Car Crash Knocks Out Openreach Broadband and Pole in Dorset UK Town | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hundreds of people in the Dorset town of Beaminster have reportedly been left without working broadband and digital phone connectivity for several days after a car crashed into one of Openreach’s telecoms (telegraph) poles in the area and promptly burst into flames. Police are currently still trying to locate the driver, which could suggest a criminal aspect. The event itself, which happened near the A356 in Beaminster, occurred on Sunday (12th October...
University of Portsmouth Team Get £772k to Develop Subsea Cable Surveillance | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A scientist from the University of Portsmouth’s School of Mathematics and Physics has successfully bid for £772,372 of funding from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which will be used to design a surveillance algorithm and maritime training programme to help identify, repair and reduce damage to undersea infrastructure (e.g. energy pipes and fibre optic internet cables). Damage to submarine pipes and cables is, sadly, not uncommon and can take several...
Parliament Publishes Useful UK Summary of Rules for Broadband Poles | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The House of Commons Library within the UK Parliament has published a useful new document that helps to summarise and explain some of the core rules around the deployment of poles (telegraph poles) for broadband network expansion. In recent years, these have often become a point of some contention for communities that don’t want them. The deployment of poles (usually made of wood, but sometimes also metal) to run new overhead fibre optic or copper cables...
Virgin Media O2 UK Agrees New 10-year Renewable Energy Deal | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), which currently aims to achieve Net Zero Carbon (i.e. removing as many emissions as they produce) across their operations, products and supply chain by 2040, has today signed a new 10-year Power Purchase Agreement with The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) to harness renewable electricity. Under the agreement, which starts in April 2026, TRIG will provide renewable electricity to the company,...
Freely’s UK Broadband TV Streaming Service to Get 10 New Channels | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband-based live TV streaming service Freely, which is supported by several major UK TV broadcasters (BBC, ITV etc.) and is an evolution – not (yet) a replacement – for the existing Freeview service (inc. Freeview Play and Freesat), has revealed that they’ll add 10 new streaming channels to the free platform in 2026. The new channels, which are being added thanks to support from Hearst, Bloomberg TV+, AMC Networks International UK (AMCNI UK) and...
LightSpeed Networks: connectivity, your way | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More New ‘Connectivity, Your Way’ approach challenges commoditisation by offering bespoke terms and agile infrastructure delivery to power growth. Businesses never stand still. They grow, shrink, evolve, and pivot, sometimes all in the same year. And through it all, one thing remains constant: the need for reliable connectivity that scales with change. That’s where LightSpeed Networks, a UK-based wholesale connectivity provider, makes the difference....
Altice rebuffs French telcos’ €17bn joint offer for SFR | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The offer, announced last night, would have seen Bouygues Telecom, Iliad, and Orange divide the company’s assets between them Late last night, reports revealed that a Bouygues, Iliad, and Orange had joined forces to put together a €17 billion offer to buy and carve up the majority of rival operator SFR’s assets. Now, less than a day later, it seems that this approach has been ‘immediately rejected’, according to an email seen by the media that had...
Broadband Focused TalkTalk Group Set to Cut a Further 100 UK Jobs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The debt strained TalkTalk Group, which at this point has been through a demerger of its businesses and in 2024 secured a £400m refinancing package to avoid a default on its debts (here, here) – not to mention the recent £120m funding deal (here), is reportedly set to axe around 100 more jobs as part of its latest restructuring effort. Suffice to say that the group, which recently launched a major brand refresh and advertising push of its consumer...
SpaceX Gives Closer Look at its Next Generation v3 Broadband Satellites | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More SpaceX’s global Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds across the UK and globally via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has provided their best view yet of what the company’s next generation v3 (GEN3) satellites will look like when deployed to orbit. Each one will have 10 times more capacity than earlier v2 satellites. The service currently has around 8,600 satellites in orbit (c.5,000 are v2 / V2...
Guernsey Regulator to Approve Spectrum for 5G Mobile Rollout from JT and Sure | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has “provisionally approved” the release of new radio spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.6GHz bands in order to enable telecoms operators JT and Sure to roll-out 5G mobile (mobile broadband) services across the islands of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark from “early 2026“. On 25th September 2025, following completion of the pre-application phase of the Spectrum Licensing Framework, JT (Guernsey) Limited...