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30th Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today revealed the timetable and new details of their plan to auction off a 25MHz (frequency) slice of the 1.4GHz radio spectrum band (i.e. the “Upper Block” of 1492 to 1517MHz) to mobile operators (EE, O2 and Vodafone, Three UK) for use in their 4G and 5G based mobile broadband services.

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30th Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

The latest update from network operator Openreach (BT) has revealed that homes and businesses only have 100 days left before the old Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is permanently retired on 31st January 2027. As it stands, some 1 million UK lines (down from 1.5m in July 2026) are still using legacy copper, including roughly 300,000 business premises (down from 350k).

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30th Oct 2026 (4 Comments)

SpaceX’s satellite broadband service, Starlink, appears to be changing some of their prices again, which on the positive side seems to have quietly reduced the price of their entry-level “Residential 100Mbps” plan to £32 per month (in some other areas it shows as £36 or still £40). But on the other hand, some service options and plans may have increased in price.

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30th Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning announced that, following a successful trial earlier this autumn, they’ve now rolled out a free, AI-powered scam call protection service for all customers based on technology from existing partner Hiya. Over 3 million malicious calls a week are now expected to be blocked in real time from reaching customers’ phones.

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30th Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

The latest annual 2026 UK Fast Growth Index has just been published and this year’s edition includes three alternative full fibre broadband networks – GoFibre, Toob and Fibrus. The full list ranks the 200 fastest-growing companies across each of the seven UK nations and regions every year.

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30th Oct 2026 (45 Comments)

In a surprising development, it’s being reported that Virgin Media (O2) are allegedly close to reaching a deal that would enable them to extend their UK broadband coverage by harnessing Openreach’s (BT) national Full Fibre (FTTP) network for new customers, albeit only in areas they don’t yet serve with their own fibre. But Virgin’s existing FTTP upgrade scheme would stop.

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29th Oct 2026 (29 Comments)

The UK telecoms, media and internet content regulator, Ofcom, has today set out how they will define “highly effective” Age Verification systems. Such systems are set to become a mandatory requirement as part of the Government’s controversial move to introduce an online Social Media ban for children under the age of 16 – for use against the most popular platforms (Facebook, Instagram etc.).

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29th Oct 2026 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today launched SIM-free financing, which is described as being a “flexible payment offering” that enables customers to purchase a new or refurbished phone on its own – without an airtime plan – and spread the cost over time with finance options from 3 to 24 months (APR rates from as low as 0%, subject to a credit check).

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29th Oct 2026 (2 Comments)

The Scottish Government’s (SG) £697m Reaching 100% (R100) programme with Openreach (BT), which has spent the past few years expanding full fibre broadband to reach 100,000 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas, has recently been shortlisted for the forthcoming European Digital Connectivity Awards 2026.

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29th Oct 2026 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has followed Vodafone’s announcement yesterday (here) by confirming that they, working alongside Small Cell experts at Freshwave, have also just completed the latest phase of Haven holiday park network upgrades to their 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) network as families enjoy the October half-term break.

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29th Oct 2026 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator and UK ISP Highland Broadband (formerly Lothian Broadband), which has spent the past few years building a 10Gbp capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across various rural parts of Scotland, has reportedly shelved plans to extend their network across several additional villages in Caithness.

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29th Oct 2026 (10 Comments)

Mobile operator and broadband provider giffgaff, which is controlled by Telefónica UK (part of the VMO2 Group), has begun the first stage of rolling out a new brand refresh across their website, app and email campaigns as part of an effort to “set us up for our next chapter and signal where we’re heading“.

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28th Oct 2026 (2 Comments)

Business wholesale broadband and Ethernet provider entanet, which had been left to languish under CityFibre’s ownership until telecoms entrepreneur Tom O’Hagan acquired it a few months ago, has this week begun to re-launch with a refreshed brand and ambitions to become a major force in UK business connectivity again.

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28th Oct 2026 (16 Comments)

Internet service providers across the UK are bracing for a protracted period of network strain as Rockstar begin the release of their long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI video game, which is currently expected to require a c.210GB (GigaByte) download on PlayStation 5 consoles and potentially as much as c.240GB on the Xbox Series X.

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28th Oct 2026 (11 Comments)

Internet provider Olilo has announced that they’ve added a WireGuard option to the static IP tunnel service they launched over L2TP (Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol) in May 2026. Routers that can’t run L2TP, starting with Ubiquiti’s UniFi gateways, can now also get a public static IPv4 address and a /48 IPv6 prefix over any UK broadband connection.

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28th Oct 2026 (2 Comments)

The not-for-profit and industry-funded One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is responsible for helping to deliver Ofcom’s solution for easier and quicker switching between UK fixed broadband and phone providers on different networks (One Touch Switching), has announced price reductions across both their Residential and Business Switching price lists for internet providers.

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28th Oct 2026 (11 Comments)

Mobile and broadband provider Vodafone Business has revealed that 27 of Haven’s holiday parks across the UK now have access to faster Wi-Fi, which harnesses routers (installed in every holiday home) that connect to the wider internet via the operator’s 5G (mobile broadband) network, instead of copper or fibre optic cables.

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