Read about Weekly Brief - 9th January 2026. Broadband news from the longest running independent information website.

G.Network, which passes almost 255,000 premises according to our tracking, has run into financial issues due to a financial shortfall in the company. The investors USS and Cube Infrastructure Managers ...

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint by EE against Vodafone, ruling that Vodafone’s repeated use of the slogan “The Nation’s Network” in an advertising campaign amounted ...

Based on the results of from over 145,000 speed tests the comparison site Broadband Genie has published two lists of UK streets, those where the slowest results where seen and those with the fastest ...

Ofcom is working through the legal processes as part of its enforcement of the Online Safety Act 2023 with regard to an online discussion forum used to discuss suicide. “We are investigating whether a ...

Openreach looks to have been busy in December and hitting 21 million premises Ready for Service at the start of January 2026 is a key milestone in their ambition to hit 25 million premises by the end ...

Some may be wondering what the future holds for broadband, as there has been a lot of change over the recent past in telecommunications and, in particular, broadband speeds. When we started this ...

The advice on how to deal with your broadband and telephone connections when you move home has changed over time, but as we rely on broadband on a daily basis, these concerns are no longer limited to ...

Matt Agar is the latest person in the broadband world to be awarded an Honour, he has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. The OBE has been awarded for services to Digital ...

It has taken almost two months, but we can announced UK FTTP coverage has risen from 81.01% on the 9th November 2025 to 82.18% on 4th January 2026. There has been lots of full fibre activity with the ...

Earlier this year, we launched a new feature, ‘Postcode Subscriptions’, on our website to allow people to monitor a postcode for changes to broadband availability and we wanted to remind you to sign ...

The Christmas period brings about Black Friday sales to many broadband providers and is a great opportunity for you to snag a deal. If you do this early enough in the period you will be able to take ...