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Hampshire-based alternative network and retail ISP toob, which has rolled out their own full fibre broadband network around the South of England and harnesses CityFibre’s network in other UK areas, has today confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve put more staff on notice of potential redundancy following last month’s debt deal with Ares.
Internet service provider Plusnet, which is often viewed as being the low-cost and no-frills broadband brand within the wider BT Group, has today refreshed their brand with a new website, logo and a mascot called Plusso. By the looks of things they’re still rolling this out as some of their old logo and pages are still active.
Ofcom has released their latest Q2 2026 study of quarterly UK consumer telecoms and TV complaints, which reveals that TalkTalk, Vodafone, EE and BT all tied by attracting the most complaints from customers about fixed broadband services, while Sky Mobile came top of the naughty table for Pay Monthly Mobile services and EE did the same for Pay TV.
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that they’ve just completed the UK’s “first live deployment” of Nokia’s AI-powered Radio Access Network (RAN) tech at their Giga Site in London Paddington. The trial is said to have improved the network’s spectral efficiency by 20% and allowed their 5G+ (Standalone) site to carry more mobile data (mobile broadband) traffic.
Internet provider Nufibre appears to have expanded beyond their existing eSIM powered virtual mobile operator plans by launching an alternative 5G based home broadband package with “unlimited data“, which will set you back from just £25 per month with their “next-generation” Wi-Fi 7 router (or £22.50pm if you’re happy with a Wi-Fi 6 router).
Did you know that a single rogue Optical Network Terminal (ONT) inside somebody’s home can sometimes cause a more widespread broadband outage? Sadly, this is exactly the sort of problem that one of Sky Broadband’s subscribers recently faced after they experienced a month long outage on Openreach’s full fibre (FTTP) network. But they weren’t the only ones impacted.