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

Read about Ofcom proposes sharing 6GHz band between Mobile and Wi-Fi. Broadband news from the longest running independent ...

South Yorkshire have surpassed their 95% target for gigabit broadband coverage by the end of 2025. The target, which was set in the South Yorkshire Digital Infrastructure Strategy, was passed in ...

Two altnets are reportedly in discussions about merging their businesses according to Sky News. Truespeed, which merged with County Broadband last year, and Freedom Fibre would create an altnet with ...

The 0.01 drop in Superfast coverage in Yorkshire and Humberside deserves a few words, the actual number of superfast premises in the region actually increased but as a percentage there was a small ...

A boost to people using O2’s network in Sheffield has been announced as the company has confirmed it has enabled their 5G standalone network in the region. 580,000 residents across Sheffield and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...