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16th Jul 2026 (1 Comment)
The Comms Council UK, which represents the UK’s national Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today revealed the winners of their 18th annual 2026 awards event at a ceremony at Kitty Hawk in London. Some of the winners include Nebula, 8×8, Zayo and Daktela others.
16th Jul 2026 (4 Comments)
16th Jul 2026 (4 Comments)
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has opened investigations into several alternative full fibre broadband networks (altnets) – including Internetty, Cambridge Fibre Networks, Optical Fibre Infrastructure, Pine Media and Trooli – after they found “reasonable grounds to believe” that they may not be meeting their duties to show they have secured funds for meeting their liabilities.
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16th Jul 2026 (1 Comment)
Broadband and mobile provider Vodafone has published their new Mobile Market Index (MMI), which benchmarks the UK against nine international peers (inc. USA, Germany, France, Spain, South Korea, Australia, Norway, Singapore and Hungary) to assess the environment facing Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in each.
16th Jul 2026 (4 Comments)
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G+ (5G Standalone) mobile broadband network across more of Oxfordshire in England, which is said to reach more than 450,000 residents across 495 towns, villages and hamlets.
16th Jul 2026 (2 Comments)
Independent wholesale broadband and leased-lines aggregator, VeloxServ, which is used by a fair few retail UK ISPs and alternative networks (altnets), has expanded their ‘Unity Partner Portal’ to add a bunch of new features that “simplify service management, improve operational efficiency and provide partners with greater visibility and control“.
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16th Jul 2026 (1 Comment)
Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published a new report, which used device-level measurement tracking of real broadband switching (changing ISP) events across the United Kingdom to find that alternative broadband networks (altnets) grew their market share by 4.4 percentage points in just the last eighteen months (holding 11.4% of UK subscriptions).
16th Jul 2026 (1 Comment)
Popular video streaming site TikTok, which can be used by those who are 13 years of age or older (18+ for livestreaming), appears to have landed itself in hot water with Ofcom’s enforcement of the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) over their use of “age inference” technology to identify the age of their users (i.e. this is not something the regulator considers to be “highly effective” for age verification).
16th Jul 2026 (0 Comments)
The UK’s fraud prevention service, Cifas, which is home to over 775 members including major telecoms providers such as Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), BT, Sky Broadband and more, has joined the Global Signal Exchange (GSE) to “strengthen the global fight against” online scams by collaborating to identify, disrupt, and prevent online scams at scale across borders and sectors.
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