Vodafone UK Named Best Mobile Network in Central London | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study from SignalTracker, which operates a popular Android-based mobile app for monitoring and examining mobile phone reception and performance (not available on Apple’s iOS), has named Vodafone as the best mobile operator in Central London for its balance of 4G / 5G coverage and mobile broadband speeds. The figures quoted below stem from over 11,000 tests carried out by PolicyTracker in February and March 2025. Each network was tested outdoors...
Courage, branding, and the digital-first telco | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview At this year’s DTW conference in Copenhagen, we spoke to triPica CEO Mathieu Horn to discuss how eSIM and AI-powered BSS is empowering customers to create hyper personalised usage plans The telecoms industry has long struggled with stagnant growth and razor thin margins, with stale “more data for less” packages doing little to win market share or increase average revenue per user. But despite this lacklustre performance, most telcos are still...
Check Now – 18 Trusted Web Browser Extensions Discovered Stealing Your Data | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Researchers from Kai Security have identified eighteen extensions (add-ons) for Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge website browsers, some of which are both well rated and widely installed, that have been stealthily used to hide a Trojan infection that can hijack your browser and steal personal data. Worse is that 2.3 million users have installed one of them. The extensions themselves are often quite clever in the sense that they actually deliver on the...
Broadband ISP Ogi Award Community Grants to Projects in Rural Wales | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Infracapital-backed UK ISP Ogi, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across South Wales (110,000 RFS premises passed by end of 2024), has today announced that they’ve released another batch of grants – worth around £5,000 – as part of their “Cefnogi” community support fund for local projects. The community support fund (“Cefnogi”) typically offers grants worth up to £500, and volunteering hours, to local grassroots...
ISP Sky Broadband Offers UK FTTC Customers Free Upgrades to FTTP | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of Sky Broadband’s “superfast” (part-fibre) packages (FTTC or SOGEA), specifically those living in areas where Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines now exist from either Openreach or CityFibre’s networks, have started to receive Texts (SMS) and WhatsApp messages inviting them to upgrade to their Full Fibre 100Mbps (18Mbps upload) service “at no extra charge“. So far as ISPreview can tell, the new programme appears to have started a few weeks ago,...
Neos Networks Completes Oxfordshire UK GigaHubs Full Fibre Build | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) and Neos Networks have today confirmed the completion of their £7.25m “GigaHubs” project, which has now connected 192 public sector sites (schools, hospitals etc.) to a new 1,500km long gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network. Just to recap. Neos holds the contract for this, but they’re also partly acting as an aggregator, bringing together several connectivity suppliers — including Openreach, Virgin Media...
Wildanet’s Project Gigabit Broadband Build in Cornwall Covers 10,000 Premises | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative UK network provider Wildanet has announced that they’ve now built their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband service to an additional 10,000 premises in rural Cornwall. The effort forms part of the three contracts they hold with the government’s wider £5bn Project Gigabit programme, which are worth £77m (state aid). At present Wildanet holds the following Project Gigabit contracts: Cornwall Central (Lot 32.03), South West (Lot 32.02)...
Broadband ISP KCOM Awards Three More Digital Inclusion Grants | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hull-based incumbent broadband provider KCOM, which has built a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across large parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has named three more winners for their Digital Inclusion Grants – worth a combined £20k. A total of £100,000 has so far been paid out to related projects since the scheme started. The grant scheme, which is currently still due to run until the end of 2026, is designed to help promote online...
Virgin Media UK Waves Farewell to BBC iPlayer Support on TiVo TV Box | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of broadband and phone provider Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who take their pay TV service and continue to use one of the provider’s legacy TiVo set-top-boxes, have recently been informed – via email – that the BBC’s popular iPlayer service “will no longer be supported” from 23rd July 2025. But it’s not all bad news. The move (CordBusters) is hardly a surprise given the ever-advancing age of Virgin Media’s TiVo hardware (we suspect it...
Zayo Europe partners with Ciena for German network boost | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Leading network infrastructure provider Zayo Europe has deployed Ciena’s optical technology to launch a new German network covering 3,000km of fibre across 8 core domestic metros including Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Berlin. The network also extends to a 14th key hub across the border in Strasbourg, France. With Ciena’s Reconfigurable Line System (RLS) and WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) solutions, Zayo Europe can now offer...