OpenAI and NVIDIA to leverage new AI growth zone in North East England | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release An AI Growth Zone in the North East is set to unlock more than 5,000 new jobs and bring in £30 billion in investment as the region becomes a hub for AI development. This will build on the region’s work to upskill local residents in AI and create opportunities for people to take up long term careers in the sector – including the technology’s development and use of AI in public services like healthcare. Announced today, it will solidify the...
Ofcom UK Propose to Speed Up NGSO Licensing for LEO Broadband Satellites | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK broadband, media and communications regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a new consultation that proposes to improve the existing license process for non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) systems, such as those like Starlink, OneWeb and others that offer broadband from satellites in a Low or Medium Earth Orbit (LEO and MEO). The regulator introduced their current spectrum licensing process for NGSO satellite systems back in 2021. But since then...
New Full Fibre Broadband Network Goes Live at Margam Park, Neath Port Talbot | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme has announced the completion of a £150,000 project to deploy a new full fibre broadband network across Margam Park (Neath Port Talbot) in South Wales, which will also reach homes in the surrounding area. Just to recap. The UK and Welsh Governments gave their approval for a £55m digital infrastructure investment under the £1.3bn Swansea Bay City Region project in 2021 (here), which among other...
Sky UK Informs Workers that up to 600 Staff Face the Chop | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Sky UK (Sky Broadband, Sky TV, Sky Mobile – Comcast etc.) has today begun notifying their workforce that up to 600 of them are likely to be made redundant by the end of this year, while around 300 more may be impacted by a wider business reorganisation. Many of those expected to be cut appear to come from Sky’s tech and networking teams. Sky has had a busy few years and a big part of that has been driven by developments on their network and technology...
Wireless ISP WiFi Scotland Brings Full Fibre Broadband to Rural Moray | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some 43 homes and businesses around remote rural parts of Moray in the Scottish Highlands have gained access to gigabit broadband speeds thanks to a new deployment by local ISP WiFi Scotland. The provider was able to harness public funding via the R100 Voucher Scheme (SBVS) to connect premises around the Craigellachie and Ben Aigan areas. Just to recap. The Scottish Government’s R100 Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (SBVS) typically offers grants worth...
Transport for Wales Trials Satellite Broadband for Bus WiFi Services | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Transport for Wales (TfW), which is a not-for-profit organisation owned by the Welsh Government, has begun trials of a new satellite internet solution to connect the unique demand-responsive transport (DRT) based fflecsi bus services in the rural area of Machynlleth (Powys). Users of the service can now benefit from onboard WiFi. Unlike regular buses, which operate off a fixed timetable, the fflecsi bus service adopts a flexible alternative that picks up...
Openreach Sees UK Full Fibre Broadband Traffic Grow 35 Percent in H1 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed that broadband data traffic across their UK full fibre (FTTP) network alone increased by more than 35% between Jan and June 2025, compared to the same period in 2024. The busiest day so far was on 21st Feb, when a large Fortnite (video game) patch saw users gobble a total of 372PB (PetaBytes). The operator typically supplies numerous broadband ISPs (e.g. TalkTalk, BT, Sky Broadband, Vodafone and...
Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Adopts AI to Improve Customer Broadband Installs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 600,000 premises (mostly in remote rural parts of England) and is home to 150,000 customers, has today announced that they’ve adopted Vyntelligence’s AI video technology – the first UK retail fibre provider to do so – to improve customer installation journeys by reducing unnecessary work. Since launching the initiative, Gigaclear claims to have already seen...
Virgin Media O2 UK Create Dedicated Fixed Wholesale Unit for Consumer and Business | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband network operator and retail ISP Virgin Media (O2) has this morning announced the creation of a single dedicated Fixed Wholesale unit, which will bring together their consumer and business facing wholesale teams under one roof. This will allow rival ISPs to access their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network – currently available to 7 million premises. Regular readers might recall that VMO2’s long-held plan for opening up their existing...
Chris Newall Joins Ontix as Chief Executive Officer | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More London, UK, 15th September 2025 – Ontix, the next-generation infrastructure-as-a-service provider, announces the appointment of Chris Newall as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in a new chapter for the company. With over 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry, Chris joins Ontix from Clarke Telecom, where he was Sales & Strategy Director, following his role as Chief Commercial Officer at Indigo Telecom Group. Chris’s goal as the...