Ofcom Find 532,000 UK Consumers Taking Social Broadband and Mobile Tariffs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator has today published their annual Pricing Trends Report for 2026, which among other things confirms that the take-up of cheaper social broadband ISP and mobile tariffs for those on state benefits has jumped to 532,000 customers in June 2025 (up from 506,000 last year). But that’s still just 8.6% of eligible households (e.g. those on Universal Credit) and awareness remains low. Consumer broadband, phone and mobile services are...
GoFibre Starts Project Gigabit Broadband Build for North East Scotland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK network operator GoFibre, which is deploying a full fibre (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve begun the build phase of their £105m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract to cover 63,000 hard-to-reach premises in North East Scotland (100k if you include their commercial build). The contract itself was officially awarded back in July 2025 (here) and GoFibre have...
Vodafone Trial 5G and 6G Mobile Tech that Turns Smartphones into Radars | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator Vodafone has announced that they’ve begun working with Tiami Networks to test a new technology for current 5G and future 6G mobile broadband networks called Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC). This essentially turns modern Smartphones and mobile networks into something akin to a Radar, with many potential applications. Imagine if your Smartphone could be used to detect a burst water pipe hidden behind the walls of your home or...
Vodafone UK Named Best Broadband ISP in Expert Reviews Awards 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Consumer website Expert Reviews has published the winners of their annual Best Broadband Awards 2026 event, which surveyed UK consumers in an effort to identify the best Internet Service Providers (ISP) across a range of categories. Overall most of the awards were scooped up by Vodafone, followed by Plusnet. The results were drawn from fairly small sample of 1,544 UK adults, which was undertaken during September 2025. Respondents were then asked about...
Annual Price Hikes Hit WightFibre Broadband Customers on Isle of Wight | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP WightFibre, which operates a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire in England, has started notifying existing customers about their plan to introduce annual price increases from 1st April 2026. Like other internet providers, WightFibre has already replaced their old percentage and inflation-based model of annual price hikes with one that follows Ofcom’s new rule...
Netomnia Expand FTTP Broadband Coverage in Oldham to 35,000 Premises | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has deployed their own full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 3 million UK premises RFS (inc. 460,000 customers), have announced that their long-running roll-out across the large town of Oldham (Greater Manchester) has now reached 35,000 premises (RFS). The original deployment was first announced all the way back in June 2022 (here), which at the time proposed to invest £21m to cover...
Virgin Media O2 Warn Customers to Watch Out for Fake 5G SIM Upgrade Emails | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of broadband and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) have been warned to keep an eye out for a new round of phishing emails, which use the retirement of O2’s 3G network as an excuse to falsely invite subscribers to “upgrade your current SIM card to a new 5G-ready SIM“. “Please note that these emails were NOT sent by Virgin Media O2 and should NOT be responded to. Do not click on any links or reply to these messages. Instead, we recommend...
Virgin Media O2 Satellite Service Goes Live with 4G Mobile from Space | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The United Kingdom will today become one of the first countries in Europe to go live on Starlink’s latest Direct to Cell (DtC) and satellite based 4G mobile data (broadband) connectivity, as mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) switches-on its new O2 Satellite service for customers. Better yet, it’ll only set most customers back an extra £3. At present around 650 of Starlink’s (SpaceX) c.9,800 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) support DtC (aka – Direct to...
Nexfibre Publish Q4 2025 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update – 2.6M Premises | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator nexfibre, which shares some parentage with its UK ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, has just published their latest quarterly Q4 2025 build update and confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.6 million UK premises. But future expansion looks set to come from consolidation. Just to recap. Back in 2022 Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia Capital Partners setup...
MedUX Study Finds UK 4G and 5G Mobile Connections Lagging Behind Europe | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking firm MedUX has this morning published the results from a new pan-European study that examined the real-world Quality of Experience (QoE) of mobile connectivity (4G, 5G etc.) across the continent, which unfortunately finds that Great Britain (GB) is lagging near the bottom of most tables. The new report – ‘Unveiling #1 QoE Countries in Europe‘ – is based on crowdsourced data gathered from over 180 million performance tests and 39...