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6th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK Government has this morning announced that their publicly subsidised Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contracts, signed with alternative network ISP Quickline, have so far enabled over 60,000 homes and businesses in hard-to-reach areas across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire to access faster internet speeds.

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6th Aug 2026 (8 Comments)

In another annoying and somewhat perplexing development for fans of SpaceX’s popular Starlink broadband service in the UK, the company has revealed that their next generation V5 dish terminal for consumers will NOT support ‘Standby Mode‘. This is in addition to the lack of support for in-motion use, such as on top of a caravan or boat (due to lack of an integrated GPS).

5th Aug 2026 (1 Comment)

The Networked Systems Group at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics has announced that their private 5G mobile test network (Campus5G) has been opened up for anyone to try during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with free eSIM access and 5G-backed public Wi-Fi available across a big area.

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5th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

The Swansea Bay City Region’s Digital Infrastructure Programme, which includes various broadband and other digital infrastructure upgrades as part of the much wider £1.3bn region deal, has today posted an update on both fixed broadband and mobile network coverage across the area covered by their programme.

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5th Aug 2026 (7 Comments)

Inverness-based UK ISP Brawband (HighNet), which primarily sells home broadband services over CityFibre’s full fibre (FTTP) network around various Scottish cities and towns (e.g. Inverness, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Edinburgh), appears to be suffering from a major service outage today.

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5th Aug 2026 (1 Comment)

The top two bosses of SpaceX, Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, yesterday issued some useful updates to investors on the progress of their third generation (V3) ultrafast broadband satellites and their second generation (V2) mobile satellites, which confirmed their current launch plans and some other details on future capabilities.

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5th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

Internet provider Hey! Broadband, which reaches homes in various areas covered by the F&W Networks full fibre infrastructure (mostly the South East of England), has launched three new 900Mbps speed bundles designed to cater for families, home workers and gamers – all offering the first 6 months of service at half price.

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5th Aug 2026 (4 Comments)

New research from telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has forecast that full fibre (FTTP) broadband subscribers in the 31 markets of Europe will reach 157.4 million by 2030 (up from 112.4m at the end of 2025), which reflects a 40.1% growth rate over five years (7% CARG). But the United Kingdom looks set to become one of the continent’s strongest markets, despite its late start to building at scale.

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4th Aug 2026 (10 Comments)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has built their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 360,000 premises across the East of England and Midlands (36 towns), has reported their latest annual accounts to the end of December 2025 – revealing that they have 22,000 customers (May 2026) and revenues almost doubled to £4.21m (2024: £2.24m).

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4th Aug 2026 (8 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP Squirrel Internet, specifically those covered by MS3’s full fibre network in the Hull and Northern Lincolnshire areas of England, may like to know that the provider has just launched a new offer on its 2.3Gbps broadband service and introduced two new premium Service Level options.

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4th Aug 2026 (30 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent UK ISP Aquiss has today announced that they’ve completed the company’s withdrawal from all legacy ADSL copper broadband services by switching off their final connection. The last ADSL line, which was first commissioned on 3rd September 2007, was disconnected on 3rd August 2026 as the customer migrated to a full fibre FTTP service.

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4th Aug 2026 (9 Comments)

Alternative network builder and UK broadband ISP Fusion Fibre Group (formerly FACTCO), which has built their own full fibre (FTTP) networks across a number of rural communities, has suffered a blow after HMRC filed a winding-up petition against the business on 29th July 2026.

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4th Aug 2026 (3 Comments)

A new study that collected data from Ookla’s popular Speedtest.net service for benchmarking internet connections has named BT as the fastest of the major UK broadband ISPs, beating out competition from Virgin Media, Vodafone, Sky Broadband, Plusnet (part of the BT Group) and last place sitter TalkTalk.

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4th Aug 2026 (3 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has this morning published their H1 2026 study of UK mobile networks (calls, texts etc.) and mobile broadband (4G, 5G) speeds. The results once again name EE as the best mobile operator after they scooped up the highest scores and fastest data speeds across most categories.

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4th Aug 2026 (36 Comments)

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently published several responses from BT (Openreach), Grain Connect, Sky Broadband and Hyperoptic to the ‘Areas of Focus’ document for their Phase 2 competition investigation of Netomnia’s proposed £2bn acquisition by the parents of Virgin Media (O2) and nexfibre. The early feedback provides some useful market perspective.

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3rd Aug 2026 (7 Comments)

Online travel agency Thomas Cook has become the latest UK company to do a deal with travel eSIM (embedded SIM) provider Kolet, which will enable them to give every package holiday customer 1GB (GigaByte) of complimentary mobile broadband data when they travel overseas – “helping them get online as soon as they land without relying on airport Wi-Fi or local SIM cards”.

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3rd Aug 2026 (19 Comments)

Rural network builder and ISP Fusion Fibre Group, which have deployed a few of its own FTTP broadband networks to various remote rural communities and also sells services via other altnets (e.g. CityFibre, Freedom Fibre, FullFibre, ITS Technology etc.), appears to be suffering from a protracted service outage in some areas that started yesterday.

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