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17th April, 2026 (5 Comments)
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build engine), has today announced a £2.9 million investment in the large County Durham (England) town of Darlington to help upgrade 18,000 homes to full fibre (FTTP) broadband. The work is linked to the planned acquisition of altnet Netomnia.
15th April, 2026 (7 Comments)
The Senior UK Plus Analyst for Point Topic, Veronica Speiser, has reportedly warned that smaller alternative broadband networks may have to raise their average revenue per user (ARPU) to approximately £45 per month just to breakeven. But most altnets are currently said to have ARPU’s of between £25 and £35, while larger operators operate within a wider range of £30 to £50.
11th April, 2026 (3 Comments)
Network benchmarking giant Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has named mobile operator Three UK as the United Kingdom’s Top-Rated Speedtest Awards winner during Q3-Q4 2025.
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9th April, 2026 (3 Comments)
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build teams), O2 and giffgaff, has today announced a £44 million investment in Greater Manchester to help upgrade 318,000 premises to full fibre (FTTP) broadband. The announcement relates to the planned acquisition of “fellow ‘altnet’” Netomnia.
7th April, 2026 (13 Comments)
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build teams) and giffgaff, has today followed up the recent announcements for Crawley and Bradford (here) by announcing a further seven UK locations – reflecting a total of 226,000 premises at a cost of £31.7m – that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband technology.
1st April, 2026 (5 Comments)
Following on from this morning’s announcement of nexfibre’s network expansion across Bradford (here), we’ve now spotted that the operator also appears to have announced a similar £6.8m deployment to reach “up to” a further 42,000 premises in the West Sussex (England) town of Crawley with their full fibre (FTTP) network.
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1st April, 2026 (13 Comments)
Network operator nexfibre, which is in the process of merging with Netomnia (here) and shares some of its parentage with ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, appears to have announced a new investment of £9.9m to expand their full fibre broadband network across 61,000 premises in Bradford (West Yorkshire, England).
31st March, 2026 (5 Comments)
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning announced that they’ve signed new multi-year agreements with their strategic partners Ericsson and Nokia to upgrade their Radio Access Network (RAN). The move will result in “thousands of mobile sites” across the UK being upgraded to support their latest 5G Standalone (5G+) technology for faster mobile broadband speeds.
27th March, 2026 (4 Comments)
Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who also take a Pay TV service via one of their TV 360, Stream or v6 Box platforms, have today been told that they can enjoy a range of family friendly movies, live music performances and documentaries in Ultra High Definition (UHD) “at no extra cost” over Easter 2026.
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27th March, 2026 (4 Comments)
Broadband and mobile operator VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have today revealed that they’ve achieved their digital inclusion goals under the Better Connections Plan, which among other things means that they’ve “helped close the digital divide” by providing 1 million UK people with free mobile data, devices, and greater access to its network in rural areas.
26th March, 2026 (2 Comments)
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with its ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, plan to expand on their original commitment to offer as many as 1,000 youth centres across the UK access to their full fibre network for free. But following the planned acquisition of Netomnia (here), they now expect to reach a further 456 centres.
26th March, 2026 (1 Comment)
The wholesale division of broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMB / VMBW) has today announced that their multi-million-pound network investment and upgrade programme, Project Spark, has already helped accelerate 10Gbps service delivery by up to 40 days and reduce Ethernet lead times by 32% year-on-year.
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25th March, 2026 (35 Comments)
The CEO of Liberty Global (Mike Fries), which co-owns broadband operator Virgin Media (O2) and nexfibre in the UK, appears to have suggested that they could stop rolling out new full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks if the competition regulator does not approve their planned merger with rival Netomnia (Substantial Group).
25th March, 2026 (4 Comments)
Broadband and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have teamed-up with the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT), University of Glasgow, VoltServer, ATS and KTL to demonstrate how mobile connectivity, power delivery, fibre backhaul and IoT services can be combined into a single unified infrastructure at a “fraction of the cost of traditional approaches“.
24th March, 2026 (7 Comments)
The UK Government appears to have published a revised Fixed Telecoms Modernisation Charter (FTMC), which sets out the steps that fixed line broadband and phone providers must take to ensure that customers “remain safe” during the current switch-off of analogue phone (PSTN) services and future closure of thousands of Openreach’s legacy exchanges.
24th March, 2026 (1 Comment)
The UK Government has published its first annual progress report on their new Digital Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP), which was launched in Feb 2025 alongside support from various broadband and mobile providers. The plan contained a series of “urgent actions” that it hoped would “begin fixing digital exclusion“ and the new report appears to be broadly positive.
23rd March, 2026 (7 Comments)
Customers of UK ISP Virgin Media’s (O2) fixed broadband packages have today been told that the internet, TV and phone provider is now rolling out their new Smart Support diagnostics service – a 24/7 broadband speed and connection monitoring solution – to all of its customers “as standard and at no extra cost“. Initially only 330,000 customers had been able to benefit from it.
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