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18th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

At the start of January 2026 a mobile phone mast in the Pembrokeshire (Wales) seaside town of Tenby suddenly disappeared, leaving locals to suffer extremely poor service quality no matter what network they used (some areas even have no signal at all). At the same time some mobile operators continued to deny there was even a problem, until very recently.

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17th Apr 2026 (14 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has said it’s “very sorry for the distress” after one of its engineers accidentally drilled through a water pipe during the installation of a new broadband service, which flooded the house of a 93-year-old pensioner (Dylis Forsyth) in Kent (England). Ms Forsyth ended up slipping on the wet carpet the next day and badly injuring her hand.

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17th Apr 2026 (3 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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17th Apr 2026 (3 Comments)

A number of UK broadband and mobile operators, such as Vodafone, iD Mobile and more, work with a company called Giftcloud to help incentivise new customers to sign-up by offering high value gift cards. But recently we’ve seen a spike in complaints as some customers have struggled to get their promised gift cards, while attempts to reach support often go without a response.

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17th Apr 2026 (2 Comments)

The UK telecoms operator, BT, has confirmed that the subsea cable repair ship (Pierre de Fermat) they contracted to resolve the recent fibre optic break between Evie on the Orkney Mainland and nearby Westray, which disrupted local broadband and 4G mobile connectivity, is set to be fully resolved on Saturday (18th April).

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17th Apr 2026 (1 Comment)

The NordVPN service, which is a popular Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, has announced that their global network has reached over 100 Terabits per second (Tbps) in aggregate network capacity, distributed across 211 locations in 135+ countries.

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Amazon Leo Satellites on Top of Rocket Pod

16th Apr 2026 (3 Comments)

The Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) service, which is slowly building a new mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally, has announced an agreement to power satellite services for iPhone and Apple Watches, including Emergency SOS via satellite.

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16th Apr 2026 (3 Comments)

The Scottish National Party (Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) has today published details of their 2026 Manifesto for the 7th May election, which among other things calls on the UK Government to “introduce affordable broadband social tariffs” and pledges to commission a feasibility study on the idea of running another subsea fibre link to the Shetland Islands.

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16th Apr 2026 (2 Comments)

Mobile and broadband operator Vodafone Business (VodafoneThree) has today launched the “UK’s first commercial 5G network slicing” service (5G+ Local Slicing), which aims to offer guaranteed mobile network performance across a defined site or local area up to 5km2 – from stadiums and logistics hubs to university campuses and construction sites etc.

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Trevor Linney of Openreach

16th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

The Network Technology Director at UK broadband access provider Openreach (BT), Trevor Linney, has been named the winner of the FTTH Europe 2026 Individual Award, which is said to be in recognition of his “remarkable efforts in championing the advancement of FTTH technology in Europe“.

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16th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

Network operator Axians UK, which forms part of the €22 billion Vinci Energies group, has just announced the acquisition of Novo Technologies, a Scottish-based provider of end-to-end telecoms infrastructure solutions for both Carriers and Enterprise clients. The deal is being hailed as one that could help to build the nations “5G backbone“.

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16th Apr 2026 (1 Comment)

A new Opinium study, which was commissioned by Uswitch.com and questioned a nationally representative sample of 2,000 UK adults in early April 2026, has claimed that Awful April’s mid-contract price rises triggered record levels of broadband switching (average households were said to be facing a £216 annual increase).

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16th Apr 2026 (12 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.

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16th Apr 2026 (3 Comments)

Comparison site Broadband Genie has today published a new 2026 Global Broadband Price League, which analysed 2,631 broadband tariffs across the globe to identify the most and least expensive nations for broadband. Overall, the United Kingdom was found to rank a lowly 70th out of a total database of 214 “countries”.

15th Apr 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.

AST Space Mobile Satellites Over UK and Europe with Vodafone

15th Apr 2026 (6 Comments)

The telecoms regulator Ofcom has today approved a second licence variation to enable mobile operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) to provide Direct-to-Device (D2D) services using its licensed spectrum in the 900MHz band (i.e. using satellites to connect with regular 4G and 5G Smartphones – bringing mobile broadband, calls and text connectivity to the remotest areas).

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15th Apr 2026 (1 Comment)

Mobile network and broadband operator Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has today announced the launch of a new Scam Call Protection feature – available as part of their Secure Net Mobile service, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify fraudulent, scam and nuisance calls before customers even pick up.

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