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20th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)
Carlisle-based alternative broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect), which has already built 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 issued a brief update to confirm that the Derbyshire (England) town of Long Eaton will be the next to get their network.
20th Apr 2026 (10 Comments)
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with broadband ISP Virgin Media (they harness the same build teams), has today confirmed another batch of seven locations and regions across the UK that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP, XGS-PON) broadband technology. Technically it should be 8 locations, but we already wrote about one.
20th Apr 2026 (4 Comments)
The joint plan by Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile (aka – Satellite Connect Europe) to launch a space-based 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) service – that will connect with regular Smartphones – has suffered a setback, which occurred after Sunday’s orbital launch of a BlueBird 7 spacecraft on the New Glenn rocket ended up placing the satellite into the wrong orbit.
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20th Apr 2026 (64 Comments)
Customers of mobile network operator Three UK (VodafoneThree) were given quite the surprise yesterday afternoon after the provider suddenly notified them, without any prior warning, that they would be introducing mobile broadband (4G, 5G) speed caps of between 25Mbps and 100Mbps (Megabits per second) across various plans from the same date.
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