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ISP News Archives for February 2026

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Broadband AltNet Aggregator Flexgrid Now Supports 24 UK Networks

3rd Feb 2026 (2 Comments)

Brighton-based Flexgrid, which describes itself as the UK-focused connectivity aggregator for the channel market, has announced that they’ve launched a new website and now support the ability for partners to compare and order full fibre broadband services through a total of 24 alternative network (altnet) providers and suppliers.

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Study Finds Amazon Leo’s Broadband Satellites are a Bit too Bright

2nd Feb 2026 (3 Comments)

A new study has provisionally found that Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), which is in the early stages of launching a new mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally, suffers from an all too familiar problem of being a bit too bright – potentially enough to disrupt observational sciences (astronomy).

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Common Wholesale Platform Sells UK Assets and Brand to Digital Destiny

2nd Feb 2026 (1 Comment)

The Common Wholesale Platform (CWP), which is a non-profit member-owned organisation that helps alternative UK broadband networks to connect with the retail ISP market, appears to have gone through a Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation. The company is now in the process of having its members, assets and brand scooped up by Digital Destiny Ltd.

ISP Grain Doubles its UK Full Fibre Broadband Speeds to 2000Mbps

2nd Feb 2026 (11 Comments)

Carlisle-based alternative broadband ISP Grain, which has so far rolled out their point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 270,000 UK premises (aiming for 600,000 in the future) and in 2025 secured a £225m funding boost (here), has today doubled their top symmetric package speeds to 2Gbps (2,000Mbps).

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Openreach Rolls Out New Safety App to Help Protect UK Broadband Engineers

2nd Feb 2026 (13 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today announced the launch of a new mobile safety app to help combat a surge in abuse and assaults on its UK telecoms engineers. Since April last year, there’s been around 700 incidents of either physical or verbal assaults and threats, including some cases where people have needed time off work to recover.

Broadband ISP Voneus See UK Turnover Rise to £6.33m as Losses Hit £38m

2nd Feb 2026 (5 Comments)

Alternative rural network provider Voneus, which has built a mix of full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband networks across some remote parts of Wales and England, have published their annual accounts to the end of March 2025. The figures show that turnover increased 43% to £6.33m due to customer growth, but they suffered a loss before tax of £38m.

nPerf Name EE and Three UK as Fastest Mobile Broadband Networks for 2026

2nd Feb 2026 (3 Comments)

French internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has this morning published the results from their annual 2026 crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance. The results see both EE and Three UK being named as delivering the country’s “best Mobile Internet performances“.

The Curious Case of Openreach’s Vanishing UK FTTP Broadband Coverage

2nd Feb 2026 (25 Comments)

Independent data analysis has recently revealed a curious trend where patches of Openreach’s full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, often within urban areas and usually but not always associated to installs that require a more complex stage 2 process, suddenly vanish (i.e. no longer available to order). The issue is estimated to be impacting 0.3% of UK premises.