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O2 UK Switches On 5G Standalone Mobile Broadband Network in Kent

20th Aug, 2026 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today confirmed that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G+ (5G Standalone) mobile broadband network across more of Kent in England, which is said to reach “up to” 1.6 million residents across 125 towns, 303 villages and 246 hamlets – delivering “faster speeds, better coverage and lower latency at no extra cost“.

EE Launch UK’s First Commercial Consumer 5G+ Network Slicing via Fast Lane

20th Aug, 2026 (21 Comments)

Much we first previewed on Monday of this week (here), EE Mobile (BT) has today officially launched their new ‘Fast Lane‘ feature, which is described as being the UK’s first commercial consumer implementation of Network Slicing technology on a 5G+ (5G Standalone) mobile broadband network (i.e. giving customers data traffic prioritisation in busy areas).

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APFN Introduce Multi-Gig Ethernet Services with Cashback Incentive via Sky

20th Aug, 2026 (0 Comments)

The AllPoints Fibre Network (APFN), which is a wholesale platform that aggregates connectivity from several different UK full fibre networks, has announced that their partners (ISPs and network operators) can now benefit from a cashback incentive – worth up to £1,500 – on certain Ethernet services from Sky Business Wholesale ordered through their aquila platform.

TV Broadcasters, Banks and UK Telecoms Providers Unite to Get Everyone Online UPDATE

20th Aug, 2026 (11 Comments)

Britain’s major banks, charities, TV broadcasters, broadband and mobile providers have today united to back a new report from the Connection Project, which calls for “coordinated action to ensure everyone” can get online and take part in a modern economy. But this is not the first time we’ve seen coordinated action on the subject.

Grain Building UK Full Fibre Broadband Network to Fleetwood in Lancashire

19th Aug, 2026 (1 Comment)

Carlisle-based broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect), which has already built their 2Gbps speed point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 300,000 UK premises and is home to 56,000 customers (here), has revealed that their next roll-out location is the coastal Lancashire (England) town of Fleetwood.

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Sky UK Users Can Watch 4 Live Sports TV Events at Same Time on One Screen

19th Aug, 2026 (6 Comments)

Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service, as well as those on their older Sky Q satellite platform, may like to know that the TV and broadcast giant has today soft launched ‘Your Multiview‘ – allowing subscribers to watch up to four live Sky Sports events simultaneously on one screen.

Alchemy Partners Set to Support Opus Broadband’s Bid for UK ISP TalkTalk

19th Aug, 2026 (5 Comments)

At the start of this month we reported that TalkTalk’s debt-strained consumer broadband division, which has been up for sale for a while, was now understood to be fielding interest from Opus Broadband, in addition to Vodafone and possibly others. The latest development is that investment firm Alchemy Partners is reportedly backing Opus to make a c.£250m bid for the ISP.

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Openreach Offer Optical UK Data Links at Speeds of 1.6 Terabits Per Second

19th Aug, 2026 (4 Comments)

Network operator Openreach has this week launched a new enhancement to their Optical Spectrum Extended Access (OSEA) portfolio, which will enable UK data centres and telecoms operators to deploy higher-capacity connectivity between sites with support for multiple wavelengths each carrying up to 1.6Tbps (Terabits per second) of capacity.

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Openreach Expands UK Rollout of 10Gbps Speed Full Fibre XGS-PON Broadband UPDATE

19th Aug, 2026 (75 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has this morning announced that they intend to expand their ongoing pilot of 10Gbps capable XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology, which over the next 12 months will be made available to “more than a million premises” across the United Kingdom. But a third of its full fibre network could be covered over the next 5 years.

Ookla Maps Size of Starlink’s Direct to Cell 4G Mobile Satellite Beams

19th Aug, 2026 (1 Comment)

Network benchmarking giant Ookla (Accenture), which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has cleverly used data collected from Smartphones using Starlink’s 4G mobile satellite data connectivity to map the size of their individual Direct-to-Cell (DTC) beams in the real-world.

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New National Planning Policy Framework Lends Support to Broadband and Mobile

18th Aug, 2026 (2 Comments)

The Government has published its new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) for England, which finally appears to have laid the foundations for planning authorities to give “substantial weight” to the benefits of “maintaining or improving network coverage, capacity, reliability and resilience” of modern gigabit broadband and 5G mobile networks.

Broadband ISP Exascale Saves You £3 Monthly for Using Your Own Router

18th Aug, 2026 (8 Comments)

UK ISP Exascale, which has built their own gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network to a few thousand premises in parts of Shropshire (Telford and Wrekin) and also sells packages via other network operators (CityFibre), have announced that they’ll reduce their broadband prices by £3 (monthly) for UK customers that bring their own router. But that’s not the only change.

KCOM Launch Amazon eero Wi-Fi 7 Routers for UK Broadband Customers

18th Aug, 2026 (6 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms provider KCOM, which has built their own full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of East Yorkshire (mostly Hull) and Lincolnshire in England, has this week become the latest ISP to adopt Amazon’s Wi-Fi 7 capable eero 7 (and eero 7 Pro) routers for new broadband customers of their internet access packages.

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GoFibre See 1,000 Customers Adopt Eyemouth’s New Full Fibre Broadband

18th Aug, 2026 (4 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network operator GoFibre, which is deploying a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has revealed that over 1,000 “customers [are] now connected” to their recent roll-out across the coastal Scottish Borders town of Eyemouth (the town is home to a population of c.3,600).

Apple iOS 27 Beta 6 Starts Showing the 5G+ Mobile Symbol in the UK

18th Aug, 2026 (12 Comments)

A small but interesting development today. Apple released the latest iOS 27 Beta 6 software to developers yesterday and those who have updated their iPhone’s to the new firmware are finding that it finally shows a “5G+” symbol (or icon, if you prefer), when in areas covered by a 5G Standalone (5GSA) based mobile broadband network.

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Government Hands £13m to Boost Wi-Fi on UK Trains and Satellite Broadband

18th Aug, 2026 (4 Comments)

The UK Space Agency has this morning announced that they’ve spread £13m of public funding across 16 new projects under the ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) programme, which covers everything from deploying on-board Wi-Fi on remote Scottish railways to improving the availability of 5G and future 6G mobile networks – typically via satellite-based internet connectivity.

Virgin Media O2 Has Provided 550,000 UK People with Free Mobile Data SIMs

17th Aug, 2026 (7 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has revealed that their partnership with the digital inclusion charity, the Good Things Foundation, has so far helped to provide more than 550,000 UK people – those experiencing financial difficulties – with free mobile broadband data, calls and texts via SIMs supplied through the National Databank.