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ISP News Archives for April 2026

CEO of Rural UK Broadband ISP Airband Exits Shortly After Appointment

28th Apr 2026 (3 Comments)

Alternative broadband provider Airband, which has built both a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based network to cover rural parts of the Midlands, Cheshire, Oxfordshire, South West England and North Wales, has announced that the company’s recently appointed CEO, Kashif Rahman, has today stepped down from the role.

Godshill Locals Frustrated After Removal from Gigabit Broadband Contract UPDATE

28th Apr 2026 (1 Comment)

The Godshill Parish Council (GPC) in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire (England) has revealed that UK ISP Wessex Internet has “taken the decision to cancel the planned build” of a new gigabit-capable broadband network in the rural area, although there’s some confusion over the reason for this move.

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Two Men in Northern Ireland Charged Over 5G Mobile Mast Attacks

28th Apr 2026 (4 Comments)

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have charged two men – one aged 45 and the other aged 46 – with committing a series of arson attacks on 5G mobile network masts, occurring predominantly in the west Belfast area between 2023 and 2025.

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Freshwave Deploy New Indoor 4G Mobile Network to Leeds Bradford Airport

28th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave has today announced that they’ve delivered an enhanced all-operator indoor 4G mobile broadband connectivity networ,k via their Omni Network, to Leeds Bradford Airport’s refurbished terminal and newly opened extension (available to EE, O2 and Vodafone / Three UK).

RathlinConnex Boost Broadband Connectivity for Rathlin Island in N.Ireland

28th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

Some 170 people living on remote rural Rathlin Island (Northern Ireland), which has no access to an on-site GP and can only be reached via a very weather-dependant ferry, look set to be given access to “high-speed [internet] connectivity” via a landmark project called RathlinConnex – backed by Excelerate Technology, Eutelsat (OneWeb satellites) and Livewire Digital.

NPL and Vodafone UK Trial Terrestrial Fibre-based Alternative to GPS Timing

28th Apr 2026 (3 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone has joined with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to successfully complete a set of trials using the NPLTime® service, which is a new terrestrial, fibre optic-based alternative to satellite-based GPS timing signals to help keep the UK’s critical digital and 5G / 6G mobile network infrastructure resilient and secure.

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Boldyn to Deliver 4G Mobile for Emergency Services Network on London Underground

28th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

Digital infrastructure firm Boldyn Networks has, perhaps unsurprisingly, today been selected to deliver 4G mobile network (mobile broadband) infrastructure to enable the Emergency Services Network (ESN) across the London Underground. The deal reflects a collaboration with EE (BT), Transport for London (TfL) and the UK’s Home Office.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Sign 10-Year Solar Energy Agreement with egg Power

28th Apr 2026 (1 Comment)

Broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), which aims to achieve Net Zero Carbon (i.e. removing as many emissions as they produce) across their operations, products and supply chain by 2040, has today signed another 10-year Power Purchase Agreement to harness renewable electricity – this time with egg Power.

EE Upgrade Mobile Capacity and Expands 5G Standalone to 15 More UK Areas

28th Apr 2026 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced a series of upgrades to boost the mobile broadband capacity of their 4G and 5G network (e.g. re-farming 2.1GHz spectrum) ahead of the summer. Since the start of 2026, the provider has also extended their 5G Standalone (5G+) network to cover more than 50 million people across more than 610 towns and cities.

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Rural UK Broadband ISP Fibrus Name Top Locations for Working from Home

28th Apr 2026 (1 Comment)

Alternative network ISP Fibrus, which is building a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Northern Ireland and Cumbria (England), today claims to have drawn on a “robust set of measures” in order to name the top places to live as a remote worker in both of the aforementioned parts of the United Kingdom.

Openreach Pilot Emergency UK Phone Lines for 2027 Analogue Switch-Off

27th Apr 2026 (19 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today begun to inform UK broadband and phone providers about a new pilot called Emergency Voice Access (EVAc), which is intended to be a basic voice-only fallback service for copper lines (WLR) that fail to be migrated in time for the switch-off of analogue phone (PSTN / WLR) services.

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Ofcom Asks UK Telecoms Providers to Assess Security Risks of Frontier AI

27th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK broadband, mobile and internet content regulator, Ofcom, has published a new open letter that they sent to UK Communications Providers last week, which called on them to “assess [the] security risks arising from frontier AI [Artificial Intelligence] models and take appropriate mitigating action“.

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Public Accounts Committee Launch Inquiry into Regulation of UK Broadband

27th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is responsible for examining the value for money of UK Government projects, programmes and service delivery, has announced the launch of a new inquiry that will examine the effectiveness of current regulation when applied to the water, energy and broadband internet connectivity sectors.

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Airborne UK 5G Mobile Broadband Network Enters Install Phase with BT

27th Apr 2026 (1 Comment)

Aircraft manufacturer Britten-Norman has announced that their efforts with World Mobile Stratospheric to develop advanced airborne 5G mobile connectivity system, which could be used to help extend mobile broadband coverage into remote rural areas or to provide coverage during disasters, has progressed beyond R&D and to the installation phase.

BT Wholesale Set to Launch 1.8Gbps UK FTTP Broadband Later in 2026

27th Apr 2026 (43 Comments)

Nearly two years have now passed since Openreach launched their current fastest consumer Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband tiers – 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps – into the UK market (here) and yet BT’s own wholesale division still has yet to offer the same speeds to ISPs. But ISPreview understand that this may change later in 2026.

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UK ISP Sky Broadband Fixes Accidental Block of Bitbucket’s SSH Service

25th Apr 2026 (4 Comments)

Internet provider Sky Broadband has resolved a fault that caused the ISP to accidentally block Secure Shell (SSH) communications to Bitbucket.org, which is a cloud-based Git repository hosting service owned by Atlassian that is designed for professional software (business) teams.

Farice Plan New Subsea Fibre Cable to Link Iceland with Scotland and the UK

24th Apr 2026 (3 Comments)

Icelandic network operator Farice has proposed to deliver a significant data capacity boost between the UK and Iceland by unveiling plans to build a new subsea fibre link – named AUÐUR, which will connect to Scotland via a service delivery point in either Glasgow or Edinburgh.