Survey Claims UK Broadband and Mobile Users Save up to £258 by Haggling or Switching | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A recent survey of 5,014 UK adult consumers, which was conducted by Which?, has claimed that the average broadband-only ISP customer could save £100 per year by switching to a new provider – rising to £160 and £155 on Sky Broadband and Virgin Media respectively. Similarly, those who haggled saved £65 (rising to £92 and £85 respectively on Virgin Media and BT). The story is similar for mobile and TV customers. Mobile customers who switched operators and...
FCC order demands an explanation from Hong Kong Telecom | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The FCC took the initial step of revoking permission for Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) to continue providing telecom services in the United States. By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has sent an order to Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) asking them to explain why revocation proceedings against HKT shouldn’t commence. The FCC announced the development last week. It marks an initial step to revoke HKT’s ability to...
Rural UK Broadband Altnet Voneus Quietly Completes Refinancing of Debts | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Senior MD at Macquarie, Oliver Bradley, has revealed that that one of the alternative broadband networks they support, Voneus, recently completed a renegotiation on their existing £70m debt facility over the summer. The move saw existing investors inject an unspecified amount of fresh funding to keep the operator going. Some readers may recall that Voneus, not unlike many other altnets, has been struggling a bit recently with redundancies and a...
Quickline Bring FTTP Broadband to 3 More East Yorkshire UK Villages | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network ISP Quickline, which is rolling out 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 just extended their fibre network to three additional rural communities along the banks of the River Ouse – the villages of Swinefleet, Reedness and Whitgift. The deployment, which represent just over 550 addresses served, forms part...
Amigo mesh network project aims to keep political protesters connected | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Researchers are aiming to optimise the networking technology for large crowds and to avoid surveillance Monitoring the devices of protesters – or even shutting down networks entirely – has become a staple of authoritarian regimes around the world. From Myanmar to India to Bangladesh, denying connectivity to entire regions is a common tactic used to suppress unrest. Now, however, as first reported by IEEE Spectrum, researchers from City College of...
Hype cycles and reality checks: EY’s Rob Atkinson dissects AI and data centres at Connected Britain | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interviews At Connected Britain 2025 we sat down with Rob Atkinson from EY to explore the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the telecoms sector The phrase ‘telco to techco’ has been one floating around the telecoms industry for many years now, but evidence of true transformation remains scarce. According to Rob Atkinson, Partner, Telecommunications, Media and Technology leader at EY UK&I, most telcos on this journey today are not yet bold...
Major UK Banks Scale Back Support for Alternative Broadband Networks | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Two of the largest backers of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, NatWest and Lloyds, have now scaled back new lending to the heavily indebted sector. The move follows an earlier report in August 2025 (here), which revealed that a number of banks had set aside funding to cover loans issued to altnets (now deemed unlikely to be repaid in full). Over the past few years’ we’ve regularly reported on the growing challenges being faced by network...
20 Broadband Altnets Launch New UK Network Infrastructure Sharing Venture | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative broadband ISP networks, has announced that their efforts through the previously announced Infrastructure Sharing Group (ISG) have now resulted in the creation of a new infrastructure sharing venture – supporting the use of 500,000km of “spare fibre capacity“. The issue of infrastructure sharing has been somewhat of a bugbear for the industry in recent...
Study Sees Coverage and Speed Improvements from Vodafone and Three UK Merger | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has reported that they’ve seen the “first measurable improvements” in their data from the recent merger between mobile operators Vodafone and Three UK, which appears to indicate that VodafoneThree is delivering some “significant coverage” improvements and “faster speeds” (mobile broadband). Just to recap. VodafoneThree’s post-merger plan involves investing £11bn into upgrading the UK’s 5G mobile infrastructure and...
ScaleFibre Launches in the UK Market to Supply Broadband Networks | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More American network supplier ScaleFibre, which manufactures and delivers optical fibre connectivity kit and cables to broadband operators, has announced that they’ve established ScaleFibre UK Ltd as part of their expansion into Europe. Giving digital network builders in the UK another option to consider. The new entity is said to enable direct import, warehousing, and distribution of ScaleFibre’s full range of optical fibre cables and connectivity systems...