Toob May Have Scaled-Back UK Full Fibre Broadband Build in Waterlooville | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hampshire-based altnet and UK ISP toob, which has built a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, appears to have recently removed the core part of Waterlooville (Hampshire, England) from their future roll-out plan. The original £8m deployment across 20,000 premises in Waterlooville was announced all the way back in January 2024 (here), which...
Openreach Confirm FTTC and SOGEA UK Broadband Price Rises and Discounts | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach has also announced a bunch of separate but related changes across their range of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) and complementary SOGEA (standalone FTTC broadband etc.) broadband products for UK ISPs today, which reflects a mix of the usual annual price increase and some special offers. Firstly, the FTTC broadband price increases follow the usual level of CPI inflation (3.6% at the time these were set) and will be...
Openreach Extends FREE FTTP Broadband Connection Discount to UK ISPs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) is preparing to introduce yet another new discount for UK ISPs and their broadband customers. This reduces the one-off connection (install) charge for New to Network (NTN) orders of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband lines to £0 (standard connections normally start at £122.84 +vat). However, it is important to caveat the definition of New to Network (NTN), which means this applies to any property (house, flat...
EE UK Finally Brings 5G Support to Pay As You Go Mobile Plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has recently begun to inform existing customers on their Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile plans that both they and new subscribers can finally access their 5G (mobile broadband) network, which wasn’t previously available to the plans (i.e. the best you could get was 4G, until earlier this month). Some of EE’s customers (credits to John and Mark) reported to ISPreview that they received a cryptic text message...
Cloudflare are Making Changes to Avoid Breaking the Internet Again in 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The American Content Delivery Network (CDN) and IT service company Cloudflare has committed to make several key changes in order to avoid breaking a significant chunk of the internet again, much as they did on two occasions between November (here) and, to a lesser extent, during early December 2025. The biggest of the two events occurred on 18th November, when a huge chunk of the internet suddenly became sporadically inaccessible for several hours after...
UK Broadband ISP Voneus Give Pembs Homes 45 Days Notice of Disconnection | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative rural internet provider Voneus, which has built a mix of full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband networks over some of Wales and England’s most remote communities, have chosen Christmas to be the time when they give some Pembrokeshire homes 45 days’ notice of future service “termination” due to a local network “redesign“. ISPreview hasn’t yet received enough feedback to assess exactly how many premises or customers are likely to be...
South Western Railway Trials Faster Onboard WiFi via UK Satellite Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has announced that South Western Railway (SWR) has launched a new one-year trial to deliver faster onboard WiFi (wireless broadband) for people travelling on journeys between London Waterloo, Portsmouth Harbour and Weymouth in England. The effort should complement recent work to deploy a new track-side fibre and 5G mast network (here). The trial also means that the now publicly-owned train and rail operator can finally deliver around 97%...
GigaAir Expands 10Gbps Full Fibre Broadband Network in Central Glasgow | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A few years have passed since we first reported on business-focused network operator GigaAir and their plan to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and fixed wireless broadband network across parts of Scotland (here). The good news is that their combined network now passes in excess of 6,500 business premises across Glasgow City Centre. According to the company’s boss, Alan Cameron, the combined network already reaches into areas such as the...
Huawei betting big on telecoms’ Agentic AI revolution | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More The Chinese tech giant says AI agents will not only help telcos become more efficient, but will open crucial new revenue streams For many years now, the global telecommunications industry has been racing to achieve the somewhat amorphous goal of ‘digital transformation’, focused on replacing hardware with software, shift workloads to the cloud, and incorporate digital technologies. Today, in the age of AI, this digital transformation has become a mere...
Dec 2025 Contract Delivery Progress for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK agency has published their December 2025 update on the delivery progress of contracts that have been awarded under their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The update reveals that some 183,380 contracted premises (up from 167,770 in Nov 2025) have so far been covered out of a planned total of 1,002,210. Just to be clear. The figures in this update are not directly comparable to the figures published in...