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TalkTalk Business 2025 UK Brand Refresh

26th Feb 2026 (1 Comment)

Business broadband and Ethernet provider TalkTalk Business (TTB), which was demerged from the wider TalkTalk Group and sold to the group’s own shareholders for £95m in Oct 2023 (here), has today announced that they’ve just formally completed their separation from the Group and are “now operating as a fully independent organisation“.

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26th Feb 2026 (1 Comment)

Edinburgh-based UK network operator GoFibre, which is deploying a full fibre (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve begun the build phase of their £105m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract to cover 63,000 hard-to-reach premises in North East Scotland (100k if you include their commercial build).

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26th Feb 2026 (5 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today published their annual Pricing Trends Report for 2026, which among other things confirms that the take-up of cheaper social broadband ISP and mobile tariffs for those on state benefits has jumped to 532,000 customers in June 2025 (up from 506,000 last year). But that’s still just 8.6% of eligible households (e.g. those on Universal Credit) and awareness remains low.

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26th Feb 2026 (8 Comments)

Consumer website Expert Reviews has published the winners of their annual Best Broadband Awards 2026 event, which surveyed UK consumers in an effort to identify the best Internet Service Providers (ISP) across a range of categories. Overall most of the awards were scooped up by Vodafone, followed by Plusnet.

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26th Feb 2026 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has announced that they’ve begun working with Tiami Networks to test a new technology for current 5G and future 6G mobile broadband networks called Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC). This essentially turns modern Smartphones and mobile networks into something akin to a Radar, with many potential applications.

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26th Feb 2026 (3 Comments)

Network benchmarking firm MedUX has this morning published the results from a new pan-European study that examined the real-world Quality of Experience (QoE) of mobile connectivity (4G, 5G etc.) across the continent, which unfortunately finds that Great Britain (GB) is lagging near the bottom of most tables.

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Nexfibre Q4 2025 UK FTTP Build Map

26th Feb 2026 (17 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some parentage with its UK ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, has just published their latest quarterly Q4 2025 build update and confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.6 million UK premises. But future expansion looks set to come from consolidation.

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26th Feb 2026 (14 Comments)

The United Kingdom will today become one of the first countries in Europe to go live on Starlink’s latest Direct to Cell (DtC) and satellite based 4G mobile data (broadband) connectivity, as mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) switches-on its new O2 Satellite service for customers. Better yet, it’ll only set most customers back an extra £3.

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25th Feb 2026 (4 Comments)

Customers of broadband and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have been warned to keep an eye out for a new round of phishing emails, which use the retirement of O2’s 3G network as an excuse to falsely invite subscribers to “upgrade your current SIM card to a new 5G-ready SIM“.

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25th Feb 2026 (6 Comments)

Alternative network operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has deployed their own full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 3 million UK premises RFS (inc. 460,000 customers), have announced that their long-running roll-out across the large town of Oldham (Greater Manchester) has now reached 35,000 premises (RFS).

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25th Feb 2026 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which operates a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire in England, has started notifying existing customers about their plan to introduce annual price increases from 1st April 2026.

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25th Feb 2026 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media O2 Business (VMO2) has completed the Dark Fibre Network East project as part of the Swansea Bay City Region project (Digital Infrastructure Programme), which is said to have delivered a secure fibre network linking 36 public-sector sites (e.g. council offices, NHS, doctors, schools etc.) through 46 connections in Llanelli, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot.

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nPerf Speed Test 2026

25th Feb 2026 (1 Comment)

French broadband and mobile network benchmarking firm nPerf has today announced the addition of a 2160p (4K / Ultra HD) streaming test to their existing speedtest app for Android, iOS and Desktop users (i.e. PC (Windows), MAC and Linux).

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25th Feb 2026 (0 Comments)

SpaceX has revealed that its “greatly enhanced” second generation (GEN2) of Direct to Cell (DtC) capable Starlink broadband satellites, which are due to launch in 2027, will aim to support 5G connectivity and deliver peak data speeds of 150Mbps (Megabits per second) per user.

Picture of Nexfibre chamber in Ferndown near Aster Housing by Andy

25th Feb 2026 (20 Comments)

A small group of homes in the East Dorset (England) town of Ferndown have effectively been denied access to a new gigabit broadband network because a local housing association, which owns a crucial piece of land, are only willing to grant Virgin Media’s (nexfibre) engineers a wayleave (legal access agreement) for an individual property; not the wider area.

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24th Feb 2026 (1 Comment)

The FTTH Council Europe has this afternoon published their latest annual (2026) update on the progress being made across 27 EU member states (inc. the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland) in switching off older copper based broadband networks, which forms part of the wider move to adopt gigabit full-fibre (FTTP/H/B) infrastructure.

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24th Feb 2026 (6 Comments)

Mobile and internet provider giffgaff has today confirmed that they’ve introduced a “price lock” on their monthly rolling full fibre broadband plans, which means that new and existing customers of the fixed like service “can rest assured that there won’t be any price hikes for their monthly rolling plan in 2026“.

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