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

4th August, 2026 (6 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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VodafoneThree Blocks over 2 Million UK Banking Sector Fraud Attempts

6th July, 2026 (1 Comment)

Mobile and broadband operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) has today announced that a new collaboration with the banking sector has helped to block more than 2 million fraud attempts since August 2025. The trial is said to have resulted in a 25% increase in banking scam messages being blocked on the mobile giant’s UK network.

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ISPs Say Rights Holders Must be Held Accountable for Blocking Innocent Websites

1st July, 2026 (4 Comments)

The EuroISPA (European ISP Association), which represents over 3,300 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the EU and EFTA countries (including the United Kingdom), has called for copyright holders to be “held accountable” when their measures to stop access to online piracy (copyright infringement) creates “collateral damage [due to] overbroad blocking actions“.

Serious Fraud Office Investigates Internet Mobile Communications Ltd

23rd June, 2026 (1 Comment)

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has announced that they’re investigating a UK-based telecoms services provider called Internet Mobile Communications Limited (aka – Bank of Telecom) over allegations of “suspected fraud, false accounting, and money laundering“. The company collapsed into administration back in June 2024.

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Tribunal Says BT is a UK Public Authority for Environmental Regs, But Not Openreach

19th June, 2026 (4 Comments)

A Tribunal has ruled that broadband and phone provider BT’s role, obligations and statutory powers make it sufficiently public in character for environmental-information purposes, but network access provider Openreach’s separate corporate status means it does not cross that same legal threshold.

Rights Holders Gain More Control to Block UK Access to Internet Piracy Sites

26th May, 2026 (15 Comments)

The High Court has granted rights holders, such as Columbia Pictures and others, more flexibility to require the UK’s major broadband ISPs (e.g. BT, EE, Plusnet, Virgin Media, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk) to block customers from accessing websites that have been found to facilitate internet copyright infringement (piracy).

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Two Men in Northern Ireland Charged Over 5G Mobile Mast Attacks

28th April, 2026 (4 Comments)

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have charged two men – one aged 45 and the other aged 46 – with committing a series of arson attacks on 5G mobile network masts, occurring predominantly in the west Belfast area between 2023 and 2025.

Telecoms Operators Accused of New Tactic to Reduce Rents on UK Mast Sites UPDATE

22nd April, 2026 (2 Comments)

A new report has claimed that telecoms infrastructure providers in the UK’s mobile network sector are using “new tactics” to secure more favourable lease renewals on mast sites. The tactic is said to be enticing landowners to negotiate without professional representation (i.e. risking agreements that reduce rents or overlook key protections).

Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK Sued by Ovo Over Troubled 2022 Customer Sale UPDATE

13th April, 2026 (6 Comments)

Debt strained internet provider TalkTalk, which is currently trying to sell off its various divisions again (here), is being sued by another financially strained company, Ovo Energy, following a 2022 deal that saw the ISP acquire Ovo’s base of 135,000 (approximately) former SSE Phone & Broadband customers for an undisclosed sum (here and here).

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High Court Agrees to Split Trial in £85m Dispute Between Vodafone UK and Franchisees

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.

Virgin Media O2 Harness AI to Flag 1 Billion Suspected SCAM and SPAM Calls

6th March, 2026 (5 Comments)

Mobile and broadband operator VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have today revealed that they’ve used AI technologies, such as Call Defence from Hiya, to flag over 1 billion “suspected” scam and spam calls to UK customers before they even pick up the phone (more than 70 million suspected scam and spam calls are currently being flagged every month).

UK ISP TalkTalk Apologises for Failings in its Lasting Power of Attorney Process

2nd March, 2026 (4 Comments)

Broadband provider TalkTalk has apologised and pledged to improve their processes, which occurred after the company acknowledged to ISPreview that it had made a number of mistakes when dealing with somebody who held a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) for one of their more vulnerable broadband customers.

1,000 UK Broadband Users Warned of “Illegal” TV Streaming by FACT

28th December, 2025 (41 Comments)

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has sent a warning message (via email and text) to over 1,000 broadband internet users in the UK that have been identified as using “illegal TV streaming services“, which calls on them to “immediately cease using illegal TV streaming services or face the risk of prosecution“.

Vitrifi Calls in the Administrators Over UK Wholesale Platform for Full Fibre AltNets

4th December, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Fern Trading (Octopus Investments) backed company Vitrifi, which was first incorporated back in 2021 and offered a cloud-based software platform to help alternative network providers (altnets) offer wholesale products (details), appears to have filed a new notice stating their intention to appoint an administrator.

Court Rejects L1 Compensation Appeal Over Forced Sale of UK Broadband Network Upp

29th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Court of Appeal in London has dismissed an attempt by investment firm LetterOne (L1), which had been seeking compensation after the previous Government used the new National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) to force them into selling Upp’s full fibre broadband network to rival operator nexfibre at a loss (retail customers went to Virgin Media).

Concern as UK Broadband ISP Brsk Hit by Major Customer Data Breach

27th November, 2025 (31 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP Brsk, which last year merged with Netomnia’s growing multi-gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (here), has reportedly been hit by a major data breach that is claimed to have resulted in 230,105 customer records being exposed to hackers. The database has since been put up for sale.

Competition Tribunal Allows UK Mobile Handset Overcharging Case to Proceed

18th November, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has allowed a class action claim – originally worth “at least” £3.285bn – against EE (BT), Vodafone (Three UK) and O2 (Virgin Media) to move forward, albeit with limitations. The case, brought by Justin Gutmann and law firm Charles Lyndon, accuses the operators of overcharging for mobile handsets beyond the end of their contractual term.