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9th Nov, 2026 (11 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has revealed to ISPreview that they’re starting a new early-stage Proof of Concept (PoC), which could see engineers who may be visiting homes to repair a copper line service (FTTC / SOGEA etc.) also conduct additional work to help make the property ready for full fibre (FTTP) broadband in the future.
9th Nov, 2026 (1 Comment)
Communications provider Lodestar Networks, which specialises in building local UK community 4G mobile (calls and broadband) networks, has launched a crowdfunding effort to help raise £50,000 in order to expand their own mobile network across two towns in Warwickshire (England) – Nuneaton and Bedworth.
8th Nov, 2026 (15 Comments)
After two years of waiting since Openreach first made their new consumer Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband tiers – 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps – available across the UK market (here). BT’s own wholesale division has finally now launched related products on their platform for retail UK ISP partners to sell on to customers.
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8th Nov, 2026 (9 Comments)
Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service will be pleased to learn that the provider has expanded their Real Time feature to work across more channels. The feature is designed to improve the experience of watching live content online by “reducing latency [delay time] between the live action and what viewers see on screen“.
7th Nov, 2026 (3 Comments)
Broadband and phone connectivity across a sizeable part of Bedfordshire in England, including the overhead gantry signs between junctions 12 and 13 on the M1, have suffered “extensive” disruption after criminals ripped up and stole some of Openreach’s core copper telecoms cables on part of Luton Road, near the town of Toddington.
6th Nov, 2026 (18 Comments)
The Competition and Markets Authority has today published the industry responses to their interim report on the proposed £2bn purchase of full fibre broadband network Netomnia (Substantial Group) by the parents of nexfibre and Virgin Media (O2), which was provisionally blocked last month. Nexfibre argues that the third-party responses reinforce concerns that the CMA’s findings relied on speculative assumptions.
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6th Nov, 2026 (0 Comments)
Broadband and mobile operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) has announced that they’ve become the first provider in the world to start deploying Ericsson’s new AIR 3266 Massive MIMO Antenna with integrated 5G Standalone (5G+) radio kit for mid-band spectrum, which promises improved spectral efficiency, performance (mobile broadband speeds) and power savings.
6th Nov, 2026 (7 Comments)
Consultancy firm FarrPoint has published a new study that highlights the economic impact of outages and the need for resilience across power and communications networks (broadband and mobile). The study claims that a 1-hour power outage affecting approximately 3,540 premises in the Morpeth area (Northumberland) may have resulted in approximately £48,500 of lost productivity.
6th Nov, 2026 (13 Comments)
Barely a week has passed since Starlink (SpaceX) adopted dynamic pricing on its residential ultrafast broadband plans in the UK (e.g. 100Mbps speeds from c.£32 to £40 per month) and this week the satellite operator has followed that up by announcing a further discount of 30% for the whole of November 2026 – on both their home and roaming plans.
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5th Nov, 2026 (20 Comments)
Network operator Openreach (BT) recently revealed that they would try to maintain broadband connectivity on old analogue UK phone lines that fail to go digital by the 31st January 2027. But they also included a caveat to say that this would only be maintained “where technically possible“. Today the operator revealed a bit more detail on this.
5th Nov, 2026 (2 Comments)
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning confirmed that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5G+) mobile broadband network across Derbyshire in England, which is said to reach more than 380,000 people in 368 towns and villages – delivering “faster speeds, better coverage and lower latency at no extra cost.”
5th Nov, 2026 (2 Comments)
After being soft launched back in September 2026, telecoms provider Vodafone has today made their new range of fixed line “Pro 4 Broadband” packages available to customers and confirmed pricing. The service harnesses their next‑gen tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router (Ultra Hub 7+) and CityFibre’s national full fibre (FTTP) network to deliver 8Gbps speeds to homes.
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5th Nov, 2026 (0 Comments)
Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which harnesses crowdsourced testing data from users of their app on millions of devices (Smartphones etc.), has published their annual 5G European Awards 2026 that analysed the mobile network performance of 91 national operators across 27 markets. But sadly mobile providers in the UK didn’t win anything and struggled to even register in the rankings.
5th Nov, 2026 (0 Comments)
Connectivity provider Neos Networks, which runs one of the UK’s biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre networks – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has started giving businesses and broadband ISPs access to a wider range of independent full fibre networks – including new additions CityFibre and ITS Technology.
5th Nov, 2026 (2 Comments)
Broadband operator LightSpeed Networks, the wholesale side of UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband that has built their own full fibre (FTTP) network to cover c.360,000 premises across the East of England and Midlands (46 locations), has today announced a £685,000 investment in a new 25km long fibre link between Tamworth and Nuneaton. Some 12,000 homes should also benefit.
5th Nov, 2026 (15 Comments)
The BT Group has published their H1 FY27 results, which saw total revenues of £8,750m (down from £8,837m in H2 FY26) and a decline in Openreach’s broadband lines of -366k (down from -414k). But the network operator also grew their full fibre (FTTP) coverage to 24.1m premises (up by 1.19m vs 2.6m in H2 FY26) and now expect to reach their 25m FTTP target in March 2027 (slight delay from Dec 2026).
5th Nov, 2026 (0 Comments)
The boss of network operator and ISP Highland Broadband (formerly Lothian Broadband), which has deployed their own 10Gbp capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across various rural parts of Scotland, has revealed that they’ll “soon” start their expansion into the Highlands town of Aviemore.
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