UK ISP Spitfire Launch PSTN Switch Off Migration Service for Businesses | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business telecommunications and UK broadband ISP Spitfire has today launched its new PSTN Switch Off Migration service, which is designed to provide both technical support and expertise to UK businesses making the move from the old Public Switched Telephone Network to all-IP (digital). Just to recap. The legacy phone switch-off was last year delayed to 31st January 2027 in order to give broadband, phone, telecare providers, councils and consumers more...
BT’s Former Chief UK Network Architect Becomes CityFibre’s New CTIO | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator CityFibre, which have so far expanded their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband network to cover 4.6 million UK premises (4.3m RFS) and connected 730,000 customers, has today announced that BT Group’s former Chief Architect, Neil McRae, has been appointed to be the company’s new Chief Technology & Information Officer (CTIO). The operator has yet to put out an official press release on the development, although Telecom TV appears to have...
ASA Bans UK Starlink Satellite Broadband Ad for Misleading Pricing | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an online banner advert for SpaceX’s ultrafast broadband satellite service, Starlink, after it was found to be “misleading” because the offer of free terminal hardware (normally £299) omitted several key bits of material information. The Starlink promotion in question will probably be familiar to some of ISPreview’s readers, as we’ve written about it before. In this case, the ad contained the following...
ASA UK Ban Ads for The One Broadband Over Misleading Performance Claim | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a direct mailing and circular advert for UK ISP The One Broadband (DSV Communications Ltd), which occurred after both were found to have misleadingly suggested that some of those who received the promotions currently only received “poor broadband connectivity” from their existing service, when that was not the case. Both of the ads were addressed to “Dear Resident” and included claims such as “your...
Government Launch 80 Free Local Digital Skills Training Schemes Across UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has today complemented their Digital Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) by launching 80 local schemes across the UK, which will offer free digital skills training and other support to help some of the most vulnerable in communities get online with confidence (i.e. disadvantaged young people to elderly people and the homeless etc.). The new schemes, which will be funded by the £11.7m Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund (DIIF), are largely...
CityFibre Updates on Future UK 50Gbps and 100Gbps Broadband Upgrades | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Chief Technology Officer of major alternative network provider CityFibre, David Tomalin, has provided an update on their plans to upgrade their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband infrastructure to support 50G-PON (50Gbps Passive Optical Network) and then 100G-PON technology in the future. At present, CityFibre’s network has only just completed its upgrade from slower GPON to XGS-PON (Symmetric 10Gbps PON) technology, which is how they were...
Ofcom Finds UK Adults Now Spend Over 4.5 Hours Online Each Day | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The telecoms regulator has today published their annual Online Nation 2025 report, which examines how we all use and interact with the internet in the United Kingdom. Overall, it found that 95% of people aged 16+ have access to the internet at home, and the average time spent per day online (excluding work) is 4 hours and 30 minutes (up 10 mins from last year). Young adults were found to spend the most time online (18-24 = 6 hours and 20 mins a day),...
Gov Confirm “No Plans” to BAN Mid-Contract UK Broadband and Mobile Price Hikes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has clarified that it has “no plans to ban in-contract price rises” for UK consumers taking broadband, mobile and phone services, which makes their recent push to have Ofcom’s CEO, Dame Melanie Dawes, “look at in-contract price rises again“ seem increasingly unlikely to result in any big changes. At the start of 2025 Ofcom began requiring telecoms providers to adopt a new approach to mid-contract price hikes, which did away with the old...
Openreach UK Appoints James Lowther as New MD for Commercial | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More National broadband and Ethernet operator Openreach (BT) has today announced the appointment of James Lowther as its new Managing Director (MD) for Commercial, which will become effective from January 2026. The new hire will join the operator’s Executive team and report to Deputy CEO, Katie Milligan. James is a familiar name in this industry and has over 20 years of experience in it. He began his career at BT before holding senior roles at Virgin Media,...
Ofcom Approve Satellite Networks to Deliver 4G and 5G to UK Smartphones | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today approved UK mobile companies and satellite operators to join forces and use the airwaves (mobile spectrum bands) to support Direct to Device (D2D) services, which will allow standard unmodified Smartphones to connect via satellites to improve 4G and 5G (calls, texts and broadband) coverage in remote areas and roaming. Several satellite-based broadband networks are currently developing services that can directly...