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Gov Detail First Public Funding to Boost Gigabit Broadband for Urban UK Areas

11th May, 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK Government has this morning confirmed that their recent modification to Openreach’s (BT) Call Off 5 contract for Essex and North East England (here) will be the “first Project Gigabit contract to target pockets of poor connectivity in towns and cities“, as well as the countryside. Over 9,500 extra premises in Essex “burdened with older broadband” will benefit from the £8.3m expansion (public subsidy).

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Openreach List 238 More UK Areas for Copper to Full Fibre Switch – Tranche 24

11th May, 2026 (20 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today published a huge batch of 238 exchanges (Tranche 24) – covering 1.69 million premises – under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell programme, which 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 it’s available).

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Openreach Expand FTTP Builds for Three Project Gigabit UK Broadband Contracts UPDATE2

8th May, 2026 (2 Comments)

The UK government has posted contract modifications for three of Openreach’s Project Gigabit contracts – Call Off 1 (Lancashire, West Berkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire), Call Off 5 (Essex and North East England) and Call Off 3 (North Herefordshire, North Wales, Shropshire and South West Wales). The move expands their planned deployments of full fibre broadband ISP networks into rural areas.

BT Refreshes UK Consumer Brands and Relaunches BT Mobile Service

7th May, 2026 (42 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms giant BT Group has this afternoon confirmed last week’s leak (here) by announcing somewhat of a UK consumer brand resuscitation for BT and a refresh for their other consumer divisions (EE and Plusnet). The move will, among other things, revive their BT Mobile brand for basic 30 day rolling SIM Only contracts and introduces free security upgrades for home users.

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NET CHECK Awards Vodafone UK as London’s Best Mobile Network for 2026

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.

BT Mobile UK Brand Tipped for Revival Next Week by UK Telecoms Giant UPDATE

30th April, 2026 (30 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Allison Kirkby, is reportedly set to revive the BT Mobile brand next week for consumers alongside a new “Brilliant Things” slogan and major advertising campaign. The move is expected to mark another step back from the telecoms and broadband giants prior strategy of turning EE into the group’s “flagship brand for our consumer customers“.

Ofcom Investigates BT Over Accuracy of UK Telecoms Information Requests

29th April, 2026 (2 Comments)

The telecoms regulator has this morning opened a new investigation into BT, which will examine whether the information they provided in relation to a range of data – concerning the experience of customers who have entered into an agreement or placed an order for fixed phone and broadband services from EE and Plusnet – was accurate.

Biannual April 2026 Progress Update on BT’s 10Mbps UK Broadband USO

29th April, 2026 (12 Comments)

Internet provider BT has today published the biannual (April 2026) progress update on their delivery of Ofcom’s somewhat limited 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband. The provider has so far helped to build a USO connection to over 9,089 premises (up from 8,553 in Oct 2025) – using FTTP, with 461 further builds in-progress (up sharply from 186).

EE UK Launch Upgraded AI Scam Guard Service to Protect Mobile Users

29th April, 2026 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today launched an upgraded version of their existing ‘Scam Guard‘ add-on, which is a network-level security defence that was first launched in July 2024 and has already stopped 169 million scam and spam attempts (here). The hope is that the upgraded add-on will “prevent at least twice as many scams” over the next 12-months.

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Boldyn to Deliver 4G Mobile for Emergency Services Network on London Underground

28th April, 2026 (0 Comments)

Digital infrastructure firm Boldyn Networks has, perhaps unsurprisingly, today been selected to deliver 4G mobile network (mobile broadband) infrastructure to enable the Emergency Services Network (ESN) across the London Underground. The deal reflects a collaboration with EE (BT), Transport for London (TfL) and the UK’s Home Office.

Openreach Pilot Emergency UK Phone Lines for 2027 Analogue Switch-Off

27th April, 2026 (19 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today begun to inform UK broadband and phone providers about a new pilot called Emergency Voice Access (EVAc), which is intended to be a basic voice-only fallback service for copper lines (WLR) that fail to be migrated in time for the switch-off of analogue phone (PSTN / WLR) services.

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Airborne UK 5G Mobile Broadband Network Enters Install Phase with BT

27th April, 2026 (1 Comment)

Aircraft manufacturer Britten-Norman has announced that their efforts with World Mobile Stratospheric to develop advanced airborne 5G mobile connectivity system, which could be used to help extend mobile broadband coverage into remote rural areas or to provide coverage during disasters, has progressed beyond R&D and to the installation phase.

BT Wholesale Set to Launch 1.8Gbps UK FTTP Broadband Later in 2026

27th April, 2026 (43 Comments)

Nearly two years have now passed since Openreach launched their current fastest consumer Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband tiers – 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps – into the UK market (here) and yet BT’s own wholesale division still has yet to offer the same speeds to ISPs. But ISPreview understand that this may change later in 2026.

BT Preparing to Launch Smart Hub 3 Broadband Router for UK Consumers UPDATE

24th April, 2026 (46 Comments)

Customers of BT’s residential home broadband ISP packages recently spotted that the provider’s MyBT App had begun including a new advert at the top of its home screen, which promoted a new Smart Hub 3 (SH3) router as “coming soon” and offering “Better WiFi for your home, ready for the future“. But the move has already created some confusion.

BT Business Claim to Launch UK’s First Full Suite of Sovereign Services

23rd April, 2026 (5 Comments)

Communications and broadband provider BT Business has today announced the UK’s “first full suite of sovereign services” (i.e. designed to keep sensitive workloads in the UK), offering public and private sector organisations an end-to-end portfolio spanning sovereign connectivity, voice, cloud and AI etc.

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SpeedGeo 2026 Study Award Fastest UK Mobile and Broadband Providers

22nd April, 2026 (0 Comments)

The SpeedGeo project, which compares global internet quality by benchmarking the connection speeds of real users, has published their 2026 results for the United Kingdom. The outcome once again awards Virgin Media as the fastest broadband ISP, while Three UK came top for mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.). But some big names are missing.

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Botched Openreach Broadband Install Floods Pensioner’s Kent Home

17th April, 2026 (21 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has said it’s “very sorry for the distress” after one of its engineers accidentally drilled through a water pipe during the installation of a new broadband service, which flooded the house of a 93-year-old pensioner (Dylis Forsyth) in Kent (England). Ms Forsyth ended up slipping on the wet carpet the next day and badly injuring her hand.