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Amazon Leo speed test reaches 400Mbps+ on Pro satellite broadband dish

14th October, 2026 (1 Comment)

The Amazon Leo service, which busy deploying thousands of ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally to compete with Starlink, has successfully tested their Leo Pro dish (terminal) to slightly beyond its top rated download speed of 400Mbps (Megabits per second) in a beta test of the service.

Sky UK’s NOW TV introduces new membership options for Sky Sports

13th October, 2026 (19 Comments)

Sky has today announced that their sibling NOW (NOW TV) video streaming platform and broadband service has introduced a new membership structure for customers seeking to add Sky Sports content – adding two new Sky Sports plans. Fans can also continue to get the full line-up via NOW’s existing All Sky Sports plan if they want (from £27.99 a month).

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Travel eSIM providers Holafly and Roamless launch new unlimited data plans

13th October, 2026 (3 Comments)

A couple of interesting developments have occurred this week after two global travel eSIM providers, Holafly and Roamless, both separately launched new 4G and 5G capable “unlimited data” mobile (mobile broadband) plans with some very different features and also caveats.

EXA Infrastructure extends high-capacity London-to-Balkans fibre route

13th October, 2026 (0 Comments)

London-registered network operator EXA Infrastructure has today launched two new high-capacity terrestrial European fibre network routes – running between Milan and Zurich, extending the Frankfurt-Zurich-Milan-Genoa corridor, and between Paris and Vienna, extending the London-Balkans corridor.

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Study compares UK 5G fixed wireless broadband performance to Starlink

13th October, 2026 (7 Comments)

A new study from Opensignal has compared the performance of 5G and 4G powered Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband to that of Starlink’s LEO satellite network across 14 European markets, including the United Kingdom. In the UK, Starlink comes out top for rural broadband, but it’s a much more mixed picture in urban areas, where Three UK is strongest for 5G FWA.

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LINX launches Cloud Connect service at Manchester internet exchange

13th October, 2026 (0 Comments)

The member‑owned and not-for-profit London Internet Exchange (LINX), which manages a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via 900 members (broadband ISPs, mobile operators, CDNs etc.), has today has launched its Cloud Connect service at their Manchester exchange to increase resilience and improve control over cloud connectivity.

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Opensignal map shows where UK Mobiles connect to Starlink’s D2D satellites

13th October, 2026 (4 Comments)

Market analyst and network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which examines mobile networks by gathering crowdsourced data from users of their App, has published what they’re calling the “world’s first interactive map of satellite-to-smartphone D2D connections” (Direct-to-Device) – currently showing where people are connecting via Starlink’s satellite mobile network.

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Gigaclear UK completes North Oxfordshire Project Gigabit broadband contract

13th October, 2026 (1 Comment)

The UK Government has today announced that Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear has completed their £8.2m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for 3,880 premises in hard-to-reach parts of North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02), which is said to have been achieved “four months ahead of schedule“.

Fibrus launch Wi-Fi 7 router and 2Gbps speeds on UK FTTP broadband network UPDATE

12th October, 2026 (13 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative broadband network and ISP Fibrus, which have built their full fibre network across rural parts of 471,800 premises (inc. 155,000 customers) in Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has today begun rolling out a new 2Gbps package and a Wi-Fi 7 router for the first time via Amazon’s eero 7 kit.

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Broadband ISP Virgin Media says Sunday is the busiest UK online day

12th October, 2026 (5 Comments)

Broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media (O2) has this morning published new data to reveal that Sunday is currently the busiest day of the week online for their customers, with broadband traffic 12% higher than the average day. Apparently this traffic is dominated by social media, streaming, life admin and other task involved with preparing for Monday.

Scotland set to close Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme in Nov 2026

12th October, 2026 (3 Comments)

The Scottish Government (SG) has announced that, following a “review of market conditions“, they will close their own Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (SBVS) to new applications on 20th November 2026. The move comes shortly after the UK Government closed their own voucher scheme (GBVS) to new projects last month.

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Broadband altnet CityFibre reportedly preps up to £2bn UK haircut on debts

12th October, 2026 (35 Comments)

A new report claims that the UK’s largest alternative Full Fibre broadband network, CityFibre, is preparing to ask lenders (NatWest, Lloyds and Société Générale) to accept a huge write-down on their debts as part of efforts to “establish a strong, long-term capital structure for the business“. The move is predicted to cost lenders up to £2bn.

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Virgin Media UK expand trial availability of 2Gbps broadband on coax network

12th October, 2026 (18 Comments)

Back in July we revealed that broadband ISP Virgin Media were running a small trial that had made their top 2Gbps download speed package available over their older Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC / DOCSIS 3.1) network, albeit only in a few UK locations (e.g. parts of Oldham). Previously you could only access 1Gbps speeds in such areas. The good news is this seems to be expanding.

VOXI UK discounts 5G mobile plans and offers extra data boosts

11th October, 2026 (0 Comments)

Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is the virtual network provider (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone, has enhanced their existing promotions across several packages with even cheaper monthly pricing and an additional data boost. For example, their entry-level plan is now £10 a month for 80GB of data (inc. unlimited Data for Social Media).

Broadband ISP Exascale prep UK wholesale access to on-net and off-network partners

10th October, 2026 (3 Comments)

Broadband provider Exascale, which has built 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), this week unveiled Exascale Atlas – a new fibre infrastructure management platform – and advanced its Nexus wholesale platform, while also investing in AI-driven network operations.

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Connect Fibre expands NE Staffordshire Project Gigabit UK broadband build

10th October, 2026 (1 Comment)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) unit has agreed a contract modification for alternative network ISP Connect Fibre’s (Fibre Assets) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for North East Staffordshire (Lot 19.01) in England, which means it will now reach an additional 739 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas (total of 6,702).

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Alternative network ISP Briant Broadband launch UK 5G mobile service

10th October, 2026 (0 Comments)

Network operator and UK ISP Briant Broadband, which has deployed their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the seaside town of Worthing (West Sussex, England), have announced the launch of their own eSIM and physical SIM based mobile service via a selection of flexible 5G mobile plans on a simple 30-day rolling contract.