Netgem TV Drops UK Price of PLEIO Freely Streaming Box Back to £99 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Digital entertainment platform Netgem TV appears to have responded to British company Manhattan TV’s recent launch of Aero (here), which is a budget friendly (£69.99) 4K set-top-box that supports the new broadband-based live TV streaming service – Freely, by dropping the price of their own rival PLEIO box back from £109.89 to its original launch price of £99. Until a few short months ago there weren’t any streaming set-top-boxes with support for Freely,...
Concern for O2 UK’s 5G Mobile Small Cells as IONX Networks Suffers Administration | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More O2’s (Virgin Media) joint deployment with IONX Networks (formerly Dense Air), which last year claimed to have become one of the first mobile operators in the UK to successfully integrate a neutral host Small Cell into their live 5G Standalone (SA) core network (here), has been cast into doubt after IONX fell into administration at the end of last year. Small Cells are typically mini shoebox sized mobile (radio) base stations, which are designed to...
O2 UK and Ontix Enhance 4G and 5G Mobile Network Capacity in North Wales | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) and network technology provider Ontix have this morning reported that they’ve successfully deployed their first 4G and 5G Small Cells in North Wales, which have apparently gone live across Flintshire to boost data capacity (mobile broadband), including around Deeside Industrial Park. Small cells are mini shoebox sized mobile (radio) base stations, which are designed to deliver limited coverage (usually up to around 100...
Wessex Internet Revise Dorset and Somerset UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government (DSIT) appears set to revise their Project Gigabit contract with rural UK ISP Wessex Internet for Dorset and South Somerset (Lot 14.02), which originally aimed to build a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to cover “around” 21,400 hard-to-reach premises. But the contract value has now been increased to £38.2m and fewer premises are set to be reached. Before we get started it’s important to understand that Project Gigabit’s contracts...
Ookla 2026 Study Finds Starlink UK Broadband Speeds Poor vs Europe | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net broadband connection testing website and app, has published a new study that examines the performance of Starlink’s (SpaceX) LEO satellite broadband service across the world. Overall, performance in the UK has improved, but we continue to lag most of Europe. Starlink currently has around 9,600 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (c.6,150 are v2 / GEN2 variants) – mostly at altitudes of...
Openreach Warn 500K UK Business Lines Haven’t Switched Away from Legacy Phones | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More National operator Openreach (BT) has today warned that “more than half a million business lines” still haven’t migrated away from the old Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to new IP-based digital phone (VoIP etc.) alternatives, which with only 12-months to go until the service is switched-off risks firms being exposed to price hikes, as well as “failing equipment and eventual loss of service“. Just to recap. The legacy phone switch-off was last...
Uswitch 2026 Awards Name Top UK Broadband ISP and Mobile Providers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Comparison site Uswitch.com has named the winners of their annual 2026 Telecoms Awards, which among things saw EE scooping the win for best “National Broadband Provider of the Year“, while YouFibre won the best regional provider award for the second year in a row and VOXI scooped the win for best mobile “Network of the Year“ etc. As usual, the comparison site selected its winners via a combination of methods. Most of the awards were decided based on a...
University of Leeds Team Push Free Space Terahertz Laser Data Link to 4Gbps | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A team of UK researchers working at the University of Leeds, supported by colleagues from University College London (UCL) and others, has demonstrated a wireless line-of-sight Free Space Optical (FSO) communication link pushing data speeds of 4Gbps (Gigabits per second) using Terahertz (THz) frequencies; something that has previously been extremely difficult to harness. Past FSO links have already demonstrated low latency (<1 ms) data rates reaching...
Broadband ISP VISPA Informs UK Customers of Closure and Liquidation | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Long-running UK ISP VISPA, which was first launched way back in 1999, appears to have begun informing customers that they’ve “ceased trading and decided to commence liquidation proceedings“. The provider’s remaining broadband subscribers have been told they will need to “immediately” find an alternative. The small and previously Manchester-based ISP had recently tried their hand at building full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks, such as in the town of...
New Coop Mobile MVNO Service Launches on the Channel Islands | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new mobile virtual network operator service has just launched on the Channel Islands called Coop Mobile, which some readers might recall is partly the product of last year’s £48m deal to build a new “world-class” 5G mobile broadband network across the islands (reflecting Sure‘s acquisition rival Airtel Vodafone). Just to recap. The original deal (here) only became possible after the States of Guernsey voted to temporarily suspend local competition law...