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ISP News Archives for February 26, 2026

UK ISP TalkTalk Business Formally Complete Separation from TalkTalk Group

26th Feb 2026 (11 Comments)

Business broadband and Ethernet provider TalkTalk Business (TTB), which was demerged from the wider TalkTalk Group and sold to the group’s own shareholders for £95m in Oct 2023 (here), has today announced that they’ve just formally completed their separation from the Group and are “now operating as a fully independent organisation“.

GoFibre Starts Project Gigabit Broadband Build for North East Scotland

26th Feb 2026 (2 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK network operator GoFibre, which is deploying a full fibre (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve begun the build phase of their £105m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract to cover 63,000 hard-to-reach premises in North East Scotland (100k if you include their commercial build).

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Ofcom Find 532,000 UK Consumers Taking Social Broadband and Mobile Tariffs

26th Feb 2026 (13 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today published their annual Pricing Trends Report for 2026, which among other things confirms that the take-up of cheaper social broadband ISP and mobile tariffs for those on state benefits has jumped to 532,000 customers in June 2025 (up from 506,000 last year). But that’s still just 8.6% of eligible households (e.g. those on Universal Credit) and awareness remains low.

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Vodafone UK Named Best Broadband ISP in Expert Reviews Awards 2026

26th Feb 2026 (14 Comments)

Consumer website Expert Reviews has published the winners of their annual Best Broadband Awards 2026 event, which surveyed UK consumers in an effort to identify the best Internet Service Providers (ISP) across a range of categories. Overall most of the awards were scooped up by Vodafone, followed by Plusnet.

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Vodafone Trial 5G and 6G Mobile Tech that Turns Smartphones into Radars

26th Feb 2026 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has announced that they’ve begun working with Tiami Networks to test a new technology for current 5G and future 6G mobile broadband networks called Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC). This essentially turns modern Smartphones and mobile networks into something akin to a Radar, with many potential applications.

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MedUX Study Finds UK 4G and 5G Mobile Connections Lagging Behind Europe

26th Feb 2026 (5 Comments)

Network benchmarking firm MedUX has this morning published the results from a new pan-European study that examined the real-world Quality of Experience (QoE) of mobile connectivity (4G, 5G etc.) across the continent, which unfortunately finds that Great Britain (GB) is lagging near the bottom of most tables.

Nexfibre Publish Q4 2025 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update – 2.6M Premises

26th Feb 2026 (26 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some parentage with its UK ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, has just published their latest quarterly Q4 2025 build update and confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.6 million UK premises. But future expansion looks set to come from consolidation.

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Virgin Media O2 Satellite Service Goes Live with 4G Mobile from Space

26th Feb 2026 (17 Comments)

The United Kingdom will today become one of the first countries in Europe to go live on Starlink’s latest Direct to Cell (DtC) and satellite based 4G mobile data (broadband) connectivity, as mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) switches-on its new O2 Satellite service for customers. Better yet, it’ll only set most customers back an extra £3.

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