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28th Jul 2026 (2 Comments)
The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has decided to exempt most travel eSIM providers from needing a licence. “The GCRA’s view is that most travel eSIM services bought by Guernsey consumers for use overseas are unlikely to require a Guernsey telecommunications licence,” said the regulator. But there is a limitation.
28th Jul 2026 (36 Comments)
Over two years have passed since Virgin Media (O2) started making 2Gbps download speeds available via their full fibre (FTTP) network (here). Sadly that move left most customers on their older DOCSIS 3.1 powered Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network stuck with maximum speeds of 1Gbps (1,130Mbps), but this may soon change.
27th Jul 2026 (2 Comments)
The Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) service, which is building a new mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally, has revealed plans to launch a “new constellation” of up to 5,105 satellites to connect compatible 4G and 5G mobile devices on the ground directly from space (Direct-to-Device).
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27th Jul 2026 (20 Comments)
Alternative network operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has so far expanded their full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover over 3 million UK premises (inc. 500,000 customers) and is in the process of being acquired by the parents of Virgin Media (O2) and nexfibre for £2bn, has reached an agreement over interim undertakings with the competition watchdog (CMA).
27th Jul 2026 (3 Comments)
Independent satellite installation company Satworks, which is based in Bolton and Blackburn and has around 180 engineers across the country, has announced that they’ve signed an agreement with Starlink’s (SpaceX) broadband service to become its “sole installation partner throughout the United Kingdom” – effective from later next month.
27th Jul 2026 (0 Comments)
Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has this morning published their latest Q1 FY27 financial results. The figures revealed that they now have 1.866 million fixed broadband customers (up by 34,000 in Q1 2026 vs 64k in Q4 2025) and a combined mobile base of 27.987 million (down by -369k in Q1 vs -263k in Q4).
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27th Jul 2026 (8 Comments)
Openreach (BT) has today published the next batch of 112 exchanges (Tranche 25) – covering 554,918 premises – under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell programme. This reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option, where available).
26th Jul 2026 (10 Comments)
Consumer magazine Which? have summarised some of the results from their latest online study of UK broadband connection issues, which surveyed 5,235 people in December 2025 and January 2026. The results praised Zen Internet, while criticising Sky Broadband (inc. NOW TV) and Virgin Media for poor performance and connection problems.
25th Jul 2026 (3 Comments)
Good news if you’re one of the few who live on the remote Ascension Island, which is a British Overseas Territory that sits in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean and is home to almost 900 people (many of them visitors and rotating military personnel). Starlink’s ultrafast satellite broadband service has just gone live.
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25th Jul 2026 (23 Comments)
Credible sources have informed ISPreview that mobile and internet provider EE (BT) is set to expand the availability of their FTTP-based “Advanced Full Fibre” 2.3Gbps (2,500Mbps) and 8Gbps (8,500Mbps) home broadband pilot on 31st July 2026, which will make it more accessible to the ISP’s existing customer base.
24th Jul 2026 (6 Comments)
City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) provider Hyperoptic, which now claims to have built their gigabit broadband network to cover 2 million UK homes (mostly across blocks of flats / MDUs), has today summarised their latest accounts to the end of 2025 and revealed that their revenues increased by 22% to £139m, while the customer base rose 18% to 440,000+.
24th Jul 2026 (14 Comments)
The latest Q2 2026 results from network operators Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today reported a fall in consumer broadband customers of -28,200 to total 5,417,900 (vs -5.3k in Q1), while their mobile base declined slightly to total 46.428m (down from 46.44m) and outdoor 5G+ (5GSA) population coverage remains at 86%.
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24th Jul 2026 (16 Comments)
Broadband provider Olilo has informed us that they’re hoping to launch a new package offering symmetric speeds of 5Gbps (5,000Mbps) via full fibre (FTTP) network supplier CityFibre in the near future. Tentative pricing for the new package is previewed below, but an exact launch date and plan is still to be decided.
23rd Jul 2026 (4 Comments)
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK market’s alternative broadband networks, has this afternoon become the latest industry organisation to press the new UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, and his leadership team to “give broadband and telecoms the political attention and clear ministerial ownership they deserve“.
23rd Jul 2026 (34 Comments)
Remember when Nik Fox, a UK broadcast technology expert, accused Elon Musk’s popular space-based broadband ISP, Starlink (SpaceX), of hitting consumers with a “predatory … hardware trap” a couple of months ago (here)? The satellite provider has since failed to respond to a related legal claim and is now facing a High Court Writ of Control, which could result in direct asset seizure.
23rd Jul 2026 (2 Comments)
Ofcom has this morning published their latest Q1 2026 study of quarterly UK consumer telecoms and TV complaints, which reports that TalkTalk attracted the most complaints from customers for fixed broadband services, while Sky Mobile came top of the naughty table for Mobile services and EE did the same for Pay TV. But complaint volumes have fallen to their lowest ever level.
23rd Jul 2026 (27 Comments)
Telecoms giant BT Group just published a short trading update to the end June 2026, which reveals that Openreach lost a total of 192,000 broadband lines to rivals over the past quarter (improved from -203k last quarter). But their “full fibre” (FTTP) coverage grew to 23.4 million premises (up from 22.92m) and EE’s 5G+ mobile coverage reached 77% of the UK population.
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