Wireless ISP WiFi Scotland Brings Full Fibre Broadband to Rural Moray | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some 43 homes and businesses around remote rural parts of Moray in the Scottish Highlands have gained access to gigabit broadband speeds thanks to a new deployment by local ISP WiFi Scotland. The provider was able to harness public funding via the R100 Voucher Scheme (SBVS) to connect premises around the Craigellachie and Ben Aigan areas. Just to recap. The Scottish Government’s R100 Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (SBVS) typically offers grants worth...
Transport for Wales Trials Satellite Broadband for Bus WiFi Services | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Transport for Wales (TfW), which is a not-for-profit organisation owned by the Welsh Government, has begun trials of a new satellite internet solution to connect the unique demand-responsive transport (DRT) based fflecsi bus services in the rural area of Machynlleth (Powys). Users of the service can now benefit from onboard WiFi. Unlike regular buses, which operate off a fixed timetable, the fflecsi bus service adopts a flexible alternative that picks up...
Openreach Sees UK Full Fibre Broadband Traffic Grow 35 Percent in H1 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed that broadband data traffic across their UK full fibre (FTTP) network alone increased by more than 35% between Jan and June 2025, compared to the same period in 2024. The busiest day so far was on 21st Feb, when a large Fortnite (video game) patch saw users gobble a total of 372PB (PetaBytes). The operator typically supplies numerous broadband ISPs (e.g. TalkTalk, BT, Sky Broadband, Vodafone and...
Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Adopts AI to Improve Customer Broadband Installs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 600,000 premises (mostly in remote rural parts of England) and is home to 150,000 customers, has today announced that they’ve adopted Vyntelligence’s AI video technology – the first UK retail fibre provider to do so – to improve customer installation journeys by reducing unnecessary work. Since launching the initiative, Gigaclear claims to have already seen...
Virgin Media O2 UK Create Dedicated Fixed Wholesale Unit for Consumer and Business | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband network operator and retail ISP Virgin Media (O2) has this morning announced the creation of a single dedicated Fixed Wholesale unit, which will bring together their consumer and business facing wholesale teams under one roof. This will allow rival ISPs to access their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network – currently available to 7 million premises. Regular readers might recall that VMO2’s long-held plan for opening up their existing...
Chris Newall Joins Ontix as Chief Executive Officer | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More London, UK, 15th September 2025 – Ontix, the next-generation infrastructure-as-a-service provider, announces the appointment of Chris Newall as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in a new chapter for the company. With over 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry, Chris joins Ontix from Clarke Telecom, where he was Sales & Strategy Director, following his role as Chief Commercial Officer at Indigo Telecom Group. Chris’s goal as the...
Lit Fibre Launch Lit Business | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Today Lit Fibre announces the launch of three new Line-only broadband services, designed to meet the growing need for fast and reliable business connections. With service speeds from 500Mbps up to 2.4Gbps and contract options of 36, 24 and 12 months available, Lit Fibre’s new offerings provide a future-ready solution for businesses of all sizes. Broadband has become as essential to businesses as electricity. From cloud services and video conferencing to...
How can the technology community best ensure the delivery of ethical AI? | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article By Tim Ensor, Board Director, Cambridge Wireless AI ethics is not a new debate, but its urgency has intensified. The astonishing progression of AI capability over the past decade has shifted the conversation from theoretical to highly practical; some would say existential. We are no longer asking if AI will influence human lives; we are now reckoning with the scale and speed at which it already does. And, with that, every line of...
Why collaboration is the key to scaling the UK’s fibre future | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article by Dave Ferry, Chief Sales Officer at ITS Scaling full fibre across the UK is not just an engineering challenge. It’s a market challenge, an ecosystem challenge, and above all a collaboration challenge. The question is not whether the UK needs better digital infrastructure – the answer is clear. The real question is how the industry works together to deliver it at scale and speed. The power of the channel The technology channel has...
VMO2 celebrates 5G Standalone milestone with giant Bakewell tart | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Virgin Media O2 has today announced that its next generation 5G Standalone network is now live in 500 towns and cities across the UK. Available to more than 70% of the UK population – some 49 million people – this represents the country’s largest 5G Standalone deployment. Customers in the 500 locations can benefit from an improved mobile experience with broader 5G coverage, higher speeds, and reduced latency. Unlike other operators, the...