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ISP News Archives for October 1, 2026

Govt publish evaluation of pre-2021 UK gigabit broadband voucher schemes

1st Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) directorate has today published a final evaluation of their publicly funded pre-2021 broadband voucher schemes, including the earlier incarnation of their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) and the Rural Gigabit Connectivity (RGC) scheme. Overall both were found to have produced various positive impacts.

Fancy an AI receptionist? BT Business will sell your company one

1st Oct 2026 (8 Comments)

Communications and broadband provider BT Business has today announced the launch of their new AI Receptionist tool, which as the name suggests is a new service that is designed to help small and medium-sized UK businesses to manage customer calls around the clock.

Virgin Media UK gives TV customers free access to kids channels for Oct 2026

1st Oct 2026 (2 Comments)

Just like last year. Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who also take their pay TV service and have children, may like to know that the provider will once again be gifting free access to their premium children’s TV channels throughout the whole of October 2026 “at no extra cost“.

Broadband ISP BT set to relaunch UK pay TV service on 15th October

1st Oct 2026 (16 Comments)

In a slightly confusing announcement, telecoms giant BT (EE) has today announced that their pay TV product, BTTV, will be “available from 15 October [2026]” as part of a new-ish bundle that “[brings] together TV, streaming services and premium content in one place, powered by BT’s award-winning broadband“. Except BT has had a bundled TV service for years.

London full fibre ISP G.Network launch 8.5Gbps home broadband

1st Oct 2026 (10 Comments)

London-focused UK broadband operator G.Network, which claims to have built their FTTP (XGS-PON) network footprint to cover 420,000 premises across the city (395k RFS), has today followed our earlier report by launched two new multi-gigabit residential broadband products – HomePro3 and HomePro10 – offering symmetrical speeds of up to 2.5Gbps and 8.5Gbps respectively.

Broadband router giant FRITZ! releases FRITZ!OS 8.50 firmware

1st Oct 2026 (4 Comments)

Network kit manufacturer FRITZ!, which is a German developer of home networking products (e.g. FRITZ!Box routers are bundled by several UK broadband ISPs), has today informed ISPreview that they’ve begun to roll-out their latest FRITZ!OS 8.50 software update that includes various new features. Hopefully this will be less buggy than some prior updates.

TalkTalk bidder asks Openreach to waive UK wholesale broadband charges UPDATE

1st Oct 2026 (53 Comments)

The lead bidder, Epiris, for part of the debt-ridden TalkTalk Group, which is now in the final stage of its turbulent efforts to dispose of both their consumer broadband ISP business and the PXC (PlatformX Communications) wholesale business, has reportedly asked network supplier Openreach (BT) to waive several months of payments to support a rescue deal.

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