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

13th August, 2026 (6 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.

Scotland Focused Broadband ISP Brawband Suffers Service Outage UPDATE4

5th August, 2026 (7 Comments)

Inverness-based UK ISP Brawband (HighNet), which primarily sells home broadband services over CityFibre’s full fibre (FTTP) network around various Scottish cities and towns (e.g. Inverness, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Edinburgh), appears to be suffering from a major service outage today.

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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.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Sells 120,000 UK Customers to Rise Fibre UPDATE

3rd August, 2026 (12 Comments)

Debt-strained UK ISP TalkTalk has unexpectedly sold a further 120,000 of their consumer broadband customers to the relatively new internet provider Rise Fibre, which is backed by private equity firm CVC and is a trading name of the more established alternative network and ISP 4th Utility. But the deal raises questions over TT’s plan to sell their consumer division.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Offer 8 Months Half Price on CityFibre and Openreach

1st August, 2026 (0 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent UK ISP Aquiss has informed ISPreview that they plan to introduce a new special offer on their full fibre (FTTP) broadband plans via both the CityFibre and Openreach networks, which will discount their package prices to half price for the first 8 months of service with new customer connections.

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CityFibre Shareholders Aim to Raise £900m to Boost UK FTTP Broadband Consolidation

30th July, 2026 (13 Comments)

The largest alternative full fibre broadband network in the United Kingdom, CityFibre, which has already built their fibre lines to cover 4.7 million UK premises (with 1m customers connected), is reportedly working with shareholders to raise around £900m to boost their future network expansion and consolidation strategy.

Point Topic Shows Why Ofcom Want to Block Openreach’s UK Broadband Discount

29th July, 2026 (5 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has published research that helps to explain why Ofcom has proposed to block one of Openreach’s new discounts on their full fibre (FTTP) broadband products (here). This might have otherwise given ISPs and new customers to their network a £35 connection rebate and a £9.50 monthly rental rebate (for 18, 24 or 30 months depending on performance).

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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).

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Broadband ISP Olilo Plan 5Gbps Speed Package via CityFibre for UK Homes

24th July, 2026 (16 Comments)

Broadband provider Olilo has informed us that they’re hoping to launch a new package offering symmetric speeds of 5Gbps (5,000Mbps) via full fibre (FTTP) network supplier CityFibre in the near future. Tentative pricing for the new package is previewed below, but an exact launch date and plan is still to be decided.

Point Topic Highlights Key Challenge for VMO2’s £2bn Netomnia Broadband Deal UPDATE

21st July, 2026 (7 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has published further analysis of the £2bn acquisition of full fibre alternative UK broadband network Netomnia (Substantial Group) by the parents of nexfibre and Virgin Media (O2). The research highlights how much of a bearing a single piece of competition-law math – the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) – may have on the deal being cleared or not.

Broadband Altnet CityFibre Notifies 200 UK Staff of Possible Future Redundancy

15th July, 2026 (37 Comments)

The UK’s largest alternative full fibre broadband network, CityFibre, has this morning proposed organisational changes that could result in 200 roles being impacted, subject to consultation. The move is said to be a response to the current environment, where market conditions remain difficult and there has been “slower progress on consolidation“, impacting their near-term growth.

Sky Broadband Discounts UK Packages and Cuts 5Gbps Price to £45

10th July, 2026 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Sky Broadband (Sky Mobile and Sky TV etc.), which sells their packages to consumers via both Openreach and CityFibre’s national full fibre (FTTP) networks, appears to have introduced some small discounts across several of their packages and also cut the price of their top 2.5Gbps (Gigabits) and 5Gbps tiers to £35 and £45 per month, respectively.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Blast CityFibre in Complaint Over Poor UK Support

9th July, 2026 (9 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent UK ISP Aquiss has notified their customers of concerns that dealing with one of the country’s largest alternative broadband networks, CityFibre, has recently become “incredibly difficult” after the alternative network let a sizeable number of staff go in recent redundancies.

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Broadband Altnets Spar with Ofcom Over Openreach UK Copper Line Retirement

7th July, 2026 (28 Comments)

The UK telecom regulator’s proposal in their Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR), which sought to adopt a different approach to copper line retirement in favour of full fibre optic (FTTP) broadband lines on Openreach’s national UK network, has, perhaps predictably, attracted criticism from rivals that worry it may hand the incumbent an advantage.

CityFibre Sell Off-Net UK Entanet Business to Telecoms Entrepreneur

1st July, 2026 (2 Comments)

The UK’s largest alternative broadband provider, CityFibre, has today announced that they’ve agreed a deal to sell their non-core off-net business, Entanet, to telecoms entrepreneur Tom O’Hagan, who is best known as the founder and former CEO of Ethernet provider Virtual1 (this became part of the TalkTalk group in 2022 – here).