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3rd Jun 2026 (3 Comments)
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has tweaked the closure plan for their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which gives suppliers (retail and network providers) a little bit more flexibility for some vouchers to be issued later than the current 31st March 2027 cut-off date.
3rd Jun 2026 (5 Comments)
A new high-level report from Assembly Research will be published today, which examines the challenging future of the UK’s full fibre broadband market for alternative networks (altnets) and highlights the potentially positive impacts of nexfibre’s recent £2bn move to acquire rival operator Netomnia (here).
2nd Jun 2026 (1 Comment)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today notified communication providers of their intention to introduce geographic connection charges on high-capacity Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) lines, which provide dedicated point-to-point data connectivity between sites for businesses, from 1st July 2026.
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2nd Jun 2026 (0 Comments)
Mobile operator Three UK (VodafoneThree) recently kicked off their Summer Sale 2026 across various plans, which among other things says they’ve reduced their unlimited Three 5G Home Broadband package to just £18 per month on a 24-month contract term (although it was just £16 when we tried just now).
2nd Jun 2026 (0 Comments)
A new report from consultancy firm FarrPoint has confirmed that the Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme in Wales has so far secured £44.8m of investment in digital connectivity during 2024–25, which went towards various broadband and dark fibre roll-out projects.
2nd Jun 2026 (5 Comments)
Abingdon-based alternative network Gigaclear, which have built a full fibre (FTTP) network across 618,000 premises in rural parts of England and is home to 170,000 customers, has published their annual accounts after lenders recently took control of the business (here). The results reveal that their c.£963m senior debt facility was revised to a principal amount of £575m (shrinking by £388m).
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2nd Jun 2026 (40 Comments)
Broadband-based live TV streaming service Freely, which is backed by the major UK TV broadcasters and is an evolution – not (yet) a replacement – for the existing Freeview platform (inc. Freeview Play and Freesat), has revealed that they now have well over 1 million users (up from 500,000 from Sep-Dec 2025) and the number of Freeview homes in 2034 is forecast to fall to 860,000.
2nd Jun 2026 (17 Comments)
A new YouGov survey, which was conducted during late May 2026 with an unspecified number of UK respondents, has claimed that 82% of Britons believe water companies should be run in the public sector, with 70% saying the same of energy companies. But only 38% said the same for broadband “internet and phone providers” (16% didn’t know and 47% felt they should continue to be run by the private sector).
1st Jun 2026 (0 Comments)
Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has confirmed that MS3’s alternative full fibre (FTTP) network, which has so far covered 215,000 premises (Ready for Service) in the North of England (mostly in Hull and Lincolnshire), is now live on their service for business and consumers after being almost fully integrated following last year’s wholesale deal (here).
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1st Jun 2026 (9 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today notified Communication Providers (broadband ISPs etc.) about a further extension on some of their existing offers for Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines and 10Gbps Cablelink products under their Equinox incentives, while also introducing three new FTTP offers (some of which target Virgin Media areas).
1st Jun 2026 (7 Comments)
Consultancy firm Cluttons and polling company YouGov have published the results from a new survey of 2,055 UK people and 108 MPs, which among other things found that 27% of consumers are frustrated with their home broadband (Wi-Fi) connection every week and 42% have difficulty accessing 4G or 5G mobile outside half the time or more.
1st Jun 2026 (2 Comments)
French benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from an unusual new study, which compared the fastest average mobile broadband download speeds (4G and 5G) of 20 countries with a similar size (land area) to Poland. The results saw the United Kingdom rank 3rd with an average speed of 105.8Mbps.
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1st Jun 2026 (16 Comments)
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that 25 major events and more than 30 tourist destinations (seaside and market towns) will have been upgraded to support their latest 5G Standalone (5G+) mobile broadband technology this summer, bringing faster data speeds and better congestion management.
1st Jun 2026 (7 Comments)
Eastbourne-based ISP Lightning Fibre, which is deploying a full fibre broadband (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England (they also hold a partnership to harness CityFibre’s wider UK network – here), have partnered with Genexis to launch a new range of Wi-Fi 7 capable routers and mesh extenders for customers.
1st Jun 2026 (3 Comments)
Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service are suffering from an annoying bug with the ITVX app, which causes any TV show or movie you may be watching to suddenly skip right to the end and then report the content as having been watched.
1st Jun 2026 (2 Comments)
Customers of alternative rural full fibre broadband ISP County Broadband are to be migrated to the Truespeed brand over the next few months. The move follows last year’s merger of the two altnets (here), which at the time created a single operator covering 177,000 premises (RFS) and 40,000 customers. Since then Truespeed has also merged with Freedom Fibre (here), but that’s another story.
29th May 2026 (10 Comments)
The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT / DCMS) has today proposed “tougher fines and prison sentences” for those who damage subsea infrastructure essential for UK broadband access and trade, with consultation planned to take place later this year.
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