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The administrators for alternative UK rural broadband network Airband, which was recently acquired by Voneus (full summary), have published a report that reveals the financial details of the deal. Strikingly, it states that Voneus, which was the only bidder, paid just £4.6m for the company’s assets and customers.
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) office has today published a couple of new studies that evaluate the performance, delivery and value of its various public investments to help deploy gigabit-capable broadband (full fibre) connections to poorly served libraries and GP (Doctor) surgeries.
The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which provides an online asset search facility to UK street works firms for underground pipes and cables, has published their Digging Up Britain 2026 report and revealed that telecoms (broadband, mobile etc.) remains the “most active industry” when it comes to searching before digging (36.2% of all searches, down from 37.5% in 2025).
Satellite broadband service Starlink has finally published details of their new Wi-Fi 7 capable home wireless “Router 4” (UTR-261) hub on their website, which largely confirms the details revealed in last month’s FCC filings (here) and gives us a better look at the device itself. A new video showcase has also been shared via social media.
Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service can now benefit from a “major upgrade” to the supporting Sky Go video streaming app, which takes its visual inspiration (User Interface) from the look and feel of Sky OS (software that powers Glass/Stream) and has added a bunch of new features.
Mobile operator and internet provider giffgaff, which is gradually making their new full fibre (FTTP – XGS-PON) broadband packages available to UK consumers via nexfibre’s and Virgin Media’s networks (here and here), has revealed that they’ve increased their serviceable footprint to 4.2 million homes and rising.