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ISP News Archives for May 11, 2026

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Starlink Asks Some LEO Satellite Broadband Customers to Show Passports

11th May 2026 (9 Comments)

The Starlink (SpaceX) service, which offers ultrafast broadband in the UK and around the world via a global network of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has introduced a “Travel Registration” policy that requires customers to show their Passport details if you use or may potentially use the service outside your registered home country. Failure to do so could get you suspended.

Fibrus Covers 1,593 Premises Under N.Ireland Project Gigabit Broadband Build

11th May 2026 (2 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Fibrus has issued a progress update on their £34.6m (public subsidy) UK Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract in Northern Ireland, which began at the end of 2025 (here) and aims to cover 9,333 of the hardest to reach rural premises. The provider has just passed its first milestone by covering 1,593 of the contracted premises.

Home Broadband ISP Cuckoo Sells UK Customer Base to Onestream UPDATE

11th May 2026 (22 Comments)

Retail internet service provider Cuckoo, which is the consumer broadband outlet for the associated AllPoints Fibre (APFN / Fern Trading) network and wholesale platform (they also provide services via several third-party full fibre networks, such as Openreach and CityFibre), has confirmed to ISPreview that rival ISP Onestream will acquire their customer base.

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Grain Building UK Full Fibre Broadband Network to Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire

11th May 2026 (2 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 now been spotted deploying their network in the Lincolnshire (England) town of Scunthorpe.

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Vodafone Attract Most Ofcom UK Complaints for Broadband and O2 for Mobile – Q4 2025

11th May 2026 (7 Comments)

Ofcom has today published their latest quarterly (Q4 2025) study of UK consumer telecoms and TV complaints, which finds that Vodafone attracted the most complaints from customers for fixed broadband services, while O2 came top of the naughty table for Mobile services and EE did the same for Pay TV.

Vodafone UK Launch 5G Home Broadband with Claim of Full-Fibre‑Like Speeds

11th May 2026 (23 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has this morning announced a “major expansion of its home broadband offering” by launching Vodafone 5G Broadband and claiming to open up “full‑fibre like speeds” to a further 3.7 million homes across the UK. The focus seems to be on those homes still stuck on “slow, unreliable speeds offered by part-fibre or copper” connections.

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Gov Detail First Public Funding to Boost Gigabit Broadband for Urban UK Areas

11th May 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK Government has this morning confirmed that their recent modification to Openreach’s (BT) Call Off 5 contract for Essex and North East England (here) will be the “first Project Gigabit contract to target pockets of poor connectivity in towns and cities“, as well as the countryside. Over 9,500 extra premises in Essex “burdened with older broadband” will benefit from the £8.3m expansion (public subsidy).

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Openreach List 238 More UK Areas for Copper to Full Fibre Switch – Tranche 24

11th May 2026 (20 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today published a huge batch of 238 exchanges (Tranche 24) – covering 1.69 million premises – under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell programme, which reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option, where it’s available).

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