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Altnet broadband ISP Connect Fibre promotes Jacob Mills to UK CEO

9th Nov, 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative broadband network and UK ISP Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd), which have been rolling out their full fibre (FTTP) network across the East of England for the past few years, last week confirmed that Jacob Mills had been promoted from his prior position of COO and had now become the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

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Quickline investor reconsiders merger deal with UK broadband provider KCOM

9th Nov, 2026 (3 Comments)

Canadian investment firm Northleaf Capital Partners, which backs alternative UK rural broadband provider Quickline, has reportedly started to go cold on a potential acquisition of the incumbent broadband and phone provider for Hull (East Yorkshire), KCOM, from Australian investment group Macquarie.

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UK Government considers extending Under 16s social media ban to eBay

9th Nov, 2026 (19 Comments)

Before the UK Government has even had a chance to implement its controversial move to introduce an online Social Media ban for children under the age of 16 – for use against the most popular platforms (Facebook, Instagram etc.) – and there’s already talk of it being extended to include internet auction sites, such as eBay and Vinted etc.

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Openreach trial could prep UK homes for FTTP broadband during copper repairs

9th Nov, 2026 (33 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.

Lodestar Networks seek £50k to build 4G network in Warwickshire towns

9th Nov, 2026 (7 Comments)

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.

BT Wholesale FINALLY make 1.8Gbps FTTP broadband available to UK ISPs

8th Nov, 2026 (33 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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Sky UK cuts Real Time live TV sport streaming latency for more channels

8th Nov, 2026 (11 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“.

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Theft of Openreach’s UK broadband cables in Bedfordshire disrupts M1 traffic signs

7th Nov, 2026 (4 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.

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CMA publish replies to provisional rejection of nexfibre’s £2bn UK Netomnia broadband deal

6th Nov, 2026 (23 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.

VodafoneThree begin UK rollout of new AI-ready 5G Massive MIMO mobile network

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.

One hour power and internet outage in UK town cost firms £48.5k in lost productivity

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.

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Starlink confusingly discounts price of UK satellite broadband by 30 percent UPDATE

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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Openreach detail caveats with retaining broadband when analogue UK phones stop

5th Nov, 2026 (21 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.

O2 UK extend 5G Standalone mobile broadband network across Derbyshire

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.”

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Vodafone UK puts new 8Gbps speeds and Pro 4 home broadband plans live

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.

Mobile operators in the UK struggle in 5G European Awards 2026

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.

Neos Networks expand UK fibre market access via CityFibre and ITS Technology

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.