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Security Researchers Turn Fibre Optic Broadband Lines into Spying Microphones

9th Apr, 2026 (5 Comments)

A team of security researchers from Hong Kong have demonstrated a covert way of turning standard fibre optic broadband cables, such as those used to connect homes (FTTP), into passive and undetectable microphones, which can be used to eavesdrop on conversations people may be having inside a property (house, office etc.).

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Lenders Take Control of Rural UK Full Fibre Broadband ISP Gigaclear UPDATE

9th Apr, 2026 (29 Comments)

Several key creditors of the indebted Abingdon-based alternative broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) network across 612,000 premises in rural parts of England and is home to 170,000 customers, will today formalise an agreement to take control of the business after earlier attempts to sell the company failed. But the lenders are expected to take a big haircut.

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Streetwave UK Find Big Gap in Mobile Broadband Coverage Across Moray

9th Apr, 2026 (5 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave have today shared the results from a recent survey they conducted, which tested the mobile broadband coverage and performance of 4G and 5G networks – including EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2 – across the Moray Council area in Scotland. Overall the study found a 40 point performance gap between the best and worst mobile networks.

WightFibre Join UK Government Charter to Stop Unexpected Bill Increases

9th Apr, 2026 (2 Comments)

Broadband provider WightFibre, which operates its own independent gigabit speed Full Fibre (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire in England, has this week become the latest ISP to sign up to the Government’s new Telecoms Consumer Charter (TCC).

Summary of Mobile Travel eSIMs for Cheap Data Roaming Outside UK

9th Apr, 2026 (10 Comments)

At some point most of us will travel abroad for a holiday or work and during such periods we often need to consider how best to maintain mobile connectivity, particularly mobile data (broadband), while in a different country. The following article looks at some of the options and caveats for those seeking to use a travel eSIM in order to solve this challenge.

1p Mobile UK Suffers Another Website Outage and Phone Disruption UPDATE

8th Apr, 2026 (25 Comments)

Mobile provider 1p Mobile, which is a virtual network operator (MVNO) on EE’s UK platform, appears to be experiencing yet another protracted outage of its website and linked online account management features today. On top of that the operator has also confirmed that their phone lines are down too.

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Starlink Hits Some Standby Mode Users with Congestion Charge to Resume

8th Apr, 2026 (5 Comments)

SpaceX appears to have quietly revised the ‘Pause Mode’ for their Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-based Starlink broadband service, which means that customers now risk being hit by a huge demand surcharge if they try to unpause their connection in a congested network area. Previously such users were excluded.

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Telecoms Provider Gamma Confirm Talks Over Possible UK Takeover

8th Apr, 2026 (6 Comments)

Business ISP Gamma Communications has confirmed recent speculation that they’re currently engaged in preliminary talks with several potential bidders (currently unidentified), which could result in a takeover of the UK telecoms and IT provider. As of today, the provider has a market capitalization of £752.88m.

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It’s Now Quicker for Consumers to Raise UK Broadband and Phone Complaints

8th Apr, 2026 (0 Comments)

Ofcom today begins enforcing a new change that should make it quicker for telecoms (broadband and mobile etc.) consumers to access Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) providers, which are third-party ombudsman schemes that help people to resolve complaints with their phone, broadband and mobile providers.

Ofcom UK Expected to Fine IX Wireless Over Visual Impact of 15m High Broadband Pole

8th Apr, 2026 (10 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today provisionally found “reasonable grounds for believing” that wireless broadband operator IX Wireless (supported by UK ISP 6Gi / Opus Broadband) broke its rules by failing in its duty to minimise the visual impact of a 15-metre metal mast / pole when it was installed in Rochdale during 2023.

Openreach Install 500,000 Green Zyxel ONTs via UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

8th Apr, 2026 (23 Comments)

Network kit manufacturer Zyxel has revealed that UK network operator Openreach (BT) have now installed 500,000 of their “green” Optical Network Terminals (ONT / ONU), which forms part their ongoing deployment of gigabit speed Full Fibre (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology. The new ONTs use re-engineered casings made from 95% recycled plastic.

Disney+ Internet Video Streaming Users Get ESPN Sports in the UK

8th Apr, 2026 (9 Comments)

Internet video streaming provider Disney+ has announced that ESPN’s sports TV content has now becoming available to their UK subscribers, as well as in a further 52 other countries (i.e. extending total availability to 100 countries).

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CEO of Broadband ISP Wessex Internet Talks UK Competition and Consolidation

8th Apr, 2026 (2 Comments)

The CEO and founder of alternative UK rural broadband provider Wessex Internet, Hector Gibson Fleming, has today spoken to ISPreview about how they turned their family business – funded out of their own pockets for the first 7 years – into what it is today and how they’re navigating the many challenges of today’s full fibre market (consolidation, competition and rising costs etc.).

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Nexfibre Confirm FTTP Broadband Upgrades for 7 Further UK Locations

7th Apr, 2026 (13 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build teams) and giffgaff, has today followed up the recent announcements for Crawley and Bradford (here) by announcing a further seven UK locations – reflecting a total of 226,000 premises at a cost of £31.7m – that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband technology.

Openreach Improves UK Customer Engagement via New Agentic AI Tech

7th Apr, 2026 (4 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT), which is busy rolling out their new full fibre broadband network across the UK, claims to have reduced missed engineering appointments and inbound contact volumes by one-third after they adopted proactive AI (Artificial Intelligence) agents from NiCE Cognigy – redesigning customer engagement across some 15 million customer journeys.

UK Broadband ISP Orbital Net Acquires Leisure Park Internet Solutions

7th Apr, 2026 (0 Comments)

Kent-based UK ISP Orbital Net (Orbital Internet Group), which operates the Vfast sub-brand that sells broadband packages to consumers via a mix of fixed wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks, has today announced that they’ve acquired a key provider of connectivity solutions to the UK holiday park sector – Leisure Park Internet Solutions Limited (LPIS).

Comparing 1Gbps Broadband ISP Packages on Openreach’s UK Network – 2026

7th Apr, 2026 (25 Comments)

A couple of years have passed since we last published a summary of the key consumer ISP choices for 1Gbps home broadband packages on Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – currently available to around 22 million UK homes and businesses. Suffice to say that we’ve today published an updated list and examined how prices have changed.