Rural altnet Airband seeking buyer | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The fibre and fixed wireless access (FWA) specialist has struggled to attract customers to use its network at scale Following a strategic review, alternative network provider Airband has begun a formal sale process. Related documents were sent to prospective buyers this week, with the company seeking “the right long-term owner”. It could also face debt restructuring, according to two anonymous sources speaking to the Financial Times. “Following a...
EE UK Set to Launch New One Up Customer Rewards Scheme on Friday | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE UK (BT) is preparing to launch a new rewards (loyalty) programme on Friday for existing customers called “One Up“, which is set to be more of a complement than a replacement for their existing ‘Rewards’ scheme. Regular readers might recall that we first revealed the existence of this scheme back in June 2026 (here), although at the time it wasn’t clear precisely when it would go live and details remain in short...
Openreach to Upgrade 115 MDU Buildings to FTTP Broadband in Havering | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has reached a new access agreement (wayleave) with the London Borough of Havering, which will enable them to deploy their full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband network across approximately 115 buildings (blocks of flats and apartments) – reaching thousands of extra homes. The initial deployment is set to benefit more than 1,300 of flats and apartments across 64 buildings in the Borough. But over time the wider programme is...
Study Claims 5 Million Brits on UK Coast at Risk of Accidental Mobile Roaming Charges | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults (weighted to be nationally representative), which was commissioned by Uswitch.com, has claimed that more than 5 million people (9.8%) have seen their phone connect to an overseas network while they were still in the UK, triggering a roaming charge or alert. But 76% of respondents still think this is “impossible” or have never heard of it. In the past we’ve seen plenty of occasions where people living in certain...
Openreach Build to 7 New Areas Under Scotland’s Project Gigabit Broadband Scheme | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has issued a progress update on their £157m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract for the ‘Rest of Scotland’ area (here), which originally aimed to upgrade 65,000 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas to full fibre (FTTP) broadband and has just started building across several new locations. According to the latest June 2026 data from the Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency (here), Openreach is currently...
Ofcom Hit Virgin Media UK with £28m Fine for Preventing Contract Cancellations | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has today been fined £28 million by Ofcom after the UK telecoms regulator found that they had made it difficult for customers to cancel their contracts. Millions of customer calls were said to have been “deliberately mishandled, creating unnecessary barriers to switching or cancelling“. Readers with long memories might recall that this investigation started all the way back in 2023 (here), after some...
Rural Broadband Altnet ISP Airband Prepares Sale of UK Business | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network provider Airband, which has built a mixed Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) gigabit broadband network across rural parts of England and North Wales, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve now “commenced a formal sale process” to try and find the right “long-term owner” for the business. The provider only recently went through a period of restructuring, which resulted more jobs losses and adjusted the company’s focus toward...
Grain Broadband Ad Banned by ASA Over Misleading YouFibre Price Rise Claim | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a cheeky email advert from broadband ISP Grain Connect, which headlined with a warning about Virgin Media “taking over YouFibre & BRSK“. But YouFibre successfully complained that the rest of the promotion had made “misleading price rise claims“. Just for some context. The parents of the Virgin Media and O2 group of companies, including InfraVia Capital via nexfibre, are currently in the process...
‘Ghost investor’ in True Corp could expose weaknesses within Thailand’s SEC | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The Thai telco is questioning the validity of a newly reported $1 billion stake in the business The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is under scrutiny this week after individual investor, identified as Supaporn Pimphong, has reported a trade bringing her ownership of telco True Corporation to 7% – but the telco says it has doubts the trade really took place. The discrepancy came to light when True asked the SEC to verify a filing...
Broadband Altnets Spar with Ofcom Over Openreach UK Copper Line Retirement | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecom regulator’s proposal in their Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR), which sought to adopt a different approach to copper line retirement in favour of full fibre optic (FTTP) broadband lines on Openreach’s national UK network, has, perhaps predictably, attracted criticism from rivals that worry it may hand the incumbent an advantage. Just to recap. As part of the recent TAR, Ofcom also launched a consultation on changing the thresholds for...