Vodafone Test Pushes 2.5Gbps Mobile 5G Broadband Speeds via 6GHz Band | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator Vodafone has demonstrated how harnessing 200MHz of radio spectrum in the Upper 6GHz band, using a chipset with the MediaTek M90 Modem within a standard Smartphone, can deliver download speeds of 2.5Gbps over a 5G network using carrier aggregation to combine multiple radio frequencies on a single link. Upload speeds ranged from 50-180Mbps. Precise details of the test, which took place across an indoor public space in Hannover (Germany),...
INCA Blasts Ofcom for Rejecting Competition Concerns Over Openreach FTTP Price Cut | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, has today expressed its “huge disappointment” after Ofcom rejected the competition concerns they helped raise over a recent price cut to Openreach’s “full fibre” (FTTP) lines where proactive migrations are used. Just to recap. Proactive migrations arise where an internet provider (ISP), not the end-customer, proposes to upgrade your...
Vodafone UK Suffer Major Outage of Mobile and Broadband Connectivity UPDATE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Over the past few minutes we’ve started to receive reports from customers of Vodafone UK about a significant outage of their national network. The details are currently quite limited, with reports coming in from users of both their fixed line home broadband and mobile services, albeit mostly from mobile data (4G/5G) users. The incident itself appears to have started at just before 3pm and is currently ongoing across the United Kingdom. Customers are...
Integration vs aggregation: The battle for fibre’s future | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article by Strategic Imperatives Two models are emerging to solve the UK’s wholesale complexity. One promises convenience, the other flexibility — but which will sustain growth? At Connected Britain 2025, one theme came through loud and clear: the UK fibre market has never offered more choice, but that choice is creating new layers of complexity. Service providers are navigating a landscape that includes both established incumbents and a...
Network visibility and differentiation at the ‘altnet inflection point’ | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview At Connected Britain 2025, we caught up with Aprecomm’s Daniel Fearon to discuss the economic crunch facing the UK’s fibre altnet market and what they can do to differentiate themselves from the competition The UK’s full-fibre broadband market has reached a critical “inflection point,” according to Aprecomm’s Senior Director Sales for Europe, Daniel Fearon. In a recent interview at Connected Britain 2025, Fearon offered a candid assessment of...
Virgin Media and O2 UK Refresh Volt Bundles of Broadband and Mobile | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Telecoms giants Virgin Media and O2 UK (VMO2) have today announced a refresh of their Volt bundles, which enable customers to combine both the broadband and mobile services of both providers into a single package at a discounted rate. New and upgrading customers who purchase a Volt bundle can now choose between a Classic, Plus or Ultimate Plan. Previously only available with a Classic Plan, new and upgrading Volt customers can now choose from O2’s “full...
Openreach Unable to Predict When UK Broadband Line Losses will Stop | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Deputy CEO of national network access provider Openreach (BT), Katie Milligan, has warned that until “the market really stabilises” then they won’t be able to predict when their current broadband line losses to rivals will stop (Openreach lost 707k in 2024 and expects to lose about 900,000 this financial year). BT Group’s most recent trading update to the end June 2025 (Q1 FY26) revealed that Openreach lost another 169,000 total broadband lines to...
Zen Internet UK Rejigs Management Team to Boost Consumer and Partner Focus | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has today appointed Paul North as Managing Director (MD) of its Partner division. At the same time, Stephen Warburton, who previously ran Zen’s Partner division for over 20 years and was also holding responsibility for Zen’s Consumer divisions, will now be able to focus exclusively on the consumer side of things. The move reflects Zen’s recent shift to develop their Fibre Hub (i.e. an alternative network...
Government to Reintegrate Building Digital UK Agency Back into DSIT | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has today informed ISPreview that its Building Digital UK (BDUK) executive agency, which has responsibility for delivering gigabit broadband and better mobile connectivity across the nation (e.g. the £5bn Project Gigabit scheme), is to be integrated back into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) from 1st November 2025. Regular readers might recall that the previous Conservative government turned BDUK into an...
Now UK Metal Thieves are Stealing the Shells of Broadband Cabinets | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The saying goes that criminals will steal anything that isn’t bolted down, but the opposite now seems to be true in Nottinghamshire (England), where a spate of recent metal thefts has seen criminals making off with the steel covers from several of Virgin Media’s (O2) broadband and phone street cabinets. The situation, which typically leaves such cabinets exposed to the elements and thus at risk of damage, is unusual because unlike the normal targets of...