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5th May 2026 (1 Comment)

The Open Rights Group, Index on Censorship, Mozilla, Tor Project, Big Brother Watch, plus many other technology and civil society groups, have signed a new statement that urges UK policymakers to reconsider their approach to online safety legislation – warning that proposed age-gating measures and access restrictions threaten to fragment the open internet and erode the rights of all users.

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5th May 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative internet provider Airband, which has built a mixed Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of England and North Wales, has followed up the recent departure of their CEO (here) and confirmation of further redundancies (here) by announcing that Paula Strickland has been appointed to the role of Chief Financial Officer.

5th May 2026 (38 Comments)

A couple of months ago we reported that Romanian telecoms company DIGI Communications had entered the UK market by acquiring 51% of the share capital of alternative network provider WhyFibre via subsidiary Fiber One Limited (here). The provider has since launched a retail ISP called DIGI and promises speeds of 10Gbps for just £25. But the rollout plan remains unclear.

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5th May 2026 (0 Comments)

A team of researchers at the University of Glasgow (UG) in Scotland have developed a new Machine Learning tool that they say could “transform network testing” by harnessing digital twins (i.e. digital replicas of physical systems or processes), making the process 25,000 times faster than traditional approaches.

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5th May 2026 (9 Comments)

A new report suggests that alternative network operator and ISP CommunityFibre could return to large scale expansion of their 5Gbps speed full fibre broadband (FTTP) network, potentially reaching close to 2 million UK premises. The provider has so far invested c.£1bn to build across 1.342m homes (inc. 185k businesses within 200 metres of their network) – mostly in London.

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5th May 2026 (0 Comments)

Elon Musk has confirmed that the global Starlink service from SpaceX, which offers ultrafast broadband via a massive global network of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), is now available to people on Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory on Spain’s south coast.

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5th May 2026 (43 Comments)

The recently merged mobile and broadband operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) have today announced that Vodafone has reached an agreement to “buy out” CK Hutchison (Three) from the joint venture for £4.3 billion (€4.9bn) in cash via a cancellation of shares. The deal will increase Vodafone Group’s pro forma net debt, but give them full control.

NET CHECK UK Mobile Network Testing Car Outside London Palace

5th May 2026 (2 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone UK has, for the third year running, topped a new network benchmarking study of 4G and 5G (mobile broadband and calls) performance across London, which was conducted by the Berlin-based NET CHECK group. But sadly Three UK found themselves at the bottom of the study.

Colin Hutchinson of Fibrus

5th May 2026 (10 Comments)

The Group MD and CFO of alternative network ISP Fibrus, Colin Hutchinson, has today spoken to ISPreview about the challenges of building full fibre networks in rural areas, their approach to market consolidation and on how they fear the outcome of Ofcom’s recent market review “entrenches Openreach’s dominance” and “all but kills the prospect of future private investment in many rural areas“.

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4th May 2026 (0 Comments)

Global telecoms network benchmarking firm Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their Speedtest.net service (inc. apps), has published a new report that examines the performance drop of mobile (4G / 5G / mobile broadband) networks during peak times (19:00 and 21:00 local time) across the EU, UK, Norway and Switzerland during Q1 2026.

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4th May 2026 (4 Comments)

After a bit of a false start a couple of years ago, mobile network operator Lyca Mobile, which in the UK is a virtual operator (MVNO) on EE’s national network, has now finally confirmed that they’ve enabled the Wi-Fi Calling (VoWiFi – Voice over Wi-Fi) feature across “all” of their SIM plans.

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2nd May 2026 (7 Comments)

At the start of 2026 we reported on how West Midlands Police had arrested a gang of three men who were in the process of trying to steal Openreach’s (BT) copper UK broadband and phone cables – worth £50k – from an underground site in central Birmingham (here). Yesterday the Birmingham Crown Court jailed each one for 3 years.

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1st May 2026 (4 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach has announced the launch of an interesting new “Near-net” trial, which sounds like a different approach to their old FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD / FoD) broadband product. The trial aims to confirm the feasibility of building full fibre broadband to business footprint which is currently outside of build plans on a reactive basis.

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1st May 2026 (6 Comments)

A year has now passed since Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet launched its ‘Fibre Hub’ – a platform that essentially aggregates access to a number of full fibre networks, while offering that up to their partners (e.g. other ISPs) at the wholesale level. Zen now says they’ve seen a 52% increase in monthly gross demand through The Fibre Hub over the past 12 months.

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1st May 2026 (39 Comments)

Network operators Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today published their latest Q1 2026 results and revealed that their gigabit broadband network increased its UK coverage by just 6,400 premises in the quarter (down from 115.1k in Q4), while related consumer customers fell to a total of 5,446,100 (down by -5.6k in Q1 2026). VMO2’s total mobile base also fell to 46.44m.

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1st May 2026 (0 Comments)

The Government has published a Project Gigabit contract modification notice for Quickline’s deployment of gigabit broadband across ‘West and Parts of North Yorkshire’ (Lot 8) in England. The change expands the number of contracted premises due to be covered by full fibre (FTTP) to 28,952 (up by 2,642) and increases the public subsidy to £65.47m (up by £3.195m).

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30th Apr 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK Government has given approval for Jersey linked telecoms operator JT Group and CVC DIF, the infrastructure strategy of global private markets manager CVC, to jointly proceed (under ‘Dunlop Bidco‘) with their proposed acquisition of broadband and mobile operator Manx Telecom (MT) – the primary network operator for the remote Isle of Man.

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