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TalkTalk Business Merge with UK Tech Services Provider ARO – Creates £200m Group

14th August, 2026 (5 Comments)

Business broadband and communications 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 that they’ve agreed to merge with technology services provider ARO to create one of the UK’s largest independent connectivity and managed service providers (MSP).

London ISP Vorboss Brings 100Gbps to One Triton Square Businesses

13th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

London-focused UK ISP Vorboss, which has deployed and operates a 100Gbps speed fibre optic network for businesses in the UK’s capital city, has just connected their new infrastructure to businesses and research organisations located inside the One Triton Square building at Regent’s Place – each floor will be able to access their top speeds.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet Top 225,000 UK Subscribers as Profits Jump to £3m

13th August, 2026 (10 Comments)

We’re playing late catch-up today with the latest company results for Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet, which reveal that the venerable UK internet provider grew their broadband customer base to 225,000 at the end of Sept 2025 (up from 208k in 2024) and saw operating profit jump from £1.9m to £3m – partly fuelled by the sale of some IPv4 address blocks.

Mobile UK Tower Provider Cornerstone Tackles Site Renewals with TIP

12th August, 2026 (1 Comment)

Mobile infrastructure firm Cornerstone (CTIL), which was originally established as part of a UK network sharing deal between O2 (Virgin Media) and Vodafone (Vantage Towers), has expanded their partnership with Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP) to improve how they manage and renew existing telecommunications site agreements (wayleaves etc.).

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Octopus Investments Reportedly Set to Buy TalkTalk’s UK Wholesale Business

8th August, 2026 (7 Comments)

A new report has today claimed that Octopus Investments, via infrastructure investor Fern Trading, is on the verged of entering into advanced talks to acquire TalkTalk Group’s wholesale broadband and Ethernet business – PlatformX Communications (PXC). TalkTalk’s consumer business is also now said to be fielding interest from Opus Broadband, in addition to Vodafone and possibly others.

OneWeb Broadband Satellites Help Lift LEO Revenues 69.5 Percent at Eutelsat

7th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

European satellite operator Eutelsat just published their results for the year ended 30th June 2026 and reported that their revenues from OneWeb’s constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) “beat expectations“, jumping by 69.5% to €297m (accounting for 25% of the group’s overall revenues).

Truespeed and Freedom Fibre Integrate Broadband in the North West and Midlands

6th August, 2026 (1 Comment)

The FreedomTruespeed Group (FTG), which reflects the recent merger between alternative broadband networks Freedom Fibre and Truespeed (here), has today announced that customers of Truespeed’s retail ISP can now order broadband packages over FF’s original full fibre (FTTP) network in the North West and Midlands of England.

Swansea Bay City Region Update on Broadband and Mobile Coverage

5th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

The Swansea Bay City Region’s Digital Infrastructure Programme, which includes various broadband and other digital infrastructure upgrades as part of the much wider £1.3bn region deal, has today posted an update on both fixed broadband and mobile network coverage across the area covered by their programme.

LightSpeed Broadband Sees Revenues Double as UK Customers Top 22,000

4th August, 2026 (10 Comments)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has built their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 360,000 premises across the East of England and Midlands (36 towns), has reported their latest annual accounts to the end of December 2025 – revealing that they have 22,000 customers (May 2026) and revenues almost doubled to £4.21m (2024: £2.24m).

Broadband Altnet Fusion Fibre Hit by Winding Up Petition from UK HMRC UPDATE

4th August, 2026 (8 Comments)

Alternative network builder and UK broadband ISP Fusion Fibre Group (formerly FACTCO), which has built their own full fibre (FTTP) networks across a number of rural communities, has suffered a blow after HMRC filed a winding-up petition against the business on 29th July 2026.

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BT, Sky, Grain and Hyperoptic Comment on Nexfibre’s £2bn Move to Buy Netomnia UPDATE

4th August, 2026 (36 Comments)

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently published several responses from BT (Openreach), Grain Connect, Sky Broadband and Hyperoptic to the ‘Areas of Focus’ document for their Phase 2 competition investigation of Netomnia’s proposed £2bn acquisition by the parents of Virgin Media (O2) and nexfibre. The early feedback provides some useful market perspective.

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Virgin Media O2 Ponders UK Cost Cutting to Tackle £22bn Debt Mountain

30th July, 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.

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CityFibre Pick Netceed to Handle Inventory Management for UK Fibre Network

29th July, 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.

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Broadband Altnet Netomnia Agree Interim Undertakings as Part of UK Competition Review

27th July, 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).

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Vodafone UK Tops 1.86 Million Broadband Users as Mobile Declines to 27.98M

27th July, 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).

Virgin Media O2 UK Suffers Broadband Customer Decline as FTTP Footprint Hits 9M Premises

24th July, 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%.

BT Update – Openreach Lose 192K UK Broadband Lines as FTTP Covers 23.4M

23rd July, 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.