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ISP News Archives for February 11, 2026

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Rural UK Broadband Network Truespeed Merges with Freedom Fibre

11th Feb 2026 (2 Comments)

Aviva-backed alternative gigabit broadband operator Truespeed, which has rolled out their full fibre (FTTP) network across 177,000 premises (44k customers) in rural parts of South West England, has today confirmed that they’ve reached a major merger agreement with Freedom Fibre to consolidate their two networks.

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Major UK Broadband ISPs Sign Gov Charter to Stop Unexpected Bill Increases

11th Feb 2026 (24 Comments)

The Government has managed to get some of the UK’s biggest broadband and phone providers, including BT, Virgin Media (O2), VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK), Sky (Sky Broadband) and TalkTalk, to sign-up to a new Telecoms Consumer Charter that pledges to “stop unexpected bill increases“. But sadly, it’s not an end to mid-contract prices hikes.

Mobile UK Tower Provider Cornerstone to Deploy Micro-Edge Compute Capabilities

11th Feb 2026 (5 Comments)

Mobile infrastructure company Cornerstone (CTIL), which was originally established as part of a UK network sharing agreement between O2 (Virgin Media) and Vodafone (Vantage Towers), has today announced a new strategic partnership with StonesThro to deploy a nationally distributed Micro-Edge cloud infrastructure via their estate of c.16,000 mast / cell sites.

ISP BT Business Launch Tailored AI Training for All UK Employees

11th Feb 2026 (1 Comment)

Communications and broadband provider BT Business has today announced that they’re working alongside global IT consultancy Avanade and Microsoft to launch a tailored AI training for all 11,000 of its employees, which they say aims to “radically transform how we work and to better serve our customers“. Cost-cutting probably has a role to play too, we’d imagine.

Sky UK to Combine Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max and Hayu into Single TV Sub

11th Feb 2026 (14 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband, Sky TV etc.) has today announced that they will shortly be bringing together several of the most popular TV and movie streaming services – Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix and Hayu – into a single Sky TV subscription for UK customers to take.

ITS Technology Complete Deployment of 10Gbps XGS-PON Full Fibre in Crawley

11th Feb 2026 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which have deployed various open access and business-focused full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the UK, has today announced that they’ve completed the rollout of their XGS-PON powered Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Crawley (West Sussex), giving more than 1,500 organisations access to gigabit-capable broadband.

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Broadband Altnet Netomnia Prepares Around 50 UK Redundancies

11th Feb 2026 (22 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has already expanded their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 3 million UK premises (here) and is close to signing a major consolidation agreement with either Virgin Media’s (nexfibre) parents or CityFibre (here), is understood to have held talks over redundancies with around 50 employees.

Altnet Broadband ISP Toob Adopts Phonely VoIP Service for UK Digital Phone

11th Feb 2026 (8 Comments)

Hampshire-based alternative network and UK ISP toob, which has built a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, has today agreed a new partnership to offer a digital landline service via Phonely’s VoIP platform.

Full Fibre ISP Hyperoptic Add Faster and Cheaper UK Broadband Social Tariffs UPDATE

11th Feb 2026 (5 Comments)

City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have deployed their gigabit speed network to cover 1.9 million UK homes, has recently and quietly added two new options to their existing social tariffs for those on state benefits (Fair Fibre Plans). The new options add symmetric speeds of 500Mbps and 1Gbps, making them among the fastest such tariffs on the whole market.

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