CityFibre Sell Off-Net UK Entanet Business to Telecoms Entrepreneur | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK’s largest alternative broadband provider, CityFibre, has today announced that they’ve agreed a deal to sell their non-core off-net business, Entanet, to telecoms entrepreneur Tom O’Hagan, who is best known as the founder and former CEO of Ethernet provider Virtual1 (this became part of the TalkTalk group in 2022 – here). Regular readers with a long memory may recall that business-focused communications provider Entanet was previously acquired by...
Openreach to Harness Source’s UK EV Chargers to Support Fleet Transition | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More National broadband access provider Openreach (BT) has revealed that they’ve signed a new partnership with EV charging company Source, which is jointly owned by SSE and TotalEnergies, to help support their transition to electric vehicles. The network operator will thus gain access to Source’s growing collection of “ultra-rapid charging hubs” across the UK. At present Openreach, which manages the second-largest commercial vehicle fleet in the UK (c.23,000...
ITVX UK Streaming Service to Adopt New Edge Video Delivery Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadcaster ITV has announced that they’ve selected MainStreaming’s edge video delivery network to help power their ITVX streaming platform and app, which is mostly said to be down to its ability to integrate deeply within broadband and mobile networks, strengthened by its recent strategic partnership with telecoms giant BT (EE). The change will see ITV add MainStreaming to its multi-CDN (Content Delivery Network) strategy, which they hope will deliver a...
UK ISP Quickline Tweaks Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout for Lincolnshire | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, appears to have had its Project Gigabit contract for Lincolnshire and East Riding tweaked. The result is a reduction in their contracted coverage target for the intervention area. According to the latest Contract Modification notice from the government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency: “The...
Fuse Mobile Launch New UK Multi-Network eSIM Mobile Broadband Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new eSIM focused virtual mobile provider has recently launched called Fuse Mobile, which as the name suggests is designed to provide consumers with mobile data plans than can automatically harness the 4G and 5G networks of EE, Three UK, Vodafone, and O2 through a single eSIM plan. The service, which will automatically connect your mobile phone to whichever network has the strongest signal, is intended to help overcome the areas of weak signal that...
New Bill Aims to Stop Mid-Contract Price Rises on UK Broadband and Mobile | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth, Dr Luke Evans (Shadow Health Minister), has tabled a new Private Members Bill (PMB) that seeks to “prohibit” mobile, landline (phone) and broadband providers from increasing their prices mid-way through your contract. But it’s chances of becoming law are fairly slim. The issue centres around Ofcom’s January 2025 changes (here), which required telecoms providers to improve pricing transparency by adopting a...
CMA Fast Tracks Nexfibre £2bn Netomnia Broadband Merger to Phase 2 Competition Probe | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today announced that it will skip a Phase 1 review of the proposed £2bn acquisition (here) of alternative full fibre UK broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group) by nexfibre (Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia), which will instead see them skip right to a deeper Phase 2 competition investigation. Just to recap. The owners of nexfibre, which share some of their parentage with Virgin Media and O2,...
Openreach Slightly Expand Worcestershire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Build | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has posted a contract modification for Openreach’s (BT) £42m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit Call Off 7 contract for Worcestershire (England), which originally aimed to expand their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to around 22,600 hard-to-reach premises, but will now cover around 23,000. The additional scope being added to the contract means, according to the notice: “The contract has increased in...
O2 UK Warns Mobile Customers Over New Inactive SIM Scam | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has warned customers that fraudsters are using a “new” phishing tactic to steal their private personal and security details (i.e. granting them access to their MyO2 accounts), which involves criminals posing as the telecoms company while claiming that the customers’ SIM cards are about to expire. The operator’s customers are being sent messages that falsely claim to be from O2, which often contain content like this:...
Sky Broadband and Openreach Make Dogs Dinner of Community Hall Fibre Upgrade | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A Worcester-based community hall was left without a working broadband connection for several weeks after Sky Broadband and Openreach managed to mess up a copper to full fibre network upgrade. The process resulted in the wrong house getting the connection instead and confusion over whether the Hall was a commercial or residential property. According to a local volunteer at the Christadelphian Hall on Saint George’s Lane, Dan Jones, the site is a...