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Broadband Altnets See Encouragement in UK Gov’s Statement of Strategic Priorities

12th Feb, 2026 (1 Comment)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, has today welcomed the Government’s publication this week of their proposed Statement of Strategic Priorities (SSP) for telecommunications – suggesting it aligns with their perspective on the market and future policy desires.

Elevate Complete Build of New Full Fibre Broadband Network in St Helens

12th Feb, 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator Elevate, which back in April 2025 won the contract to build a new “hyperfast” full fibre broadband network in the Merseyside (England) town of St Helens (here), has today confirmed that they’ve completed the roll-out in the town centre – paving the way for local residents and businesses to get faster internet speeds and better reliability.

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Wildanet Withdraws from Project Gigabit Broadband Rollouts for Cornwall UK

12th Feb, 2026 (21 Comments)

Alternative broadband provider Wildanet, which has built a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon in South West England, has today become the latest altnet to withdraw from some of the Government’s publicly funded Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contracts, this time in Cornwall.

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O2 UK Expand 5G Standalone Mobile Broadband Network to Greater Manchester

12th Feb, 2026 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5GSA) mobile broadband network in the Greater Manchester area. The operator’s 5GSA network is now live across a total of more than 500 locations (70% of the UK’s population, or c.49 million people).

Boom Telecom Networks Plan UK Rollout of Full Fibre and Wireless Broadband

12th Feb, 2026 (4 Comments)

A relatively new telecoms company called Boom Telecom Networks has revealed that it’s planning to build and operate a UK broadband network, which would be a Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) and Gigabit Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) hybrid, although the details are currently quite limited.

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FarrPoint Study Finds UK Councils Still Prioritise Gigabit Broadband in 2026

12th Feb, 2026 (2 Comments)

Consultancy firm FarrPoint has published their fourth annual (2026) survey of digital leaders at councils across England, Scotland and Wales. The results reveal that expanding the coverage of gigabit broadband remains the top priority for most local authorities, just as it was last year. But ensuring better digital inclusion, a key aim of the current government, has now also become a priority.

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AllPoints Fibre Partners with Sky Business Wholesale to Share UK Ethernet

12th Feb, 2026 (4 Comments)

The AllPoints Fibre Network (APFN), which is a wholesale platform that aggregates connectivity from several different UK full fibre networks, has today announced that they’ve signed a new partnership with Sky’s business broadband and wholesale division – Sky Business Wholesale – to make their Ethernet services available through APFN’s aquila platform.

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UK Mobile Operators Blocked 97.1 Million Scam SMS Messages in Jan 2026

12th Feb, 2026 (5 Comments)

Industry trade body Mobile UK, which represents EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK), has revealed that mobile operators have, to date, blocked an overall total of 2.7 billion scam SMS (text) messages (2,761,912,183 to be exact) from reaching customers and 97.1 Million of that total occurred in January 2026 alone.

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Rural UK Broadband Network Truespeed Merges with Freedom Fibre

11th Feb, 2026 (2 Comments)

Aviva-backed alternative gigabit broadband operator Truespeed, which has rolled out their full fibre (FTTP) network across 177,000 premises (44k customers) in rural parts of South West England, has today confirmed that they’ve reached a major merger agreement with Freedom Fibre to consolidate their two networks.

Major UK Broadband ISPs Sign Gov Charter to Stop Unexpected Bill Increases

11th Feb, 2026 (24 Comments)

The Government has managed to get some of the UK’s biggest broadband and phone providers, including BT, Virgin Media (O2), VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK), Sky (Sky Broadband) and TalkTalk, to sign-up to a new Telecoms Consumer Charter that pledges to “stop unexpected bill increases“. But sadly, it’s not an end to mid-contract prices hikes.

Mobile UK Tower Provider Cornerstone to Deploy Micro-Edge Compute Capabilities

11th Feb, 2026 (5 Comments)

Mobile infrastructure company Cornerstone (CTIL), which was originally established as part of a UK network sharing agreement between O2 (Virgin Media) and Vodafone (Vantage Towers), has today announced a new strategic partnership with StonesThro to deploy a nationally distributed Micro-Edge cloud infrastructure via their estate of c.16,000 mast / cell sites.

ISP BT Business Launch Tailored AI Training for All UK Employees

11th Feb, 2026 (1 Comment)

Communications and broadband provider BT Business has today announced that they’re working alongside global IT consultancy Avanade and Microsoft to launch a tailored AI training for all 11,000 of its employees, which they say aims to “radically transform how we work and to better serve our customers“. Cost-cutting probably has a role to play too, we’d imagine.

Sky UK to Combine Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max and Hayu into Single TV Sub

11th Feb, 2026 (13 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband, Sky TV etc.) has today announced that they will shortly be bringing together several of the most popular TV and movie streaming services – Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix and Hayu – into a single Sky TV subscription for UK customers to take.

ITS Technology Complete Deployment of 10Gbps XGS-PON Full Fibre in Crawley

11th Feb, 2026 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which have deployed various open access and business-focused full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the UK, has today announced that they’ve completed the rollout of their XGS-PON powered Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Crawley (West Sussex), giving more than 1,500 organisations access to gigabit-capable broadband.

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Broadband Altnet Netomnia Prepares Around 50 UK Redundancies

11th Feb, 2026 (22 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has already expanded their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 3 million UK premises (here) and is close to signing a major consolidation agreement with either Virgin Media’s (nexfibre) parents or CityFibre (here), is understood to have held talks over redundancies with around 50 employees.

Altnet Broadband ISP Toob Adopts Phonely VoIP Service for UK Digital Phone

11th Feb, 2026 (8 Comments)

Hampshire-based alternative network and UK ISP toob, which has built a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, has today agreed a new partnership to offer a digital landline service via Phonely’s VoIP platform.

Full Fibre ISP Hyperoptic Add Faster and Cheaper UK Broadband Social Tariffs UPDATE

11th Feb, 2026 (4 Comments)

City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have deployed their gigabit speed network to cover 1.9 million UK homes, has recently and quietly added two new options to their existing social tariffs for those on state benefits (Fair Fibre Plans). The new options add symmetric speeds of 500Mbps and 1Gbps, making them among the fastest such tariffs on the whole market.