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30th Jul 2026 (3 Comments)
The CEO of Vodafone Group, Margherita Della Valle, has stated that their joint plan with AST SpaceMobile (aka – Satellite Connect Europe) to launch a space-based 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) service to connect regular Smartphones is still expected to enter its “beta” testing phase “at the beginning of 2027“. Despite suffering an earlier launch failure.
30th Jul 2026 (39 Comments)
Multiple news reports appear to be indicating that the owners of UK broadband, mobile and TV provider Virgin Media (O2), Telefónica and Liberty Global, may need to execute a significant round of cost-cutting (e.g. job cuts, reducing capital expenditure and cutting dividends etc.) in order to get the company’s £22bn debt mountain under control.
30th Jul 2026 (4 Comments)
Repeated attacks of vandalism by gangs of youths recently caused Vodafone (VodafoneThree) to remove a key mobile mast site in central Lancaster (Lancashire, England), which was shared with mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media). The situation resulted in significant 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) coverage problems for users in the area, but a temporary solution is now imminent.
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30th Jul 2026 (8 Comments)
New customers looking to switch to broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) may like to know that they’ll today increase the value of their Contract Buyout (i.e. Switching Credits), which is now worth up to £300 (previously £250) on their top packages – at least for a limited time.
29th Jul 2026 (5 Comments)
Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has published research that helps to explain why Ofcom has proposed to block one of Openreach’s new discounts on their full fibre (FTTP) broadband products (here). This might have otherwise given ISPs and new customers to their network a £35 connection rebate and a £9.50 monthly rental rebate (for 18, 24 or 30 months depending on performance).
29th Jul 2026 (0 Comments)
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has posted another contract modification notice for Wessex Internet’s Project Gigabit contract in Dorset and South Somerset (Lot 14.02), which slightly reduced the planned roll-out of full fibre broadband (FTTP) by 1,047 premises and shrinks its value by £702,296 (public subsidy).
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29th Jul 2026 (4 Comments)
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has updated the latest contract values and contracted premises figures for their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contracts with Openreach (BT), which takes account of recent changes to show that all of the contracts combined are now worth £850m and will bring FTTP to around 358,000 premises.
29th Jul 2026 (0 Comments)
Alternative full fibre broadband operator CityFibre, which has already deployed their 8.5Gbps speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 4.7 million UK premises (4.5m Ready for Service), has chosen global infrastructure supply chain solutions provider Netceed to handle their strategic inventory management going forward.
29th Jul 2026 (3 Comments)
The FTTH Council Europe, which has traditionally represented full fibre (FTTP/H/B) broadband network operators and related suppliers across the UK and Europe, has today announced that they’ve rebranded themselves to the ‘Fibre Council Europe’ in order reflect the organisation’s expanded role.
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29th Jul 2026 (2 Comments)
The NordVPN service, which is a popular Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, has today launched NordBot, which is described as being a free “experimental” AI tool that lets people submit suspicious messages, links or images through WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Telegram or X for a quick risk assessment to see if they’re scams or not.
29th Jul 2026 (1 Comment)
Firefighters in Derbyshire (England) recently provided a good unintentional demonstration of why services like the new O2 Satellite add-on are so useful. The teams, who were responding to the wildfire near Tintwistle, were able to use the UK service to maintain mobile connectivity in an area with no traditional 4G or 5G mobile network coverage.
29th Jul 2026 (0 Comments)
The telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has this morning published their Media Nations 2026 report, which reveals how viewing of traditional linear television channels continues to decline in favour of broadband-based video streaming platforms (particularly Netflix). But on-demand content from traditional UK broadcasters has held up well and grew 9% year-on-year.
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29th Jul 2026 (5 Comments)
The chances are fairly good that even some avid video gamers might not actually remember that Amazon launched its own cloud gaming service, Luna, which has been an included extra with Prime subscriptions for several years. However, you’ll soon be more aware as they’ve finally started to integrate Luna into their main Prime Video app, albeit with a catch.
29th Jul 2026 (6 Comments)
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advert on the website of energy and communications provider Utility Warehouse (UW – Telecom Plus), which promoted an “Unlimited data” mobile plan, after it was found to have failed to make the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) restrictions for data (mobile broadband) usage “sufficiently clear“.
28th Jul 2026 (2 Comments)
Mobile operator giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica UK (part of the VMO2 Group) and uses O2’s virtual operator platform (mvno), recently published their annual accounts to the end of 2025 and revealed that their mobile base grew by 142,000 members (up from 100k in 2024) to total 4,260,368. The operator also had 671 full fibre broadband customers.
28th Jul 2026 (26 Comments)
The owner of comparison site BroadbandSwitch.uk, Dr Alex J. Martin-Smith, has clearly been channelling some of his inner love for the retro video game Transport Tycoon because he’s just launched a new game that anybody can play for free called Fibre Tycoon. Yep, this lets you play as an alternative network trying to roll out a new full fibre network across the UK, albeit interspersed with plenty of comedy.
28th Jul 2026 (25 Comments)
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today, for the first time, provisionally proposed to block one of several network discounts that network access provider Openreach (BT) had proposed to introduce in order to help them stay competitive and attract new customers to their full fibre (FTTP) broadband lines. But the separate £50 rebate offered in Virgin Media areas got a pass.
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