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ISP News Archives for July 15, 2026

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Everflow Expand into UK Telecoms with £44m Funding Deal from BGF and OakNorth

15th Jul 2026 (0 Comments)

County Durham-based Everflow, which is multi-utility provider that focuses on UK business services, has announced that they’ve secured a total of £44 million in fresh funding from capital investor BGF and digital bank OakNorth to help the operator expand into telecoms.

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Virgin Media O2 Publish First Quarterly Scam Index to Track UK Scam Calls and Texts

15th Jul 2026 (0 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have today decided to complement Ofcom’s new anti-scam rules for telecoms providers (here) by publishing their first quarterly Scam Index, which among other things reveals that more than 18.5 million adults in the UK have been targeted by scammers in just three months.

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Spectrum Comms Look to Expand UK Fibre Optic Network for Businesses

15th Jul 2026 (0 Comments)

Spectrum Comms Solutions, which specialises in building telecoms infrastructure and fibre optic broadband / Ethernet networks (both for themselves and for other providers), has revealed that they’re looking to maintain and expand their passive network (inc. Dark Fibre) in places such as Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, London Docklands and other UK regions where “data centre clusters require secure interconnection“.

Broadband Altnet CityFibre Notifies 200 UK Staff of Possible Future Redundancy

15th Jul 2026 (20 Comments)

The UK’s largest alternative full fibre broadband network, CityFibre, has this morning proposed organisational changes that could result in 200 roles being impacted, subject to consultation. The move is said to be a response to the current environment, where market conditions remain difficult and there has been “slower progress on consolidation“, impacting their near-term growth.

Ofcom Introduce New UK Rules to Tackle Mobile Messaging Scams

15th Jul 2026 (5 Comments)

The UK internet content, telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has this morning published a “comprehensive package of practical measures” to help UK mobile network operators “block, limit and disrupt scammers” from sending messaging scams. In addition, they’ve strengthened rules to help protect people from international calls that imitate – or “spoof” – UK mobile numbers.

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Starlink Reveals Details of New V5 Dish Terminal for Consumer Broadband

15th Jul 2026 (4 Comments)

The Starlink (SpaceX) service, which operates a massive constellation of low latency and ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and the world, has finally published the specifications for their next generation V5 dish terminal. In short, it’s smaller, lighter weight and doesn’t gobble as much power, but peak service speeds are slightly slower.

Grain Restarts 2Gbps Full Fibre Broadband Rollout in UK Town of Swindon

15th Jul 2026 (4 Comments)

Carlisle-based broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect) appears to be in the process of restarting the roll-out of their 2Gbps speed point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network in the Wiltshire (England) town of Swindon. The provider previously built to a small number of premises around 5 years ago and then stopped.

ASA Bans EE Broadband Ad After Sky UK and Vodafone Complain

15th Jul 2026 (7 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a digital poster advert for EE’s fixed broadband packages after several rival providers, including Vodafone and Sky (Sky Broadband), complained that part of its claims were misleading because they were not verifiable.

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