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16th April, 2026 (13 Comments)
The Government’s Valuation Office (VO), which has just become part of HMRC, appears to have begun hitting builders of fibre optic broadband networks with an increase in the rateable value (RV) of their fibre infrastructure (aka – Fibre Tax), which in some cases has hiked costs by up to around 30%. Not ideal given the well known strains in the sector right now.
15th April, 2026 (7 Comments)
The Senior UK Plus Analyst for Point Topic, Veronica Speiser, has reportedly warned that smaller alternative broadband networks may have to raise their average revenue per user (ARPU) to approximately £45 per month just to breakeven. But most altnets are currently said to have ARPU’s of between £25 and £35, while larger operators operate within a wider range of £30 to £50.
14th April, 2026 (8 Comments)
Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has today expanded their partnership with Amazon’s eero, which means that customers of their full fibre (FTTP) broadband offerings for small and medium-sized businesses (SME) can now also access eero’s latest mesh Wi-Fi routers.
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14th April, 2026 (4 Comments)
Alternative UK ISP G.Network, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of London and have just come out of administration “debt-free” (here), has today announced the appointment of three senior leaders to its executive team as the business enters a “new phase of growth” under the ownership of FitzWalter Capital.
14th April, 2026 (19 Comments)
Merged mobile operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) has begun the process of transforming its UK retail estate, which will see the operator combining stores across the country and closing those that duplicate their presence. The expected move will also result in Three UK becoming available in over 130 new locations.
13th April, 2026 (10 Comments)
The incumbent broadband and telecoms provider for Hull, KCOM, which has also built their full fibre (FTTP) network across other parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), have published their annual accounts to 31st March 2025 and revealed a huge c. £530m write down in the value of their assets. The results give context to the company’s new capital restructuring deal.
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9th April, 2026 (4 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today notified UK ISPs that they’ve launched a new special offer on their 1Gbps speed Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) lines, which will give providers a fixed price rental for new provides so long as they commit to at least a 3 or 5 year minimum contract term.
9th April, 2026 (29 Comments)
Several key creditors of the indebted Abingdon-based alternative broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) network across 612,000 premises in rural parts of England and is home to 170,000 customers, will today formalise an agreement to take control of the business after earlier attempts to sell the company failed. But the lenders are expected to take a big haircut.
8th April, 2026 (6 Comments)
Business ISP Gamma Communications has confirmed recent speculation that they’re currently engaged in preliminary talks with several potential bidders (currently unidentified), which could result in a takeover of the UK telecoms and IT provider. As of today, the provider has a market capitalization of £752.88m.
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8th April, 2026 (2 Comments)
The CEO and founder of alternative UK rural broadband provider Wessex Internet, Hector Gibson Fleming, has today spoken to ISPreview about how they turned their family business – funded out of their own pockets for the first 7 years – into what it is today and how they’re navigating the many challenges of today’s full fibre market (consolidation, competition and rising costs etc.).
7th April, 2026 (4 Comments)
Network operator Openreach (BT), which is busy rolling out their new full fibre broadband network across the UK, claims to have reduced missed engineering appointments and inbound contact volumes by one-third after they adopted proactive AI (Artificial Intelligence) agents from NiCE Cognigy – redesigning customer engagement across some 15 million customer journeys.
7th April, 2026 (0 Comments)
Kent-based UK ISP Orbital Net (Orbital Internet Group), which operates the Vfast sub-brand that sells broadband packages to consumers via a mix of fixed wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks, has today announced that they’ve acquired a key provider of connectivity solutions to the UK holiday park sector – Leisure Park Internet Solutions Limited (LPIS).
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2nd April, 2026 (4 Comments)
The £85.5m legal dispute between UK mobile and broadband giant Vodafone and a group of 62 current and former franchisees (here) took another turn this week after a High Court judge agreed to split the trial, with both sides appearing to agree that a single trial would have been too “complex and unwieldy”. But the decision may have a cost impact.
1st April, 2026 (0 Comments)
Network provider Openreach (BT) has launched a new high speed Optical Spectrum Access (OSA) product called OSA Mobile. The new fibre optic data capacity link is designed to connect UK street furniture (lampposts, street cabinets, etc.) to support the rollout of 4G / 5G Small Cells and front haul applications for mobile operators, as well as public WiFi hotspots, CCTV and broadcast applications etc.
1st April, 2026 (0 Comments)
Telecoms and networking provider Bright Edge Networks, which recently launched a new UK wholesale telecoms platform serving a variety of broadband and hosted VoIP solutions, has announced a new wholesale partnership with communications provider Eazycomm to bring enhanced business connectivity services to their national customer base.
31st March, 2026 (25 Comments)
The recently announced UK ISP migration of customers from Octaplus’ network (i.e. those on their CityFibre-based full fibre network) to The One Broadband (The One) appears to have run into difficulty, which occurred after some of the initially migrated users began reporting connectivity problems post-switch.
27th March, 2026 (8 Comments)
Telecoms network operator KCOM, which is the incumbent broadband provider for Hull and has also deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network across other parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), has revealed that they’ve reached an agreement with their lenders and shareholders to restructure their current capital structure.
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