GoFibre Update on £105m Project Gigabit Broadband Build in North East Scotland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network operator GoFibre, which is building full fibre (FTTP) broadband across rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has provided an update on their rollout in the North East of Scotland under the publicly subsidised Project Gigabit contract. The first locations have now started to go live for customers. Just to recap. GoFibre’s Project Gigabit contract for North East Scotland, which was first awarded back in July...
Virgin Media O2 Satellite UK Mobile Service Extended to Google Pixel Users | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that their Direct-to-Device (D2D) based O2 Satellite service (here), which for £3 extra per month enables normal Smartphones to connect to their mobile network via Starlink’s cell-focused broadband satellites, now also works on Google Pixel devices (phones). Just to recap. The new service harnesses SpaceX’s global Starlink constellation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to support a satellite based 4G mobile...
Analysing Broadband Traffic Impact of England v Croatia – 2026 FIFA World Cup UPDATE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Last night at 9pm saw England take on Croatia in their first FIFA World Cup 2026 match and, given the growing prevalence of TV streaming solutions and the fact that the match took place outside of normal working hours, we were keen to learn whether this would have a noticeable impact on internet traffic. ISPreview has thus examined the impact on several networks. In the past such events, when taking place outside of working hours, wouldn’t have moved the...
Opensignal Q1 2026 Study Ranks UK Bottom for 5G Mobile Performance in Europe | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has this morning published their latest analysis of 5G non-standalone mobile (mobile broadband) and 5G Standalone (5G+) availability and performance across Europe. The results rank the UK last in Europe with average download speeds one-third of Denmark’s and the lowest Excellent Consistent Quality score in the region. As usual the data in this report is based off crowdsourced testing, which has been gathered by users...
First Mast Sites Live as JT Starts Island-wide 5G Mobile Rollout on Guernsey | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More State-owned broadband and telecoms operator JT Global (Jersey Telecom), supported by technology partner Ericsson, has this week announced that they’ve finally begun the roll-out of their new 5G mobile network across the channel island of Guernsey. The first two sites are now live in and around St Peter Port. Regular readers might recall that the Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA) last year approved the release of new radio spectrum in...
EU Reveals 2026 Gigabit Broadband and 5G Coverage Progress vs UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The European Commission (EC) has published their annual 2026 study of broadband and mobile network coverage in Europe, which reveals how the EU’s fixed gigabit broadband (FTTP and Hybrid Fibre Coax) and 5G mobile networks compare across all of its 27 countries. We compare this with the United Kingdom below. Just to recap. The EU’s main goal for digital infrastructure, which is very similar to the UK, is for every European household to have access to...
Chameleon Tech Uses Home Broadband to Solve UK Smart Meter Connectivity Woes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Chameleon Technology has just become one of the first to provide a Virtual WAN (VWAN) solution to help resolve the problems that over 350,000 hard-to-reach UK homes have with Energy Smart Meters, which sometimes struggle to send data back to suppliers via their mobile networks. The new solution will instead use your home broadband (WiFi) service. Regular readers may recall that we covered this problem a couple of times last year (here and here). In...
EE UK Confirms Disney+ Streaming Service Now Available on TV Platform | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Much as ISPreview leaked earlier this month (here). Customers of broadband and mobile provider EE (BT) can now finally access the Disney+ app on their EE TV Box Pro and EE TV Box Edge devices. But billing for related subscriptions will still be managed directly by Disney+, rather than as part of EE’s service. Quite why it’s taken EE so long to add Disney+ support to their TV platform is unclear, but better late than never. Sadly there won’t be any...
Subsea cable security: Focusing on reality over fear with UltramapGlobal | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview At the Submarine Networks EMEA 2026, we caught up with UltramapGlobal’s marketing lead Mychael Owen and CEO Martin Connelly to discuss the company’s role in securing submarine infrastructure As geopolitical tensions and high-profile disruptions push submarine cables from the realm of invisible infrastructure into mainstream media headlines, subsea security has suddenly become a focal point of global anxiety. At the Submarine Networks EMEA 2026...
Switchity Maps Ofcom’s Spring 2026 UK Full Fibre Broadband Coverage Data | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Comparison service Switchity has taken Ofcom’s recently released Spring 2026 Connected Nations data report (our summary) and turned it into a simple but useful map of full fibre (FTTP) broadband coverage across the United Kingdom, including devolved constituencies (781 seats) and all 361 local authorities. The interactive map also depicts current take-up levels and includes the regulator’s latest forecast for future full fibre coverage to January 2029,...