Hyperoptic strikes deal with Openreach to offer broadband services to 1 million homes | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Hyperoptic, the UK’s leading alternative full fibre ISP, has today announced it is set to extend availability of its award-winning services to an additional one million UK homes, via the Openreach network The strategic move has been driven by its ongoing commitment to delivering the best customer experience to broadband users throughout the UK, with the launch expected during early 2026. CEO and co-founder, Dana Tobak CBE, said: “We have...
Streetwave to Map 4G and 5G Mobile Coverage Across North Scotland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) has announced that they’ve appointed network analyst firm Streetwave to harness fleets of bin lorries to help “accurately” map 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage and performance, which will focus on the North of Scotland (i.e. Moray, Aberdeenshire and Highland Council areas). Streetwave has already spent the past few years harnessing waste (bin / refuse) collection trucks to map mobile network coverage and speeds across...
Vodafone Bring Free 7-Day eSIM Mobile Network Trial to 4 More UK Cities | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile network operator Vodafone have announced that people in Belfast, Sheffield, Liverpool and Watford can now take advantage of their “try before you buy” style eSIM, which first went live in London last month (here). Consumers can try the operator’s service, free, for 7-days with 50GB of data (mobile broadband), 500 minutes and 500 texts – all without changing your number. The “no commitments or strings attached” service trial is only open to...
Welsh Gov Update Plan for £70m Extending High Speed Broadband Project | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Welsh Government (WG) today issued an update on their long awaited £70m (state aid) “Extending High Speed Broadband” (EHSB) project for Wales, which now intends to help upgrade around 25,000 to 30,000 poorly served premises (down from the original aspiration of c.84,000) in areas that can’t yet get “superfast” speeds of 30Mbps+. ISPreview’s readers may recall that the WG first began to explore the viability of such a project in May 2023 via a Prior...
Sparkle Brings Quantum Safe Connectivity to AWS Marketplace | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Rome, 9 June 2025 Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announces the availability of its “Quantum Safe over Internet” (QSI) to Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. The service is already available through Sparkle’s commercial channels and will soon be accessible on AWS marketplace. QSI is a cloud-native solution that offers secure VPN connectivity between customer sites or data centers and cloud...
Hyperoptic to Extend UK FTTP Broadband Coverage via Openreach | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More In a significant strategic development. City-focused UK ISP Hyperoptic, which has spent the past few years deploying their own alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) gigabit broadband network to cover 1.9 million premises (up from 1.73m in July 2024), has confirmed to ISPreview that they plan to extend this to “at least” another 1 million premises – albeit using Openreach’s network. The operator, which at the start of this year suffered another round of...
Landowners Lobby UK Government for Higher Rents on 5G Mobile Masts | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A group of land and property owners, including the British Property Federation (BPF) and National Farmers Union (NFU) among them, have written a new letter that calls on the UK government to suspend earlier reforms that made it easier and cheaper for mobile and broadband operators to deploy their infrastructure on private land. Before 2017 it was frequently landowners that would extract highly lucrative rental agreements in return for allowing telecoms...
EE UK Start Enabling Voice Over 5G Standalone Option on Smartphones | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some of ISPreview’s readers have informed us that mobile operator EE (BT) appears to have pushed out a new carrier update, which enables the “Voice Over 5G Standalone” network feature on Smartphones that can support it (currently we’ve only seen reports of this from Apple iPhone users). Just to recap. Most 5G mobile networks today are still largely based on Non-Standalone (NSA) technology, which means they are partly reliant upon older and slower 4G...
Fibrus Hits EBITDA Breakeven as UK Broadband Customers Top 113.5k | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Infracapital-backed alternative network operator Fibrus, which has been rolling out their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and Cumbria (England), has today published their latest annual results and revealed that they finally achieved EBITDA breakeven in March 2025 and are now home to 113,500 customers (up from 100k in Nov 2024). The ability to achieve a positive EBITDA (i.e. earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and...
Openreach Finally Kicks Off Larger FTTP Broadband Build in Oxford | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has finally started to deploy their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network across the Cathedral City of Oxford (Oxfordshire) in England, which mostly reflects the central area covered by their main exchange. The city of Oxford is a bit of an unusual one because, until fairly recently, the only real option for gigabit-capable broadband came via Virgin Media’s (inc. nexfibre) network. Openreach...