LCR Connect Celebrates 1,000th Connection to Liverpool UK Full Fibre Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The LCR Connect network, which is a £32 million joint venture that has rolled out a new 350km long multi-gigabit speed full-fibre (broadband and Ethernet) network for businesses across much of the Liverpool City Region, has today celebrated making their 1,000th connection after going live last year. Launched to tackle poor connectivity and power inclusive growth, LCR Connect now provides gigabit-capable services to organisations of every size – some...
VodafoneThree Bringing 400 Customer Service Roles Back to the UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Newly merged mobile and broadband operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) has today announced that they’re bringing over 400 customer contact jobs, which were previously based in India, back to the United Kingdom. The roles will now be based out of the Belfast and Sheffield centres of the operator’s partner, Concentrix. Despite the fact that mergers of major companies often result in some redundancies as roles are reduced to remove duplication and...
Gov Consult on Reform of UK Planning Rules to Boost Broadband and 5G Builds | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has today published a new consultation on reforming planning rules, which is seeking feedback on whether they should further change planning rules and update policy guidance to help “accelerate the deployment” of digital infrastructure (full fibre broadband and 5G mobile etc.). In case anybody has forgotten, the Government’s manifesto (here) previously made clear that they would be making a “renewed push to fulfil the ambition of full...
Quickline Provide Free Full Fibre Broadband to 50th UK Community Hub | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has today announced that as part of their roll-out they’ve now connected 50 community hubs (QHubs) to their new network. The latest to open its doors is Scotton Digital Hub, officially launched last week alongside residents, community...
Starlink Start Replacing First Gen Satellite Broadband Routers for Free | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some of Starlink’s (SpaceX) customers with first generation broadband routers (UTR-201) – the ones with a dual-tone prism-like design – have recently started to be notified that their kit will soon become obsolete. But don’t worry if you’re one of the smaller portion of consumers with such hardware, because they’ll send you a free replacement. The kit in question first shipped back in 2020 to early adopters and came alongside the provider’s old round...
Virgin Media O2 Confirm UK 3G Mobile Switch-Off to Complete in Early 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), Jeanie York, has today confirmed that they’re “set to complete” their switch-off of the old legacy 3G mobile network “in the coming weeks” – largely as planned (although a few areas will still have 3G signals into “early 2026“). The process, which was originally due to reach UK completion by the end of 2025, will free up radio spectrum so it can be used to...
Ofcom Publish Telecoms and Broadband Proposals for Hull UK and KCOM | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator has today published the results of their Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR) for the Hull-area of East Yorkshire, which sets out how they intend to promote competition and investment in gigabit broadband (inc. business connectivity) across an area of c.198,000 premises that was previously totally dominated by KCOM’s network. Ofcom typically conducts a single holistic review of the markets for both Business Connectivity (i.e....
Wholesale Provider PXC Launch CityFibre Business FTTP for UK ISPs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network provider PlatformX Communications (PXC), which is a trading name of UK internet provider TalkTalk and sells wholesale solutions to ISPs (inc. other network providers), has today announced that they’ve made CityFibre’s Business Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband services available to all their partners. The launch brings PXC’s partners an even greater choice of business connectivity solutions, offering symmetrical bandwidth of up to 1Gbps,...
Rural UK Broadband Provider Airband Tops 30,000 Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative internet provider Airband, which has built a mix of both Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based broadband networks to cover various rural parts of Wales and South West England, has today announced that they’ve hit their target of reaching 30,000 customers (up from 19,000 in March 2024). The brand’s 30,000th customer was connected in Wrexham, North Wales, which was one of the first areas to benefit from the rollout...
Opensignal 2025 Study Ranks Big UK Broadband ISPs by Quality and Speed | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet connection testing firm Opensignal has today published their 2025 Fixed Broadband Experience report, which gauges the performance of major ISPs across the UK including BT (inc. EE), Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Three UK, Virgin Media and Vodafone. Overall, Virgin Media scored wins in every single national connectivity category. Just for context. Opensignal leverages crowdsourced data collected via end-users on their benchmarking app and services....