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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 recent decision not to impose caps on the wholesale prices fibre operators can charge for access, for at ...

| 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 nearly 11 million UK homes (37%) were able to access such services by the end of January 2021, up fro...