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Nexfibre Invest £6.8m to Build FTTP Broadband to 42,000 Crawley Premises UPDATE

1st April, 2026 (5 Comments)

Following on from this morning’s announcement of nexfibre’s network expansion across Bradford (here), we’ve now spotted that the operator also appears to have announced a similar £6.8m deployment to reach “up to” a further 42,000 premises in the West Sussex (England) town of Crawley with their full fibre (FTTP) network.

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Nexfibre Invest £10m to Build FTTP Broadband to 61,000 Bradford Premises

1st April, 2026 (13 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which is in the process of merging with Netomnia (here) and shares some of its parentage with ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, appears to have announced a new investment of £9.9m to expand their full fibre broadband network across 61,000 premises in Bradford (West Yorkshire, England).

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Virgin Media O2 Sign Nokia and Ericsson Deals to Upgrade UK 5G Mobile Network

31st March, 2026 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning announced that they’ve signed new multi-year agreements with their strategic partners Ericsson and Nokia to upgrade their Radio Access Network (RAN). The move will result in “thousands of mobile sites” across the UK being upgraded to support their latest 5G Standalone (5G+) technology for faster mobile broadband speeds.

Virgin Media UK Offers TV Customers Free Ultra HD Content Over Easter

27th March, 2026 (4 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who also take a Pay TV service via one of their TV 360, Stream or v6 Box platforms, have today been told that they can enjoy a range of family friendly movies, live music performances and documentaries in Ultra High Definition (UHD) “at no extra cost” over Easter 2026.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Provide 1 Million UK People with Free Data and Devices

27th March, 2026 (4 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have today revealed that they’ve achieved their digital inclusion goals under the Better Connections Plan, which among other things means that they’ve “helped close the digital divide” by providing 1 million UK people with free mobile data, devices, and greater access to its network in rural areas.

Nexfibre to Cover 1,456 UK Youth Centres with Free 2Gbps FTTP Broadband

26th March, 2026 (2 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with its ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, plan to expand on their original commitment to offer as many as 1,000 youth centres across the UK access to their full fibre network for free. But following the planned acquisition of Netomnia (here), they now expect to reach a further 456 centres.

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Virgin Media Business Wholesale Sees Faster UK 10G Ethernet Delivery

26th March, 2026 (1 Comment)

The wholesale division of broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMB / VMBW) has today announced that their multi-million-pound network investment and upgrade programme, Project Spark, has already helped accelerate 10Gbps service delivery by up to 40 days and reduce Ethernet lead times by 32% year-on-year.

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Virgin Media O2 Suggests it May Stop UK Fibre Builds if Netomnia Deal Rejected UPDATE

25th March, 2026 (35 Comments)

The CEO of Liberty Global (Mike Fries), which co-owns broadband operator Virgin Media (O2) and nexfibre in the UK, appears to have suggested that they could stop rolling out new full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks if the competition regulator does not approve their planned merger with rival Netomnia (Substantial Group).

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Virgin Media O2 UK Trial More Cost Effective Rural 4G Small Cells in Scotland

25th March, 2026 (4 Comments)

Broadband and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have teamed-up with the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT), University of Glasgow, VoltServer, ATS and KTL to demonstrate how mobile connectivity, power delivery, fibre backhaul and IoT services can be combined into a single unified infrastructure at a “fraction of the cost of traditional approaches“.

Gov Set New Fixed Telecoms Charter for UK Analogue Phone and Exchange Closures

24th March, 2026 (7 Comments)

The UK Government appears to have published a revised Fixed Telecoms Modernisation Charter (FTMC), which sets out the steps that fixed line broadband and phone providers must take to ensure that customers “remain safe” during the current switch-off of analogue phone (PSTN) services and future closure of thousands of Openreach’s legacy exchanges.

Government Reveal Progress of UK Digital Inclusion Action Plan After 1 Year

24th March, 2026 (1 Comment)

The UK Government has published its first annual progress report on their new Digital Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP), which was launched in Feb 2025 alongside support from various broadband and mobile providers. The plan contained a series of “urgent actions” that it hoped would “begin fixing digital exclusion“ and the new report appears to be broadly positive.

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Virgin Media UK Deploys Free Smart Support Service to All Broadband Users

23rd March, 2026 (7 Comments)

Customers of UK ISP Virgin Media’s (O2) fixed broadband packages have today been told that the internet, TV and phone provider is now rolling out their new Smart Support diagnostics service – a 24/7 broadband speed and connection monitoring solution – to all of its customers “as standard and at no extra cost“. Initially only 330,000 customers had been able to benefit from it.

O2 UK’s Recycle Service Saved 85,500 Devices from Landfill in 2025

18th March, 2026 (5 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (VMO2) has today revealed that their O2 Recycle service, which helps people to trade in their old technology (usually in return for cash, credits or a charitable donation), has helped to save 85,500 devices from waste in 2025 – paying out nearly £6.6 million to customers trading in their unwanted tech.

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Giffgaff Launch Cheaper 24 Month UK Full Fibre Broadband Contracts

17th March, 2026 (14 Comments)

Mobile and internet provider giffgaff has today expanded their range of monthly rolling fixed full fibre (FTTP) broadband plans by introducing the option of a cheaper 24-month minimum contract term. The move makes the monthly pricing on each of their packages between £3 and £4 cheaper. Existing members will also get 3 months of service for free.

New Which Survey Awards Best and Worst UK Broadband ISPs for 2026

17th March, 2026 (8 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has published the results from their latest broadband ISP satisfaction survey, which questioned 5,235 UK members of the public (Dec 2025 to Jan 2026) about their internet providers. Once again Zen Internet came top of the pack with a customer score of 84%, while NOW TV (NOW Broadband) hit rock bottom on 54%.

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Uncertainty Surrounds Virgin Media and O2 UK’s Community Forum Merger UPDATE

11th March, 2026 (17 Comments)

Over a month has now passed since broadband and mobile providers Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) closed their respective customer community forums to new postings as part of plans to merge and upgrade the platform (here). But the operator still doesn’t seem to know when this process will complete and won’t say what platform they’re adopting.

O2 UK and Ontix Expand 5G Mobile Small Cells to Boost Data Capacity in Bath

10th March, 2026 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) and network technology provider Ontix have this morning reported that they’ve successfully deployed their first 4G and 5G capable Small Cells in the Somerset (England) city of Bath, which will boost local data capacity (mobile broadband) for their network.