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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).
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).
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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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.
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.
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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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.”
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.
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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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.
3rd Sep, 2026 (15 Comments)
Alternative broadband network Netomnia (Substantial Group, YouFibre), which has so far built their UK full fibre network to cover over 3 million premises RFS (inc. 500,000 customers), have confirmed that their deployment across the Manchester suburb of Didsbury has reached more than 40,000 homes and businesses.
3rd Sep, 2026 (11 Comments)
Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has this morning announced the launch of two major new products, including the provider’s first pay TV product for UK customers with a home broadband, 5G Broadband or mobile plan and “SuperMobile“, which promises to give you up to 4x faster data speeds via their 5G+ (Standalone) network for an additional cost.
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3rd Sep, 2026 (7 Comments)
The Norfolk County Council (NCC) in England has published a new document, which reveals the future plan for gigabit broadband deployments after CityFibre scaled-back their contracted roll-out of full fibre infrastructure under the UK government’s Project Gigabit scheme in May 2026. As expected, Openreach (BT) look set to pick up the slack.
3rd Sep, 2026 (7 Comments)
Internet, mobile and phone providers BT and EE will today refresh their range of pay TV (IPTV) and broadband bundles, which will see various TV plans renamed and features changed. For example, the current ‘Entertainment’ package will become ‘Entertainment Plus’ and there will be a new ‘Entertainment’ plan in its place, which excludes some key content.
2nd Sep, 2026 (4 Comments)
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has confirmed that their long-running Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which offered grants to help those in digitally disadvantaged areas get significantly faster internet connections installed, has now closed to the submission of new voucher projects.
2nd Sep, 2026 (0 Comments)
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) organisation, which holds responsibility for expanding gigabit broadband and better mobile connectivity across the United Kingdom (e.g. the Project Gigabit and 4G Shared Rural Network schemes), has officially promoted Ben Whitestone to the post of permanent Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
2nd Sep, 2026 (13 Comments)
A new study from DTP Group has analysed monthly UK internet searches relating to broadband outages among the country’s largest ISPs and found that Virgin Media tops the table as the provider most commonly associated with service disruptions, accounting for 44% of searches (i.e. 27,100 searches every month related to Virgin Media outages).
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