More Project Gigabit Broadband Contract Tweaks for Wildanet, CityFibre and Quickline | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More For the second time this week (here), the Government (DSIT) has published another round of contract modification notices for several of Wildanet, CityFibre and Quickline’s state aid funded Project Gigabit broadband roll-outs across several regions – North Yorkshire, Cornwall, Suffolk, Hampshire and Norfolk. The tweaks change both the level of public funding and premises target. Just to repeat ourselves a little. Project Gigabit’s contracts are not static...
8,000 Social Homes in Barnet Set for Upgrade to FTTP Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Barnet Council in London has reached a wayleave agreement (legal land/property access) that will enable Openreach (BT) to deploy their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 8,000 households managed by the UK council’s social housing provider, Barnet Homes. The deployment will form part of Openreach’s commercial £15bn investment to roll-out their new full fibre network to 25 million UK premises by December 2026 (nearly...
EE Expand 5G Standalone Mobile Network to 50 UK Towns and Cities | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced the next batch of locations where their new 5G Standalone (SA) mobile network will be deployed and made it available to all new customers. By the end of March 2025, the new 5GSA network will be live and available to over 28 million people across 50 “major towns and cities” in the UK (over 40% of the population). The majority of 5G mobile networks today are still Non-Standalone (NSA), which...
Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Deploy IPv6 Internet Addresses | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Good news for customers of Abingdon-based alternative network provider Gigaclear. The ISP has now confirmed to ISPreview that they recently started rolling out IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) internet addressing across their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network. The deployment is currently halfway to completion. Just for context. IP addresses help to connect your software and devices with others around the online world – like an ID number for your...
MLL Telecom appoints former BT Financial Director as CFO | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Image credit: MLL Telecom MLL Telecom, a leading provider of secure managed network services to the UK Public Sector, is pleased to announce the appointments of James Withers as Chief Financial Officer James’s long and highly successful career in finance commenced at HP followed by senior posts at Computer Sciences Corporation, BT and EE. James’ tenure at BT included Financial Director and VP Finance roles for the company’s Enterprise...
Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz for $32bn | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 18, 2025)— Google LLC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, Inc., a leading cloud security platform headquartered in New York, for $32 billion, subject to closing adjustments, in an all-cash transaction. Once closed, Wiz will join Google Cloud. This acquisition represents an investment by Google Cloud to accelerate two large and growing trends in the AI era:...
Some Users of UK Broadband ISP TalkTalk Struggling to Access Websites UPDATE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of UK internet provider TalkTalk appear to be struggling to access certain websites, including major ones like github.io, due to what appears to be some sort of peering or routing issue. The ISP’s network teams are said to be “currently investigating” the ongoing issue. According to customers affected by the issue, the problem appears to have started at around 1am last night and is currently ongoing. The issue has also been reported on...
Essex Council Settles Legal Dispute with Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Essex County Council (ECC) in England has this afternoon confirmed that they’ve settled their legal dispute with Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was originally raised last summer (here) over an alleged failure by the network operator to deliver on their contracted Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) build. Just to recap. The situation in Essex concerned Gigaclear’s earlier contracts under the previous Government’s Superfast Broadband (SFBB)...
UK Broadband ISP GoFibre Extend Community Fund to Northumberland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network ISP GoFibre, which is building a new gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across parts of remote rural Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve expanded the availability of their GoFurther charity fund to North Northumberland for the very first time. The GoFurther Fund currently offers grants of up to £3,000 to help local charity projects and community organisations in the regions of...
Broadband Outage in Goole After Car Crashes into KCOM Cabinet | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Around 800 premises in the East Yorkshire (England) port town of Goole (DN14) are experiencing protracted disruption to their FTTP broadband and phone services after a car crashed into one of UK ISP KCOM’s street cabinets on Sunday night at 10:55pm, which completely disconnected the apparatus from all of its cables. The incident, which was caused by a Black coloured Mini, occurred on Stanhope Street and the latest update – posted an hour ago – states...