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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 (5 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.

ISPA Starts Hunting for the Best UK Broadband Providers of 2026

10th Feb, 2026 (5 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today kicked off their annual hunt for the best broadband ISPs and internet companies ahead of their forthcoming 2026 awards event (the 28th one they’ve held), although this time around they don’t appear to have made too many changes to the categories.

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Government Launch Review of UK Mobile Network Market to Help Boost 5G

10th Feb, 2026 (1 Comment)

The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has today opened a call for evidence to support their new ‘Mobile Market Review‘, which aims to ensure that their policy and regulatory frameworks are updated to support investment, innovation, competition and consumers. The review could help to boost the rollout of fast 5G and future 6G mobile broadband networks.

Business UK ISP MLL Telecom Appoints Stuart Wallis as New CEO

10th Feb, 2026 (0 Comments)

Business internet and managed service provider MLL Telecom has today announced that Stuart Wallis has been promoted to become the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The move follows Shaun Ledgerwood’s decision to step down as CEO after six years in the role.

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Macquarie Take Control of UK Fibre and Multi-Utility Provider Last Mile Infrastructure

10th Feb, 2026 (4 Comments)

Australian investment group Macquarie Asset Management has acquired Infracapital’s 50% stake in the Last Mile Infrastructure Group, which gives it 100% control of the multi-utility infrastructure group that designs, builds, owns and manages more than 930,000 “connections” across Great Britain (including electricity, gas, water, wastewater and fibre optic broadband etc.).

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Openreach Replaces Current UK CEO Clive Selley with Katie Milligan

10th Feb, 2026 (13 Comments)

In a significant development, national broadband operator Openreach (BT) has this morning announced that they’re replacing long-serving CEO, Clive Selley, with current Deputy CEO Katie Milligan from 1st April 2026. Clive will then will become CEO of BT International, where he succeeds Bas Burger who has decided to leave BT after 18 years of service on the same date.

Scotland Restart Gigabit Broadband Rollout Tender for Fife, Perth and Kinross

10th Feb, 2026 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government (SG) has officially relaunched their proposed gigabit broadband roll-out procurement for Fife, Perth and Kinross. The proposed contract is valued at £28,557,891 excluding VAT and aims to help expand such a network to cover an estimated total number of 17,830 premises in hard-to-reach areas (i.e. those not covered by any other gigabit networks).

Macquarie Hires Advisors to Prep Hull UK Broadband Operator KCOM for Sale

9th Feb, 2026 (16 Comments)

A new report claims that Australian investment group Macquarie has hired business advisors at Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP) to prepare KCOM for sale in Q2 2026. The operator is the incumbent broadband and phone provider for Hull, although their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network also extends into other parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

HBO Max Streaming Service Confirms UK Launch and Prices for 26th March 2026

9th Feb, 2026 (24 Comments)

The popular American TV and Movie streaming service, HBO Max, has today confirmed that it will finally go live in the UK and Ireland on 26th March 2026. Customers of Sky TV with access to the Sky Atlantic channel will also be carrying the content (here) and so will Amazon Prime, but others will now be able to subscribe directly.

GoFibre Begin Next Phase of UK Full Fibre Broadband Rollout in Scottish Borders

9th Feb, 2026 (5 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK network operator GoFibre, which is deploying a gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP) ISP network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve begun the next stage of their rollout in the Scottish Borders region – reaching 2,000 more premises – as part of their Project Gigabit contract.

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UK Government Project to Test ZBLAN Optical Fibre Cables Made in Spaaace

9th Feb, 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK Space Agency has today awarded contracts to three companies to investigate the possibility of producing advanced materials in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which includes one project (SkyYield) that aims to design a payload to process ZBLAN fluoride glass in microgravity (i.e. a specialist optical fibre that can transmit light with up to 100 times less signal loss than traditional silica fibre).

Netgem TV Drops UK Price of PLEIO Freely Streaming Box Back to £99

9th Feb, 2026 (22 Comments)

Digital entertainment platform Netgem TV appears to have responded to British company Manhattan TV’s recent launch of Aero (here), which is a budget friendly (£69.99) 4K set-top-box that supports the new broadband-based live TV streaming service – Freely, by dropping the price of their own rival PLEIO box back from £109.89 to its original launch price of £99.

O2 UK and Ontix Enhance 4G and 5G Mobile Network Capacity in North Wales

9th Feb, 2026 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) and network technology provider Ontix have this morning reported that they’ve successfully deployed their first 4G and 5G Small Cells in North Wales, which have apparently gone live across Flintshire to boost data capacity (mobile broadband), including around Deeside Industrial Park.

Concern for O2 UK’s 5G Small Cells as IONX Networks Suffers Administration UPDATE

9th Feb, 2026 (2 Comments)

O2’s (Virgin Media) joint deployment with IONX Networks (formerly Dense Air), which last year claimed to have become one of the first mobile operators in the UK to successfully integrate a neutral host Small Cell into their live 5G Standalone (SA) core network (here), has been cast into doubt after IONX fell into administration at the end of last year.

Wessex Internet Revise Dorset and Somerset UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

7th Feb, 2026 (8 Comments)

The UK Government (DSIT) appears set to revise their Project Gigabit contract with rural UK ISP Wessex Internet for Dorset and South Somerset (Lot 14.02), which originally aimed to build a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to cover “around” 21,400 hard-to-reach premises. But the contract value has now been increased to £38.2m and fewer premises are set to be reached.

University of Leeds Team Push Free Space Terahertz Laser Data Link to 4Gbps

6th Feb, 2026 (1 Comment)

A team of UK researchers working at the University of Leeds, supported by colleagues from University College London (UCL) and others, has demonstrated a wireless line-of-sight Free Space Optical (FSO) communication link pushing data speeds of 4Gbps (Gigabits per second) using Terahertz (THz) frequencies; something that has previously been extremely difficult to harness.