Vodafone UK Kicks Off 2026 Summer Home Broadband and Mobile Sale | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Telecoms provider Vodafone has this morning informed ISPreview that they’ve today started their 2026 Summer Sale, which will run until 22nd July 2026 (23:59) and includes various discounts across their 4G to 5G SIM mobile plans, Smartphones (including airtime bundles) and fixed broadband packages. The announcement includes a huge selection of example discounts, which are far too tedious to summarise in their entirety without this becoming spammy. But to...
Tesco Mobile Ponders Giffgaff Style Foray into UK Home Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile provider Tesco Mobile, which is one of the UK’s largest virtual (mvno) mobile network operators and home to a customer base of close to 6 million, is reportedly looking to expand their existing partnership by pondering a giffgaff style move into offering full fibre broadband packages. At present Tesco Mobile harnesses O2’s (Virgin Media) national mobile network and, according to the Financial Times (paywall), has already held “initial talks” about...
SpaceX agrees to acquire popular AI coding assistant | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Company News M&A The acquisition stands to bridge SpaceX’s engineering ecosystem with next-generation developer intelligence. Edited by Brad Randall, Broadband Communities June 23, 2023 — SpaceX has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere, Inc., the creator of the popular AI-powered coding assistant Cursor. According to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC, the all-stock transaction values Cursor at an implied equity value...
Telecom associations warn of US memory chip shortage | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News A broad coalition of telecom trade associations is warning that rapid AI expansion is causing a critical shortage of U.S. memory chips. Edited by Brad Randall, Broadband Communities June 23, 2026 — A coalition of major trade associations—including tech and telecom leaders like NCTA, ACA Connects, NTCA, and the Telecommunications Industry Association, alongside healthcare technology groups MDMA and AdvaMed, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation,...
ISP MTH Networks Joins Trooli’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband provider MTH Networks has today confirmed that they’ve gone live on Trooli’s alternative full fibre (FTTP) network, which covers premises across the South East, South West and East Anglia Regions of England and a small part of Scotland. Trooli’s full fibre network is said to cover more than 480,000 homes across the United Kingdom, including various towns and large semi-rural villages across parts of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire,...
FDM CCS Insight Launch Regional View of Fixed Broadband Connections in the UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Technology data and insight firm FDM CCS Insight has today launched a new dataset (Network Panel) that claims to provide “unprecedented visibility into UK broadband market performance, regional trends and adoption of fibre to the premises (FTTP)“. The goal is to enable operators, investors and industry watchers to benchmark performance and identify emerging trends. The Network Panel – using more than two years of historical data – is said to track...
Constant Group to Build Enclosures for Openreach’s UK Exchange Exit Programme | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Oldham-based Constant Group, which is a British single source solution provider for sheet metal fabrication – from telecom / broadband cabinets to POS displays, has secured a contract from Openreach (BT) to develop and deliver secure external enclosures as part of the operator’s nationwide Exchange Exit programme. Just to recap. Openreach are currently gearing up to close around 4,600 of their 5,600 UK exchanges as part of their Exchange Exit...
Bolton Community Wins Fight to Stop New Openreach Broadband Poles | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The residential community of Bromley Cross, which sits in the leafy northern suburbs of Bolton (Greater Manchester), appear to have succeeded in their campaign against Openreach’s (BT) plan to deploy new wood telecoms poles to support their gigabit full fibre broadband (FTTP) network expansion around Grange Park Road. The use of poles to run overhead cables (telecoms, electricity etc.) is a common practice in the UK, where millions have been built over...
ITS Tech Extending Full Fibre Broadband Network to 13 New UK Areas | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The ITS Technology Group, which has already deployed various open access and business-focused Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband ISP and Ethernet networks across parts of the UK, has today announced that their full fibre infrastructure is to be extended into 13 additional towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales. The expansion is said to mark the “next phase” of ITS’ investment in its national network, which will bring more...
Study Claims 18 Percent of UK Broadband Homes Fail to Receive Min 10Mbps Speed | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study from Broadband Genie, which analysed 144,067 web-based broadband speed tests over an unspecified 12-month period, has claimed that 18% households in the UK are receiving “broadband” download speeds slower than the Universal Service Obligation (USO) of 10Mbps download or 1Mbps upload. But take that claim with a pinch of salt. According to the results, 14% failed to record download speeds of 10Mbps and 13% did not reach a threshold of 1Mbps for...