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9th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has revealed that they’ve been chosen by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in England to conduct a real-world study of mobile network coverage and 4G / 5G data performance across the region, harnessing 12,000km of the county’s road network and testing all three of the primary mobile networks – EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK).

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8th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

A new report has today claimed that Octopus Investments, via infrastructure investor Fern Trading, is on the verged of entering into advanced talks to acquire TalkTalk Group’s wholesale broadband and Ethernet business – PlatformX Communications (PXC). TalkTalk’s consumer business is also now said to be fielding interest from Opus Broadband, in addition to Vodafone and possibly others.

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8th Aug 2026 (8 Comments)

According to ISPreview’s sources, mobile operator EE (BT) appears to be starting the gradual consumer engagement phase of their plan to close down the old 2G network. The move follows last year’s earlier effort to begin engaging their business customers (here) – supporting them to move from 2G to more modern 4G, 5G or Internet of Things (IoT) services.

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7th Aug 2026 (16 Comments)

Network operator AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN, Fern Trading) has today confirmed that they’ve sold the retail base of their last consumer broadband ISP, Brillband, to internet provider Olilo for an undisclosed sum. The move comes after APFN did the same with Cuckoo (sold to Onestream) earlier in the year (here).

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7th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

The Director of Network Technology at national UK broadband operator Openreach (BT), Trevor Linney, has today reported that “full fibre usage” – driven by live TV video streaming and new video game updates – across their network increased by 37% in the first half of 2026, compared with the same period last year.

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7th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

European satellite operator Eutelsat just published their results for the year ended 30th June 2026 and reported that their revenues from OneWeb’s constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) “beat expectations“, jumping by 69.5% to €297m (accounting for 25% of the group’s overall revenues).

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7th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

Liverpool-based UK ISP Giant has introduced a new network-level internet content filtering and security service called ‘Guardian‘ for their customers, which is available for free on all of their broadband packages and is designed to “work across every connected device — no downloads or per-device setup required“.

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7th Aug 2026 (1 Comment)

A recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that the UK telecoms, internet content and media regulator, Ofcom, blocked a total of 481,521 “malicious emails” between June 2023 and February 2026 (472,936 phishing and 8,585 malware emails). But this figure excludes SPAM (junk marketing) emails, which are likely to be much higher.

7th Aug 2026 (1 Comment)

A criminal gang has, for a third time since the start of last year (see here and here), this week disrupted Openreach’s broadband services around part of the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots by stealing 500 metres worth of the UK network operator’s local copper telecoms cables.

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7th Aug 2026 (10 Comments)

New customers looking to take a home broadband package from EE may like to know that the ISP has reduced the value of the Contract Buyout (i.e. Switching Credits) they offer from “up to” £300 to £200, except if you take both broadband and a TV bundle in which case the original value is maintained.

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6th Aug 2026 (1 Comment)

The FreedomTruespeed Group (FTG), which reflects the recent merger between alternative broadband networks Freedom Fibre and Truespeed (here), has today announced that customers of Truespeed’s retail ISP can now order broadband packages over FF’s original full fibre (FTTP) network in the North West and Midlands of England.

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6th Aug 2026 (6 Comments)

The London Borough of Camden has revealed that they’re “exploring options” for potentially launching a second pilot of the Connected London public WiFi programme, which last year saw the Westminster City Council (here) area introduce a free public Wi-Fi network trial using single sign-on (OpenRoaming) technology.

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6th Aug 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.

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6th Aug 2026 (6 Comments)

In another annoying and somewhat perplexing development for fans of SpaceX’s popular Starlink broadband service in the UK, the company has revealed that their next generation V5 dish terminal for consumers will NOT support ‘Standby Mode‘. This is in addition to the lack of support for in-motion use, such as on top of a caravan or boat (due to lack of an integrated GPS).

5th Aug 2026 (1 Comment)

The Networked Systems Group at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics has announced that their private 5G mobile test network (Campus5G) has been opened up for anyone to try during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with free eSIM access and 5G-backed public Wi-Fi available across a big area.

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5th Aug 2026 (0 Comments)

The Swansea Bay City Region’s Digital Infrastructure Programme, which includes various broadband and other digital infrastructure upgrades as part of the much wider £1.3bn region deal, has today posted an update on both fixed broadband and mobile network coverage across the area covered by their programme.

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5th Aug 2026 (7 Comments)

Inverness-based UK ISP Brawband (HighNet), which primarily sells home broadband services over CityFibre’s full fibre (FTTP) network around various Scottish cities and towns (e.g. Inverness, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Edinburgh), appears to be suffering from a major service outage today.

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