ISP GoFibre Hands Out Funding to Northumberland Community Projects | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network GoFibre, which is rolling out a gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across remote parts of rural Scotland and Northern England, has today announced the first four charities in North Northumberland to secure investment under their community fund. Just to recap. The GoFurther Fund offers grants worth up to £3,000 to help local charity projects and community organisations in the regions of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Fife, East...
Speed Fibre Group completes €22m acquisition of BT Communications Ireland | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Telecoms infrastructure provider Speed Fibre Group has officially completed its acquisition of BT Communications Ireland Limited (BTCIL), marking a significant consolidation in the Irish telecommunications market. The deal, valued at €22 million, sees Speed Fibre take ownership of BTCIL’s domestic network infrastructure, co-location facilities, and wholesale and enterprise customer bases. Speed Fibre Group, which owns the Irish fibre operators Enet...
ITS Wins Contract to Deploy Full Fibre Across Crawley’s Manor Royal Business Park | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More ISPreview has discovered that the Crawley Borough Council (CBC) in West Sussex (England) has just awarded the ITS Technology Group with a contract for their new £1.5 million (state aid) project, which aims to provide every business in Manor Royal (business park) with the ability to connect to gigabit broadband. The new network, which is being supported by funding from the previous Government’s £3.6bn Towns Fund programme (details), is expected to be...
Roku UK Deploys First-Ever FAST TV Channels to Streaming Platform | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Streaming platform provider Roku UK has announced the imminent roll-out of their “first-ever” FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels. A total of 40 FAST channels are due to go live across the company’s Apps, TVs and streaming boxes at no extra cost, starting from October next month. Just to recap. Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channels require a broadband connection for internet access and tend to reflect special dedicated...
Netomnia Raises £300m in Junior Debt to Boost UK FTTP Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Tewkesbury-based network operator Netomnia (Brsk, Youfibre), which has so far deployed their full fibre broadband (FTTP) lines to cover 2.7 million UK premises (375,000 customers), has today announced another major funding boost by successfully completing a £300 million junior debt raise, including an additional £140 million from new and existing investors. The funding includes £160m from existing investors I Squared Capital and Palistar Capital,...
Speed Fibre Group Complete Acquisition of BT’s Irish Wholesale Fibre and B2B Unit | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Speed Fibre Group, which is an open access fibre infrastructure provider (managing or owning 5,400km of fibre) that is ultimately backed by Cordiant Capital, has today announced that they’ve completed the previously announced (here) acquisition of BT’s Irish wholesale fibre and enterprise business unit (BT Communications Ireland Ltd.). The transaction, which forms part of BT Group UK’s continued efforts to reduce their international operations,...
O2 UK Starts Putting WiFi Calling Live on Pay As You Go Mobile Plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media), specifically those on their Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, this week began to notice the sudden appearance of Wi-Fi Calling on their service (ISPreview Forum) and 4G Calling (VoLTE) is also expected to follow by the end of this year. O2’s PAYG plans have long lacked support for 5G (mobile broadband), WiFi Calling (Voice over WiFi) and 4G Calling (Voice over LTE). But earlier this month that all...
Poverty Alliance Warns UK Social Broadband ISP Tariffs Suffer Critical Flaws | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has published a new briefing that warns how Social Tariffs from UK broadband and mobile providers, which offer significant cost savings to those on state benefits (e.g. Pension Credit, Universal Credit etc.), continue to suffer from three “critical flaws” – minimal awareness, inconsistent quality and affordability. According to Ofcom’s most recent December 2024 report (here), the take-up of cheaper Social Tariffs...
O2 UK Hikes Prices for Some 30 Day Pay Monthly SIM Only Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media), specifically those on 30 day rolling SIM Only contracts, have informed ISPreview of how they’ve just been notified that they will be hit by a sharp price hike from 1st October 2025 (in many cases this equates to an increase of c.12%). The increase has also been confirmed by one of O2’s support agents on their Community Forum: “As part of a recent tariff review, we’re making a small adjustment...
Telecom Acquisitions Group Acquires Eco UK ISP Earth Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Horsham-based Telecom Acquisitions Group (TAL), which is a holding company for a number of familiar residential-focused internet service provider brands (Home Telecom, Eclipse Broadband etc.), has acquired both the brand and customer base of another troubled ISP in the shape of Earth Broadband. Earth Broadband (earth.) is a relatively new provider, which first popped up on our radar in 2023 alongside a commitment to plant 500,000 trees and remove...