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Lutz Schüler, Virgin Media O2 Chief Executive Officer, has penned an open letter to Lisa Nandy MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport with the CEO’s concerns about the purchase of TalkTalk and Platform X by BT Group. We’ve included the full text, rather than screenshots to make it more accessible to people. […]

CityFibre has released its results for the quarter ending 30th September 2026. The alt-net has an over 1.1 million customers connected to the network and 260,000 have been added in the last 12 months. With their self declared RFS footprint this gives a take-up figure of around 22% rising to 26% if looking purely at […]

It has taken since 4th July 2026 for this latest point increase in full fibre coverage across the UK, a period of 3 months and 2 days. This is a long way from the peak of the fibre rush when each point of coverage was happening every 3 to 4 weeks. Full fibre rollouts have […]

Under the remit of the Online Safety Bill Ofcom has announced it is to investigate Instagram Instants with it looking at whether an appropriate content risk assessment and children’s risk assessment was carried out prior to the products launch. Instagram Instants launched on 13th May 2026 and this allows you to share photos or video […]

Virgin Media O2 has issued a statement on the TalkTalk/PXC purchase by BT Group: “This has all the characteristics of a stitch up masked as a rescue deal in the public interest. Just days after the competition regulator proposed potentially blocking a logical deal between nexfibre and Netomnia that would accelerate fibre investment and create […]

Using powers granted under Section 42 of the Enterprise Act 2002 the Secretary of State Lisa Nandy has issued a Public Interest Intervention Notice. The short non civil service language version is that the CMA will look at the acquisition and will consider their position based on the outcome of that in 2 weeks. This […]

Following rumours of an impending deal last night of TalkTalk creditors seeing an improved deal (The Times; paywall) for BT to acquire TalkTalk, this morning it has been announced that BT Group has acquired TalkTalk’s consumer business as well as PXC, its wholesale business. This follows the businesses entering administration this morning. This deal is […]

Vodafone TV launches, bringing Netflix, HBO Max and Freely Vodafone has launched a new TV service that offers different plans from £10 per month, providing access to Freely. For an Extra £7/month, customers can subscribe to Vodafone TV Essential, combining Netflix and HBO Max with Freely. Vodafone Mobile customers can also take the Vodafone Entertainment […]