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ISP News Archives for September 2, 2026

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Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme Closes to New UK Projects

2nd Sep 2026 (4 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has confirmed that their long-running Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which offered grants to help those in digitally disadvantaged areas get significantly faster internet connections installed, has now closed to the submission of new voucher projects.

Building Digital UK Agency Promotes Ben Whitestone to Permanent CEO

2nd Sep 2026 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) organisation, which holds responsibility for expanding gigabit broadband and better mobile connectivity across the United Kingdom (e.g. the Project Gigabit and 4G Shared Rural Network schemes), has officially promoted Ben Whitestone to the post of permanent Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

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Virgin Media Accounts for 44 Percent of Big UK Broadband ISP Outage Searches UPDATE

2nd Sep 2026 (13 Comments)

A new study from DTP Group has analysed monthly UK internet searches relating to broadband outages among the country’s largest ISPs and found that Virgin Media tops the table as the provider most commonly associated with service disruptions, accounting for 44% of searches (i.e. 27,100 searches every month related to Virgin Media outages).

Ookla Study Reveals Quality of 4G and 5G Mobile Signals on London Underground

2nd Sep 2026 (5 Comments)

Network benchmarking giant Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has today published one of the first independent studies of real-world 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage quality on the London Underground. The good news is that it works and exists exactly where TfL says it should.

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Feasibility Study on New Subsea Fibre Cable for Shetland Islands Begins

2nd Sep 2026 (3 Comments)

The Scottish Government yesterday set out their work plan for the next five years, which among other things initiated a feasibility study to “identify and evaluate potential options” for deploying a new subsea fibre optic cable between mainland Scotland and the Shetland Islands. The goal being to improve broadband and mobile redundancy, as well as performance.

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DCF Estimate 200,000 Engineers Could Leave UK Telecoms Workforce by 2030

2nd Sep 2026 (6 Comments)

A new report from the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), an industry think-tank, has today been published that examines the apparently “growing workforce and skills challenges” of the telecoms sector and highlights how 200,000 UK engineers are expected to leave the workforce by 2030 – risking a future “skills cliff“. But quite a few of those may be leaving due to maturity of the full fibre broadband build.

Broadband ISP Truespeed Mourns Passing of Chairman Clarke Osborne

2nd Sep 2026 (0 Comments)

The staff of alternative UK retail broadband ISP Truespeed, which now forms part of the wider FreedomTruespeed Group (FTG), were informed last week that the rural internet provider’s former Chairman since 2014, Clarke Osborne, had sadly passed away after being unwell for some time.

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