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ISP News Archives for October 2026

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North Norfolk MP calls on locals to expose mobile notspots and broadband failures

9th Oct 2026 (1 Comment)

The North Norfolk MP, Steff Aquarone, has this week called on local residents and businesses to report problems with their mobile reception and broadband, as he prepares to take the constituency’s “connectivity crisis” directly to the UK Government next week. But anecdotal consumer surveys may not be the most effective way of identifying such problems.

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Broadband provider Fibrus make time limited offer to TalkTalk customers

9th Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative network and UK ISP Fibrus, which has built their own full fibre broadband infrastructure across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has responded to TalkTalk’s recent difficulties by offering the provider’s customers a special deal to switch (i.e. those within their network patch).

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Opensignal study finds UK mobile broadband networks can handle AI

9th Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which examines mobile network performance by gathering crowdsourced data from users of their testing App, has published a new study that attempts to examine conversational AI readiness across text, voice and video interactions. Overall the UK has a good readiness score, but not without some weak points.

Bentry Infrastructure reveal expansion of RunFibre’s UK FTTP broadband network

9th Oct 2026 (1 Comment)

The new Bentry Infrastructure Group (BIG) has today revealed to ISPreview that, after having recently acquired alternative network provider RunFibre from FibreNova, they’re investing in a “major commercial expansion” of full fibre broadband to reach locations across the North West, Midlands and London in England – building at a rate of 3,000 premises per month.

Open letter – Opus Broadband complains to UK Govt over TalkTalk’s sale to BT

8th Oct 2026 (17 Comments)

Internet provider Opus Broadband, which had been working alongside Alchemy Partners on a since failed c.£100m bid for TalkTalk’s debt-ridden consumer business – before BT stepped in to avoid a sudden collapse, has today published an Open Letter that they just sent to the Secretary of State for Culture (DCMS), Lisa Nandy MP, which highlights their objections to the BT deal.

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Vodafone UK upgrades cost saving target to £1bn by 2032 after network progress

8th Oct 2026 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK (VodafoneThree) has today issued an update to confirm that, after taking full control of Three UK and making progress on their network merger, they’ve been able to upgrade their outlook and now expect to make cost savings of £0.8bn by fiscal 2030 (up by c.£100m) and then £1bn by 2032.

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Openreach name next 112 UK areas for copper to full fibre switch – tranche 26

8th Oct 2026 (10 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today published the next batch of 112 exchanges (Tranche 26) under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell scheme – reflecting a further 619,724 premises. This reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option, where available).

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Survey claims power cuts are top cause as “broadband outages” hit half of UK

8th Oct 2026 (9 Comments)

A new Uswitch commissioned Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was conducted between 29th September to 2nd October 2026, has claimed that 26.7 million people suffered a “broadband outage” over the past year, with power cuts said to be overtaking ISP faults as the number one cause. But 4.6m (32%) are apparently unaware that power cuts can also stop digital phones working.

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Sky Sports to introduce Live Subtitles and Live Descriptive Audio Commentary

8th Oct 2026 (1 Comment)

Customers of Sky’s (Sky Broadband etc.) UK TV service, specifically those who take their Sky Sports packs, may like to know that the provider will shortly introduce two new features across its Premier League coverage via Sky+, Sky Q, Sky Glass, Sky Stream and NOW (inc. those watching via Virgin Media) – Live Subtitles and Live Descriptive Audio Commentary.

End of the line as UK ISP Aquiss switch off final FTTC broadband service

8th Oct 2026 (33 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent ISP Aquiss has today announced that they switched off their final Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based Openreach broadband service on 7th October 2026, which follows the withdrawal of all their legacy ADSL copper lines back in August 2026 (here). But the underlying technology of FTTC (VDSL2) still lives on via SOGEA packages.

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New survey claims loyalty to mobile operators costing UK people £9bn a year

8th Oct 2026 (5 Comments)

A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK people, which was commissioned by Lebara, has found that UK broadband providers (18%) lead the list of contracts consumers are reluctant to leave, followed by mobile networks (15%) and TV packages (14%). But the study estimates that staying loyal to major mobile networks could make consumers £9bn a year worse off.

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Sky Mobile UK switches to 24-month minimum contract terms

8th Oct 2026 (20 Comments)

Mobile operator Sky Mobile, which is estimated to be home to around 4-5 million subscribers in the UK and harnesses O2’s virtual (mvno) network platform, will today switch from using 12-month minimum term contracts and instead adopt a choice of either a 24-month or 30-day term for new customers.

SpaceX granted approval to launch 15,000 LEO satellites for Starlink Mobile

7th Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted SpaceX permission to put a further 15,000 next generation satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in order to help feed Starlink’s Mobile service, which will harness radio spectrum recently acquired from T-Mobile and EchoStar.

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Openreach’s CEO talks future broadband build, Ofcom’s discount block and competition

7th Oct 2026 (29 Comments)

The CEO of UK ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has conducted a new interview with the Openreach’s new CEO, Katie Milligan, which touches on everything from the stumbling blocks to expanding FTTP broadband to 30 million UK premises by 2030, to Ofcom’s block of a key fibre discount, the capacity problem facing the analogue phone switch-off and altnet competition.

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Openreach deploy Ciena’s 1.6Tbps Waveserver tech across UK fibre network

7th Oct 2026 (2 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) have begun deploying Ciena’s Waveserver (WaveLogic 6) technology across their UK full fibre network for network operators, which will help to support their existing and future Optical Spectrum Extended Access (OSEA) products, including via national 800G (Gbps) services for the first time.

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Vodafone to deploy AI tool to measure UK broadband performance at the router

7th Oct 2026 (6 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone has revealed that they’re deploying a new AI tool across “millions” of their Wi-Fi 7 capable broadband home hubs (routers) in Europe (this includes the UK), which will act as a sort of barometer to help them more accurately measure customers’ online experiences.

Staff of broadband ISP toob star in last night’s BBC DIY SOS TV Show

7th Oct 2026 (1 Comment)

Hampshire-based alternative network toob, which has deployed their own full fibre gigabit broadband network in the South of England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other UK areas, has today praised their staff for taking part in last night’s episode of the BBC’s DIY SOS TV show. The provider donated their full-fibre to a family in need and assisted in a renovation.