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telecommunications ISPreview UK 4 May

Lyca Mobile UK Finally Gets Around to Putting Wi-Fi Calling Live

After a bit of a false start a couple of years ago, mobile network operator Lyca Mobile, which in the UK is a virtual operator (MVNO) on EE’s national network, has now finally confirmed that they’ve enabled the Wi-Fi Calling (VoWiFi – Voice over Wi-Fi) feature across “all” of their SIM plans. VoWiFi enables consumers […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 2 May

Three Copper Broadband Cable Thieves in Birmingham Jailed for 3 Years

At the start of 2026 we reported on how West Midlands Police had arrested a gang of three men who were in the process of trying to steal Openreach’s (BT) copper UK broadband and phone cables – worth £50k – from an underground site in central Birmingham (here). Yesterday the Birmingham Crown Court jailed each […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 1 May

Openreach Near-net FTTP Trial to Reach UK Businesses Outside Build Plan

Network access provider Openreach has announced the launch of an interesting new “Near-net” trial, which sounds like a different approach to their old FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD / FoD) broadband product. The trial aims to confirm the feasibility of building full fibre broadband to business footprint which is currently outside of build plans on a […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 1 May

Broadband ISP Zen Internet Hails UK Demand Surge for its Fibre Hub

A year has now passed since Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet launched its ‘Fibre Hub’ – a platform that essentially aggregates access to a number of full fibre networks, while offering that up to their partners (e.g. other ISPs) at the wholesale level. Zen now says they’ve seen a 52% increase in monthly gross […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 1 May

Virgin Media O2 UK Broadband Users Fall by 241k as Full Fibre Build Stalls

Network operators Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today published their latest Q1 2026 results and revealed that their gigabit broadband network increased its UK coverage by just 6,400 premises in the quarter (down from 115.1k in Q4), while related customers fell dramatically to a total of 5,446,100 (down by -241.5k in Q1 2026 vs […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 1 May

Quickline Expand Rural Project Gigabit Broadband Build in Yorkshire UK

The Government has published a Project Gigabit contract modification notice for Quickline’s deployment of gigabit broadband across ‘West and Parts of North Yorkshire’ (Lot 8) in England. The change expands the number of contracted premises due to be covered by full fibre (FTTP) to 28,952 (up by 2,642) and increases the public subsidy to £65.47m […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 30 Apr

JT and CVC Get UK Gov Approval to Acquire Manx Telecom on Isle of Man

The UK Government has given approval for Jersey linked telecoms operator JT Group and CVC DIF, the infrastructure strategy of global private markets manager CVC, to jointly proceed (under ‘Dunlop Bidco‘) with their proposed acquisition of broadband and mobile operator Manx Telecom (MT) – the primary network operator for the remote Isle of Man. At […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 30 Apr

Rural UK Broadband ISP Airband Announce More Changes and Redundancies

Alternative internet provider Airband, which has deployed both a Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based broadband network to cover rural parts of England and North Wales, has followed up this week’s departure of its CEO (here) by announcing a new “operating model” and further redundancies to support their “next phase of growth“. […]