Milestone

Ofcom expects 50% of UK households to have access to fibre by March, with this rising to 80% within the next two years.

Zzoomm’s fibre network has passed 100,000 ready for service properties across 29 locations in its latest milestone.

Quickline has added 20 communities to its rollout in the last eight months, with its network now passing 10,000 homes and businesses across North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

Vfast Internet, part of Orbital Group has signed up its 15,000th customer. MD Rebecca Brown attributes the growth to partnerships with OFNL and CityFibre.

Openreach has now made fibre available to more than 100,000 homes and businesses across Suffolk as part of its £30m county-wide investment.

brsk has hit two milestones, passing 100,000 premises with its full fibre network, and connecting 5,000 customers across its four regions of Bradford, South Manchester, Burnley and the West Midlands.

Openreach has connected its 200,000th customer to fibre in Northern Ireland, doubling its NI connections in less than a year.

Over half of the 85,000 premises scheduled for improved connectivity under Project Stratum now have access to gigabit-capable broadband.

Fibrus has released an update on its build progress across its programmes in Northern Ireland and the north of England.

Hyperoptic is celebrating its 11th birthday with two milestones reached this year: 2,000 employees, and 250,000 active customers.