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ScamBlocker Launch Own UK Digital Landline Home Phone Service

22nd January, 2026 (3 Comments)

Communications platform provider SONIQ Labs has launched a new “AI-powered digital landline service” called ScamBlocker Home, which connects via your existing broadband router and promises to protect UK households from telephone fraud by screening unknown callers before the phone rings.

Mobile Operator EE UK Launch All-New Refurbished Phones Range

22nd January, 2026 (2 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator EE (BT) has this morning launched its new refurbished smartphone range with airtime, featuring iPhone and Samsung smartphones – priced from £31 per month – and claiming to offer customers a “high-quality, more sustainable and cost-effective way to upgrade“.

2,500 Lincolnshire UK Premises Offline After Cable Thieves Strike Openreach

21st January, 2026 (8 Comments)

Some 2,500 properties around the village of Moulton Chapel in Lincolnshire (England) are suffering “significant disruption” to their broadband and phone connectivity, which occurred after criminals cut and then stole an unspecified amount of Openreach’s copper telecoms cable in the area.

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Openreach Expands Scotland’s Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract UPDATE

21st January, 2026 (3 Comments)

The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has issued a contract modification notice for Openreach’s £157m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract in Scotland (Call off 6), which originally aimed to reach 65,070 premises in remote rural areas. But the change means it will now be expanded to tackle 77,639 premises.

Ofcom Sets Out Current Progress and Future Plans to UK Prime Minister

21st January, 2026 (5 Comments)

The UK telecoms, media and internet content regulator, Ofcom, has this week written to the Prime Minister (Keir Starmer), Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rachel Reeves) and Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Peter Kyle), among others, to update them on how its work is “contributing to innovation, investment and growth in the UK“.

Mobile Operators Push for UK Planning Reform Again to Improve 5G and AI

21st January, 2026 (12 Comments)

Industry trade body Mobile UK, which represents EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK), has warned that the UK’s ambition to become an “AI superpower” will struggle without “high quality 5G Standalone (5GSA) networks acting as the ‘nervous system’“. But it warns that we “lag behind other leading nations” in this area and must reform the planning system.

Broadband ISP VISPA UK Faces Compulsory Strike-off Action Again

21st January, 2026 (3 Comments)

Broadband provider VISPA has recently become subject to another “First Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off” (petitioner: HMRC) – as shown on the Companies House (CH) website, which follows both a significant delay to the publication of their latest accounts (CH’s website states their next accounts were “due by 31 January 2025“) and adoption of CH’s default address.

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Housing Provider Peabody to Deploy SCCI’s Shared UK Full Fibre Infrastructure

20th January, 2026 (21 Comments)

The not-for-profit housing association, Peabody, which is responsible for almost 109,000 homes (220,000 residents) across London and the Home Counties of England, has signed a new framework agreement with SCCI Alphatrack (SCCI Group) to deploy their single shared full fibre broadband infrastructure solution (4Fibre) to residents homes.

Only One Telecoms Firm Makes Top 50 UK Companies for Customer Satisfaction

20th January, 2026 (0 Comments)

The Institute of Customer Service (ICS) has today published their first biannual UK Customer Satisfaction Index for 2026 (January), which reveals that Tesco Mobile was – for the second consecutive report – the only mobile and broadband (telecoms) provider to make it into their table of the country’s top 50 organisations. But both Virgin Mobile and Three UK were still named among the most improved.

CityFibre Make Business FTTP Broadband Available to 4.5 Million UK Premises

20th January, 2026 (3 Comments)

The country’s largest alternative broadband operator, CityFibre, has this morning announced that they’ve “unlocked” their nationwide footprint and made their business Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) services available across 4.5 million premises – offering wholesale business products at data speeds of up to 2.5Gbps (Gigabits per second).

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Virgin Media O2 UK Pledges to Donate 12,000 Smartphones in 2026

20th January, 2026 (4 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today announced that they will once again aim to donate “up to” 12,000 pre-owned Smartphones during 2026 to help people in need get online and reduce e-waste, which mirrors their previous pledge for 2025 that succeeded in donating the same figure.

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Six Alternative UK Broadband Networks Ranked in Sunday Times 100 Tech List

20th January, 2026 (8 Comments)

The latest 2026 Sunday Times 100 Tech list has been published, which reflects a ranking of Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies. The good news is that six broadband network operators have managed to make it into the 2026 hardware list, with Netomnia topping the table in 3rd place and CityFibre just edging in at 48th at the bottom.

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Ookla Examine Mobile Broadband Upload Speeds and Capacity in the UK

20th January, 2026 (1 Comment)

Global network benchmarking firm Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their Speedtest.net service (inc. apps), has published a new report that takes a broad look into the impact of mobile (4G, 5G etc.) upload speeds in the age of AI and also reveals how much importance UK operators place upon it (EE, O2, Vodafone and Three UK).

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BDUK Updates on Project Gigabit Broadband Contract for Cheshire UK

20th January, 2026 (3 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency recently provided a small but useful update on their stalled £43m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Cheshire (Lot 17), which was originally held by Freedom Fibre until they “mutually agreed to terminate” it in March 2025 (here). But Openreach (BT) may now be set to take it on.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Outsourcing 700 Roles to Tata CS and Tech Mahindra

19th January, 2026 (30 Comments)

Sources have informed ISPreview that broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media (O2) has today notified around 700 staff that their roles are to be transferred to the Indian owned Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Tech Mahindra. The move is intended to “better deliver for our customers“, although this could still result in some redundancies.

Quickline Build UK Full Fibre Broadband to 200,000 Premises and Start New Campaign

19th January, 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative rural broadband provider Quickline, which is deploying a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has today revealed that their fibre network now covers 200,000 premises (plus 200k more via wireless) and they’re launching a new brand campaign.

SpeedGeo Study Names Fastest UK Mobile and Broadband ISPs in 2025

19th January, 2026 (1 Comment)

The relatively new SpeedGeo project, which stems from a Polish team that compares internet quality based on the broadband speeds of real users, has today published their 2025 results for the United Kingdom. The outcome named Virgin Media as the fastest fixed broadband ISP, while Three UK came top for mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.).