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21st Sep 2026 (0 Comments)

Ofcom will shortly announce the outcome of their provisional proposal to block one of several discounts that Openreach (BT) had planned to help them stay competitive and attract new full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP customers. But a new report from Enders Analysis warns that rival networks might, in supporting the regulator, ultimately end up hastening the incumbent’s deregulation to their detriment.

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21st Sep 2026 (0 Comments)

A new “nationally representative” survey of 3,000 UK adults, which was conducted by Censuswide during July 2026, has reported that 32% of respondents were not confident they could identify a secure public Wi-Fi network from a fake (spoofed) one. On the flip side, 73% of men did feel confident identifying secure Wi-Fi, compared with 64% of women.

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21st Sep 2026 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today announced that new customers who open a Pay Month SIM-Only account with a 24-month minimum term will also receive a £100 bill credit (worth the equivalent of a £4.16 a month saving) under their new Bill Credit Switcher Offer, which is clearly designed to encourage consumers on other operators to switch.

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21st Sep 2026 (0 Comments)

The West Sussex County Council (WSCC) in England has today begun the first infrastructure deployments under their new OpenDigital project, which aims to improve mobile network (4G, 5G signals etc.) coverage in Chichester city centre. The move comes after local residents and business owners complained about “weak and unreliable network coverage” in the area.

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21st Sep 2026 (4 Comments)

The Common Switching Platform (CSP), which is a UK-based technology company that helps alternative broadband networks, internet providers and MSPs to deliver customer switching solutions between providers, has expanded beyond the residential connectivity market and launched their new Switching for Business (SforB) solution.

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21st Sep 2026 (3 Comments)

Carlisle-based alternative broadband provider Grain (Grain Connect) appears to be in the process of expanding their 2Gbps speed point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network in the West Midland’s city of Birmingham, which already covers more than 900 postcodes in the area and is now set to reach many more.

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21st Sep 2026 (2 Comments)

The Connectivity Portfolio Manager of UK broadband ISP Zen Internet, Andrew Sayle, has published a new editorial that gives consumers a unique insight into how modern Internet Service Providers set the price you pay for your package. It also touches on how much of an impact that decision can have on the service or support quality you receive.

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20th Sep 2026 (1 Comment)

A year has passed since Ordnance Survey (OS) took responsibility for the Government-backed National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), which is a “secure” digital map of underground UK pipes and cables (broadband, water etc.) that is partly designed to help reduce accidental damage. Some 400 asset owners (e.g. Openreach and others) have now added added data to show their infrastructure, but that’s not all.

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19th Sep 2026 (4 Comments)

The annual Mobile Industry Awards event for 2026 was held last week at the Royal Lancaster in London, which among other categories saw Sky Mobile being named the ‘Best MVNO‘ (virtual) operator, while Lebara won the ‘Best SIM Only Network‘ and O2 Satellite was named ‘Innovation of the Year‘.

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19th Sep 2026 (4 Comments)

A new study from SignalTracker, which operates a popular Android mobile app (not iOS) for monitoring and testing mobile network performance, has used its own data to support a separate BBC News article, which this week wrote about the problems of poor mobile network (4G and 5G) performance across key parts of the UK’s capital city.

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18th Sep 2026 (19 Comments)

Sources have informed ISPreview that alternative UK broadband operator FullFibre Limited, which in 2023 acquired rival Digital Infrastructure (BeFibre) and in 2025 completed its merger with Zzoomm (here), has allegedly put around 50 staff on notice of possible redundancy and appear to be planning to help cut costs by outsourcing customer services offshore.

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18th Sep 2026 (14 Comments)

Merged mobile operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) have announced that they’ve started to roll-out their new Ericsson powered dual-mode and cloud-native 5G Core mobile network, which is said to have a total capacity of 9Tbps (Terabits per second) to help them meet future data demand as mobile broadband usage grows.

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18th Sep 2026 (2 Comments)

A new report claims that Opus Broadband, which was previously reported to have been working alongside investment firm Alchemy Partners on a potential bid for TalkTalk’s debt-strained consumer business, has decided not to pursue a bid for the ISP after an exclusivity period elapsed. Instead Ares Management may be looking to take long-term ownership of the business.

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18th Sep 2026 (2 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach has revealed that an overnight software update at their Cowes exchange was behind this week’s broadband and phone outage on the Isle of Wight, which is an island that sits just off the south coast of Hampshire in England.

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18th Sep 2026 (7 Comments)

Global internet and network connection benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net broadband connection testing website and app, has announced that their similarly popular internet outage monitoring service – Downdetector – is to start making a new ‘Pro’ plan available (the existing service is free). But it’ll cost you.

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18th Sep 2026 (3 Comments)

Customers of broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) have recently been informed that the Virgin Media Store, which sold various digital movies and TV box sets to UK consumers, is set to close. But in order for customers to keep their purchases, they’ll need to transfer them to the Rakuten TV service instead.

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17th Sep 2026 (11 Comments)

Broadband, TV and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) appears to have followed the creation of a new Consumer unit by making some structural changes to their leadership, which has seen several senior figures depart as part of efforts to reorganise the team to ensure there is “greater prioritisation, simplification, alignment and focus” on the areas that will have the biggest impact.

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