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Media and communications giant Sky has today officially kicked off their annual Black Friday sales across Sky Broadband’s various fixed line packages, Sky Mobile SIMs and their Sky TV services (Sky Stream and Sky Glass). Some of the headline discounts include their 5Gbps broadband package in CityFibre areas being sold for just £35 per month. (more…)
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Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning confirmed that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5G+) mobile broadband network across Derbyshire in England, which is said to reach more than 380,000 people in 368 towns and villages – delivering “faster speeds, better coverage and lower latency at no extra cost.” (more…)
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UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has built a full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 1.4 million homes (across London and the South East) and aims to reach 2m by 2028-2029 (here), have today launched a FLASH SALE that offers the first 6 months of service for free to new customers across almost all of their broadband plans (this is on top of existing discounts) – up to speeds of 5Gbps. (more…)
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Network operator Openreach (BT) recently revealed that they would try to maintain broadband connectivity on old analogue UK phone lines that fail to go digital by the 31st January 2027. But they also included a caveat to say that this would only be maintained “where technically possible“. Today the operator revealed a bit more detail on this. (more…)
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National broadband and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has today joined others in launching their annual Black Friday deals on their home broadband and TV products, which reflects various discounts on the monthly rental prices of their packages and bundles. For example, their 1Gbps package is now priced from just £26.99 per month on a 24-month term. (more…)
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After being soft launched back in September 2026, telecoms provider Vodafone has today made their new range of fixed line “Pro 4 Broadband” packages available to customers and confirmed pricing. The service harnesses their next‑gen tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router (Ultra Hub 7+) and CityFibre’s national full fibre (FTTP) network to deliver 8Gbps speeds to homes. (more…)
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Broadband operator LightSpeed Networks, the wholesale side of UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband that has built their own full fibre (FTTP) network to cover c.360,000 premises across the East of England and Midlands (46 locations), has today announced a £685,000 investment in a new 25km long fibre link between Tamworth and Nuneaton. Some 12,000 homes should also benefit. (more…)
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Connectivity provider Neos Networks, which runs one of the UK’s biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre networks – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has started giving businesses and broadband ISPs access to a wider range of independent full fibre networks – including new additions CityFibre and ITS Technology. (more…)
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Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which harnesses crowdsourced testing data from users of their app on millions of devices (Smartphones etc.), has published their annual 5G European Awards 2026 that analysed the mobile network performance of 91 national operators across 27 markets. But sadly mobile providers in the UK didn’t win anything and struggled to even register in the rankings. (more…)
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The boss of network operator and ISP Highland Broadband (formerly Lothian Broadband), which has deployed their own 10Gbp capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across various rural parts of Scotland, has revealed that they’ll “soon” start their expansion into the Highlands town of Aviemore. (more…)