UK launches £42m grant call to fund LEO satellite innovation | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Applicants must provide a compelling element of matched funding to be eligible. This week the UK Space Agency unveiled a £42 million grant call aimed at driving innovation in satellite communications and positioning the UK as a primary supplier for global low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations. Managed through the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the third call targets key high-volume constellation technologies, including...
5G-A: A mobile foundation for embodied AI | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Partner Article If you have attended any Mobile World Congress event in recent years, you will never have been far away from a robot. From mechanical dogs prowling the halls at trade shows to robotic baristas serving coffee, robots have long been a novel way to demonstrate the power of mobile technology. With the advent of AI, however, the embodied AI is being springboarded towards practical deployments, with autonomous operations becoming...
The Second Fiber Migration: Why Germany’s FTTH Pioneers Are Moving to XGS-PON | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article Regional operator htp built fiber–to–the–home (FTTH) networks a decade before they became mainstream. Today, it is showing the market how early builders modernize for the future. The operators who moved first on fiber are now facing a second strategic decision. Speaking at the BREKO Arbeitstag in a joint session with Udo Abt, senior consultant of sales engineering at Calix, Jochen Krauss, head of network planning at Hannover-based...
Netomnia CEO defends nexfibre merger as CMA begins in-depth investigation | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) in-depth investigation into the proposed £2 billion merger of Netomnia and nexfibre has become one of the most significant competition cases in the UK’s telecoms sector in recent years. Last month, the regulator confirmed it would fast-track the deal directly to a Phase 2 investigation, bypassing the initial Phase 1 review. The decision reflects the scale of a transaction that could reshape the...
Wiltshire Council Praise Wessex Internet’s Rural Gigabit Broadband Build Progress | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Wiltshire Council in the South of England has praised rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet for exceeding 40% of its connectivity targets under their £18.8m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract for South Wiltshire (Lot 30), which has so far expanded full fibre broadband to reach 7,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas. The original contract, which was announced back in March 2024, aimed to build their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband network to cover...
Grain Builds Gigabit Broadband Network to 300,000 UK Premises as Take-up Grows | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Carlisle-based alternative broadband provider Grain (Grain Connect) has today published an update on their latest company results, which among other things reveals that their point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network now covers 300,000 UK premises (up from 270k in Jul 2025) and their customers increased to 56,000 (up from 43k in March 2025). The altnet, which now serves existing homes across more than 60 urban centres and more than 150 new build...
Ofcom Rejected More Effective Method of Blocking UK Messaging Scams | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Earlier this week Ofcom introduced new measures to help UK mobile operators “block, limit and disrupt scammers” from sending messaging scams (here). The changes, while positive, overlooked the fact that the regulator ended up rejecting an already adopted (in other countries) and UK developed fix that would have been more effective, partly due to BT and others complaining that it would be too “onerous“. The system we’re talking about above is a mandatory,...
Openreach Trial Looks to Better Monitor Incidents on UK FTTP Broadband Lines | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Openreach (BT) has launched a new trial on Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP lines, which so far as we can tell appears to be based on an earlier Proof of Concept (PoC) that will make it easier for the operator to determine, in real-time, whether a network incident or Planned Engineering Work (PeW) is affecting a customer’s live service. The network access provider’s public briefing on the FTTP trial for pre-emptive incidents and PeWs...
Virgin Media UK Launch AI-powered Robots to Monitor TV Services in Real Time | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has introduced a new technology – created in-house – that harnesses AI-powered robots to monitor TV services in real time (i.e. more than 220 IPTV channels), which can be used to help the provider spot and resolve issues faster than ever before. The AI robots, in-between planning their overthrow of the human race (kidding.. I think), are designed to watch TV services exactly as customers experience them...
Streetwave Set to Survey Mobile Broadband Coverage Across Cornwall | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network analyst firm Streetwave has confirmed that they’ve been chosenb y Cornwall Council in England to survey mobile network coverage and 4G / 5G data performance across the region, harnessing 7,250km of the county’s road network and testing all three of the primary mobile networks – EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK). Just to recap. Streetwave works by harnessing waste bin (refuse) collection lorries to map mobile network coverage and...