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ISP News Archives for October 2026

Rural UK broadband altnet Gigaloch suffers delay to CVA creditors agreement

4th Oct 2026 (1 Comment)

Fife-based alternative broadband operator Gigaloch, which had been rolling out a new full fibre (FTTP) network into rural parts of West Cheshire (England) and Scotland until they ran into financial difficulties last year, appears to be suffering a delay to implementation of a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) – due to the receipt of a secondary preferential claim from HMRC.

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Octopus (OITS) to split UK fibre broadband assets from other investments UPDATE

3rd Oct 2026 (13 Comments)

The Octopus Inheritance Tax Service (OITS), which is a discretionary investment service managed by Octopus Investments, has revealed that they’re going to split out their fibre broadband assets (i.e. those held by Fern Trading – Vorboss and AllPoints Fibre Network) from other investments. The move comes shortly after Octopus backed away from a deal to acquire PXC from TalkTalk.

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Sky OS 2.0 brings proper PVR and AI voice to UK Sky Glass and Stream TV users

3rd Oct 2026 (11 Comments)

Sky has revealed that the future release of their next Sky OS 2.0 software (firmware) for the provider’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service will bring some major enhancements, including revised cloud recording (PVR) capabilities and AI-powered voice search.

Openreach reconnect village after water leak caused month long broadband outage

3rd Oct 2026 (10 Comments)

Homes and businesses in the rural Surrey (England) village of Frensham, which is said to be home to a local population of almost 1,700, have finally been reconnected by Openreach to broadband and phone services. The situation occured after they were hit by almost a month long network outage due to a “burst water pipe“.

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Broadband altnet Hyperoptic see UK losses hit £172.24m as debt strain grows

2nd Oct 2026 (14 Comments)

City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) provider Hyperoptic, which claims to have built their gigabit broadband network to cover 2 million UK homes (mostly across blocks of flats / MDUs), has revealed that their losses for the year to 31st Dec 2025 increased to £172.24m and they’re trying to seek a solution to £98m in maturing debt.

Cross party MPs tell UK Gov to consider Household Levy to replace BBC TV Licence

2nd Oct 2026 (67 Comments)

A new report from the cross-party Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has warned that the “current TV licence fee is outdated and no longer fit for purpose” and that “all” of the alternatives have drawbacks. The report instead proposes a Household Levy that would no longer be linked to a TV set, could be cheaper than the current licence and would cover other services (broadband?).

Vodafone UK’s new TV service goes live for broadband and mobile users

2nd Oct 2026 (9 Comments)

Broadband and mobile customers of Vodafone UK may like to know that the telecoms provider has today made their new pay TV product available to take, which is said to be priced from an additional £10 a month, or subscribers can get their ‘TV Essential‘ plan – including Netflix and HBO Max – for £17 a month.

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CMA raise competition fears over nexfibre’s £2bn Netomnia UK broadband deal

2nd Oct 2026 (45 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority has published its preliminary findings for their fast-tracked Phase 2 investigation into the £2bn acquisition of full fibre broadband network Netomnia (Substantial Group) by the parents of nexfibre and Virgin Media (O2). Overall the CMA found the deal would result in a “substantial lessening of competition (SLC) in the wholesale supply of fixed broadband services.”

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 (17 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.