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Full-fibre broadband is now available to more than eight million homes as roll-out accelerates and ‘decent’ broadband is at highest-ever level.

Virgin Media O2 have announced it has connected Romsey to their Gigabit Speeds Network along with 12 other small towns or rural villages.

VIRGIN Media O2 has announced that it has added thousands of homes in Leigh to its gigabit network, connecting areas in and around the town to…

Paul Lipscombe CEO Jansen says the FTTP boost will aide the UK’s economic recovery BT has pledged to create up to 7,000 new jobs as the telco looks to up the pace of its full-fibre broadband rollout. The telecoms firm has increased its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) target from 20 million to 25 million connections by December 2026. It comes as BT also announced its full year results, ending March 31 2021, with revenue dipping seven per cent to £21.3 bn. The announcement follows Ofcom’s recen...

| 12 May 2021 In an interim update to its assessment of the UK’s fixed broadband and mobile networks, broadcast and telecoms regulator Ofcom has found an industry with aggressive infrastructure deployment during the time of the lockdowns declared in later 2020 and early 2021. In the Connected Nations Update Spring 2021 edition report Ofcom found rapid growth in the availability of broadband offers capable of delivering Gigabit speeds for domestic households. It calculated that n...

Scotland has worst broadband speed in UK - see how your hometown compares Official figures show hundreds of thousands of people do not have access to decent connection speeds, with huge differences between regions. Scotlands broadband speed is the worst in Britain (Image: Getty Images) Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you pro...

Use this new tool to compare your broadband speed to the rest of the UK Households in the north east enjoy the fastest average download speeds in the country Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now There are always big stories on WalesOnline - dont miss any with our daily emailInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations...

More than four in 10 farmers still do not have access to fast and reliable broadband in order to run a modern-day farming business, a new survey shows.

The Cambridgeshire neighbourhood with the slowest internet in the county Internet speeds have been under the spotlight during the pandemic Internet speeds vary considerably across Cambridgeshire (Image: Pixabay) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related n...

The Surrey neighbourhood with the slowest broadband speed in the county People living in the Woking neighbourhood have an average download speeds of just 2.5 Mbit/s Updated How does your area fare? (Image: Rui Vieira/PA Wire) Get the latest email updates for Surrey with our FREE daily newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommen...