Broadband Altnet LightSpeed Networks Covers 360,000 UK Premises and Appoints New MD | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network provider LightSpeed Networks, which is the business and wholesale side of retail UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband and has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 360,000 premises passed across the East of England and Midlands (36 towns), has today announced the appointment of Matthew Partridge as their new Managing Director (MD). Partridge is said to be bringing over 30 years of experience across the telecoms and...
Newspaper Investigation Raises Concerns Over User Reviews of Vodafone UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A recent investigation by the Sunday Times, which was supported by analysis from TruthEngine®, examined unusual review patterns linked to broadband and mobile provider Vodafone UK and allegations over how some customers “had reviews posted in their names without consent“. Some of the reviews also praised individual store employees. According to the press shot, TruthEngine’s analysis found that the proportion of Vodafone UK Trustpilot reviews mentioning...
ISPs Say Rights Holders Must be Held Accountable for Blocking Innocent Websites | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The EuroISPA (European ISP Association), which represents over 3,300 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the EU and EFTA countries (including the United Kingdom), has called for copyright holders to be “held accountable” when their measures to stop access to online piracy (copyright infringement) creates “collateral damage [due to] overbroad blocking actions“. Broadband ISPs subject to network-level blocking orders, which in the UK usually flow from...
CityFibre Sell Off-Net UK Entanet Business to Telecoms Entrepreneur | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK’s largest alternative broadband provider, CityFibre, has today announced that they’ve agreed a deal to sell their non-core off-net business, Entanet, to telecoms entrepreneur Tom O’Hagan, who is best known as the founder and former CEO of Ethernet provider Virtual1 (this became part of the TalkTalk group in 2022 – here). Regular readers with a long memory may recall that business-focused communications provider Entanet was previously acquired by...
Openreach to Harness Source’s UK EV Chargers to Support Fleet Transition | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More National broadband access provider Openreach (BT) has revealed that they’ve signed a new partnership with EV charging company Source, which is jointly owned by SSE and TotalEnergies, to help support their transition to electric vehicles. The network operator will thus gain access to Source’s growing collection of “ultra-rapid charging hubs” across the UK. At present Openreach, which manages the second-largest commercial vehicle fleet in the UK (c.23,000...
ITVX UK Streaming Service to Adopt New Edge Video Delivery Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadcaster ITV has announced that they’ve selected MainStreaming’s edge video delivery network to help power their ITVX streaming platform and app, which is mostly said to be down to its ability to integrate deeply within broadband and mobile networks, strengthened by its recent strategic partnership with telecoms giant BT (EE). The change will see ITV add MainStreaming to its multi-CDN (Content Delivery Network) strategy, which they hope will deliver a...
UK ISP Quickline Tweaks Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout for Lincolnshire | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, appears to have had its Project Gigabit contract for Lincolnshire and East Riding tweaked. The result is a reduction in their contracted coverage target for the intervention area. According to the latest Contract Modification notice from the government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency: “The...
Fuse Mobile Launch New UK Multi-Network eSIM Mobile Broadband Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new eSIM focused virtual mobile provider has recently launched called Fuse Mobile, which as the name suggests is designed to provide consumers with mobile data plans than can automatically harness the 4G and 5G networks of EE, Three UK, Vodafone, and O2 through a single eSIM plan. The service, which will automatically connect your mobile phone to whichever network has the strongest signal, is intended to help overcome the areas of weak signal that...
New Bill Aims to Stop Mid-Contract Price Rises on UK Broadband and Mobile | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth, Dr Luke Evans (Shadow Health Minister), has tabled a new Private Members Bill (PMB) that seeks to “prohibit” mobile, landline (phone) and broadband providers from increasing their prices mid-way through your contract. But it’s chances of becoming law are fairly slim. The issue centres around Ofcom’s January 2025 changes (here), which required telecoms providers to improve pricing transparency by adopting a...
CMA Fast Tracks Nexfibre £2bn Netomnia Broadband Merger to Phase 2 Competition Probe | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today announced that it will skip a Phase 1 review of the proposed £2bn acquisition (here) of alternative full fibre UK broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group) by nexfibre (Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia), which will instead see them skip right to a deeper Phase 2 competition investigation. Just to recap. The owners of nexfibre, which share some of their parentage with Virgin Media and O2,...