Openreach is helping more than 140,000 homes and businesses across Cardiff to access full fibre broadband, thanks to its nationwide full fibre rollout, with around 80 per cent of properties across the city connected to ultra-fast speeds.
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CityFibre has completed the primary-build of its full fibre network in Ipswich, allowing over 70,000 homes in the region access, around 98% of the town’s properties – making it one of the best-connected locations in the UK.
Openreach is celebrating the milestone of reaching 90% coverage of its full fibre rollout across Northern Ireland – with the region becoming the first within the Openreach UK network to hit this target.
BT has signed a contract worth nearly £10m to deliver full fibre broadband access to nearly 1,800 hard-to-reach sites across the Swansea Bay City Region as part of a project to support levelling up in key areas where a connectivity gap exists.
GoFibre is celebrating a major milestone in Montrose with more than 1,000 customers now enjoying ultra-fast full fibre broadband, and to mark the occasion, the company will be teaming up with local ice cream shop, Scoops of Moo, for a special community event on 17th May.
VeloxServ has joined forces with Vorboss to expand its wholesale full fibre business connectivity to ISP partners in London, giving greater choice and competitive pricing.
A report from industry regulator Ofcom shows that the number of homes able to get gigabit-capable broadband has increased to 25.9m, with nearly three-quarters of UK homes (22.5m or 74%) having access a full-fibre broadband service.
Grain is bringing faster broadband to Burton-on-Trent, in a major upgrade that will transform internet speeds for residents who will get dedicated full fibre connection.
A nationwide survey of UK farmers commissioned by CityFibre has revealed that poor internet connectivity threatens to stifle growth and productivity on Britain’s farms, with unreliable broadband impeding the adoption of new technology such as AI and real-time monitoring.
Openreach has increased its full fibre footprint by one million premises over two months since the end of February 2025 – an increase that shows the company has connected nearly 55% of UK premises.
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