Jonny Rae 
The “acquisition mission” continues for Telecoms Acquisitions Limited (TAL) as they add an additional 2,800 customers to the group. If you’re not aware, TAL owns and operates multiple successful consumer broadband brands, including Home Telecom, Fleur, Eclipse, and more. They have a track record of providing sustainable growth while upholding a “top-tier” service for end … Read more
Virgin Media has some exciting news for the Wirral: 24,000 more homes and businesses can now access their gigabit broadband services. If you’re in Wirral, you can now sign up for services like Gig2 broadband, which offers blistering speeds of 2Gbps. That’s a whopping 25 times faster than the local average! Perfect for busy households … Read more
More positive news from Freedom this morning! These guys are absolutely on a roll. Going somewhat “under” our radar until early 2024, they’re moving at a rapid pace in the right direction! Their wholesale offering is the talk of the town, and now they have announced a huge Project Gigabit rollout to bring ultra-fast full … Read more
Vorboss, the “altnet” supplying chunky, affordable ethernet to London businesses, has again received recognition from the City of London Corporation as part of the Considerate Contractor Scheme for delivering “exemplary” work. In a nutshell, they’re smashing it when it comes to laying fibre in central London, which, for any engineer or network supplier, knows this … Read more
Kloud9 announces another plan to connect up to 400 properties to ultrafast full fibre, in collaboration with BDUK, in a rural Shropshire village. Although the numbers seem small, Kloud9 is excelling in the rural space and collectively making significant strides in connecting the “forgotten” rural spots in the north. We wrote about Kloud9 for the … Read more
Cuckoo has entered into a new three-year agreement with GoCardless to further enhance their “tech-heavy” end-user experience. Now, this usually wouldn’t be the most exciting news to report on, but this is Cuckoo. And Cuckoo is still very much the “disruptor” in the broadband space. I’ve been following Cuckoo’s journey since 2018/2019 when the original … Read more
Yesterday, BT Group dropped a bombshell in their year-end report, casually mentioning, “we now expect to have migrated all customers off the PSTN by the end of January 2027, allowing us to align the programme with full fibre broadband customer upgrades where available.” Well, that was certainly news to the industry! (kind of) Back in … Read more
Ogi, the “altnet” bringing ultrafast full fibre to Welsh residents (on a completely separate note, I love how Ogi’s domain uses .wales), has announced the success of reaching two-thirds of its planned “first phase” rollout. This means that one in five “properties passed” have signed up to use one of their full fibre packages. Ogi … Read more
https://youtu.be/-3zmOLN-Vug “Altnet” means “Alterntive Networks” and we have three types of altnets in the UK. Open Access, Closed Access & the hybrid – Open & Closed Access. Open Access Networks are full fibre providers who lay and manage the cable infrastructure and network, but do not connect customers direct to a internet service. The largest … Read more