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ISP News Archives for March 31, 2026

Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear Appoint New Chief Commercial Officer as CMO Exits

31st Mar 2026 (5 Comments)

Abingdon-based UK ISP Gigaclear, which has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to cover 612,000 premises (inc. 170,000 customers) across rural England, have today appointed Jon Hurry to the role of Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) with immediate effect in order to help drive their next phase of growth.

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Openreach Reduce UK Prices for Certain FTTC and FTTP Broadband Tiers

31st Mar 2026 (7 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has this afternoon announced some tweaks and reductions to the prices of several Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2 inc. SOGEA) based broadband products for UK internet service providers, which impacts their 55Mbps (10Mbps upload), 80Mbps (20Mbps up) and 160Mbps (30Mbps up) tiers.

Quickline Train UK Broadband Engineers to Support Pensioners

31st Mar 2026 (1 Comment)

Rural-focused broadband ISP Quickline, which is deploying a new gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across remote parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has joined forces with Age UK to help improve the training of their engineers so they can better support older and vulnerable residents.

Connection Woes Hit UK User Migration from Octaplus to The One Broadband UPDATE

31st Mar 2026 (10 Comments)

The recently announced UK ISP migration of customers from Octaplus’ network (i.e. those on their CityFibre-based full fibre network) to The One Broadband (The One) appears to have run into difficulty, which occurred after some of the initially migrated users began reporting connectivity problems post-switch.

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Virgin Media O2 Sign Nokia and Ericsson Deals to Upgrade UK 5G Mobile Network

31st Mar 2026 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning announced that they’ve signed new multi-year agreements with their strategic partners Ericsson and Nokia to upgrade their Radio Access Network (RAN). The move will result in “thousands of mobile sites” across the UK being upgraded to support their latest 5G Standalone (5G+) technology for faster mobile broadband speeds.

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CityFibre Launch 8.5Gbps Wholesale FTTP Broadband Product for UK ISPs

31st Mar 2026 (17 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which has already deployed their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network to cover 4.7 million UK premises (4.5m Ready for Service), has today taken the wrapping off a major new “Multi-Gig” product, offering its ISP partners and their customers (homes and businesses) symmetrical speeds of 8.5Gbps (Gigabits per second).

BT Confirm Delay to Subsea Fibre Optic Cable Repair Ship for Orkney

31st Mar 2026 (1 Comment)

The UK telecoms giant, BT, has confirmed that a subsea cable repair ship, which is needed to resolve the recent break between Evie on the Orkney Mainland and nearby Westray, has been delayed due to bad weather and will not now arrive to carry out the work until next week. But local 4G mobile connectivity has been improved.

EE UK Launch AI-Powered Conversational Smart Search for Pay TV Customers

31st Mar 2026 (6 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT), specifically those who also take their Pay TV (IPTV) service, can now take advantage of a new AI-powered “conversational” content discovery feature called ‘Smart Search’ that interprets voice searches when spoken in a more natural way. They’ve also added a ‘Mood Matcher’ feature.

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