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Vodafone UK Kicks Off 2026 Summer Home Broadband and Mobile Sale

25th June, 2026 (0 Comments)

Telecoms provider Vodafone has this morning informed ISPreview that they’ve today started their 2026 Summer Sale, which will run until 22nd July 2026 (23:59) and includes various discounts across their 4G to 5G SIM mobile plans, Smartphones (including airtime bundles) and fixed broadband packages.

Utility Warehouse Set 5 Year UK Growth Plan as 568,647 Take Broadband

23rd June, 2026 (0 Comments)

Energy and communications provider Telecom Plus, trading as Utility Warehouse (UW), has today published their latest H2 FY26 Results to the end of March 2026 and revealed that their broadband ISP grew its total UK customer base to 568,647 (up from 561,086 in H1) and their mobile base grew to 787,426 (up from 698,054).

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VodafoneThree Extend CityFibre Partnership to Link More UK Mobile Sites

22nd June, 2026 (2 Comments)

Mobile and broadband operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) has today announced that they’ve extended their existing partnership with CityFibre, which will see the fixed line operator’s full fibre network being used to feed capacity for network transmission services at “selected mobile sites” in support of the operator’s 5G Standalone rollout.

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The Hidden Impact of CityFibre’s UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts Retreat

22nd June, 2026 (22 Comments)

At the end of last month CityFibre announced that they’d reached an agreement with the Government to significantly cut the roll-out scope of their Project Gigabit broadband contracts. At the time this was expressed as being because commercial builds by rivals would reach further than originally expected. But this overlooked the hidden gap of premises that have been left with no alternative plans.

CityFibre Top 1 Million Customers on UK Full Fibre Broadband Network

3rd June, 2026 (4 Comments)

The UK’s biggest alternative 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband operator, CityFibre, has this morning revealed that over one million households and businesses are now making the most of their national network (up from 848,000 at the end of 2025 – here). A good chunk of their recent growth has been driven by last year’s addition of Sky Broadband to the platform.

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Assembly Research Examines UK Full Fibre Market and nexfibre’s Netomnia Deal

3rd June, 2026 (5 Comments)

A new high-level report from Assembly Research will be published today, which examines the challenging future of the UK’s full fibre broadband market for alternative networks (altnets) and highlights the potentially positive impacts of nexfibre’s recent £2bn move to acquire rival operator Netomnia (here).

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Vodafone UK Extend Secure Net Home and Who’s Home to All Broadband Packages

27th May, 2026 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator and broadband ISP Vodafone UK has this morning announced that their internet security feature – Secure Net Home, and smart router technology, Who’s Home, which were previously only available on their premium Pro 3 fixed broadband packages, has been extended to 900,000 customers on their standard broadband packages too.

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May 2026 UK Contract Progress of the Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

27th May, 2026 (5 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has released their May 2026 update on the delivery progress of contracts awarded under their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The update reveals that some 256,680 contracted premises (up from 250,000 in April 2026) have so far been covered out of a planned total of 837,340 (31% complete).

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CityFibre Reduce UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Due to Expanded Commercial Cover

26th May, 2026 (27 Comments)

One of the country’s largest alternative networks, CityFibre, has announced that they’ve reached an agreement with the Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency to “re-scope” the contracts they hold under the Project Gigabit broadband roll-out programme due to the “accelerated rollout of commercially funded full fibre” across their contracted areas.

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Some CityFibre UK Broadband Lines with Nokia ONTs Suffer Upload Speed Bug

23rd May, 2026 (17 Comments)

A small portion of consumers connected via ISPs on CityFibre’s national UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, specifically some of those with a cream white coloured Nokia Optical Network Terminal (ONT) on their interior walls, are currently known to be suffering from a bug that causes a significant drop in upload speeds.

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).

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

8th May, 2026 (24 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.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Offer 6 Months Half Price on Openreach and CityFibre Plans

6th May, 2026 (0 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent ISP Aquiss has announced the return of its popular 6-month half-price promotion on selected full fibre broadband packages via the Openreach and CityFibre networks. But the promotion will only be available for new customers to take until 30th June 2026.

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CMA Begin UK Competition Probe of Netomnia’s Acquisition by VMO2’s Owners UPDATE

23rd April, 2026 (11 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has this morning launched an initial review of the proposed £2bn acquisition (here) of alternative full fibre UK broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group) by the parents of nexfibre and Virgin Media (O2) – Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia.

UK ISP Toob Launch 2300Mbps Broadband Plan and WiFi 7 Router, But Add Price Rise

21st April, 2026 (17 Comments)

Hampshire-based alternative network toob, which has deployed their own gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other UK areas, has today launch several new packages (including speeds up to 2.3Gbps) and a new WiFi 7 router. But it’s not all good news as they’ve also changed their pricing policy.

Alternative UK Broadband Networks May Have to Hike Prices to Survive

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.

Connection Woes Hit UK User Migration from Octaplus to The One Broadband UPDATE

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.