More businesses in rural North Wales and Cheshire are in line for full fibre, after…
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Liverpool is ahead of every big UK city on the switch-off, but the new safety net has a catch for businesses. Plus, a fibre discount the regulator blocked and a crackdown on scam numbers.
We have spent a week pulling apart the switch-off. Here it is as six things to check before January, each one sourced, so you can verify the lot without taking our word for it.
Old phone lines had one useful trick. They kept working when the electricity went off,…
A new Starlink router surfaced in official filings this month. A good moment to ask where satellite genuinely beats waiting years for a fibre build, and where it honestly does not.
Nine in ten UK premises can get gigabit. Out in the villages it is a different story. Here is where the rollout has genuinely reached, and what to do if it has not reached you.
What stops working if this connection goes down? How long could we cope? And does the contract in front of me actually promise anything, or does it just mention speeds?
Two bills, two companies, one shared wire. It is the fiddliest setup to untangle before January, and the window to get the work done for free closes at the end of October.
Your line rental doubles on 1st October, and in January the connection stops altogether. Most businesses have no idea their broadband runs down the very wires being switched off.
Openreach has confirmed the PSTN switch off deadline is just six months away, with 350,000 UK business premises still relying on legacy copper lines. Here's what needs to happen next.