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Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has tonight revealed that a total of 100 government-funded rural 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live across England (28 masts), Wales (44) and Scotland (33) as part of the industry-led £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project. But more are set to follow by 2027. The SRN – originally supported by a commitment of £501m in public funding and £532m of private...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has revealed new insights and consumer survey results from their broadband network, which uses data from the end of last year to highlight how customers use their network over Christmas. Suffice to say that traffic on Christmas Day follows a “markedly different pattern” to a typical day, with network activity peaking at 11am, followed by a noticeable drop-off later in the day. Firstly, in terms of the...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet and mobile provider Vodafone have been criticised for allegedly failing to correctly compensate some of their customers on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland. The issue follows from a major subsea fibre break (here) that recently caused a protracted disruption to services during October 2025. The service disruption did not impact all of the service providers on Shetland in the same...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The North Yorkshire Council (NYC) in England has announced that NYnet, which is the NYC-owned company that – alongside funding from the local authority, UK government (BDUK) and private investment (network operators) – helped the council to spread faster broadband connectivity across the region, is “set to be expanded nationally“. The focus of NYnet has already evolved somewhat in recent years. The council-owned company, which also builds, owns, and...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hampshire-based altnet and UK ISP toob, which has built a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, appears to have recently removed the core part of Waterlooville (Hampshire, England) from their future roll-out plan. The original £8m deployment across 20,000 premises in Waterlooville was announced all the way back in January 2024 (here), which...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach has also announced a bunch of separate but related changes across their range of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) and complementary SOGEA (standalone FTTC broadband etc.) broadband products for UK ISPs today, which reflects a mix of the usual annual price increase and some special offers. Firstly, the FTTC broadband price increases follow the usual level of CPI inflation (3.6% at the time these were set) and will be...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) is preparing to introduce yet another new discount for UK ISPs and their broadband customers. This reduces the one-off connection (install) charge for New to Network (NTN) orders of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband lines to £0 (standard connections normally start at £122.84 +vat). However, it is important to caveat the definition of New to Network (NTN), which means this applies to any property (house, flat...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has recently begun to inform existing customers on their Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile plans that both they and new subscribers can finally access their 5G (mobile broadband) network, which wasn’t previously available to the plans (i.e. the best you could get was 4G, until earlier this month). Some of EE’s customers (credits to John and Mark) reported to ISPreview that they received a cryptic text message...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The American Content Delivery Network (CDN) and IT service company Cloudflare has committed to make several key changes in order to avoid breaking a significant chunk of the internet again, much as they did on two occasions between November (here) and, to a lesser extent, during early December 2025. The biggest of the two events occurred on 18th November, when a huge chunk of the internet suddenly became sporadically inaccessible for several hours after...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative rural internet provider Voneus, which has built a mix of full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband networks over some of Wales and England’s most remote communities, have chosen Christmas to be the time when they give some Pembrokeshire homes 45 days’ notice of future service “termination” due to a local network “redesign“. ISPreview hasn’t yet received enough feedback to assess exactly how many premises or customers are likely to be...