UK govt celebrates £100m expansion of chip challenger Fractile | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The investment will see the expansion of the company’s sites in both London and Bristol This week, the government has announced that UK-based chip startup Fractile has pledged to invest £100 million in its UK operations over the next three years. The investment covers the expansion of its London and Bristol sites, bringing a major boost to the UK’s emerging AI hardware ecosystem. In a speech today, the UK’s AI Minister Kanishka Narayan praised the...
Scotland Restart Gigabit Broadband Rollout Tender for Fife, Perth and Kinross | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Scottish Government (SG) has officially relaunched their proposed gigabit broadband roll-out procurement for Fife, Perth and Kinross. The proposed contract is valued at £28,557,891 excluding VAT and aims to help expand such a network to cover an estimated total number of 17,830 premises in hard-to-reach areas (i.e. those not covered by any other gigabit networks). Just to recap. The move comes after the SG stopped their previous tender back in June...
Openreach Replaces Current UK CEO Clive Selley with Katie Milligan | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More In a significant development, national broadband operator Openreach (BT) has this morning announced that they’re replacing long-serving CEO, Clive Selley, with current Deputy CEO Katie Milligan from 1st April 2026. Clive will then will become CEO of BT International, where he succeeds Bas Burger who has decided to leave BT after 18 years of service on the same date. Clive was originally appointed to the role of CEO at the start of 2016 and has thus...
Macquarie Take Control of UK Fibre and Multi-Utility Provider Last Mile Infrastructure | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Australian investment group Macquarie Asset Management has acquired Infracapital’s 50% stake in the Last Mile Infrastructure Group, which gives it 100% control of the multi-utility infrastructure group that designs, builds, owns and manages more than 930,000 “connections” across Great Britain (including electricity, gas, water, wastewater and fibre optic broadband etc.). The company, which was originally founded in Scotland in 2002 (currently registered...
UK Government Project to Test ZBLAN Optical Fibre Cables Made in Spaaace | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Space Agency has today awarded contracts to three companies to investigate the possibility of producing advanced materials in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which includes one project (SkyYield) that aims to design a payload to process ZBLAN fluoride glass in microgravity (i.e. a specialist optical fibre that can transmit light with up to 100 times less signal loss than traditional silica fibre). Space is a unique environment because the conditions –...
GoFibre Begin Next Phase of UK Full Fibre Broadband Rollout in Scottish Borders | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK network operator GoFibre, which is deploying a gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP) ISP network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve begun the next stage of their rollout in the Scottish Borders region – reaching 2,000 more premises – as part of their Project Gigabit contract. Just to recap. GoFibre’s Project Gigabit contract for the Scottish Borders and East Lothian regions, which...
HBO Max Streaming Service Confirms UK Launch and Prices for 26th March 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The popular American TV and Movie streaming service, HBO Max, has today confirmed that it will finally go live in the UK and Ireland on 26th March 2026. Customers of Sky TV with access to the Sky Atlantic channel will also be carrying the content (here) and so will Amazon Prime, but others will now be able to subscribe directly. Historically, if you wanted to watch HBO’s content in the UK (e.g. “It: Welcome to Derry,” “House of the Dragon,” “The Last of...
Macquarie Hires Advisors to Prep Hull UK Broadband Operator KCOM for Sale | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report claims that Australian investment group Macquarie has hired business advisors at Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP) to prepare KCOM for sale in Q2 2026. The operator is the incumbent broadband and phone provider for Hull, although their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network also extends into other parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Just to recap. Macquarie Infrastructure (MIRA / MEIF 6 Fibre), following a fierce bidding war with the...
The Silklink project: STC pledges to help reconnect war-torn Syria | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The project includes the deployment thousands of kilometres of fibre cables as Syria looks to become a regional digital hub This week, Saudi Arabian communication giant STC Group has announced it has won a roughly $800 million contract to lead Syria’s Silklink infrastructure project. Silklink is a joint venture with the new Syrian government aimed at improving communication both regionally and internationally. It includes the deployment of around...
Netgem TV Drops UK Price of PLEIO Freely Streaming Box Back to £99 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Digital entertainment platform Netgem TV appears to have responded to British company Manhattan TV’s recent launch of Aero (here), which is a budget friendly (£69.99) 4K set-top-box that supports the new broadband-based live TV streaming service – Freely, by dropping the price of their own rival PLEIO box back from £109.89 to its original launch price of £99. Until a few short months ago there weren’t any streaming set-top-boxes with support for Freely,...