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ISP News Archives for April 14, 2026

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Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK Bring eero Router to Business Plans

14th Apr 2026 (8 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has today expanded their partnership with Amazon’s eero, which means that customers of their full fibre (FTTP) broadband offerings for small and medium-sized businesses (SME) can now also access eero’s latest mesh Wi-Fi routers.

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Wessex Internet Tweak Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout for the New Forest

14th Apr 2026 (3 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has tweaked their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract with rural ISP Wessex Internet for the New Forest area in Hampshire (Lot 27.01). The change reduces the number of contracted premises it was due to reach from 15,120 to 12,733 and similarly decreases the contract value (public subsidy) from £17.4m to £16.3m.

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Ethiack Claims 1 in 5 UK Telco Servers Exposed to Cyber Risk

14th Apr 2026 (2 Comments)

A new survey conducted by agentic AI pentesting firm Ethiack claims to have found that 19% of the web servers used by UK telecoms firms “leave crucial security information in plain sight that offers a “roadmap” to cybercriminals“. But it’s not always quite as bad as they’re making out in the headline claim.

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Community Fibre Doubles Speed of £12.50 Broadband Social Tariff to 70Mbps

14th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has invested c.£1bn to build a 5Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across 1.342 million homes (inc. 185k businesses within 200 metres of their network) – mostly in London, has temporarily doubled the speed of their £12.50 per month “Essentials” social tariff from 35Mbps to 70Mbps (symmetric).

UK ISP Spitfire Network Services Launch Live Honeypot Internet Attack Map

14th Apr 2026 (4 Comments)

Business telecommunications and UK broadband ISP Spitfire (Spitfire Network Services) has today launched a live honeypot attack map, which it claims reveals the scale of automated cyberattacks targeting public IP addresses (e.g. it recorded 71,000+ attacks against a single public IP in just the last 24 hours).

London Full Fibre Broadband ISP G.Network Appoints 3 New Senior Leaders

14th Apr 2026 (4 Comments)

Alternative UK ISP G.Network, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of London and have just come out of administration “debt-free” (here), has today announced the appointment of three senior leaders to its executive team as the business enters a “new phase of growth” under the ownership of FitzWalter Capital.

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Openreach Take on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contract for North Shropshire

14th Apr 2026 (7 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has issued a second announcement today to confirm that the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for North Shropshire (Lot 25.02), which was originally held by Freedom Fibre until they “mutually agreed to descope the remaining 8,500 premises” in June 2025 (here), has also been taken on by Openreach (BT).

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Openreach Take on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contract for West Herefordshire

14th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

In a somewhat expected development, the Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has confirmed that the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for West Herefordshire and the Forest of Dean (Lot 15), which was originally held by FullFibre Limited until they “mutually agreed to terminate” it in May 2025 (here), has been taken on by Openreach (BT).

Amazon Leo Preps Gigabit Broadband for Aviation from LEO Satellites

14th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

The Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) service, which is in the process of launching a new mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally, has launched a new Aviation Antenna that it says will deliver reliable internet connectivity to airline passengers and crew with up to 1Gbps download and 400Mbps upload speeds.

Study Finds Mobile Coverage in Caerphilly Boosted by VodafoneThree Merger

14th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has published the results from a recent survey they conducted into mobile network coverage and mobile broadband (4G, 5G) speed across Caerphilly in Wales, which involved two surveys over an 18-month period and revealed a strong post-merger boost for Vodafone and Three UK (VodafoneThree). On the flip side, O2 actually suffered a decline.

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Vodafone and Three UK Today Start Merging High Street Retail Stores

14th Apr 2026 (19 Comments)

Merged mobile operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) has begun the process of transforming its UK retail estate, which will see the operator combining stores across the country and closing those that duplicate their presence. The expected move will also result in Three UK becoming available in over 130 new locations.

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