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Hyperoptic Building FTTP Broadband in Small Rural UK Town of Bridgnorth

23rd April, 2026 (2 Comments)

The normally city-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have built their network to cover 1.9 million UK homes (mostly across blocks of flats / MDUs), has been spotted deploying a seemingly random single street cabinet in the small rural Shropshire (England) town of Bridgnorth. But there’s method in the madness.

Rural UK Broadband Altnet Quickline Appoint Justin Leese as CTO After Ogi Exit

23rd April, 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Quickline, which is busy building a new full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has appointed industry veteran Justin Leese to be its new Chief Technology and Operations Officer (CTOO).

PXC Launch Trooli Residential UK FTTP Broadband Plans for Partner ISPs

22nd April, 2026 (0 Comments)

Wholesale networking provider PlatformX Communications (formerly TalkTalk Wholesale) has today announced that they’ve begun making residential full fibre broadband (FTTP) services available via Trooli’s alternative UK network to partner ISPs, which follows the signing of a new wholesale partnership back in March 2025 (here).

UK ISP Toob Launch 2300Mbps Broadband Plan and WiFi 7 Router, But Add Price Rise

21st April, 2026 (17 Comments)

Hampshire-based alternative network toob, which has deployed their own gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other UK areas, has today launch several new packages (including speeds up to 2.3Gbps) and a new WiFi 7 router. But it’s not all good news as they’ve also changed their pricing policy.

FullFibre Limited Solves IPv4 Shortage With netElastic BNG And CGNAT

21st April, 2026 (22 Comments)

Alternative UK broadband operator FullFibre Limited, which in 2023 acquired rival Digital Infrastructure (BeFibre) and in 2025 completed its merger with Zzoomm (here), has now apparently solved its “IPv4 shortage” (internet addresses) with netElastic’s software and will be returning excess IPv4 blocks with the use of CGNAT (IP address sharing) being projected to save 40% over 3 years.

Grain Bringing UK Full Fibre Broadband Network to Long Eaton in Derbyshire

20th April, 2026 (0 Comments)

Carlisle-based alternative broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect), which has already built their point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 270,000 UK premises (aiming for 600,000 in the future) and in 2025 secured a £225m funding boost (here), has issued a brief update to confirm that the Derbyshire (England) town of Long Eaton will be the next to get their network.

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Nexfibre List FTTP Broadband Upgrades for Another 7 UK Locations

20th April, 2026 (10 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with broadband ISP Virgin Media (they harness the same build teams), has today confirmed another batch of seven locations and regions across the UK that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP, XGS-PON) broadband technology. Technically it should be 8 locations, but we already wrote about one.

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Nexfibre Invest £2.9m to Upgrade 18,000 Homes in Darlington to Full Fibre

17th April, 2026 (5 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build engine), has today announced a £2.9 million investment in the large County Durham (England) town of Darlington to help upgrade 18,000 homes to full fibre (FTTP) broadband. The work is linked to the planned acquisition of altnet Netomnia.

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Full Fibre UK Broadband Networks Face Sharp Fibre Tax Hike on Network Bills

16th April, 2026 (13 Comments)

The Government’s Valuation Office (VO), which has just become part of HMRC, appears to have begun hitting builders of fibre optic broadband networks with an increase in the rateable value (RV) of their fibre infrastructure (aka – Fibre Tax), which in some cases has hiked costs by up to around 30%. Not ideal given the well known strains in the sector right now.

Broadband Altnet Netomnia UK Wins FTTH Europe 2026 Operator Award

15th April, 2026 (18 Comments)

Alternative network operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has built their own full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 3 million UK premises RFS (inc. 460,000 customers) and is currently in the process of being acquired by VMO2/nexfibre’s parents (here), have just been named the winner of the FTTH Europe 2026 Operator Award.

City Focused UK Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Launch New Customer Rewards Scheme UPDATE

15th April, 2026 (8 Comments)

City-focused full fibre broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have deployed their FTTP/B network to cover 1.9 million UK homes (mostly across blocks of flats / MDUs), has today launched a new Rewards feature within its ‘My Account’ platform, giving customers access to “exclusive perks, discounts and offers at no extra cost“.

Alternative UK Broadband Networks May Have to Hike Prices to Survive

15th April, 2026 (7 Comments)

The Senior UK Plus Analyst for Point Topic, Veronica Speiser, has reportedly warned that smaller alternative broadband networks may have to raise their average revenue per user (ARPU) to approximately £45 per month just to breakeven. But most altnets are currently said to have ARPU’s of between £25 and £35, while larger operators operate within a wider range of £30 to £50.

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Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK Bring eero Router to Business Plans

14th April, 2026 (8 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has today expanded their partnership with Amazon’s eero, which means that customers of their full fibre (FTTP) broadband offerings for small and medium-sized businesses (SME) can now also access eero’s latest mesh Wi-Fi routers.

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Wessex Internet Tweak Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout for the New Forest

14th April, 2026 (3 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has tweaked their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract with rural ISP Wessex Internet for the New Forest area in Hampshire (Lot 27.01). The change reduces the number of contracted premises it was due to reach from 15,120 to 12,733 and similarly decreases the contract value (public subsidy) from £17.4m to £16.3m.

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Community Fibre Doubles Speed of £12.50 Broadband Social Tariff to 70Mbps

14th April, 2026 (0 Comments)

UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has invested c.£1bn to build a 5Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across 1.342 million homes (inc. 185k businesses within 200 metres of their network) – mostly in London, has temporarily doubled the speed of their £12.50 per month “Essentials” social tariff from 35Mbps to 70Mbps (symmetric).

London Full Fibre Broadband ISP G.Network Appoints 3 New Senior Leaders

14th April, 2026 (4 Comments)

Alternative UK ISP G.Network, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of London and have just come out of administration “debt-free” (here), has today announced the appointment of three senior leaders to its executive team as the business enters a “new phase of growth” under the ownership of FitzWalter Capital.

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Openreach Take on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contract for North Shropshire

14th April, 2026 (7 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has issued a second announcement today to confirm that the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for North Shropshire (Lot 25.02), which was originally held by Freedom Fibre until they “mutually agreed to descope the remaining 8,500 premises” in June 2025 (here), has also been taken on by Openreach (BT).