Read about Weekly Brief — 21st November 2025. Broadband news from the longest running independent information website.

Ofcom has released its annual Connected Nations report, which aims to give a picture of how the UK communications infrastructure is performing and improving and to monitor the availability of both ...

There are still differences in the figures we track and what Ofcom publish, largely this are down to the rounding used in the Ofcom publications and data gathering times. The timing of data gathering ...

The acquisition of Connexin by CityFibre was announced in March 2025 and now it looks like the footprint of over 80,000 premises in the Hull and East Riding area is available via CityFibre. CityFibre ...

The House of Lords published its committee report into Home Working last week claiming that it could be the way to ‘get people back into work’. The report, called “Is working from home working?” makes ...

The nexfibre rollout continues and today Virgin Media O2 has decided to highlight Ripon and they claim over 6,000 homes have XGS-PON full fibre to them. The city looking at our data saw the bulk of ...

* TalkTalk released new offers so this is an ‘equivalent’ increase had the increase been 3% instead of 4% rather than a direct comparison. It is worth noting talkTalk’s current promotions (most ...

A busy week for the various flavours of full fibre in the Virgin Media footprint. Our maps and checkers are now showing some 2,011,124 premises where nexfibre XGS-PON is available i.e. standard Virgin ...

The Internet Services’ Providers Association (ISPA) has this evening hosted its annual awards at a gala dinner at the City Central at the HAC in Central London. This year is special as it represents ...

Here are some brief news pieces that may be of interest that we haven’t otherwise covered in the news this week. TalkTalk has appointed Henry Davies as Group Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he ...

Rural broadband builder Gigaclear has responded to recent comments from Openreach (which suggest they may revisit their target of connecting 30 million premises to full fibre may be at risk), flying ...

Triodos Bank has announced that it has agreed a new funding package with alt-net B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) to allow it to expand further into the North East, with a focus on areas around ...