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...
UK Ranks 2nd for Fixed Broadband Speed vs Countries of Similar Size to Romania | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More France-based internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has this morning published the results from their first biannual (H1) 2026 crowdsourced study into fixed broadband ISP speeds among “countries comparable in size to Romania“, which saw the United Kingdom rank 2nd with an overall score of 126,638 nPoints (just behind Romania on 128,587). The somewhat quirky study is based on masses of speed tests carried out – between January and May 2026 – by users...
Multiple UK Broadband ISP Checkers and Order Systems Currently Down | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Reports are coming in that a number of major and minor broadband providers, such as Sky Broadband, Vodafone and others, are currently suffering some disruption to their online availability checkers and ordering systems that is preventing some new customers from signing up. A few providers have linked this to a problem with Openreach, but we’ve yet to confirm that. The experiences being reported seem to vary between providers, which is something we’ve...
Broadband and Mobile Networks Strained by UK Heatwave – No Major Blackouts Expected | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A few years have passed since we had a national heatwave that, across a large swathe of the country, pushed daytime temperatures to around the 40c level. Today and tomorrow will see similar temperatures and that’s going to cause some broadband and mobile infrastructure to struggle, albeit almost certainly without major national blackouts. So far, the current heatwave hasn’t really pushed too many systems beyond their limits. In some areas, such as...
ISP TalkTalk Pauses Sale of FTTC Broadband Lines to New UK Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet provider TalkTalk has confirmed to ISPreview that they’re no longer selling Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) based broadband packages on Openreach’s network to new customers. But the ISP says that this is only a “pause” while they finish setting up their new platform. The situation recently came to our attention after a number of people in FTTC-only areas (i.e. locations where full fibre FTTP isn’t available yet) found they couldn’t order a...