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Rydal Group Acquires UK Telecoms and IT Provider HBT Communications

13th May, 2026 (1 Comment)

Peterborough-based Rydal Group, which is a UK telecoms, broadband and managed IT provider, has today continued their acquisition spree by announcing that they’ve recently gobbled a similar provider called HBT Communications Limited, with effect from 15th April 2026.

Vodafone Top 1.83 Million UK Broadband Users as Mobile Falls to 28.35M

12th May, 2026 (3 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has just published their latest Q4 FY26 financial results. The figures show that they now have 1.832 million fixed broadband customers (up by 64,000 in Q4 – the same figure as Q3) and a combined mobile base of 28.356 million (down by 263,000).

Alternative Broadband Network Pulse Fibre Falls into Administration

8th May, 2026 (5 Comments)

London-based broadband provider Pulse Fibre, which focuses on deploying Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) internet connections into new build UK home developments and MDUs (here), has become the latest altnet to hit troubled times after they issued a “Notice of Intention to appoint an administrator“.

Study Highlights UK Competition Challenges of Netomnia’s Acquisition by Nexfibre

8th May, 2026 (23 Comments)

A new study from Point Topic has examined the impact on infrastructure level competition from nexfibre’s £2bn move to acquire full fibre broadband operator Netomnia (here). The analyst suggests that consumers in overlapping areas could see reduced infrastructure-level competition and less aggressive pricing over time, which may impact the Competition and Markets Authority‘s (CMA) assessment of the deal.

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UK ISP TalkTalk Business Set to Relocate to a New Salford Headquarters

7th May, 2026 (2 Comments)

Business broadband and Ethernet provider TalkTalk Business (TTB), which in 2023 was demerged from the TalkTalk Group and sold to the same group’s own shareholders for £95m (here), has today announced their plans to relocate to a new headquarters at Building 1, Exchange Quay in Salford.

CEO of Alternative Network UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband Steps Down

7th May, 2026 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider LightSpeed Broadband, which has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and Midlands, has this morning confirmed to ISPreview that Brett Shepherd, the CEO of LightSpeed – the group behind LightSpeed Broadband and LightSpeed Networks – has “stepped down“.

Rural Broadband ISP Airband Appoint Paula Strickland as CFO

5th May, 2026 (0 Comments)

Alternative internet provider Airband, which has built a mixed Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of England and North Wales, has followed up the recent departure of their CEO (here) and confirmation of further redundancies (here) by announcing that Paula Strickland has been appointed to the role of Chief Financial Officer.

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Openreach Near-net FTTP Trial to Reach UK Businesses Outside Build Plan UPDATE

1st May, 2026 (5 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach has announced the launch of an interesting new “Near-net” trial, which sounds like a different approach to their old FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD / FoD) broadband product. The trial aims to confirm the feasibility of building full fibre broadband to business footprint which is currently outside of build plans on a reactive basis.

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Broadband ISP Zen Internet Hails UK Demand Surge for its Fibre Hub

1st May, 2026 (6 Comments)

A year has now passed since Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet launched its ‘Fibre Hub’ – a platform that essentially aggregates access to a number of full fibre networks, while offering that up to their partners (e.g. other ISPs) at the wholesale level. Zen now says they’ve seen a 52% increase in monthly gross demand through The Fibre Hub over the past 12 months.

Virgin Media O2 UK Broadband Users Fall by 5.6k as Full Fibre Build Stalls UPDATE

1st May, 2026 (40 Comments)

Network operators Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today published their latest Q1 2026 results and revealed that their gigabit broadband network increased its UK coverage by just 6,400 premises in the quarter (down from 115.1k in Q4), while related consumer customers fell to a total of 5,446,100 (down by -5.6k in Q1 2026). VMO2’s total mobile base also fell to 46.44m.

Rural UK Broadband ISP Airband Announce More Changes and Redundancies

30th April, 2026 (5 Comments)

Alternative internet provider Airband, which has deployed both a Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based broadband network to cover rural parts of England and North Wales, has followed up this week’s departure of its CEO (here) by announcing a new “operating model” and further redundancies to support their “next phase of growth“.

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AllPoints Fibre Networks Announce Mark Walker as UK CEO as Ronan Kelly Exits

30th April, 2026 (13 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN), which is backed by Fern Trading, has today announced that Mark Walker has been appointed to be the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). At the same time their existing Managing Director, Ronan Kelly, will be leaving at the end of May to pursue a new opportunity.

Merged UK Rural Broadband Networks Form Freedom Truespeed Group

30th April, 2026 (4 Comments)

Alternative gigabit broadband operators Truespeed and Freedom Fibre, which back in February 2026 revealed their intention to merge (here), have today announced the formal completion of that deal and the creation of a newly consolidated brand under the FreedomTruespeed Group.

Virgin Media O2 Business UK and Daisy Rebrand O2 Daisy to O2 Business

29th April, 2026 (4 Comments)

Business telecoms company O2 Daisy, which reflects the recent merger between VMO2 Business (Virgin Media and O2) and Daisy Group (here and here), has today announced the next phase of their strategy for the UK’s B2B market by rebranding – again – O2 Daisy to O2 Business

New eSIM Mobile Provider SecondSim Launches for UK Business Users

29th April, 2026 (3 Comments)

Yet another new eSIM focused virtual mobile provider has launched this week called SecondSim, which appears to have been designed around the needs of UK freelancers, sole traders and SMEs who need a “second phone line to help businesses separate their personal number from their work line“.

CEO of Rural UK Broadband ISP Airband Exits Shortly After Appointment

28th April, 2026 (3 Comments)

Alternative broadband provider Airband, which has built both a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based network to cover rural parts of the Midlands, Cheshire, Oxfordshire, South West England and North Wales, has announced that the company’s recently appointed CEO, Kashif Rahman, has today stepped down from the role.

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Rural UK Broadband ISP Fibrus Name Top Locations for Working from Home

28th April, 2026 (1 Comment)

Alternative network ISP Fibrus, which is building a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Northern Ireland and Cumbria (England), today claims to have drawn on a “robust set of measures” in order to name the top places to live as a remote worker in both of the aforementioned parts of the United Kingdom.