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ISP News Archives for April 2026

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Netomnia UK Bring Brierley Hill FTTP Broadband Network to 50,000 Premises

24th Apr 2026 (6 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group, YouFibre), which has deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover over 3 million UK premises RFS (inc. 460,000 customers), have today announced that their deployment across the Brierley Hill Exchange area of Dudley (West Midlands) has now reached 50,000 premises (RFS).

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Streetwave UK Find Peak Time Gaps in Southwark’s Mobile Broadband Capacity

24th Apr 2026 (4 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has today shared the results from a recent study they conducted, which tested the mobile broadband coverage and speed of 4G and 5G networks (EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2) in the Central London district of Southwark. The results found performance drops significantly at high footfall locations during peak times.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Warn AI Tools Directing Customers to Fake Support Lines

24th Apr 2026 (2 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) has warned UK customers to keep an eye out after it identified that criminals were exploiting AI‑powered tools and search engines. In short, consumers looking to contact trusted brands are being shown fake phone numbers, websites and search results, which fraudsters then use to capture data and perpetrate fraud.

BT Preparing to Launch Smart Hub 3 Broadband Router for UK Consumers UPDATE

24th Apr 2026 (46 Comments)

Customers of BT’s residential home broadband ISP packages recently spotted that the provider’s MyBT App had begun including a new advert at the top of its home screen, which promoted a new Smart Hub 3 (SH3) router as “coming soon” and offering “Better WiFi for your home, ready for the future“. But the move has already created some confusion.

Broadband ISP Zzoomm Discounts UK Pricing and Adds Gift Cards

24th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

Internet access provider Zzoomm, which is now part of the recently merged FTTP broadband network from FullFibre Limited (here), has refreshed some of their package pricing with new discounts and e-Gift cards that will be available for new customers to take until 30th April 2026.

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TOTSCo Publish Outcome of Consultation on Improving UK Broadband Switching

23rd Apr 2026 (10 Comments)

The not-for-profit and industry-funded One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is responsible for delivering Ofcom’s solution for easier and quicker switching between UK broadband and phone providers (One Touch Switching), has today published the outcome of their recent consultation on improving the system’s performance and monitoring.

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Starlink Shuts GPS Location Feature on Satellite Broadband Service

23rd Apr 2026 (6 Comments)

The Starlink (SpaceX) service, which sells affordable ultrafast broadband connectivity to UK and global consumers via a massive constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has begun notifying customers that, effective from 20th May 2026, “dish location will no longer be available via the local device gRPC API“.

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April 2026 Contract Progress for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

23rd Apr 2026 (8 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today released their April 2026 update on the delivery progress of contracts that have been awarded under their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The update reveals that some 250,000 contracted premises (up from 227,310 in Mar 2026) have so far been covered out of a planned total of 1,047,200.

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LINX Wins Business Reporter’s Best of British Businesses for 2026 Award

23rd Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

The not-for-profit and member‑owned London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900 members (broadband ISPs, mobile operators etc.), has today been handed the Best of British Businesses for 2026 award by Business Reporter.

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Nexfibre List FTTP Broadband Upgrades for the Next 4 UK Locations

23rd Apr 2026 (5 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with UK ISP Virgin Media (they harness the same build teams), has today confirmed another batch of four locations across the United Kingdom that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP, XGS-PON) broadband technology.

BT Business Claim to Launch UK’s First Full Suite of Sovereign Services

23rd Apr 2026 (5 Comments)

Communications and broadband provider BT Business has today announced the UK’s “first full suite of sovereign services” (i.e. designed to keep sensitive workloads in the UK), offering public and private sector organisations an end-to-end portfolio spanning sovereign connectivity, voice, cloud and AI etc.

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CMA Begin UK Competition Probe of Netomnia’s Acquisition by VMO2’s Owners UPDATE

23rd Apr 2026 (11 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has this morning launched an initial review of the proposed £2bn acquisition (here) of alternative full fibre UK broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group) by the parents of nexfibre and Virgin Media (O2) – Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia.

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Hyperoptic Building FTTP Broadband in Small Rural UK Town of Bridgnorth

23rd Apr 2026 (2 Comments)

The normally city-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have built their network to cover 1.9 million UK homes (mostly across blocks of flats / MDUs), has been spotted deploying a seemingly random single street cabinet in the small rural Shropshire (England) town of Bridgnorth. But there’s method in the madness.

Rural UK Broadband Altnet Quickline Appoint Justin Leese as CTO After Ogi Exit

23rd Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Quickline, which is busy building a new full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has appointed industry veteran Justin Leese to be its new Chief Technology and Operations Officer (CTOO).

Mobile and Broadband Providers May Ration UK Network Use to Cut Energy Costs UPDATE2

22nd Apr 2026 (34 Comments)

Mobile network operators, such as EE, O2, Vodafone and Three UK (VodafoneThree), have reportedly warned the government that, in a worst-case scenario, the current energy crisis and rising costs may force some of them to ration access to their network or slow mobile broadband (4G, 5G) speeds in order to reduce energy usage.

PXC Launch Trooli Residential UK FTTP Broadband Plans for Partner ISPs

22nd Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

Wholesale networking provider PlatformX Communications (formerly TalkTalk Wholesale) has today announced that they’ve begun making residential full fibre broadband (FTTP) services available via Trooli’s alternative UK network to partner ISPs, which follows the signing of a new wholesale partnership back in March 2025 (here).

Mobile Operators Adopt Freshwave’s New Indoor UK 5G Mobile Solution

22nd Apr 2026 (1 Comment)

Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave has today announced that they’ve worked with UK mobile operators EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) to start rolling out the next “evolution” of their indoor focused small cell Omni Network, which could initially only harness 4G but has now been upgraded to handle 5G (mobile broadband).