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ISP News Archives for November 12, 2026

EE UK comes top in updated map of South Yorkshire 4G and 5G mobile speeds

12th Nov 2026 (3 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave and the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) in England have published an updated map and analysis of 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage and speeds across the region using bin lorries. The results found that EE provided the best performance on 88% of roads surveyed.

VOXI launches Black Friday sales across UK 5G mobile plans

12th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)

Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is the virtual network provider (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone, has today become the latest telecoms provider to introduce a range of special Black Friday sales across their various SIM Only mobile plans for new customers.

Broadband ISP Squirrel Internet boosts UK network capacity for GTA VI

12th Nov 2026 (2 Comments)

Broadband provider Squirrel Internet has today revealed that they’re expecting a 30% increase in network traffic on release day (19th November) for new video game GTA VI and will be keeping capacity at twice the daily peak to ensure the large file size (c.212GB) can be downloaded easily.

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Xmas redundancies to strike UK broadband altnet Hyperoptic in strategy update

12th Nov 2026 (11 Comments)

City-focused UK full fibre broadband (FTTP/B) ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have built their gigabit fibre network to cover 2 million homes (mostly in blocks of flats / MDUs), has just completed a review of its strategy and unfortunately confirmed to ISPreview that this will result in another round of redundancies just before Christmas – impacting c.10% of roles across the UK and Serbia.

Ofcom UK fine Meta £450,000 over WhatsApp information request failings

12th Nov 2026 (5 Comments)

In January 2026 we reported that the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, had opened an investigation into Meta’s WhatsApp Business messaging service after provisionally finding that the information they supplied – as part of a review into the wholesale market for business bulk SMS messages – “may not have been complete and accurate“. Today Meta was fined £450k for this rule breach.

O2 UK launch new Household Saver mobile tariffs for families – replaces Multisave

12th Nov 2026 (2 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 UK (Virgin Media) has today announced the launch of their new ‘Household Saver‘ tariffs, which are essentially designed to offer savings to customers in the same household when they bring their mobile plans together. Apparently savings worth “up to” £15 per month can be achieved by doing this.

Openreach Chairman Mike McTighe steps down as UK Board gets reshuffled

12th Nov 2026 (10 Comments)

National broadband and network access provider Openreach, which is a distinct “legally separate” company from BT, has today announced several significant changes to their senior UK leadership. The company’s current Chairman, Mike McTighe, who has been in the role since 2016, is stepping down and will be succeeded by Michael Jary. But that isn’t the only big change.

London full fibre broadband ISP G.Network make first sales using AI agent

12th Nov 2026 (11 Comments)

London-focused UK broadband provider G.Network, which claims to have deployed their full fibre (FTTP – XGS-PON) network to cover 430,000 premises across the city (400k RFS), has revealed that they’ve deployed a new AI based sales agent called “g” that has just completed its first autonomous end-to-end orders.

Openreach to harness Allstar’s UK fuel card network to support EV fleet

12th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)

National broadband network Openreach (BT) has confirmed that they’re working to adopt Allstar’s fuel card network to help support their transition to electric vehicles (over 7,000 of their 22,000 vehicles are now EVs). The goal is to make it easier for their telecoms engineers to charge their work vehicles.

Broadband ISP Exascale launch new website and prep free UK DNS resolver

12th Nov 2026 (0 Comments)

Broadband internet provider Exascale, which has deployed their own full fibre (FTTP) network to a few thousand premises in parts of Shropshire (Telford and Wrekin) and also sells packages via other networks (e.g. CityFibre), has given their website a new lick of paint this week and are separately preparing to launch a free public DNS service.

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