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Broadband ISP YouFibre preparing to launch UK pay TV product

23rd October, 2026 (10 Comments)

Internet provider YouFibre, which is the primary retail ISP outlet for Netomnia’s national UK full fibre broadband network, has quietly begun notifying existing users of their app that they’re preparing to launch their own pay TV (IPTV) product in the very near future. We’re fairly confident it’ll adopt the same platform as Brsk did pre-merger.

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Nexfibre and Virgin Media O2’s £2bn Netomnia UK broadband deal in trouble UPDATE2

20th October, 2026 (79 Comments)

Full fibre network operator nexfibre has today issued a joint statement with shareholders InfraVia, Liberty Global (Virgin Media) and Telefónica (O2) to confirm that they do not plan to submit any remedies to the Competition and Markets Authority over their £2bn acquisition of Netomnia (Substantial Group). The move comes after the CMA found significant competition concerns.

VMO2 may revive defunct UK telecoms brands Virgin Mobile and O2 Broadband

18th October, 2026 (11 Comments)

Remember when broadband giant BT recently decided to revive their BT Mobile brand, partly reversing a prior shift to focus on EE? Well it seems somebody at Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) may have decided to take a leaf out of that book, with a new report claiming that VMO2 could soon resuscitate the Virgin Mobile and also O2 Broadband brands too.

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CMA raise competition fears over nexfibre’s £2bn Netomnia UK broadband deal

2nd October, 2026 (45 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority has published its preliminary findings for their fast-tracked Phase 2 investigation into the £2bn acquisition of full fibre broadband network Netomnia (Substantial Group) by the parents of nexfibre and Virgin Media (O2). Overall the CMA found the deal would result in a “substantial lessening of competition (SLC) in the wholesale supply of fixed broadband services.”

Zen Internet CEO reveals state of the UK’s alternative broadband networks

16th September, 2026 (16 Comments)

The CEO of broadband ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has today published the seventh edition of his entertaining ‘Full Fibre Wacky Races‘ presentation, which summarises both his and the wider industry’s views of how the UK’s troubled market for alternative fixed broadband networks (altnets) has progressed and what the future may hold.

Shareholders of Virgin Media O2 UK reportedly target £600m in cost cuts

11th September, 2026 (28 Comments)

The owners of UK broadband, mobile and TV provider Virgin Media (O2), Telefónica and Liberty Global, are reportedly set to move forward with earlier proposals for a significant round of cost-cutting (i.e. a mix of job cuts and reducing capital expenditure) and are reportedly aiming to calm investors by cutting c.£600m.

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Netomnia UK Build Didsbury FTTP Broadband Network to 40,000 Premises

3rd September, 2026 (15 Comments)

Alternative broadband network Netomnia (Substantial Group, YouFibre), which has so far built their UK full fibre network to cover over 3 million premises RFS (inc. 500,000 customers), have confirmed that their deployment across the Manchester suburb of Didsbury has reached more than 40,000 homes and businesses.

Squirrel with High Fibre Diet Disrupts Netomnia’s Broadband in Manchester

24th August, 2026 (14 Comments)

Apparently the odd squirrel in Manchester (England) has developed a taste for Netomnia’s optical fibre network after one of them went nuts while taking a mega-bite out of the network operator’s overhead broadband cable in the city, which caused a brief case of nut-working failure for at least one or two of their customers.

YouFibre Follow Netomnia’s UK Full Fibre Build Slowdown with Hiring Spree

12th August, 2026 (12 Comments)

The decision by alternative broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group) to significantly scale-back their roll-out of full fibre (FTTP) broadband across the UK, which was recently followed by another round of redundancies (here), needs to be tempered against the fact that their retail ISP – YouFibre – are now busy hiring lots of new staff.

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.

Netomnia Apologises After Damaging Customer’s Openreach FTTP Line and Kit

3rd August, 2026 (40 Comments)

Alternative UK broadband operator Netomnia has apologised to one of their YouFibre ISP customers after an engineer they sent out to install the new full fibre connection botched the setup, not least by ripping Openreach’s existing optical modem (ONT) off the wall and using the incumbent’s own fibre cable to finish the job – breaking a second FTTP connection in the process.

Broadband ISP YouFibre Slash 8Gbps Plan to £50pm and Adopt 24 Month Terms

2nd August, 2026 (0 Comments)

Internet provider YouFibre, which is the retail ISP arm of alternative network operator Netomnia (Substantial Group) that has covered 3.2 million UK premises with their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, appears to have significantly discounted their top 7-8Gbps speed (symmetric) package from £99.99 to just £50 per month. But that’s not the only change.

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Virgin Media O2 Ponders UK Cost Cutting to Tackle £22bn Debt Mountain

30th July, 2026 (39 Comments)

Multiple news reports appear to be indicating that the owners of UK broadband, mobile and TV provider Virgin Media (O2), Telefónica and Liberty Global, may need to execute a significant round of cost-cutting (e.g. job cuts, reducing capital expenditure and cutting dividends etc.) in order to get the company’s £22bn debt mountain under control.

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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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Broadband Altnet Netomnia Puts 100 UK Staff on Redundancy Notice

22nd July, 2026 (44 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has already expanded their full fibre (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, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve put around 100 further workers on notice of possible redundancy.

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.

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SpeedOfMe Ranks UK 14th Fastest in World for Broadband Speeds in H1 2026 UPDATE

21st July, 2026 (10 Comments)

Internet speed testing organisation SpeedOf.Me has published their H1 2026 Data report for the first half of the year, which among other things reveals that the United Kingdom ranked a respectable 14th out of 119 countries with an average (median) download speed of 82.8Mbps. Data for upload speeds and latency is also included.