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ISP News Archives for May 7, 2026

TalkTalk Business HQ Exchange Quay in Salford

UK ISP TalkTalk Business Set to Relocate to a New Salford Headquarters

7th May 2026 (2 Comments)

Business broadband and Ethernet provider TalkTalk Business (TTB), which in 2023 was demerged from the TalkTalk Group and sold to the same group’s own shareholders for £95m (here), has today announced their plans to relocate to a new headquarters at Building 1, Exchange Quay in Salford.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Refreshes FullFibre Limited Plans and Offers 2.5Gbps

7th May 2026 (2 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent ISP Aquiss has this afternoon launched a refreshed range of full fibre broadband packages delivered over the FullFibre Limited network, which currently reaches around 600,000 premises (ready for service) across the United Kingdom.

BT Refreshes UK Consumer Brands and Relaunches BT Mobile Service

7th May 2026 (42 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms giant BT Group has this afternoon confirmed last week’s leak (here) by announcing somewhat of a UK consumer brand resuscitation for BT and a refresh for their other consumer divisions (EE and Plusnet). The move will, among other things, revive their BT Mobile brand for basic 30 day rolling SIM Only contracts and introduces free security upgrades for home users.

CEO of Alternative Network UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband Steps Down

7th May 2026 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider LightSpeed Broadband, which has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and Midlands, has this morning confirmed to ISPreview that Brett Shepherd, the CEO of LightSpeed – the group behind LightSpeed Broadband and LightSpeed Networks – has “stepped down“.

Virgin Media O2 UK Sees Record Broadband Traffic Spike from Footy Streaming

7th May 2026 (5 Comments)

Internet provider Virgin Media (O2) has reported that their fixed broadband network just recorded the “biggest broadband traffic spike in its history“, which occurred after customers streaming the ‘Arsenal v Atletico Madrid’ Champions League semi-final pushed traffic 4.2% higher than the previous peak and 17% higher than an average Tuesday evening in 2026.

MS3 Recovers After Melted Cable Knocked Out Broadband Across Scunthorpe

7th May 2026 (5 Comments)

Hull-based alternative network operator MS3, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across 234,000 premises (213k RFS) in the North of England and connected 20,000 customers via various retail ISPs, have managed to restore services across the Lincolnshire town of Scunthorpe after one of their core fibre cables melted.

Full Fibre UK Broadband ISP CommunityFibre Cuts Prices by 25 Percent

7th May 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP CommunityFibre, which has built their 5Gbps speed full fibre broadband (FTTP) network across 1.4 million UK homes (inc. 185k businesses within 200 metres of their network) in London and the South East, will today launch a new discount that reduces the price of their packages by 25% for new customers.

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