Revenues from Trooli’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Climb to £11.82m as Losses Bite | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network operator and gigabit broadband ISP Trooli, which has deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 480,000 premises across parts of England and some of Scotland, have this week reported their annual results to the end of 2025 and revealed that total turnover increased 27% to £11.82m (2024: £9.28m). But losses took a big bite. The altnet’s infrastructure is currently found in various towns and large semi-rural villages across parts...
13,500 TalkTalk UK Broadband and Phone Customers Sold to Fleur Telecom | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet service provider TalkTalk has sold a further 13,500 of their broadband customers to Fleur Telecom, which is one of the UK ISPs controlled by the Horsham-based Telecom Acquisitions Group (TAL) – the holding company for a number of familiar retail broadband brands (Home Telecom, Eclipse Broadband etc.). The move marks the latest piecemeal disposal of TalkTalk’s residential broadband base, which only last week unexpectedly sold a further 120,000 of...
Openreach Help Migrate Legacy UK Phone and Broadband Lines Split by Provider | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More As the closure of the UK’s old Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) based broadband services draws ever closure to its deadline, Openreach has now launched a new special offer to help migrate customers that split their old broadband and phone lines between different providers. Just to recap. The legacy phone switch-off was previously delayed from the original Dec 2025 date to 31st January 2027 in order to give...
Ofcom Probe Zayo Group and Tata Comms UK Over Info. Request Failures | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has this afternoon opened two separate investigations into whether or not fibre optic network operator Zayo Group UK or digital communications provider Tata Communications (UK) “failed to comply” with the regulator’s requirements in their response to a statutory information request. The regulator holds various information gathering powers to help them assess, monitor and govern the UK market. Naturally, communication...
New Rules to Tackle Fake Discounts Set to Benefit UK Consumers in 2027 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The new UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, yesterday pledged to bring forward the introduction of several planned measures to help consumers exit bad contracts, stop misleading price promotions and to generally tackle “subscription traps“. Some of the new measures will now be introduced from January 2027, rather than next Spring, but others require further consultation. The new rules appear to mark both an enhancement and acceleration of changes that were...
Report Warns Against Future TV Plan to Shut Down UK’s Tall Tower Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report from the National Preparedness Commission (NPC), which is said to be an independent and non-political body focused on preparing the country for a major crisis, threats and incidents, has warned that the UK’s proposed plan to switch-off terrestrial TV signals in favour of broadband internet-based streaming “risks … over-concentrating communications on internet-based networks“. Just to recap. Back in June 2026 the Government proposed a plan...
Removing Paramount+ on Three UK Risks Inviting 100Mbps Data Speed Cap | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some existing customers of mobile operator Three UK, specifically those who have the Paramount+ add-on included with their ‘Complete‘ plan, have responded to the looming price hike on the streaming service by taking the option to remove it from their package. The catch is that doing so seems to require you to accept the operator’s new 100Mbps cap on mobile broadband speeds. Back in April 2026 we reported that Three UK had moved to mirror Vodafone by...
Assessing the Future Withdrawal of UK Mobile MMS Picture Messaging | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More An important development recently happened in Germany as mobile operators switched off the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), which meant that users would in future be limited to sending pictures, short videos and audio files to other mobile phone users via internet-based messaging platforms (RCS, WhatsApp, iMessage etc.). But this raises the question, when might the UK follow? The commercial deployment of MMS started around 2002 and only really became...
Streetwave Set to Survey Mobile Broadband Coverage Across West Yorkshire | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network analyst firm Streetwave has revealed that they’ve been chosen by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in England to conduct a real-world study of mobile network coverage and 4G / 5G data performance across the region, harnessing 12,000km of the county’s road network and testing all three of the primary mobile networks – EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK). Just to recap. Streetwave works by harnessing waste bin (refuse) collection...
Octopus Investments Reportedly Set to Buy TalkTalk’s UK Wholesale Business | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report has today claimed that Octopus Investments, via infrastructure investor Fern Trading, is on the verged of entering into advanced talks to acquire TalkTalk Group’s wholesale broadband and Ethernet business – PlatformX Communications (PXC). TalkTalk’s consumer business is also now said to be fielding interest from Opus Broadband, in addition to Vodafone and possibly others. Last month ISPreview reported that PXC had attracted interest from...