RETN launches Flex IX: the industry’s first Zero-waste IX and Transit | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More London – October 20, 2025 – RETN, the leading independent global network services provider, today announces the launch of Flex IX, a new wholesale connectivity solution that, for the first time, combines Remote Internet Exchange (IX) access and IP Transit in a single service. RETN analysis shows that at least 70% of capacity at industry peering and interconnect points goes unused – highlighting a long-standing inefficiency: IX bandwidth often sits idle...
Major UK Pension Funds Commit £40m to Improve Rural Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government has announced the launch of the Sterling 20 initiative, which is a partnership of the country’s twenty largest pension funds and insurance companies (Nest, Aviva, Legal & General, M&G etc.) that have all agreed to pump extra investment into local infrastructure and businesses to boost growth. Rural broadband will be one of the winners. All of the participants say they’ve agreed to “channel the nation’s savings into key...
Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK Sees 285 Percent Rise in Phishing Threats | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) and their security partner, Akamai, have this morning warned that they’ve seen a 285% rise in phishing attempts this year. This figure has jumped to a huge 232,365 average new phishing threat entries to their threat intelligence feeds each day between April to June 2025. Phishing typically reflects the fraudulent use of legitimate / trustworthy business or personal images (brands) that have been designed...
Major Amazon Web Services Outage Disrupting Global Internet Services UPDATE3 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Connectivity to many popular internet services and systems across the world, such as Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Signal, Perplexity, Slack, HMRC, Roblox, Ring and many more (payment providers, VoIP services etc.), are being disrupted this morning after cloud-platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) appeared to suffer a major global outage. According to Ookla’s Downdetector service, the disruption appears to have started just after 7:44am, although in the past...
Altnet Broadband ISP Gigabit IQ to Crowdfund for Fresh UK Investment | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet access and online security provider Gigabit IQ (formerly Grayshott Gigabit) has begun inviting selected people to invest in their company via crowdfunding, which they rightly warn is a “high risk investment” and one where those who make a commitment are “unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong“. The idea of crowdfunding in this way is rather unusual for a broadband provider and isn’t likely to scale as well as shares or direct...
Crossed BT Wires Led to Three Innocent UK People Being Accused of Child Abuse | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A recently published judgement by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has revealed the disturbing case of how a simple mistake by one of BT’s (Openreach) broadband engineers led to three people, who shared the same house, having their lives turned upside down after they were wrongly accused of child sex offences. The Open Judgement (PDF) details the case in all its excruciating detail (credits to The Register for an excellent summary). In short,...
ISP Virgin Media UK Discount 1130Mbps Home Broadband to £29.99 with Netflix | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More New customers looking to join Virgin Media (O2) should note that the ISP has just introduced some bigger discounts across some of their home broadband and bundle packages. For example, Virgin’s 1130Mbps (1Gbps) package is now just £29.99 per month on a 24-month minimum term (price increases to £33.99 from April 2026 and £37.99 from April 2027). The provider’s home broadband plans, which include a wireless router and free setup, generally start at £23.99...
Full Fibre Broadband ISP 4th Utility Sees UK Turnover and Take-up Surge | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator and broadband ISP 4th Utility, which have been quietly deploying their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to UK homes (SDU) and large residential buildings (MDU), this week published their annual accounts for the year ended 31st March 2025 and reported a “doubling of monthly subscriptions sold through the year“. The provider, which back in 2022 spoke of holding an ambitious plan to deploy their full fibre “service [to]...
Derbyshire County Council Commits £900k to Plug Rural Broadband Gaps | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Derbyshire County Council (DCC) in England has agreed to invest £900,000 to support the launch of two grant programmes, which will aim to improve broadband connectivity in at least some of the communities – predominantly rural ones – that are currently still expected to miss out on access to faster connections. At present UK ISP Connect Fibre holds the main £33m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract for Derbyshire (LOT 3), which will see them...
Shetland Expecting Fix for Broken Subsea Fibre Cable to Occur Next Weekend | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Homes and businesses on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland, could see the full restoration of local broadband services by around next weekend. Connectivity was disrupted earlier this month after Storm Amy caused damage to the main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) subsea fibre optic cable (here). The SHEFA-2 cable reaches Shetland via two landing sites, including one stretch that goes north west up to...