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ISP News Archives for March 25, 2026

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Virgin Media O2 Suggests it May Stop UK Fibre Builds if Netomnia Deal Rejected UPDATE

25th Mar 2026 (35 Comments)

The CEO of Liberty Global (Mike Fries), which co-owns broadband operator Virgin Media (O2) and nexfibre in the UK, appears to have suggested that they could stop rolling out new full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks if the competition regulator does not approve their planned merger with rival Netomnia (Substantial Group).

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Virgin Media O2 UK Trial More Cost Effective Rural 4G Small Cells in Scotland

25th Mar 2026 (4 Comments)

Broadband and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have teamed-up with the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT), University of Glasgow, VoltServer, ATS and KTL to demonstrate how mobile connectivity, power delivery, fibre backhaul and IoT services can be combined into a single unified infrastructure at a “fraction of the cost of traditional approaches“.

BT to Close Older UK Contact Centres in Accrington, Blackburn and Doxford

25th Mar 2026 (1 Comment)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group (EE, Plusnet, Openreach etc.) has confirmed to ISPreview that, as part of their ongoing programme to modernise and consolidate the number of offices they have across the United Kingdom, they’ve decided to close their Contact Centres in Accrington, Blackburn and Doxford.

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Bitdefender Warns EE UK Customers of Reward Points SCAM Texts

25th Mar 2026 (0 Comments)

Network security giant Bitdefender has issued a notice to customers of EE’s broadband and mobile services (as well as some non-customers), which cautions them to be on the lookout for fraudulent text messages (SMS) about expiring “reward points“. The dead giveaway here is that the provider doesn’t actually have a reward points (loyalty) scheme.

Customers of UK Broadband ISP TalkTalk Report Major Service Outage UPDATE4

25th Mar 2026 (12 Comments)

Customers of consumer broadband provider TalkTalk are this morning reporting a major service outage, which appears to have begun at around 7am and is currently impacting users across various different parts of the United Kingdom. At the same time we’re also seeing a significantly smaller, but still noticeable, peak in connectivity problems at BT.

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Roku UK Adds 5 ITV Studios FAST TV Channels to Streaming Platform

25th Mar 2026 (2 Comments)

Streaming platform provider Roku UK, which last year began to deploy their “first-ever” FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels to streaming boxes at no extra cost (here), has today announced that they’ve added another five FAST TV channels to their existing total of 40. The new additions all come from ITV Studios.

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Openreach Boosts UK Full Fibre Broadband Build via Google Cloud AI Tools UPDATE

25th Mar 2026 (0 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has moved to expand its existing partnership with Google Cloud, which involves adopting their AI (Artificial Intelligence) services to help plan the logistics and engineering for their ongoing deployment of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP technology.

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