“Not just a pipe”: Incognito talks ISP agility and value-added services | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview At Connected Britain 2025, we caught up with Incognito Software Systems’ Sonya Goodanetz to discuss how speed alone is no longer enough for consumers “Customers don’t buy technology. They buy products and services. You’ve got fibre and you’ve got speed – now what?” Far from a rhetorical question, this is a major challenge facing ISPs in the UK, where strong competition is leaving providers struggling to attract and retain customers. Speaking...
Quickline Build Full Fibre to 10,600 Extra UK Premises Under Project Gigabit Contract | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has today announced that they’ve now covered 10,610 premises as part of their publicly subsidised Project Gigabit contract. The alternative network actually holds several Project Gigabit contracts, but this one specifically relates to their £118.9m...
Virgin Media UK Adds Support for Fox’s Tubi Streaming Service to TV Platform | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of home broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who take their Pay TV service (usually via one of their TV 360, Stream or v6 box platforms), may like to know that the service has now added support for Fox Corporation’s ad-supported streaming service, Tubi, at no extra cost. Tubi, which claims to entertain over 100 million monthly active users across the world, is currently home to a vast catalogue of over 60,000 movies and TV...
Viral Video Sees Neighbours Argue Over Openreach Digging Up Garden | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new set of TikTok videos have recently gone viral – after being viewed over 4 million times – for their depiction of two neighbours arguing over whether or not Openreach have dug up the wrong garden, while engineers are busy laying a new fibre optic broadband cable in the background. But there seems to be a key bit of context missing from the debate. According to the BBC’s description of the event, Melanie Abbott returned home to find that Openreach’s...
Vitrifi Calls in the Administrators Over UK Wholesale Platform for Full Fibre AltNets | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Fern Trading (Octopus Investments) backed company Vitrifi, which was first incorporated back in 2021 and offered a cloud-based software platform to help alternative network providers (altnets) offer wholesale products (details), appears to have filed a new notice stating their intention to appoint an administrator. The notice itself (here), which was first filed on 1st December 2025, doesn’t reveal much and has yet to appear on either The Gazette or...
Ofcom UK Approve Short Duration 2.3GHz Licenses for Pop-up Mobile Cover | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has given its blessing to the “early 2026” introduction of short “notice, short duration licences” for outdoor and indoor use in the 2320-2340MHz radio spectrum band, which could support everything from pop-up 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) coverage to TV broadcasting etc. The idea seems to be that companies and organisations could harness the spectrum to power temporary mobile networks (e.g. 4G and 5G), such as for...
TAL Acquires Some UK Customers from TalkTalk Owned Origin Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Horsham-based Telecom Acquisitions Group (TAL), which is a holding company for a number of familiar internet service provider brands (Home Telecom, Eclipse Broadband etc.), has announced that they’ve just acquired a small base of 850 more residential broadband customers from the remaining part of TalkTalk owned UK ISP Origin Broadband. Just to recap. TalkTalk transferred 95,000 customers of Origin Broadband, which is a trading name for Origin...
Questions as UK Study Claims Xmas Trees May Slow “internet speed” by 88 Percent | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new piece of “research” from Broadband Genie has claimed that Christmas trees can slow your “internet speed” via WiFi by up to 88%. This is said to be due to how the tree’s “pine needles, branches, fairy lights, tinsel, and baubles can absorb and deflect your router’s Wi-Fi signals“, causing it to “slow and reduce its range” throughout the home. But it’s not always that simple. “I was shocked to discover just how much of a difference it can make. I...
Openreach Reveal Annual 2025 UK Broadband and Ethernet Price Rises for ISPs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today started to unveil their usual round of annual price increases (and some decreases) for 2025 across their wholesale broadband and Ethernet products for UK ISPs, which touches on everything from full fibre (FTTP) to hybrid fibre (SOGEA), SOTAP and unbundled lines (LLU), among other products. Ofcom currently allows (example) Openreach to increase prices across their various products, usually by the CPI level...
Indian government U-turns on mandatory mobile security app | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Onlookers fear the app could pose a significant threat to user privacy Back in January, the Indian government launched its cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi, aiming to tackle the growing challenge of mobile security and fraud. Now, the government has scrapped an order that would have seen this app pre-installed on every mobile device sold in India. On Monday, the government announced a new order that would give smartphone makers 90 days to ensure...