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14th August, 2026 (0 Comments)
The UK Government has published a progress update on their part of the industry-led £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project this morning, which reveals that a total of 150 publicly-funded rural 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live across the United Kingdom (up from 140 in June 2026).
13th August, 2026 (9 Comments)
12th August, 2026 (1 Comment)
Mobile infrastructure firm Cornerstone (CTIL), which was originally established as part of a UK network sharing deal between O2 (Virgin Media) and Vodafone (Vantage Towers), has expanded their partnership with Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP) to improve how they manage and renew existing telecommunications site agreements (wayleaves etc.).
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11th August, 2026 (8 Comments)
Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 is estimated to have saved 5,262 tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions over the last 10 years thanks to its partnership with TXO, which specialises in helping the network operator to recycle their old network equipment so that it can be returned to and sourced through the secondary market.
10th August, 2026 (18 Comments)
An important development recently happened in Germany as mobile operators switched off the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), which meant that users would in future be limited to sending pictures, short videos and audio files to other mobile phone users via internet-based messaging platforms (RCS, WhatsApp, iMessage etc.). But this raises the question, when might the UK follow?
9th August, 2026 (0 Comments)
Network analyst firm Streetwave has revealed that they’ve been chosen by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in England to conduct a real-world study of mobile network coverage and 4G / 5G data performance across the region, harnessing 12,000km of the county’s road network and testing all three of the primary mobile networks – EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK).
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5th August, 2026 (1 Comment)
The top two bosses of SpaceX, Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, yesterday issued some useful updates to investors on the progress of their third generation (V3) ultrafast broadband satellites and their second generation (V2) mobile satellites, which confirmed their current launch plans and some other details on future capabilities.
4th August, 2026 (2 Comments)
Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has this morning published their H1 2026 study of UK mobile networks (calls, texts etc.) and mobile broadband (4G, 5G) speeds. The results once again name EE as the best mobile operator after they scooped up the highest scores and fastest data speeds across most categories.
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.
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1st August, 2026 (6 Comments)
Some pre-paid customers of mobile operator giffgaff, which is controlled by Telefónica UK (part of the VMO2 Group) and uses O2’s virtual network platform, have complained to ISPreview after the provider suddenly informed them that their service was to be disconnected over “extended or permanent use outside the UK“. The provider also declined to refund unused credit.
31st July, 2026 (8 Comments)
A special mention today goes out to one of Virgin Media’s (O2) broadband engineers, Stephen Parsonage, who was in the process of installing new services for one of their customers in Leeds when, during a conversation, the customer began showing signs of suffering a stroke.
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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30th July, 2026 (4 Comments)
Repeated attacks of vandalism by gangs of youths recently caused Vodafone (VodafoneThree) to remove a key mobile mast site in central Lancaster (Lancashire, England), which was shared with mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media). The situation resulted in significant 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) coverage problems for users in the area, but a temporary solution is now imminent.
30th July, 2026 (8 Comments)
New customers looking to switch to broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) may like to know that they’ll today increase the value of their Contract Buyout (i.e. Switching Credits), which is now worth up to £300 (previously £250) on their top packages – at least for a limited time.
29th July, 2026 (1 Comment)
Firefighters in Derbyshire (England) recently provided a good unintentional demonstration of why services like the new O2 Satellite add-on are so useful. The teams, who were responding to the wildfire near Tintwistle, were able to use the UK service to maintain mobile connectivity in an area with no traditional 4G or 5G mobile network coverage.
28th July, 2026 (2 Comments)
Mobile operator giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica UK (part of the VMO2 Group) and uses O2’s virtual operator platform (mvno), recently published their annual accounts to the end of 2025 and revealed that their mobile base grew by 142,000 members (up from 100k in 2024) to total 4,260,368. The operator also had 671 full fibre broadband customers.
28th July, 2026 (36 Comments)
Over two years have passed since Virgin Media (O2) started making 2Gbps download speeds available via their full fibre (FTTP) network (here). Sadly that move left most customers on their older DOCSIS 3.1 powered Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network stuck with maximum speeds of 1Gbps (1,130Mbps), but this may soon change.
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