Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

Over the weekend, we reported on outages suffered for severals days by customers of iTalk Telecom. Following our article, we’ve received quite a few new reports from users. “Like others my broadband has been down since 18.00 hours on Tuesday the 24/02/2026 and is still down. When I contacted them they couldn’t tell when it […]

Technology consulting company Accenture has announced it has agreed to acquire Ookla from Ziff Davis group. The company is known for its Speedtest.net web-based speed test service but it has commercial arms that spread across network analytics, benchmarking and user experience monitoring. It also includes the Downdetector website. Accenture’s driver is that networks are no […]

A new cash injection of £115m to TalkTalk will be welcomed at the heavily indebted broadband provider as parts of the business are being offered for sale. Ares Management are injecting the cash, £65m of which is senior debt, and will replace a £47m debt facility due to be redeemed in March. £50m is being […]

O2 has announced that they expect to spend £700m on network investment this year. This reiterates their existing Mobile Transformation Plan, rather than being an announcement of new funding, and continues the spend level seen in 2025, which was also announced at approximately £2m per day, or £700m. Considering inflation, this could actually mean that […]

Vodafone has announced a deal with Amazon Leo, their low-earth orbit satellite network, to provide mobile network backhaul for 4G and 5G cell sites in remote areas across Europe and Africa. The deal will see the base stations connected up at a lower cost in areas than installing fibre or fixed wireless links back to […]

There have been several reports of broadband subscribers of iTalk Telecom experiencing a significant outage lasting days. A user on our forums raised this topic, along with a rather worrying account about being asked to commit to a new contract to fix the issue” “We were looking into it as an elderly relative relies upon […]

A look at a few bits of news that have also come out this week. PXC reveals major updates to 1Portal PXC has updated its wholesale platform, 1Portal, focusing on end-to-end automation. The platform allows providers to order services including Openreach SOGEA, CityFibre FTTP, Community Fibre and Freedom Fibre, with further altnets in the pipeline […]