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Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Scheme Given Green Rating

31st October, 2025 (7 Comments)

The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme, which includes various broadband and other digital infrastructure upgrades as part of the wider £1.3bn Swansea Bay City Region project, has received a green rating in its latest Gateway Review, which is said to reflect its progress in improving digital connectivity across the region.

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BDUK Summarise Progress of UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contracts

24th October, 2025 (12 Comments)

The Government’s (DSIT) Building Digital UK agency has today finally started to publish monthly updates on the delivery progress of contracts that have been awarded under their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which among other things reveals that some 150,730 contracted premises have already been built out of a planned total of 1,002,270 (October 2025).

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Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Extend Full Fibre to 6,000 Homes in Llantwit

23rd October, 2025 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) and network operator partner nexfibre, which share some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve once again expanded the reach of their symmetric 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network to more than 6,000 additional homes in the coastal South Wales town of Llantwit for the first time.

Broadband ISP Ogi Expand Full Fibre Spine to Connect More Cardiff Businesses

16th October, 2025 (2 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative network operator and ISP Ogi, which has deployed their FTTP broadband network across 100,000 homes and businesses in South Wales (RFS), has managed to expand their full fibre spine in Cardiff to reach more businesses following an earlier deal to hook up Cardiff Arms Park as an anchor tenant.

Welsh Gov Tenders for £70m Extending High Speed Broadband Project

8th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

ISPreview has spotted that the Welsh Government (WG) have today issued a formal tender notice for their £70m (state aid) “Extending High Speed Broadband” (EHSB) project for Wales. In its current form, this aims to help extend faster broadband to around 29,000 premises in poorly served areas (i.e. locations that can’t yet access 30Mbps+ speeds).

BT Completes £1.9m Full Fibre Build for Swansea Bay City Deal

2nd October, 2025 (7 Comments)

The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme has today announced the completion of their £1.9m Full Fibre Infrastructure Build project with BT, which has helped to upgrade 69 key public sector sites with “future proofed” broadband connectivity.

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Government to Expand UK Availability of Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme

26th September, 2025 (4 Comments)

Good news. The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency will shortly announce that more areas of the United Kingdom are to be re-opened to the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which means that homes and businesses in poorly served areas will be able to apply for funding to help get faster internet connections installed.

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Welsh Full Fibre Broadband ISP Ogi Confirms Departure of Current CEO UPDATE

19th September, 2025 (11 Comments)

Infracapital-backed UK ISP Ogi, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across South Wales (110,000 RFS premises passed by end of 2024), has today announced the departure of their current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founding member, Ben Allwright, after 5 years in the post.

Transport for Wales Trials Satellite Broadband for Bus WiFi Services

16th September, 2025 (5 Comments)

Transport for Wales (TfW), which is a not-for-profit organisation owned by the Welsh Government, has begun trials of a new satellite internet solution to connect the unique demand-responsive transport (DRT) based fflecsi bus services in the rural area of Machynlleth (Powys). Users of the service can now benefit from onboard WiFi.

New Full Fibre Broadband Network Goes Live at Margam Park, Neath Port Talbot

16th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme has announced the completion of a £150,000 project to deploy a new full fibre broadband network across Margam Park (Neath Port Talbot) in South Wales, which will also reach homes in the surrounding area.

Rural Wales Village of Rhydlewis Raises £1.4m to Complete FTTP Broadband Build

13th September, 2025 (6 Comments)

Residents covered by the Rhydlewis Exchange in Ceredigion (Wales), which serves 1,058 premises across 127 postcodes, may be pleased to learn that their stop-start deployment of a new Openreach based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network can now finally complete after they worked together to raise £1.4m in pledges.

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Rural UK Broadband ISP Airband Launch 1Gbps Wireless Package

10th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

Rural internet provider Airband, which has deployed a full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband network to cover various parts of Wales and South West England, has today announced that they’ve launched a 1Gbps speed package for those homes and businesses covered by their latest wireless networking technology.

BDUK Issue Annual Update on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Progress

4th September, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Government’s (DSIT) Building Digital UK agency has today published their annual progress report on the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which covers the April 2024 to March 2025 period and reveals that related interventions delivered 152,700 premises with gigabit-capable coverage during this period (total so far of 1.227m – including past schemes/years).

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Gov Boost Value of Openreach’s UK Project Gigabit Broadband Framework by £400m UPDATE

29th August, 2025 (11 Comments)

The Government has modified the Single Supplier Framework agreement that they awarded to Openreach (BT) last year under their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out scheme (here). The deal was originally valued at “up to” £800m and designed to help upgrade 312,000 premises in some of the hardest to reach UK areas to FTTP. But this has just been boosted in value to £1.2bn.

Results of the UK’s Largest Mobile Network Survey for the River Severn Region

21st August, 2025 (5 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has today published its results from the UK’s “largest mobile coverage survey“, which used bin lorries to test the 4G/5G (mobile broadband) network coverage and speed of each mobile operator across the River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region (RSPAWIR) – reflecting 33 councils in Wales and England’s West Midlands.

TFW Fibre Delivers First Commercial Contract for Railway Fibre Network in Wales

13th August, 2025 (0 Comments)

Network operator TfW Ffeibr (TFW Fibre), which is an arm’s-length initiative setup by Transport for Wales (TfW) and thus the Welsh Government, has today announced the delivered of its “first commercial fibre connectivity contract” with Cloud Centres Networks for the fibre that runs alongside local railways.

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Gov Launches £9.5m Fund to Help More UK People Get Online

13th August, 2025 (13 Comments)

The UK Government (DSIT) has today moved to complement their recently introduced Digital Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) by launching a new £9.5m Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund (DIIF). The fund is designed to support local authorities, charities and research organisations in helping to get people online who might otherwise struggle.