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Virgin Media Business Wholesale Update on Progress Toward XGS-PON Based EoFTTP

9th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

The wholesale division of UK broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMB / VMBW) recently brought together more than 100 partners at its Partner Connect event in London to discuss AI, rising data demands and the need for higher-capacity networks. The business also shared a progress update on its XGS-PON-enabled Ethernet over FTTP (full fibre) proposition.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Blast CityFibre in Complaint Over Poor UK Support

9th July, 2026 (9 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent UK ISP Aquiss has notified their customers of concerns that dealing with one of the country’s largest alternative broadband networks, CityFibre, has recently become “incredibly difficult” after the alternative network let a sizeable number of staff go in recent redundancies.

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50 UK Gov Funded 4G Mobile Rural Mast Upgrades Now Live in Scotland

9th July, 2026 (4 Comments)

The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has today revealed that 50 publicly funded rural 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live in Scotland as part of the industry-led £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project – providing coverage from EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) across more than 1,900 sq km.

Redundancies Strike Alternative UK Broadband Provider Freedom Truespeed

9th July, 2026 (1 Comment)

The FreedomTruespeed Group, which is a recently merged (Freedom Fibre and Truespeed) alternative full fibre broadband network that covers a footprint of 430,000 UK premises (RFS) and over 70,000 customers, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’re set to suffer some new redundancies.

Vodafone Trials New Energy-Saving 5G Mobile Antennas and Software

9th July, 2026 (3 Comments)

Mobile network operator Vodafone has revealed that, in an “industry-first“, they’ve managed to achieve energy-savings of up to 10% using new software and hardware-based power saving techniques, as well as an additional 20% reduction with next generation radios.

EE UK Set to Launch New One Up Customer Rewards Scheme on Friday

8th July, 2026 (10 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE UK (BT) is preparing to launch a new rewards (loyalty) programme on Friday for existing customers called “One Up“, which is set to be more of a complement than a replacement for their existing ‘Rewards’ scheme.

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Openreach to Upgrade 115 MDU Buildings to FTTP Broadband in Havering

8th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has reached a new access agreement (wayleave) with the London Borough of Havering, which will enable them to deploy their full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband network across approximately 115 buildings (blocks of flats and apartments) – reaching thousands of extra homes.

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Study Claims 5 Million Brits on UK Coast at Risk of Accidental Mobile Roaming Charges

8th July, 2026 (25 Comments)

A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults (weighted to be nationally representative), which was commissioned by Uswitch.com, has claimed that more than 5 million people (9.8%) have seen their phone connect to an overseas network while they were still in the UK, triggering a roaming charge or alert. But 76% of respondents still think this is “impossible” or have never heard of it.

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Ofcom Hit Virgin Media UK with £28m Fine for Preventing Contract Cancellations UPDATE

8th July, 2026 (42 Comments)

Broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has today been fined £28 million by Ofcom after the UK telecoms regulator found that they had made it difficult for customers to cancel their contracts. Millions of customer calls were said to have been “deliberately mishandled, creating unnecessary barriers to switching or cancelling“.

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Openreach Build to 7 New Areas Under Scotland’s Project Gigabit Broadband Scheme

8th July, 2026 (1 Comment)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has issued a progress update on their £157m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract for the ‘Rest of Scotland’ area (here), which originally aimed to upgrade 65,000 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas to full fibre (FTTP) broadband and has just started building across several new locations.

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Rural Broadband Altnet ISP Airband Prepares Sale of UK Business

8th July, 2026 (9 Comments)

Alternative network provider Airband, which has built a mixed Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) gigabit broadband network across rural parts of England and North Wales, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve now “commenced a formal sale process” to try and find the right “long-term owner” for the business.

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Grain Broadband Ad Banned by ASA Over Misleading YouFibre Price Rise Claim UPDATE

8th July, 2026 (16 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a cheeky email advert from broadband ISP Grain Connect, which headlined with a warning about Virgin Media “taking over YouFibre & BRSK“. But YouFibre successfully complained that the rest of the promotion had made “misleading price rise claims“.

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Broadband Altnets Spar with Ofcom Over Openreach UK Copper Line Retirement

7th July, 2026 (28 Comments)

The UK telecom regulator’s proposal in their Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR), which sought to adopt a different approach to copper line retirement in favour of full fibre optic (FTTP) broadband lines on Openreach’s national UK network, has, perhaps predictably, attracted criticism from rivals that worry it may hand the incumbent an advantage.

BDUK Tweak Connect Fibre’s Derbyshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

7th July, 2026 (5 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has tweaked alternative network ISP Connect Fibre’s (Fibre Assets) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Derbyshire (LOT 3) in England again. The contract now has a reduced “total scope” of reaching 12,876 hard-to-reach premises via a public subsidy £34.64m.

Community Fibre Offer 3 Months Free Broadband and Remove Mid-Contract Hikes

7th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has built their 5Gbps speed full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to 1.4 million homes (mostly in London and the South East) and rising, has launched a summer sale that offers three months of free service across all packages for new customers and removes their previous mid-contract price hikes.

Ookla Benchmarks 22 Countries for 5G Mobile Broadband in AI Workloads

7th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

Ookla (Accenture), which operates the popular broadband Speedtest.net benchmarking service, has today published a new report that evaluates metrics like 5G upload capacity, latency under load, and cloud infrastructure pathways across 22 countries in order to identify how well they’ll handle AI workloads.

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Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reaches 91 Percent of the UK in H1 2026

7th July, 2026 (10 Comments)

We’ve today published our biannual summary of fixed broadband coverage for the first half (H1) of 2026, which reveals that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP networks have grown to reach 85.05% of UK premises (up from 81.89% in H2 2025) and 91% are within reach of “gigabit” 1000Mbps+ speeds (up from 89.6%). Read on to see details for England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland.