140 Government Funded 4G Mobile Mast Upgrades Now Live Across UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government has confirmed that a total of 140 publicly-funded rural 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live across the United Kingdom (up from 100 at the end of 2025), which includes new sites in England, Wales and Scotland as part of the industry-led £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project. But more are set to follow before 2027. The SRN – originally supported by a commitment of £501m in public funding and £532m of private...
Tribunal Says BT is a UK Public Authority for Environmental Regs, But Not Openreach | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A Tribunal has ruled that broadband and phone provider BT’s role, obligations and statutory powers make it sufficiently public in character for environmental-information purposes, but network access provider Openreach’s separate corporate status means it does not cross that same legal threshold. The case reflected an appeal by BT and Openreach, which had been raised after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) initially determined that both of the...
ISP Hey! Broadband Discounts 400Mbps to £23 for the FIFA World Cup | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet provider Hey! Broadband, which offers services to homes in various areas covered by the F&W Networks (Fibre and Wireless) full fibre infrastructure – mostly across the South East of England, has discounted their 400Mbps (symmetric) package to £23 per month for new customers that sign-up during the 2026 FIFA World Cup 2026. The package is available on a 24-month minimum term, including a free installation and wireless router. But take note...
Netomnia UK Brings FTTP Broadband Network to 40,000 Premises in Sale | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group, YouFibre), which has deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover over 3 million UK premises RFS (inc. 500,000 customers), have today confirmed that their deployment across the town of Sale in the Trafford district of Greater Manchester has reached 40,000 premises (RFS). The original deployment in this area first began in early 2022 and the first homes then went live just before Christmas 2022, with...
GoFibre expands Scottish fibre rollout | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release More rural towns and villages in North East Scotland can now experience ultra-reliable, lightning-fast full-fibre as independent broadband builder and provider GoFibre continues its rollout in Angus, Perth & Kinross and Aberdeenshire. Following on from the first homes and businesses being connected to GoFibre’s North East Scotland network in Edzell, Inverbervie and Longforgan, the next ready for service properties will be in Montrose,...
Wildanet Launch Symmetric Full Fibre Broadband in Cornwall and Devon UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is building a new 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England (Devon and Cornwall), has today announced that they’ve upgraded their service to deliver symmetric speeds (i.e. the same speeds for both downloads and uploads). Just to be clear. Wildanet appear to be introducing this as a premium service feature, rather than an upgrade at no extra cost like some of their...
GoFibre Update on £105m Project Gigabit Broadband Build in North East Scotland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network operator GoFibre, which is building full fibre (FTTP) broadband across rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has provided an update on their rollout in the North East of Scotland under the publicly subsidised Project Gigabit contract. The first locations have now started to go live for customers. Just to recap. GoFibre’s Project Gigabit contract for North East Scotland, which was first awarded back in July...
Virgin Media O2 Satellite UK Mobile Service Extended to Google Pixel Users | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that their Direct-to-Device (D2D) based O2 Satellite service (here), which for £3 extra per month enables normal Smartphones to connect to their mobile network via Starlink’s cell-focused broadband satellites, now also works on Google Pixel devices (phones). Just to recap. The new service harnesses SpaceX’s global Starlink constellation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to support a satellite based 4G mobile...
Analysing Broadband Traffic Impact of England v Croatia – 2026 FIFA World Cup UPDATE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Last night at 9pm saw England take on Croatia in their first FIFA World Cup 2026 match and, given the growing prevalence of TV streaming solutions and the fact that the match took place outside of normal working hours, we were keen to learn whether this would have a noticeable impact on internet traffic. ISPreview has thus examined the impact on several networks. In the past such events, when taking place outside of working hours, wouldn’t have moved the...
Opensignal Q1 2026 Study Ranks UK Bottom for 5G Mobile Performance in Europe | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has this morning published their latest analysis of 5G non-standalone mobile (mobile broadband) and 5G Standalone (5G+) availability and performance across Europe. The results rank the UK last in Europe with average download speeds one-third of Denmark’s and the lowest Excellent Consistent Quality score in the region. As usual the data in this report is based off crowdsourced testing, which has been gathered by users...