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Sky Broadband and Openreach Make Dogs Dinner of Community Hall Fibre Upgrade

30th June, 2026 (12 Comments)

A Worcester-based community hall was left without a working broadband connection for several weeks after Sky Broadband and Openreach managed to mess up a copper to full fibre network upgrade. The process resulted in the wrong house getting the connection instead and confusion over whether the Hall was a commercial or residential property.

Comcast Spin-off NBCUniversal and Sky into Separate Publicly Traded Companies

29th June, 2026 (4 Comments)

American cable giant Comcast, which back in 2018 gobbled Sky’s pan-European TV and broadband ISP business with a bid of £30bn (here), has today announced that they intend to separate their media and technology businesses into public companies through a “tax-free spin-off” of NBCUniversal and Sky.

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Sky Broadband Users Accidentally Blocked from UK NHS Website and App

26th June, 2026 (13 Comments)

Some customers of Sky Broadband reported that they were unable to access the main NHS website and app earlier in the week, seemingly after the internet provider accidentally managed to block it. But Sky has since suggested that the fault might have been with the NHS. The issue prevented people being able to access their medical data and manage appointments etc.

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Multiple UK Broadband ISP Checkers and Order Systems Currently Down UPDATE4

24th June, 2026 (10 Comments)

Reports are coming in that a number of major and minor broadband providers, such as Sky Broadband, BT, Virgin Media, Vodafone and many others, are currently suffering some disruption to their online availability checkers and ordering systems that is preventing new customers from signing up. A few providers have linked this to a problem with Openreach (BT Group).

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H1 2026 Study Names Top UK Fastest Mobile and Home Broadband ISPs

15th June, 2026 (3 Comments)

We’ve today published ISPreview’s first biannual study of the United Kingdom’s broadband download and upload speeds for 2026, which covers the first half of the year. The report reveals how the performance of the fastest fixed line internet providers, mobile network operators and Starlink (satellite) services has changed since the end of 2025

Sky UK Cuts Live TV Sport Streaming Latency with New Real Time Feature

9th June, 2026 (18 Comments)

Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service are gaining access to a new feature called “Real Time“, which is designed to improve the experience of watching live sports content online by “reducing latency between the live action and what viewers see on screen“.

Sky Broadband UK’s Position on Openreach Speeds Beyond 900Mbps

6th June, 2026 (20 Comments)

A couple of Sky Broadband’s customers have recently notified us that their 900Mbps full fibre (FTTP) package on Openreach’s national network suddenly started delivering speeds of up to nearly 1.8Gbps, which is despite such a tier being unavailable to Sky’s subscribers. But those hoping for the launch of faster packages via the same network may be left disappointed, at least for now.

Sky Mobile UK Offers 5G SIM Only Plan for Just £1 Per Month

4th June, 2026 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to join Sky Mobile, which is a virtual mobile operator (mvno) on O2’s network with nearly 4 million UK subscribers, may like to know that the provider recently launched a bunch of new discounts on their SIM Only plans. This includes one that drops the price of their 1GB data plan to just £1 per month on a 12-month term (normally £8).

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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Sky Glass and Stream UK TV Customers Suffer ITVX Fast Forward Bug

1st June, 2026 (3 Comments)

Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service are suffering from an annoying bug with the ITVX app, which causes any TV show or movie you may be watching to suddenly skip right to the end and then report the content as having been watched.

Sky Mobile UK Doubles Roaming Destinations to 120 for Just £2 a Day

27th May, 2026 (3 Comments)

The Sky Mobile service, which is an O2 (Virgin Media) powered Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) with nearly 4 million UK subscribers, has today announced that they’re making it even easier to stay connected while travelling by doubling its global roaming destinations from 55 to 120 across the EU/EEA, USA, Australia and more.

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Vodafone Attract Most Ofcom UK Complaints for Broadband and O2 for Mobile – Q4 2025

11th May, 2026 (7 Comments)

Ofcom has today published their latest quarterly (Q4 2025) study of UK consumer telecoms and TV complaints, which finds that Vodafone attracted the most complaints from customers for fixed broadband services, while O2 came top of the naughty table for Mobile services and EE did the same for Pay TV.

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UK ISP Sky Broadband Fixes Accidental Block of Bitbucket’s SSH Service

25th April, 2026 (4 Comments)

Internet provider Sky Broadband has resolved a fault that caused the ISP to accidentally block Secure Shell (SSH) communications to Bitbucket.org, which is a cloud-based Git repository hosting service owned by Atlassian that is designed for professional software (business) teams.

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SpeedGeo 2026 Study Award Fastest UK Mobile and Broadband Providers

22nd April, 2026 (0 Comments)

The SpeedGeo project, which compares global internet quality by benchmarking the connection speeds of real users, has published their 2026 results for the United Kingdom. The outcome once again awards Virgin Media as the fastest broadband ISP, while Three UK came top for mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.). But some big names are missing.

Delays to Giftcloud Vouchers Cause Frustration for UK Telecoms Customers

17th April, 2026 (5 Comments)

A number of UK broadband and mobile operators, such as Vodafone, iD Mobile and more, work with a company called Giftcloud to help incentivise new customers to sign-up by offering high value gift cards. But recently we’ve seen a spike in complaints as some customers have struggled to get their promised gift cards, while attempts to reach support often go without a response.

Sky UK Launch Sky Smart Home Service from £5 Monthly as Standalone Product

15th April, 2026 (10 Comments)

Sky UK has this morning announced the launch of their new Sky Smart Home services, which bundles several common internet-connected home devices (video doorbell and chime) and a supportive app service together in one bundle from just £5 a month (plus a £15 one-off upfront fee). Selected Sky TV and Sky Broadband customers can also get a 30% discount.

Sky Broadband UK Discounts 900Mbps Gigafast FTTP Package to £30 Monthly

10th April, 2026 (0 Comments)

Internet provider Sky Broadband (Sky TV) has today discounted their Full Fibre 1Gbps Gigafast broadband package (average speeds of 900Mbps download and 90Mbps upload) to just £30 per month on a 24-month minimum term for new customers (rising to £52 per month thereafter).