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LSBUD report UK telecoms industry delivers 36.2 percent of searches for digging work

10th September, 2026 (0 Comments)

The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which provides an online asset search facility to UK street works firms for underground pipes and cables, has published their Digging Up Britain 2026 report and revealed that telecoms (broadband, mobile etc.) remains the “most active industry” when it comes to searching before digging (36.2% of all searches, down from 37.5% in 2025).

Fibrus launch UK pay TV service as broadband network covers 472,000 premises

8th September, 2026 (9 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative broadband network and ISP Fibrus, which has deployed their full fibre network across rural parts of Cumbria in England and Northern Ireland, has today announced the launch of their own Netgem PLEIO powered pay TV service and published a preview of their annual results showing revenues growing 53% to £45m.

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Gigaclear Tweaks East Gloucestershire’s FTTP Broadband Rollout Contract

3rd September, 2026 (2 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) directorate has posted another contract modification notice for Gigaclear’s Project Gigabit contract in East Gloucestershire (Lot 18), which slightly increases the planned roll-out of full fibre broadband (FTTP) by 325 premises and yet manages to reduce the contract value by £777,041 (public investment).

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Norfolk County Council Issues Update After CityFibre Scale-Back Fibre Broadband Build

3rd September, 2026 (7 Comments)

The Norfolk County Council (NCC) in England has published a new document, which reveals the future plan for gigabit broadband deployments after CityFibre scaled-back their contracted roll-out of full fibre infrastructure under the UK government’s Project Gigabit scheme in May 2026. As expected, Openreach (BT) look set to pick up the slack.

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Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme Closes to New UK Projects

2nd September, 2026 (4 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has confirmed that their long-running Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which offered grants to help those in digitally disadvantaged areas get significantly faster internet connections installed, has now closed to the submission of new voucher projects.

Building Digital UK Agency Promotes Ben Whitestone to Permanent CEO

2nd September, 2026 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) organisation, which holds responsibility for expanding gigabit broadband and better mobile connectivity across the United Kingdom (e.g. the Project Gigabit and 4G Shared Rural Network schemes), has officially promoted Ben Whitestone to the post of permanent Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract for Orkney and Shetland to be Awarded Soon

1st September, 2026 (1 Comment)

After a long delay it appears as if the Scottish Government may finally get around to awarding a new gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Orkney & Shetland by the end of 2026. The procurement, which forms part of the UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme, aspires to expand full fibre (FTTP) networks to 13,550 premises in hard-to-reach parts of the remote Northern Isles.

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New Rules for Speeding Up Certain Broadband Installs is Causing Delays UPDATE

30th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

The government’s new changes to the Building Safety Regulator’s (BSR) approval processes in England (here) are causing additional delays to some of Openreach’s new broadband installs. Ironically the changes are being introduced to correct for the delays and increased costs of telecoms operators trying to deploy new networks into large buildings (MDUs etc.) under the prior system.

Broadband ISP and Alternative UK Full Fibre Network GoFibre Confirms CEO Exit

24th August, 2026 (2 Comments)

ISPreview has today been informed that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Edinburgh-based UK alternative network operator GoFibre, Neil Conaghan, who has led the business since November 2022, recently resigned from the business and a hunt for his successor has now begun.

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August 2026 Contract Progress of UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

24th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today published their August 2026 update on the delivery progress of contracts awarded under their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The update reveals that some 296,770 contracted premises (up from 287,510 in Jul 2026) have so far been covered out of a planned total of 846,770 (35% complete).

£70m High Speed Broadband Project in Wales Gets New Supplier After Error

21st August, 2026 (4 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has revealed that an “unforeseen administrative error” meant they neglected to name one of the approved suppliers for their £70m (public subsidy) Extending High Speed Broadband (EHSB) project when the original list was announced earlier this year (here). The supplier, BB4W Ltd (Broadband 4 Wales), has now been added to the framework.

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New National Planning Policy Framework Lends Support to Broadband and Mobile

18th August, 2026 (2 Comments)

The Government has published its new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) for England, which finally appears to have laid the foundations for planning authorities to give “substantial weight” to the benefits of “maintaining or improving network coverage, capacity, reliability and resilience” of modern gigabit broadband and 5G mobile networks.

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GoFibre See 1,000 Customers Adopt Eyemouth’s New Full Fibre Broadband

18th August, 2026 (4 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network operator GoFibre, which is deploying a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has revealed that over 1,000 “customers [are] now connected” to their recent roll-out across the coastal Scottish Borders town of Eyemouth (the town is home to a population of c.3,600).

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Government Prepares £20m Phase 2 of Schools Gigabit Broadband Rollout

15th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

The Government’s Department for Education (DfE) has launched an early market engagement exercise to identify organisations that might be interested in supplying the second phase of their gigabit broadband roll-out programme for Schools, which has been allocated £20m of public funding to reach around a further 800 schools across England.

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Kearney’s Global Telecom Health Index Ranks UK 33rd out of 34 Countries

11th August, 2026 (14 Comments)

Management consulting firm Kearney has today published their latest annual Global Telecom Health Index, which ranks 34 countries across various metrics in order to measure and compare the health of the telecoms (broadband, mobile etc.) sector on a country-by-country basis. Overall the United Kingdom placed near the bottom on a rank of 33rd.

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Report Warns Against Future TV Plan to Shut Down UK’s Tall Tower Network

10th August, 2026 (16 Comments)

A new report from the National Preparedness Commission (NPC), which is said to be an independent and non-political body focused on preparing the country for a major crisis, threats and incidents, has warned that the UK’s proposed plan to switch-off terrestrial TV signals in favour of broadband internet-based streaming “risks … over-concentrating communications on internet-based networks“.

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Gov Help Expand Gigabit Broadband to 60,000 Homes in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire UK

6th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK Government has this morning announced that their publicly subsidised Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contracts, signed with alternative network ISP Quickline, have so far enabled over 60,000 homes and businesses in hard-to-reach areas across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire to access faster internet speeds.