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ISP News Archives for September 2026

Nexfibre appoints new Director of Corporate Strategy for UK broadband network

8th Sep 2026 (1 Comment)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build teams) and have deployed their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to cover 2.6 million UK premises, has created a new ‘Director of Corporate Strategy‘ post and appointed Colin Rand to take on the role.

Virgin Media O2 UK establish £3m fund to encourage local reuse of old tech

8th Sep 2026 (1 Comment)

Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 have today launched a new £3m Tech Rehome Network Fund, which will run until 2030 to support projects that help improve UK digital inclusion and reduce electronic waste within cities by encouraging the reuse of old technology.

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O2 UK deploy outdoor 4G and 5G mobile Small Cells in Canterbury

8th Sep 2026 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) and network connectivity provider Freshwave have this morning revealed that they’ve successfully deployed a total of four new 4G and 5G capable outdoor Small Cells to boost network coverage across busy areas of Canterbury in Kent (England), delivering faster mobile broadband and more reliable calling etc.

Fibrus launch UK pay TV service as broadband network covers 472,000 premises

8th Sep 2026 (9 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative broadband network and ISP Fibrus, which has deployed their full fibre network across rural parts of Cumbria in England and Northern Ireland, has today announced the launch of their own Netgem PLEIO powered pay TV service and published a preview of their annual results showing revenues growing 53% to £45m.

Study ranks UK 46th globally for the average cost of mobile broadband data

8th Sep 2026 (6 Comments)

Comparison site Broadband Genie has today published a new study, which analysed 3,446 SIM-only mobile phone tariffs across 234 “countries” to identify the average cost per GigaByte (GB) of data (mobile broadband) for each. The United Kingdom ended up ranking 46th with an average of $0.27 (£0.20) per 1GB of data – behind Italy and France, but in front of Germany and Spain.

Tesco Mobile Grows to 5.9 Million UK Customers on Revenues of £1.23bn

7th Sep 2026 (9 Comments)

Mobile operator Tesco Mobile, which is one of the UK’s largest virtual (mvno) mobile providers and harnesses O2’s national network, last week published their latest annual accounts to the end of 2025 and revealed that they are now home to a total customer base of 5.9 million (up 3.51%). The company’s revenues also climbed 11% to £1.23bn.

O2’s Satellite mobile service extended to UK business customers

7th Sep 2026 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that their recently launch consumer Direct-to-Device (D2D) based O2 Satellite service (here), which enables normal Smartphones to connect to their UK mobile network via Starlink’s cell-focused broadband satellites, is being made available to business customers via O2 Business.

Bidding war erupts over UK business ISP Gamma as Waterland tackles Epiris

7th Sep 2026 (2 Comments)

A week has passed since business ISP and IT provider Gamma Communications accepted a cash offer from British private equity firm Epiris worth £1.079bn (here). But a new report claims that the Waterland private equity firm hasn’t given up their pursuit and plans to table a larger bid.

Starlink impose 10Mbps speed cap on heavy users of its “unlimited” broadband UPDATE

6th Sep 2026 (22 Comments)

Some customers of Starlink’s ultrafast satellite broadband service, specifically those on their residential plans with “unlimited” data usage, have reported that they’ve had their internet speeds capped to c.10Mbps after consuming huge amounts of data. But this is despite their usage patterns being the same for, sometimes, several years.

Starlink tweak Personal Maritime Broadband Plan to support bigger boats

5th Sep 2026 (7 Comments)

Good news. Starlink’s new Personal Maritime Plan for users of their ultrafast satellite broadband service, which is currently only being offered to selected customers, has corrected one of the biggest annoyances that appeared shortly after it first launched last month. The plan was previously limited to personal boats of up to 40ft in length, but this has now been extended to 60ft.

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UK ISP Grain Connect offers up to 9 months half price full fibre broadband

5th Sep 2026 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to sign-up with Carlisle-based broadband provider Grain, which has deployed their point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 300,000 UK premises and connect 60,000 customers, may like to know that the ISP has launched a new discount that reduces some packages to half price for up to 9 months of service.

Netflix hikes UK prices for customers of its video streaming service

4th Sep 2026 (29 Comments)

The popular broadband-based Movie and TV video streaming service, Netflix, has today updated their website to hike the monthly prices across all three of their plans for customers again. New customers will see the change immediately, while the timing for existing customers will depend upon your billing date (usually following 30 days’ after notification).

Ofcom UK is not looking to harness lots of new spectrum for 6G mobile

4th Sep 2026 (0 Comments)

Ofcom this week began a new consultation on the UK’s provisional views and positions for the next World Radiocommunication Conference 2027 (WRC-27), which among other things appeared to indicate that the regulator would, at least for now, only support the release of an extra 125MHz of spectrum in the 7GHz band (7125-7250MHz) for use by future mobile broadband networks (i.e. 6G).

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Openreach extend UK pilot of future Ethernet EAD 2.0 and Cablelink products

4th Sep 2026 (6 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has notified UK broadband ISPs that they’ve extended the customer pilot phase of their future Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) v2.0 and Cablelink Service Connect (CSC) products, which are used to supply high-capacity business data links (potentially reaching speeds of 100Gbps in the near future).

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Warning over fake “government” doorstep broadband sellers in Norfolk UK

4th Sep 2026 (1 Comment)

The Norfolk County Council‘s (NCC) Trading Standards department has issued a new “Cold Calling Alert” that warns local people to be on the lookout after several cases of fake doorstep sellers trying to peddle broadband services were reported in the region.

Former Cuckoo UK broadband users left confused over Onestream’s stance on static IPs

4th Sep 2026 (8 Comments)

Some customers of broadband ISP Onestream, specifically those who were bulk migrated from Cuckoo after the customer base was sold in May 2026 and previously had a static IP address (here), have complained after they were put on CGNAT (IP address sharing) connections and given mixed messages about future static IP support.

Lancashire Man Sent to Prison for Operating Rogue UK Cell Phone Tower

3rd Sep 2026 (10 Comments)

The City of London Police (CLP) have revealed that Mohammed Faiyaz Iqbal (43) of Preston in Lancashire has been sentenced to more than 3 years and 8 months in prison for setting up a rogue cell phone tower, which was then used to bypass mobile network security protocols in order to send masses of fraudulent texts (aka – SMS Blaster).