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* Up to 25GB per billing period (month?) Sky has a programme which many, even its customers are unaware of called Sky VIP. This is designed to give its most loyal customers (usually those who pay the most due to price increases, although negotiated discounts are always available when your contract is expiring) some extra […]

We reported on network issues suffered by users on the OFNL network earlier from one of the games earlier this week which was affecting both OFNL’s own network customers (i.e. routed by OFNL) as well as some resellers. We can’t always confirm the wholesale network on some providers so we’re looking at which retail providers […]

At the end of June we highlighted how Gigaclear users found their broadband connections struggling during the England v Ghana game with increased streaming putting the provider’s LONAP peering connections under increased strain. The issue was resolved within a few days and new capacity installed. A user on our forum reported some early morning issues […]

How does paying less per month compared to always having the top-tier product sound, with a default much slower speed, but if you are using the service a lot, your speeds can increase all the way to the top tier? This is what a new product TalkTalk is offering seems to be doing with TalkTalk […]

Some news bits from the week that are worth a read CityFibre notifies 200 staff of possible redundancy CityFibre has put forward organisational changes that may result in up to 200 roles being impacted. A consultation has been started. It’s been described as being due to slower progress on consolidation in the market. Hat tip […]

In an effort to reduce the amount of money people loss through sophisticated scam messages that use the SMS system Ofcom is introducing new rules to make it harder for criminals to target people. Fraud amounted to 45% of all reported crime in England and Wales in 2025, and something like £1.28 billion was lost […]

The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA UK) published a ruling in which it partly upholds complaints made by competitors Sky and Vodafone made in response to an EE digital poster. The poster which was shown as recently as the start of June 2026 stated “MORE PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING EE BROADBAND [..] SWITCH TO THE UK’S FASTEST […]

While the rollout is said to have been completed in January 2026, we suspect the wait until July for an announcement from Wessex Internet and Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) was due to the auditing process the Project Gigabit contracts undergo and the release of the Project Gigabit OMR January 2026 data a few weeks […]