Read about Weekly Brief - 23rd January 2026. Broadband news from the longest running independent information website.

Following recent reports of lenders circling around Gigaclear, Point Topic have looked into the business case for potential acquirers of Gigaclear within the altnet space, identifying three potential ...

CityFibre has announced that it has expanded the availability of its business FTTP broadband service to now cover its entire ready-for-service network footprint. This means businesses, small or home ...

Read about Pilot pricing for 8,500 Mbps XGS-PON service from Openreach published. Broadband news from the longest running independent information website.

Broadband alt-net Gigaclear is likely to be taken over by its creditors, Natwest, Lloyds and the National Wealth Fund (formerly the UK Investment Bank), according to news reported by the FT. The news ...

There are across the UK around 12.5 million properties where the Openreach Stop Sell rules are active, and with the announcement of Tranche 23 another 132 exchanges have started their countdown to the ...

This weeks weekly brief contains some news which didn’t make it into a dedicated article. Virgin Media O2 has saved customers over 400,000 hours by using a form of AI called Natural Language ...

Grain Connect has published the news that its rolling out in Sheffield and by using our roadwork map you can see that the first areas look like they will be in the Crookes area of the City. Sheffield ...

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Starlink has now launched a lower price offering in certain areas, with service available for £35/month, providing a 100Mbps broadband connection. This was teased back in November when pricing was ...

We have performed a number of tests looking at your download speed, upload speed and latency. You can see the results of these in the graph below. The HTTP x6 test ...