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Gov Expand CityFibre’s Project Gigabit Broadband Rollouts in 9 UK Contracts UPDATE2

6th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

The Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has published contract modification notices for CityFibre’s state aid funded Project Gigabit broadband roll-outs across four regions – Hampshire (Lot 27), Suffolk (Lot 2), Cambridgeshire (Lot 5) and Norfolk (Lot 7). The changes increase the level of committed public funding and often also the contracted scope.