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Fibrus launch UK pay TV service as broadband network covers 472,000 premises

8th Sep, 2026 (9 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative broadband network and ISP Fibrus, which has deployed their full fibre network across rural parts of Cumbria in England and Northern Ireland, has today announced the launch of their own Netgem PLEIO powered pay TV service and published a preview of their annual results showing revenues growing 53% to £45m.

Study ranks UK 46th globally for the average cost of mobile broadband data

8th Sep, 2026 (6 Comments)

Comparison site Broadband Genie has today published a new study, which analysed 3,446 SIM-only mobile phone tariffs across 234 “countries” to identify the average cost per GigaByte (GB) of data (mobile broadband) for each. The United Kingdom ended up ranking 46th with an average of $0.27 (£0.20) per 1GB of data – behind Italy and France, but in front of Germany and Spain.

Tesco Mobile Grows to 5.9 Million UK Customers on Revenues of £1.23bn

7th Sep, 2026 (9 Comments)

Mobile operator Tesco Mobile, which is one of the UK’s largest virtual (mvno) mobile providers and harnesses O2’s national network, last week published their latest annual accounts to the end of 2025 and revealed that they are now home to a total customer base of 5.9 million (up 3.51%). The company’s revenues also climbed 11% to £1.23bn.

O2’s Satellite mobile service extended to UK business customers

7th Sep, 2026 (1 Comment)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that their recently launch consumer Direct-to-Device (D2D) based O2 Satellite service (here), which enables normal Smartphones to connect to their UK mobile network via Starlink’s cell-focused broadband satellites, is being made available to business customers via O2 Business.

Bidding war erupts over UK business ISP Gamma as Waterland tackles Epiris

7th Sep, 2026 (2 Comments)

A week has passed since business ISP and IT provider Gamma Communications accepted a cash offer from British private equity firm Epiris worth £1.079bn (here). But a new report claims that the Waterland private equity firm hasn’t given up their pursuit and plans to table a larger bid.

Starlink impose 10Mbps speed cap on heavy users of its “unlimited” broadband UPDATE

6th Sep, 2026 (22 Comments)

Some customers of Starlink’s ultrafast satellite broadband service, specifically those on their residential plans with “unlimited” data usage, have reported that they’ve had their internet speeds capped to c.10Mbps after consuming huge amounts of data. But this is despite their usage patterns being the same for, sometimes, several years.

Starlink tweak Personal Maritime Broadband Plan to support bigger boats

5th Sep, 2026 (7 Comments)

Good news. Starlink’s new Personal Maritime Plan for users of their ultrafast satellite broadband service, which is currently only being offered to selected customers, has corrected one of the biggest annoyances that appeared shortly after it first launched last month. The plan was previously limited to personal boats of up to 40ft in length, but this has now been extended to 60ft.

Netflix hikes UK prices for customers of its video streaming service

4th Sep, 2026 (29 Comments)

The popular broadband-based Movie and TV video streaming service, Netflix, has today updated their website to hike the monthly prices across all three of their plans for customers again. New customers will see the change immediately, while the timing for existing customers will depend upon your billing date (usually following 30 days’ after notification).

Ofcom UK is not looking to harness lots of new spectrum for 6G mobile

4th Sep, 2026 (0 Comments)

Ofcom this week began a new consultation on the UK’s provisional views and positions for the next World Radiocommunication Conference 2027 (WRC-27), which among other things appeared to indicate that the regulator would, at least for now, only support the release of an extra 125MHz of spectrum in the 7GHz band (7125-7250MHz) for use by future mobile broadband networks (i.e. 6G).

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Openreach extend UK pilot of future Ethernet EAD 2.0 and Cablelink products

4th Sep, 2026 (6 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has notified UK broadband ISPs that they’ve extended the customer pilot phase of their future Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) v2.0 and Cablelink Service Connect (CSC) products, which are used to supply high-capacity business data links (potentially reaching speeds of 100Gbps in the near future).

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Warning over fake “government” doorstep broadband sellers in Norfolk UK

4th Sep, 2026 (1 Comment)

The Norfolk County Council‘s (NCC) Trading Standards department has issued a new “Cold Calling Alert” that warns local people to be on the lookout after several cases of fake doorstep sellers trying to peddle broadband services were reported in the region.

Former Cuckoo UK broadband users left confused over Onestream’s stance on static IPs

4th Sep, 2026 (8 Comments)

Some customers of broadband ISP Onestream, specifically those who were bulk migrated from Cuckoo after the customer base was sold in May 2026 and previously had a static IP address (here), have complained after they were put on CGNAT (IP address sharing) connections and given mixed messages about future static IP support.

Lancashire Man Sent to Prison for Operating Rogue UK Cell Phone Tower

3rd Sep, 2026 (10 Comments)

The City of London Police (CLP) have revealed that Mohammed Faiyaz Iqbal (43) of Preston in Lancashire has been sentenced to more than 3 years and 8 months in prison for setting up a rogue cell phone tower, which was then used to bypass mobile network security protocols in order to send masses of fraudulent texts (aka – SMS Blaster).

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O2 UK Enables 5G Standalone Mobile Broadband Network in Northern Ireland

3rd Sep, 2026 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5G+) mobile broadband network across much of Northern Ireland, which is said to reach more than 800,000 residents in 5 cities, 22 large towns and 382 smaller towns, villages and hamlets – delivering “faster speeds, better coverage and lower latency at no extra cost.”

Troubled UK Broadband ISP iTalk Files Notice to Appoint an Administrator UPDATE2

3rd Sep, 2026 (9 Comments)

Earlier this year ISPreview reported on how customers of internet provider iTalk (iTalk Affiliate Telecommunications) had been complaining about protracted service outages and a lack of support (here), while others claimed the provider tried to push them on to a new contract as a way of resolving the issues. Sadly the company now appears to be falling into administration.

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Gigaclear Tweaks East Gloucestershire’s FTTP Broadband Rollout Contract

3rd Sep, 2026 (2 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) directorate has posted another contract modification notice for Gigaclear’s Project Gigabit contract in East Gloucestershire (Lot 18), which slightly increases the planned roll-out of full fibre broadband (FTTP) by 325 premises and yet manages to reduce the contract value by £777,041 (public investment).

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APFN Opens Own UK Full Fibre Broadband Network to UK ISP Partners

3rd Sep, 2026 (2 Comments)

The AllPoints Fibre Network (APFN), which is a Fern Trading backed wholesale platform that aggregates connectivity from several different UK networks including their own, has this morning announced that they’re opening up access to their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure (formerly Jurassic Fibre, Giganet and Swish Fibre) to their partner ISPs.