How the UK forgot open RAN and learned to love Ericsson and Nokia

Recent contracts awarded by VodafoneThree and VMO2 have ensured the UK will remain a Nordic duopoly for years.

KCOM’s UK Results Reveal Huge £530m Write Down in Value of its Assets

The incumbent broadband and telecoms provider for Hull, KCOM, which has also built their full fibre (FTTP) network across other parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), have published their annual accounts to 31st March 2025 and revealed a huge c. £530m write down in the value of their assets. The results give context to […]

Tax hikes bring new headwinds for China's telcos

After a flat 2025, China's operators are getting hit by higher taxes and tougher cloud competition in 2026.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK Sued by Ovo Over Troubled 2022 Customer Sale

Debt strained internet provider TalkTalk, which is currently trying to sell off its various divisions again (here), is being sued by another financially strained company, Ovo Energy, following a 2022 deal that saw the ISP acquire Ovo’s base of 135,000 (approximately) former SSE Phone & Broadband customers for an undisclosed sum (here and here). Just […]

Supermarket Chain Lidl Tipped to Launch UK SIM-Only 5G Mobile Plans

German supermarket giant Lidl (Schwarz Group) has reportedly announced plans to launch its own mobile (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) service in a number of other markets later this year, which could eventually reach up to 30 countries including the UK, US, France and Spain etc. At present there’s no shortage of MVNO options in the […]

BDUK Require Greater Clarity for Removing Premises from Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has notified suppliers (network operators) to its £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme that they will, from 14th April 2026, be required to provide more details of the reasons for removing homes / premises (UPRNs) from the scope of an existing deployment contract. The contracts awarded under Project […]

Ookla Name Three UK as Top-Rated Mobile Network for Q3-Q4 2025

Network benchmarking giant Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has named mobile operator Three UK as the United Kingdom’s Top-Rated Speedtest Awards winner during Q3-Q4 2025. Ookla’s Top-Rated Awards typically use their sampled data set of Speedtest 5-Star Ratings to extrapolate and make inferences about consumer sentiment […]

Amazon Leo targets 'mid-2026' launch – CEO

Amazon Leo plans to launch services commercially by 'mid-2026,' according to CEO Andy Jassy. Amazon Leo hasn't revealed pricing, but Jassy hinted that it will undercut competitors such as Starlink.

Cisco optical innovations deliver high-density, power-efficient AI networking backbone

Global smartphone market inched up 1% in Q1 2026

The global smartphone market rose 1% in Q1 2026, despite ongoing supply chain bottlenecks and cost pressures, says Omdia. #pressrelease

Openreach Takes on Project Gigabit Broadband Contract for Derbyshire Peak District

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today confirmed that the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for the Peak District (Lot 3.01), which was originally held by FullFibre Limited until they “mutually agreed to terminate” it in May 2025 (here), has now been picked up by Openreach (BT). Just to recap. The […]

US Mobile subs can bundle Starlink at a discount, for six months

US Mobile has revealed pricing on a set of Starlink bundles that start at $47 per month for new customers. The discount on the Starlink tiers convert to regular pricing after six months, which is $20 higher for each tier.

The Buildout: Spectrum lights up rural communities in five states

This week in broadband builds: Charter's Spectrum expands to nearly 25,000 additional rural locations; C Spire wraps capital projects buildout in Mississippi; Swyft Fiber connects West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana – and more.

SKT forges alliance with Arm and Rebellions to develop AI servers for data centers

AI servers, which will run on Arm's AGI CPU and Rebellions' RebelCard AI accelerator chip, will undergo testing and verification in SKT's AI data centers.

China still gorges on US chips in Trump era as Huawei struggles

US chip sales to China remained at an elevated level in 2025, and there is still no sign that Huawei is a credible AI rival to Nvidia.

Government Evaluation of UK Flexi-Permits Trial Opts to Sit on the Fence

The Government has published an evaluation of recent flexi-permit trials, which is a process that UK mobile and broadband operators have been requesting for some years. But despite most of the feedback being positive, the number of caveats involved meant the evaluation was “not able to make a definitive recommendation either in favour of or […]

O2 Extend 5G Standalone Mobile Broadband Network to 85 Percent of UK

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5GSA / 5G+) mobile broadband network in 47 large towns and cities, 79 smaller towns and 597 rural villages across West Midlands (England). The development also means that their 5G+ network now covers more than 85% of the UK’s population. The […]

Sky Broadband UK Discounts 900Mbps Gigafast FTTP Package to £30 Monthly

Internet provider Sky Broadband (Sky TV) has today discounted their Full Fibre 1Gbps Gigafast broadband package (average speeds of 900Mbps download and 90Mbps upload) to just £30 per month on a 24-month minimum term for new customers (rising to £52 per month thereafter). Customers taking up the new discount can also expect to receive free […]

The Scourge of Malware Infected Customer Devices at Big UK Broadband ISPs

A quick look at the global Threat Map from internet security giant Spamhaus can sometimes be quite illuminating. The map displays the activity of botnets around the world, fuelled by malware infected devices, and these days it’s not uncommon to see the likes of Sky (Sky Broadband), Virgin Media and BT popping up in the […]

Comcast expands its discounted 'StreamSaver' bundles

Comcast's discounted 'StreamSaver' bundles have grown to include Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV, HBO Max and the Disney+/Hulu combo.