Around 500 customers in Orkney are offline due to an undersea fibre break between Evie and Westray in the Orkney Islands. The cause for the fibre break has not yet been confirmed, and BT, which owns ...

The migration from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) over to Digital Voice has now breached the 3 million household milestone, with BT working to replace the 40-year old infrastructure with ...

As many long standing users will know, we offer a tool which monitors your broadband connection 24x7x365 sending a small ‘ping’ every single second, and measuring how long it takes to get a response ...

The true power of 5G should now be available to O2 mobile customers in 66 large towns and cities, 175 smaller towns, and 1,120 villages across Scotland. The 5G+ rollout means that the reliance on 4G ...

Giffgaff is able to offer full fibre using the nexfibre XGS-PON network and started selling on parts of the network back in September 2025. The original contracts were simple monthly rolling contracts ...

Ofcom has given an update on the AVS Group investigation in relation to breaches of the Online Safety Act. We covered details on this originally here. The update confirms that the £1m fine and the £50 ...

Ofcom in its presentation of the Telecoms Access Review is viewing the regulations it has laid out for the 2026 to 2031 period as being a key part of the final push towards a full fibre finish line.

TOTSco, the body which runs the broadband One Touch Switch (OTS) platform, believes there are improvements that could be made to OTS performance and has launched a consultation to engage with ...

After a smaller set of figures back in February than usual everything seems to be back to normal, as we’ve tracked an additional 363,513 Openreach full fibre premises in the last four weeks. Worries ...

The UK Government is apparently delivering broadband upgrades at the fastest rate since the Project Gigabit contracts started in 2021. Slightly oddly while it is the case that Openreach is the largest ...

We reported on an iTalk Broadband outage two weeks ago when users were reporting downtime already lasting several days. We covered it again three days later reporting on the continued loss of service ...

The wholesale aquila platform has had CityFibre services available over it for some time, but a new platform release means that APFN (All Points Fibre Networks) is now able to offer 1.7 Gbps and 2.3 ...