Google adds Thailand–Australia route to its growing subsea cable portfolio | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The system, dubbed TalayLink, will connect South Thailand to Western Australia, with a stop at Christmas Island, where Google is building an AI data hub Today, Google Cloud has unveiled TalayLink, a new subsea cable linking Australia and Thailand. The system, Google says, will help improve digital connectivity, reliability, and network resilience across the Asia-Pacific region. This initiative builds on Google’s earlier announcements under the...
Openreach Remove ADSL and FTTC from Broadband Checker in UK FTTP Areas | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some of ISPreview’s readers have spotted that the broadband availability checker on Openreach’s UK site has stopped displaying results for older ADSL and FTTC (VDSL2 / SOGEA) technologies, albeit only in areas that now have access to full fibre (FTTP) lines. This occurs even if the older services aren’t yet on a “stop sell” due to existing switch-off programmes. The move makes sense as it aligns with Openreach’s overarching move toward the gradual...
Rural UK Broadband ISP Quickline Appoints New Chief Commercial Officer | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative provider Quickline, which is building a mix of full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband networks across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has today continued their recent changes in senior leadership (here) by appointing Becki Smith as their new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Becki is said to have held senior leadership positions at a number of major UK brands including Three UK, TalkTalk...
EE Expand 5G Standalone Mobile Broadband Cover to 20 New UK Locations | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has this morning announced that they’ve just expanded the coverage of their latest 5G Standalone (5GSA / 5G+) mobile network to reach 20 new UK locations – reflecting a total additional population reach of more than 1.6 million people. Just to recap. Earlier deployments of 5G were largely Non-Standalone (NSA), which meant they were partly reliant upon slower 4G infrastructure. But SA networks are pure end-to-end...
Enders Analysis Warns Largest UK Broadband Altnets Lost £1.5bn in 2024 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The latest annual report from analyst firm Enders Analysis – seen by ISPreview – has calculated that the UK’s largest alternative gigabit broadband networks (i.e. BT / Openreach challengers) collectively suffered losses of £1.5bn in 2024 (up from £1.304bn in 2023 and £755m in 2022) – driven by high interest rates and rising build costs. But it suggests that many may never make a profit. According to Enders, the industry has now accumulated a total debt...
GoFibre Complete Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract for Teesdale UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network GoFibre, which is rolling out a gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve completed a second publicly funded contract – worth £7m – under the government’s Project Gigabit scheme for Teesdale (Lot 4.01 in County Durham). The original Type A (Local Supplier) deployment contract for Teesdale was first announced all the way back in late...
Openreach Grapple with Remaining Users as First UK Exchanges to Close | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) is in the process of facing one of the most difficult challenges with their pilot UK exchange closures – the question of how to handle situations where some consumer broadband and phone lines remain active by the final product switch-off date (i.e. they’ve not been migrated). Openreach currently has c.5,600 UK exchanges, but only c.1,000 of these are needed to provide nationwide coverage of modern “fibre broadband”...
AST Space Mobile Set to Launch First BlueBird 6 Satellite on 15th Dec 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Satellite operator AST SpaceMobile, which is working with Joint Venture (SatCo) partner Vodafone to launch a space-based 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) service to connect with everyday Smartphones on the ground, has announced that their first commercial BlueBird 6 spacecraft will launch on 15th December from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (India). Just to recap. Over the past few years’ AST SpaceMobile has conducted several trials of the new...
Broadband ISP Gigabit IQ Launch AI Online Safety Assistant for UK Families | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet access and online security provider Gigabit IQ (formerly Grayshott Gigabit) has launched a beta (test) version of its latest product – Parentline, which is described as being an AI-powered online safety assistant “designed to help parents navigate the digital world with confidence, clarity, and trusted guidance“. The new solution, which draws its information from leading national and international safeguarding organisations, claims to provide...
Broadband ISP BT Ponders Possible £50 Charge for Missed UK Appointments | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Information allegedly leaked from inside broadband ISP BT (inc. EE and Plusnet) suggests that customers may in the future have to face a charge of £50 for a missed appointment, such as when the engineer turns up on time to find that the customer is not present. But the provider doesn’t currently plan to enforce this. At present, the telecoms giant’s policy is that if an engineer (usually from Openreach) misses a customer’s scheduled appointment, or...