Openreach Sees UK Full Fibre Broadband Traffic Grow 35 Percent in H1 2025

Openreach Sees UK Full Fibre Broadband Traffic Grow 35 Percent in H1 2025

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed that broadband data traffic across their UK full fibre (FTTP) network alone increased by more than 35% between Jan and June 2025, compared to the same period in 2024. The busiest day so far was on 21st Feb, when a large Fortnite (video game) patch saw users gobble a total of 372PB (PetaBytes). The operator typically supplies numerous broadband ISPs (e.g. TalkTalk, BT, Sky Broadband, Vodaf…

Data: Fortnite updates drive record UK broadband traffic

Data from Openreach – the UK’s wholesale broadband network – shows that data usage on its new Full Fibre network alone is up more than 35 per cent between January and June 2025, compared to the same period in 2024. And overall traffic on its national broadband network increased by five per cent in the […]