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Original article ISPreview UK:Read More City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have built their gigabit broadband network to cover 1.9 million UK homes (mostly across blocks of flats / MDUs), has just become the latest internet provider to sign-up to the Government’s Telecoms Consumer Charter (TCC). Just to recap. The Government announced this charter in February 2026, which has so far succeeded in getting the major and a few smaller UK broadband and phone providers...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile and internet provider giffgaff, which initially launched their full fibre broadband packages via nexfibre’s national network in September 2025 (here), has confirmed to ISPreview that new customers in many Fibre Up (Project Mustang) areas on Virgin Media’s national FTTP (XGS-PON) network can now also take their packages. In case anybody has forgotten, Fibre Up / Project Mustang reflects Virgin Media’s programme of upgrading their old Hybrid Fibre...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has begun inviting broadband ISPs (CPs) to help test a new ‘Standard‘ install process for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which will go beyond the existing method that largely runs an optical fibre cable into your home and then connects that up to an internal Optical Network Terminal (ONT / optical modem). At present Openreach are investing up to £15bn to deploy their new multi-gigabit speed capable full fibre...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has begun inviting broadband ISPs (CPs) to help test a new ‘Standard‘ install process for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which will go beyond the existing method that largely runs an optical fibre cable into your home and then connects that up to an internal Optical Network Terminal (ONT / optical modem). At present Openreach are investing up to £15bn to deploy their new multi-gigabit speed capable full fibre...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has begun inviting broadband ISPs (CPs) to help test a new ‘Standard‘ install process for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which will go beyond the existing method that largely runs an optical fibre cable into your home and then connects that up to an internal Optical Network Terminal (ONT / optical modem). At present Openreach are investing up to £15bn to deploy their new multi-gigabit speed capable full fibre...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has begun inviting broadband ISPs (CPs) to help test a new ‘Standard‘ install process for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which will go beyond the existing method that largely runs an optical fibre cable into your home and then connects that up to an internal Optical Network Terminal (ONT / optical modem). At present Openreach are investing up to £15bn to deploy their new multi-gigabit speed capable full fibre...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has begun inviting broadband ISPs (CPs) to help test a new ‘Standard‘ install process for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which will go beyond the existing method that largely runs an optical fibre cable into your home and then connects that up to an internal Optical Network Terminal (ONT / optical modem). At present Openreach are investing up to £15bn to deploy their new multi-gigabit speed capable full fibre...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has begun inviting broadband ISPs (CPs) to help test a new ‘Standard‘ install process for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which will go beyond the existing method that largely runs an optical fibre cable into your home and then connects that up to an internal Optical Network Terminal (ONT / optical modem). At present Openreach are investing up to £15bn to deploy their new multi-gigabit speed capable full fibre...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has begun inviting broadband ISPs (CPs) to help test a new ‘Standard‘ install process for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which will go beyond the existing method that largely runs an optical fibre cable into your home and then connects that up to an internal Optical Network Terminal (ONT / optical modem). At present Openreach are investing up to £15bn to deploy their new multi-gigabit speed capable full fibre...

Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Welsh Government’s (WG) Tech Valleys programme has announced that 17 primary schools in Blaenau Gwent to be upgraded to gigabit-speed internet as part of their new partnership with Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council and the Shared Resource Service. The new service for the Blaenau Gwent region, which is said to be “up to ten times faster than some of the current connections” used by the schools (listed at the bottom of this article), is being funded...