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Telecom Giants Complete £2bn Netomnia Takeover in Shake-up of UK Fibre Market
Virgin Media O2’s parent companies have sealed a £2 billion acquisition of fibre network operator Netomnia, creating a new wholesale broadband giant that...
Starlink UK Broadband Speeds Trail Behind European Rivals Despite Network Growth
British households relying on Starlink’s satellite internet service are receiving significantly slower speeds than customers across most of Europe, according to new data...
Zzoomm Completes Brand Unification Across 600,000 UK Premises Following Major Merger
Zzoomm has officially unified its retail operations across England, completing the brand consolidation that follows its merger with FullFibre Ltd and creating Britain’s...
Chancellor Hails BT’s £15 Billion Digital Infrastructure Push as Economic Game-Changer
Chancellor Rachel Reeves stood inside Openreach’s sprawling training facility in Crawley yesterday, watching dozens of engineers practice splicing fibre optic cables on mock...
Virgin Media’s ‘Best Broadband’ Claim Faces Advertising Standards Scrutiny
The Advertising Standards Authority has delivered its verdict on a contentious Virgin Media television advertisement that sparked a formal complaint from telecommunications giant...
Government Minister Tours Northern Ireland’s Fibre Network Hub as Rural Connectivity Push Accelerates
Baroness Liz Lloyd stepped into the gleaming operations centre of Fibrus Networks yesterday, marking her first major site visit since taking up the...
Openreach Pulls Fibre Connections from Thousands of Stevenage Homes
More than 7,000 homes in Stevenage have lost access to Openreach’s full fibre broadband service after the company quietly withdrew “Ready for Service”...
Project Gigabit Supplier Data Corrected After Months of Inaccuracy
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has finally resolved a data mismatch that left millions of UK premises with incorrect Project Gigabit...
