Broadband Operator CityFibre Puts 400 UK Staff on Redundancy Notice | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator CityFibre, which have already deployed their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 4.7 million UK premises (4.5m RFS), has today confirmed that over 400 roles – roughly a third of their workforce (1,400) – could be at risk of redundancy as part of their “shift [in] strategy from building to acquiring networks“. The network operator, which has long aspired to reach up to 8 million UK premises (c.30% of the UK),...
Belfast ISP Barclay Communications Signs Fibrus Wholesale Broadband Deal | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Belfast-based IT and internet provider Barclay Communications, which mostly serves business customers, has reportedly reached a new wholesale partnership that will enable them to reach businesses across Northern Ireland via Fibrus’ new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network. According to a report on Business Eye, business customers of Barclay Comms will now benefit from “support to order, install and manage full fibre connectivity that was previously...
Meta and Corning sign $6bn fibre deal to connect data centres | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The deal will see Corning expand its manufacturing capacity in North Carolina to meet demand This week, Meta has announced an up to $6 billion multi-year agreement with glass specialist Corning to build the fibre optic cables used to connect AI data centres. The deal, which will run until 2030 according to CNBC, will see fibre and optical solutions supplied to support Meta’s data centre projects across the US. This includes Meta’s flagship project,...
Vodafone taps Skylo’s satellite tech for IoT connectivity | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Vodafone IoT has announced a new partnership with Skylo Technologies, Inc. to bring customers Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) satellite connectivity services. In the initial phase, the two companies will work together to trial the technology with a view to offering a full commercial service in the near future. Skylo runs a global Non-Terrestrial Network spanning 36 countries across 70 million square...
BBC Considers Linking Online iPlayer TV Accounts to UK Home Addresses | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The endlessly vexed question of TV licence fee evasion has come up in the press again after it was today reported that the BBC were considering a change to the iPlayer video streaming service. The change would essentially involve linking people’s online BBC accounts to their home addresses for the first time (i.e. to see if anybody is using the service without a licence). At present the iPlayer service uses somewhat of a soft approach to licence fee...
Manhattan TV to Launch Cheap Freely Capable Aero 4K TV Streaming Box | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More British device manufacturer Manhattan TV has just become the latest such firm to announce the imminent launch of their next generation IPTV box – the Manhattan Aero, which is another one that includes support for the new broadband-based live TV streaming service – Freely. Best of all, it’ll only set you back £69.99 (RRP). Until recently there weren’t any streaming set-top-boxes with support for Freely, but over the past few months we’ve seen new hardware...
World Broadband Lines Top 1.56bn as UK Full Fibre Growth Slows in Q3 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More New research from Point Topic has revealed that global fixed broadband lines grew by 1.46% or 22.42 million in Q3 2025 (up from 1.12% in Q2 2025) to total 1.56 billion connections. The subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks also remained strong in the UK at almost 7%, but this is down from 11.7% in Q4 2024. Once again South and East Asia has continued to claim the largest share of global fixed broadband subscribers, having increased...
Broadband Altnet Fibrus Surpasses 30 Percent UK Full Fibre Take-up | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Infracapital-backed alternative broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a full fibre network across parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, recently revealed that their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure had now achieved a customer take-up of 30% (up from 28% in March 2025) – we make that roughly 135,000+ subscribers. The operator’s full fibre infrastructure currently covers over 450,000 UK premises (up from 440k in Sept 2025), mostly...
Virgin Media Start Opening FTTP Upgrade Areas to Existing UK Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve finally started to make their new XGS-PON powered full fibre (FTTP) network upgrade (aka – Project Mustang or Fibre Up), which is being deployed alongside their existing coaxial cable (HFC / DOCSIS 3.1) areas, available to existing customers too. Just to be clear. The change being referenced above is NOT to be confused with nexfibre’s separate roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP)...
BT Backs New Apple iOS 26.3 Feature to Limit UK Location Data on Mobile | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Apple’s next major iOS software update for iPhones – v26.3 – looks set to include an interesting new feature, which aims to improve user privacy by limiting the amount of location data available to mobile network operators. The move is apparently set to be supported by EE (BT) in the United Kingdom, although no other UK operators are currently named. The issue of location data on mobile networks is one we’ve touched on before in a very different context...