Better Mobile Cover Goes Live from O2 UK on East Coast Mainline | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 UK (Virgin Media) has today announced, in a “railway first“, that 4G and hopefully 5G connectivity too (mobile broadband) has received a “major boost” after the London North Eastern Railway (LNER), Network Rail and the private sector completed deployment of a new custom-built Distributed Antenna System (DAS). As we reported over a year ago, the hope is that this work will ensure that customers travelling through the two tunnels...
Openreach Name 163 More UK Areas for Copper to FTTP Switch – Tranche 20 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Openreach (BT) has released the next May 2025 batch of exchanges (Tranche 20) in their “FTTP Priority Exchange Stop Sell” programme, which reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option). Currently, there are two schemes for moving away from old copper lines and services, which can sometimes cross over. The...
50% of Telecoms Service Providers Expect SMS Fraud to Grow in 2025, According to Research from XConnect and Mobilesquared | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More London, United Kingdom, 6th May 2025 – XConnect, a Somos Company, the provider of world-class numbering intelligence solutions has launched a report with Mobilesquared, the leading provider of business messaging intelligence, revealing that over 50% of telecoms service providers expect SMS to experience an increase in fraud in 2025, with less than a third expecting SMS to become a cleaner channel in this period. The report, ‘How Do We Create a...
Sparkle and Orchest Technologies Announce Strategic Network Interconnection to Accelerate NaaS Automation | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Rome/Washington, 5 May 2025 Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, has entered into a strategic agreement with Orchest Technologies, a leading LATAM connectivity and automation provider, to enhance mutual network coverage and streamline service orchestration, accelerating the adoption of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions.. Under the agreement, presented in Washington during International...
Sky Glass UK Customers Suffering Black Screen and Content Display Bugs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass pay TV streaming service and device, including those on both their first and latest second generation TV sets, appear to be suffering from a frustrating bug that is disrupting their ability to view content (TV channels, streaming apps etc.) – often showing black screens, incorrect audio or error messages. The majority of the problems appear to have started in early April 2025, although we did find some...
Take-up Rises as Netomnia Report Q1 Results for UK 10Gbps Broadband Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative operator Netomnia (Brsk and YouFibre), which last week reported expanding their 10Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 2.4 million UK premises (RFS) and connecting 310,000 customers (here), has today published their Q1 2025 results and seen take-up grow to 12.4% (up from 11.5% in Q4 2024). But revenues fell. The network access provider is now currently in the process of completing their merger with Brsk (here)...
London Full Fibre Broadband ISP CommunityFibre Reports First Profit | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has deployed their 5Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to cover 1.35 million UK premises (mostly in Greater London), has reportedly “posted its maiden profit” after recording earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of £8m in 2024. Customers also grew to 336,000. The provider, which is currently being backed by funding of around £1.1bn, has had a rough couple of...
Altnet Broadband Operator Freedom Fibre to Suffer UK Job Losses | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network provider Freedom Fibre (Lila Connect), which have so far grown their FTTP based gigabit broadband network to cover 315,000 premises (Nov 2024) across parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Essex, has over the past week notified staff of more redundancies. The operator, which originally aspired to cover 2 million premises across England and Wales with their full fibre network, has gone through...
Network Operators Named as Finalists for UK Fibre Awards 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The shortlist for the fourth annual UK Fibre Awards event, which is due to take place next month (5th June 2025) at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel, has recently been released. The event sees various broadband ISPs and full fibre network builders across several categories pick up awards for their achievements. The event, which appears to be quite similar to many existing industry award ceremonies (e.g. the ISPA Awards and Connected Britain),...
Nexfibre Cut 2025 UK Full Fibre Target to 2.5m Premises as VMO2 Pause NetCo Plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Liberty Global has confirmed that sibling nexfibre, which is working alongside UK ISP partner Virgin Media to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre broadband (FTTP) network across over 5 million premises (c.2.2m have already been built), has scaled back its coverage target for 2025 to 2.5 million premises passed. At the same time, VMO2 “have paused our NetCo plans“. Just to recap. Nexfibre is the product of a £4.5bn joint venture (here) between Telefónica,...