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italk

4th March, 2026 (8 Comments)

Concerns are starting to be expressed by customers of broadband ISP iTalk (iTalk Affiliate Telecommunications), which have been complaining about a a protracted service outage that started last week. In addition, some customers have alleged that support staff suggested the issue could be resolved more quickly if they took out a new contract.

2023 Openreach female engineer in exchange.jpg

3rd March, 2026 (2 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has significantly extended their special offer for broadband ISPs, which discounts the charge on 10Gbps Cablelinks for their FTTP and FTTC lines (GEA), nationwide, to just £399 +vat when taken on Layer 2 Switches (L2S) older than 6 months.

Coop-mobile-Channel-Islands-Store

3rd March, 2026 (0 Comments)

The regulators for the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey have reached an agreement that should resolve a tricky problem, which meant customers of JT’s mobile service couldn’t keep their existing mobile number when switching to virtual operator Coop Mobile (here). But JT has now agreed to support number ports by 17th March 2026, more than six weeks earlier than first planned.

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BT Group -Sign-on-Office-Window-2025

1st March, 2026 (19 Comments)

Broadband ISPs BT, EE and Plusnet have tweaked their policy on annual price rises so that new customers who join after 1st March 2026 will not immediately be hit by their latest +£4 monthly price hike (first announced in July 2025), which is due to be introduced a month later in April 2026.

Cityfibre Ultrafast Broadband Street Barriers 2023

28th February, 2026 (13 Comments)

CityFibre’s plan to roll-out their 10Gbps capable full fibre broadband (FTTP) network into some poorly served parts of the Winchester area of Hampshire (England), which is part of their Project Gigabit contract for the same region, appears to have been significantly slowed by some unexpected ecological and planning obstacles.

UK fibre optic gigabit broadband map CoPilot for MJ on 12092024

27th February, 2026 (30 Comments)

The latest independent data has revealed that 90.04% of premises across the United Kingdom can now access a gigabit-capable broadband ISP connection (1000Mbps+) via fixed lines, which is up from 85% in October 2024 and 80% at the end of 2023. But the figure does drop a little to 82.71% when only looking at full fibre (FTTP) lines.

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rural engineer openreach fttp

27th February, 2026 (5 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today confirmed that the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Cheshire (Lot 17), which was originally held by Freedom Fibre until they “mutually agreed to terminate” it in March 2025 (here), has now been picked up by Openreach (BT). But it’s changed a bit in the process.

zen internet uk isp

27th February, 2026 (23 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet appears to have followed recent price reductions for those taking their CityFibre based full fibre (FTTP) home broadband packages (here) by doing something similar on their Openreach based packages. For example, their top 1.6Gbps package has now dropped from £65 to just £56 per month.

GoFibre rollout maskot next to van

26th February, 2026 (2 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK network operator GoFibre, which is deploying a full fibre (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve begun the build phase of their £105m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract to cover 63,000 hard-to-reach premises in North East Scotland (100k if you include their commercial build).

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Nexfibre Q4 2025 UK FTTP Build Map

26th February, 2026 (26 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some parentage with its UK ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, has just published their latest quarterly Q4 2025 build update and confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.6 million UK premises. But future expansion looks set to come from consolidation.

Netomnia-Fibre-Drum-and-Engineers-Chamber-2026

25th February, 2026 (7 Comments)

Alternative network operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has deployed their own full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 3 million UK premises RFS (inc. 460,000 customers), have announced that their long-running roll-out across the large town of Oldham (Greater Manchester) has now reached 35,000 premises (RFS).

wightfibre engineer with ftth cable

25th February, 2026 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which operates a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire in England, has started notifying existing customers about their plan to introduce annual price increases from 1st April 2026.

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Picture of Nexfibre chamber in Ferndown near Aster Housing by Andy

25th February, 2026 (22 Comments)

A small group of homes in the East Dorset (England) town of Ferndown have effectively been denied access to a new gigabit broadband network because a local housing association, which owns a crucial piece of land, are only willing to grant Virgin Media’s (nexfibre) engineers a wayleave (legal access agreement) for an individual property; not the wider area.

copper vs fibre optic openreach engineer

24th February, 2026 (1 Comment)

The FTTH Council Europe has this afternoon published their latest annual (2026) update on the progress being made across 27 EU member states (inc. the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland) in switching off older copper based broadband networks, which forms part of the wider move to adopt gigabit full-fibre (FTTP/H/B) infrastructure.

giffgaff broadband install by virgin media engineer

24th February, 2026 (7 Comments)

Mobile and internet provider giffgaff has today confirmed that they’ve introduced a “price lock” on their monthly rolling full fibre broadband plans, which means that new and existing customers of the fixed like service “can rest assured that there won’t be any price hikes for their monthly rolling plan in 2026“.

24th February, 2026 (0 Comments)

Telecoms and networking provider Bright Edge Networks has today announced the launch of a new UK wholesale telecoms platform, which has been designed to enable Managed Service Providers (MSP) and resellers to self-serve a variety of broadband and hosted VoIP solutions “with full margin control“.

Fibrus Visit School for Surf Smart Stay Safe Workshop

24th February, 2026 (2 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a gigabit-speed full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has today launched a new campaign to help keep children in N.Ireland safe online. The ‘Surf Smart Stay Safe’ campaign is being delivered through a variety of workshops in Primary Schools across the country.

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