Openreach Publish October 2025 Update on UK FTTP Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More National network operator Openreach (BT) has published the latest quarterly update on their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP technology. The update reflects all the recent changes and progress with their existing locations and doesn’t appear to add any new areas beyond those confirmed in July 2025 (here). Just to recap. The operator is currently investing up to £15bn to expand the coverage of their new “full fibre”...
Vodafone Group and Vodafone Ukraine plan Black Sea cable to bypass Russia | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The Kardesa submarine cable system will connect Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, and Ukraine This week, Vodafone Group and Vodafone Ukraine have announced their intentions to build a new submarine cable spanning the Black Sea, the first for almost two decades. The €116 million Kardesa cable will include landings in Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, and Ukraine, notably excluding Russia. It is expected to deliver an additional 500 Tbps of capacity to the Black...
Are you lagging on the PSTN switch-off? | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article by James Lilley, Director of All-IP at Openreach The UK is gearing up for a historic moment – the final full-scale infrastructure transition of our lifetimes. The Public Switched Telephone Network will be switched off on 31st January 2027 in favour of internet-based (All-IP) networks. Even though this deadline is fast approaching, many businesses are still resistant to the move. Switch-overs are continuing to happen, but the progress...
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...