Industry News

Two million UK customers are now using fibre services from an altnet, representing 33% year-on-year growth in connections.

Investment bank Macquarie has appointed advisors PJT Partners as it explores the sale of KCOM, according to a report by the Telegraph.

Ofcom has kicked off its review of the regulations that will apply to the UK wholesale telecoms markets from April 2026 until March 2031.

Netomnia is updating its build plans to target two million premises passed, CEO Jeremy Chelot tells FibreProvider.net

Ogi and Vorboss have written to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, asking for more protection against intentional damage to full fibre broadband infrastructure.

Telecom Acquisitions has achieved a record trading quarter with 22,000 new residential broadband customers signed up since last autumn.

INCA has formed a Special Interest Group to encourage infrastructure sharing between altnets and third parties.

Openreach will launch two new speed tiers across the entirety of its full fibre network, available to its network of communication providers from April 1st.

Virgin Media O2 has launched a residential 2Gbps broadband service, Gig2, and introduced symmetrical download and upload speeds across its speed tiers as an optional add-on.

Full fibre is now available to over 6 in 10 UK households according to the third annual State of Broadband Report by thinkbroadband.