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13th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)
Last week we reported on how the Bedfordshire (England) towns and villages of Harlington, Toddington, Chalton and Tebworth had suffered a major broadband and phone outage after a gang of criminals stole some of Openreach’s (BT) core copper telecoms cables from Luton Road. Sadly a second theft occurred on the same road this week, as well as a third one near Wilstead.
13th Nov 2026 (9 Comments)
Major broadband ISPs including BT, VodafoneThree and charities have joined forces under the Connection Project again to call on the UK government to help ensure that “no one is priced out of essential connectivity“. The call states that even today’s competitive prices and existing social tariffs for those on state benefits “cannot meet everyone’s needs“.
13th Nov 2026 (7 Comments)
In case you didn’t already know. Last night the global software and internet services giant, Microsoft, suffered a significant global outage across services from Exchange Online to Teams, Outlook and the 365 platform (Copilot, Office etc.), which is currently still ongoing and will this morning also be impacting services used by various UK mobile and broadband providers too.
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Network analyst firm Streetwave and the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) in England have published an updated map and analysis of 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage and speeds across the region using bin lorries. The results found that EE provided the best performance on 88% of roads surveyed.
12th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)
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12th Nov 2026 (2 Comments)
Broadband provider Squirrel Internet has today revealed that they’re expecting a 30% increase in network traffic on release day (19th November) for new video game GTA VI and will be keeping capacity at twice the daily peak to ensure the large file size (c.212GB) can be downloaded easily.
12th Nov 2026 (10 Comments)
City-focused UK full fibre broadband (FTTP/B) ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have built their gigabit fibre network to cover 2 million homes (mostly in blocks of flats / MDUs), has just completed a review of its strategy and unfortunately confirmed to ISPreview that this will result in another round of redundancies just before Christmas – impacting c.10% of roles across the UK and Serbia.
12th Nov 2026 (5 Comments)
In January 2026 we reported that the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, had opened an investigation into Meta’s WhatsApp Business messaging service after provisionally finding that the information they supplied – as part of a review into the wholesale market for business bulk SMS messages – “may not have been complete and accurate“. Today Meta was fined £450k for this rule breach.
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12th Nov 2026 (2 Comments)
Mobile network operator O2 UK (Virgin Media) has today announced the launch of their new ‘Household Saver‘ tariffs, which are essentially designed to offer savings to customers in the same household when they bring their mobile plans together. Apparently savings worth “up to” £15 per month can be achieved by doing this.
12th Nov 2026 (10 Comments)
National broadband and network access provider Openreach, which is a distinct “legally separate” company from BT, has today announced several significant changes to their senior UK leadership. The company’s current Chairman, Mike McTighe, who has been in the role since 2016, is stepping down and will be succeeded by Michael Jary. But that isn’t the only big change.
12th Nov 2026 (10 Comments)
London-focused UK broadband provider G.Network, which claims to have deployed their full fibre (FTTP – XGS-PON) network to cover 430,000 premises across the city (400k RFS), has revealed that they’ve deployed a new AI based sales agent called “g” that has just completed its first autonomous end-to-end orders.
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12th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)
National broadband network Openreach (BT) has confirmed that they’re working to adopt Allstar’s fuel card network to help support their transition to electric vehicles (over 7,000 of their 22,000 vehicles are now EVs). The goal is to make it easier for their telecoms engineers to charge their work vehicles.
12th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)
Broadband internet provider Exascale, which has deployed their own full fibre (FTTP) network to a few thousand premises in parts of Shropshire (Telford and Wrekin) and also sells packages via other networks (e.g. CityFibre), has given their website a new lick of paint this week and are separately preparing to launch a free public DNS service.
11th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)
Broadband provider Rise Fibre, including sibling UK ISP 4th Utility that typically serves larger buildings (MDU), have this week both announced the launch of Black Friday discounts across their various packages. For example, 4th Utility are offering 3 months free broadband across all of their 24-month plans for a limited time only.
11th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has notified UK broadband ISPs that they will launch their new Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) v2.0 and complementary Cablelink Service Connect (CSC) products on 18th December 2026. Both are used to supply high-capacity business data links, potentially reaching speeds of up to 100Gbps in the near future.
11th Nov 2026 (6 Comments)
Internet provider Virgin Media has today reported a “record-breaking 24 hours” on its UK broadband network as gamers rushed to start pre-loading the GTA VI video game release – all c.212 GigaBytes of it (varying a bit between platforms) – ahead of its launch later this month.
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