Broadband use across the UK increased by 9 per cent last year to 94,722 Petabytes of data, according to Openreach.
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Chairman and founder of the Abthorpe Broadband Association, Eric Malcomson, has been awarded an MBE in the 2024 Kings honours.
Tristia Harrison, Group CEO of TalkTalk Group, has received a Damehood for services to telecommunications in the New Year’s Honours List.
Full-fibre broadband is now available to more than 17 million UK homes, according to Ofcom’s latest Connected Nations Report.
Ofcom is proposing tougher protections for customers by banning inflation-linked mid-contract price rises.
Ofcom has issued new guidance to broadband providers, requiring them to tell consumers about the network that underpins their service using only clear and unambiguous terms.
Lit Fibre has added a broadband jargon buster to its website to combat confusion caused by complex acronyms and years of providers misbranding fibre.
The Autumn Statement confirms that the Full Expensing policy, which may help altnets reduce rollout costs, will be made permanent.
BT’s CEO Philip Jansen is calling for tax incentives to that encourage investment in fibre to be made permanent, ahead of the Autumn Statement.
According to PointTopic, the UK’s overall FTTP coverage was just over 17.4m premises (54.5%) at the end of Q3 2023, up from 16.3m in Q2 2023.