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

The CityFibre footprint in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire is now offering the Sky 5 Gbps service, there exploiting the abilities of XGS-PON. Details for Sky 5 Gbps service at £80 a month Sky ...

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 ...

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 ...

A global outage on Cloudflare, a network which offers web application security and performance, has had an outage today, which began at around 11:30 GMT. This has ...

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 ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOTSCo have confirmed that they are “just shy of” two million completed switches on the platform since it launched on the 12th September 2024. This presumably means they are expecting to pass the ...

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 ...