UK Broadband News, Comparison, Analysis and Data

In a fireside chat on the 10th September 2026 at Connected Britain, the Virgin Media CEO Lutz Schüler was talking with Karen Egan of Enders Analysis. There was a few things said in the chat, that are pertinent to the whole market, and with Virgin Media O2 as a large broadband retailer and big player […]

A pilot programme has been announced by Lincolnshire County Council to provide Starlink satellite broadband to parts of its County Farms Estate. This will target rural properties where fibre broadband is not yet available. The council has announced the pilot as part of the ‘Back British Farming Day’ initiative, and says it hopes to help […]

Connected Britain had the CEO of nexfibre speaking, and other senior staff from competitors and industry talking across the day, both on the main stage and at the various breakout meetings. While everyone was careful not to second-guess the CMA investigation into the acquisition of Netomnia (Substantial Group), it was very clear there are a […]

Scot-Tel-Gould, a wireless ISP based in Aberdeen, will be deploying 6 GHz fixed-wireless kit from Tarana Wireless to build a fixed wireless access network. Tarana describe the equipment, Tarana G1 base stations, as offering next-generation Fixed Wireless Access (ngFWA) with the base nodes configured in 4-carrier (4x 40MHz), capable of delivering 1.6Gbps per wireless link. […]

Ofcom has launched an enforcement programme to target the spread of non-consensual intimate images (NCII) online, including deepfakes created by AI. Platforms have until the 30th September 2026 under existing rules to implement effective preventative measures using ‘hash matching’, an automated technology to detect and prevent the relevant images. If they are not using hash […]

Ofcom has moved to provide stability for the market now that full fibre is available to over 80% of UK homes with regard to retiring the old copper network that Openreach operates today. In exchanges where Openreach’s availability of its full fibre network has reached 90% of premises, the requirements to keep copper and fibre […]

Natalie Ceeney CBE from The Connection Project has delivered the keynote speech that has opened Connected Britain 2026, which is at London Excel on 9th and 10th September. The keynote was less about how we build full fibre and other broadband networks, but how we as an industry, Government and society can collaborate to ensure […]

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA UK) has upheld a complaint against UK broadband provider OneStream after ruling that pricing information on its website failed to make sufficiently clear that customers would also receive free trials of two additional services that automatically renewed for a fee. The ruling relates to an advert seen on OneStream’s that […]