Full Fibre Broadband Network Hyperoptic Suffers More UK Job Cuts
City-focused ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 has built an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million homes in parts of 64 UK towns and cities, has informed its staff that 2025 will see a “reduced volume of work” and thus a potential reduction in their infrastructure teams of nearly 130 jobs (out of nearly 280 potentially impacted roles). The operator, which at the last update in July 2024 said they were home to a customer base of 340,000 (with a target of...
Budget Broadband ISP TalkTalk Probes Possible UK Data Breach
Customers of debt-troubled UK internet provider TalkTalk have been given an uncomfortable reminder of the 2015 cyberattack (here), which came after the ISP admitted that it was “investigating” reports on a cybercrime forum that alleged the provider had suffered a new data breach. According to The Register, a member of the forum claimed that personal data belonging to 18.8 million current and former customers of TalkTalk had been leaked, including – subscriber PINs, first and last names, email...
Police Arrest After Protestors Cut Vital Fibre Optic Cables in UK Cities
The City of London Police (CoLP) have arrested a 29-year-old man after a climate protest group claimed to have “[disrupted] the wifi systems of hundreds of insurance companies across the UK“, which they achieved by cutting key fibre optic cables in London (similar events are also said to have occurred in Leeds, Birmingham and Sheffield). In a post on Instagram, the relatively new group, calling itself Shut the System, said on Monday that its “activists” were “demanding an immediate end to...
BT pushes for accelerated withdrawal from “outdated” copper landline network as faults rise
News BT has urged the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to accelerate plans to transition away from the ageing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), warning that the outdated system poses growing risks to essential services Increasingly fragile and difficult to maintain, the PSTN saw a 45% rise in major resilience incidents last year, according to Ofcom’s Connected Nations report. BT warns that delays in migrating to digital connectivity could disrupt critical...
Germany sets aside €1bn for fibre broadband expansion
News To date, around 4.3 million connections have been made possible through federal gigabit funding The German Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV) has launched its 2025 Gigabit Funding programme. Starting this month, €1.2 billion will be available to support infrastructure projects and a pilot programmes to close connectivity gaps in underserved areas. This year’s funding round is centred on the 2025 infrastructure funding programme, which includes both a standard...
Boldyn takes first steps in Germany with Smart Mobile Labs acquisition
Press Release Boldyn Networks (Boldyn), one of the largest shared network infrastructure providers in the world, cements its position as a leading global mobile private networks player through the agreement to acquire Smart Mobile Labs (SML), Germany’s market leader in bespoke private 5G networks and turnkey applications. The addition of SML will immediately expand Boldyn’s footprint, placing the business with a track record of over 110 mobile private network (MPN) implementations across the...
VMO2 deploys more small cells in Birmingham with Ontix
News The tiny base stations will boost 4G mobile capacity in the city centre Birmingham is set to get a 4G boost this week, with Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) announcing their latest 4G small cell deployments in the city in partnership with Ontix. Small cells are tiny base stations designed to be deployed in areas of high footfall in order to add capacity to existing mobile networks. Their small size and shorter range mean that these base stations are typically deployed closer to street level, often...
EE Miles Ahead of O2, Three UK and Vodafone for 5G Mobile Availability
Network benchmarking provider Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net internet connection testing service, has kindly furnished ISPreview with some additional data that reveals the past and present levels of UK 5G mobile (mobile broadband) availability across EE (BT), Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (Virgin Media). Some of the results may surprise. Just to be clear. The figures for 5G availability reflect the percentage of users with 5G devices spending most of their time connected to 5G...
Broadband Altnet Toob Ranks 4th in Sunday Times 100 Tech List
Hampshire-based network builder and UK ISP toob, which has deployed a gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of South England and also harness some of CityFibre’s network, has placed 4th in the latest 2025 Sunday Times 100 Tech – a ranking of Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies. The list is split into a top 50 for software companies and a top 50 for hardware companies, with toob being ranked 4th in the hardware list for annual sales growth of 270.73% (total...
ITS Technology Launch 5Gbps Speeds via FTTP over Ethernet Service
The ITS Technology Group, which operates various wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has today introduced both 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps symmetric speed tiers on their “FibreLight” FTTP over Ethernet (EoFTTP) service. Just to recap. The operator’s XGS-PON-enabled (10Gbps capable) network is currently said to “pass” approximately 465,000 businesses (inc. commercial premises), and they often claim to “reach the...