Openreach has announced the pricing and commercial terms for its new symmetric 1Gbps broadband FTTP speed tier service – due to launch on April 1st. The new service will be available at premises, including both homes and businesses, where FTTP has been built under its £800 million partnership with the Government’s Project Gigabit programme – […]

Point Topic has provided an update on fixed broadband availability in the UK, tracking the progress between the end of 2023 and 2024. The analysis is based on the Thinkpoint broadband availability dataset which includes 1.7 million postcodes. At the end of 2024, the FTTP coverage was 72.9 per cent of the UK total premises, […]

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach and Nokia have successfully tested the UK’s first live 50 Gigabits per second (Gbps) broadband connection. The technology promises to deliver speeds twenty times faster than the fastest broadband services available today in UK. During a field test conducted from a residential property in Ipswich, the new Nokia ’50G PON’ […]

The Hebridean islands’ first ultrafast broadband connections are now live in a transformative upgrade by Openreach engineers for the Scottish Government’s ‘Reaching 100% (R100)’ programme. For years, connectivity on the islands has been a challenge due to their location and dispersed populations. Now, the first households and businesses on Tiree can access some of the […]

Half of Scottish homes and businesses can now get connected to ultrafast, reliable broadband according to figures from UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach. The company has spent more than £435 million (€515m) on full fibre links for Scotland so far, with 1.45 million properties now able to upgrade and take-up at 38 per cent, ahead […]

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a record number of 163 new exchange locations, covering more than 960,000 premises across the UK, where the business plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over an ultrafast Full Fibre connection. The business […]

nexfibre has released a report, UK Fibre: A Fork In the Road, outlining a series of recommendations for Ofcom’s upcoming Telecoms Access Review (TAR) with the objective of maintaining investment in the roll out of full fibre in the UK, promoting sustainable competition in the market and restraining anticompetitive behaviour from the dominant operator. The […]

Network technology specialist Nokia has been chosen by UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach to build an open-access fibre network to serve millions of homes and businesses. Built using Nokia’s One Network Platform, the network will help Openreach support its target of connecting 25 million premises by the end of 2026, responding to the increasing demand […]

Some of Britain’s most isolated communities will benefit from faster broadband speeds, giving them better access to a range of services including healthcare at home through virtual consultations and remote monitoring, and helping to combat loneliness by ensuring pensioners can access high-quality video calls. It will also support businesses to better grow and serve their […]

According to Openreach’s annual update, broadband traffic across the UK increased by 10.5 per cent in 2024 to 103,590 Petabytes (PB) of data. A closer look at the numbers reveals that peaks coincided with specific online events, such as Prime Video’s Premier League coverage, the release of popular gaming title downloads, the setup of new […]