Speed Fibre Group Complete Acquisition of BT’s Irish Wholesale Fibre and B2B Unit | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Speed Fibre Group, which is an open access fibre infrastructure provider (managing or owning 5,400km of fibre) that is ultimately backed by Cordiant Capital, has today announced that they’ve completed the previously announced (here) acquisition of BT’s Irish wholesale fibre and enterprise business unit (BT Communications Ireland Ltd.). The transaction, which forms part of BT Group UK’s continued efforts to reduce their international operations,...
O2 UK Starts Putting WiFi Calling Live on Pay As You Go Mobile Plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media), specifically those on their Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, this week began to notice the sudden appearance of Wi-Fi Calling on their service (ISPreview Forum) and 4G Calling (VoLTE) is also expected to follow by the end of this year. O2’s PAYG plans have long lacked support for 5G (mobile broadband), WiFi Calling (Voice over WiFi) and 4G Calling (Voice over LTE). But earlier this month that all...
Poverty Alliance Warns UK Social Broadband ISP Tariffs Suffer Critical Flaws | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has published a new briefing that warns how Social Tariffs from UK broadband and mobile providers, which offer significant cost savings to those on state benefits (e.g. Pension Credit, Universal Credit etc.), continue to suffer from three “critical flaws” – minimal awareness, inconsistent quality and affordability. According to Ofcom’s most recent December 2024 report (here), the take-up of cheaper Social Tariffs...
O2 UK Hikes Prices for Some 30 Day Pay Monthly SIM Only Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media), specifically those on 30 day rolling SIM Only contracts, have informed ISPreview of how they’ve just been notified that they will be hit by a sharp price hike from 1st October 2025 (in many cases this equates to an increase of c.12%). The increase has also been confirmed by one of O2’s support agents on their Community Forum: “As part of a recent tariff review, we’re making a small adjustment...
Telecom Acquisitions Group Acquires Eco UK ISP Earth Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Horsham-based Telecom Acquisitions Group (TAL), which is a holding company for a number of familiar residential-focused internet service provider brands (Home Telecom, Eclipse Broadband etc.), has acquired both the brand and customer base of another troubled ISP in the shape of Earth Broadband. Earth Broadband (earth.) is a relatively new provider, which first popped up on our radar in 2023 alongside a commitment to plant 500,000 trees and remove...
Concerns Raised Over Progress of Kent UK’s Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Kent County Council (KCC) in England has complained to the UK government about a “lack of progress” being made on the region’s Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract for rural communities. The £112m (state aid) contract for this was awarded to CityFibre in early 2024 (here), which committed to extend full fibre to 50,000+ hard-to-reach premises. However, the last progress update we saw on the contract for Kent (Lot 29) came in January 2025, when...
INCA Warns Altnets Need Certainty and Delivery from UK’s Digital Sector Plan | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, has today posted somewhat of a belated welcome to the new Digital and Technologies Sector Plan. But they also warn that “further clarity is needed” on how the Government will support competition as FTTP rollouts slow and consolidation pressures grow. The plan itself was first published all the way back in June 2025, alongside the...
Openreach Offer Limited Saturday FTTP Broadband Installs via UK ISPs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) has indicated, via a new briefing, that they are “making a limited volume” of Saturday provision (installation) appointments available for Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband line deployments. Retail ISPs will be able to select these if they so desire, at least for a limited time. The briefing itself contains precious little information, and our hails to Openreach yesterday have thus far gone unanswered....
Gov Boost Value of Openreach’s UK Project Gigabit Broadband Framework by £400m | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has modified the Single Supplier Framework agreement that they awarded to Openreach (BT) last year under their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out scheme (here). The deal was originally valued at “up to” £800m and designed to help upgrade 312,000 premises in some of the hardest to reach UK areas to FTTP. But this has just been boosted in value to £1.2bn. The framework agreement was later followed by the gradual awarding of seven related...
South Africa looks to consolidate fibre networks of state-owned enterprises | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The move aims to avoid unnecessary deployments and make efficient use of public network assets According to recent reports, South Africa is advancing efforts to coordinate and consolidate public fiber infrastructure across state-owned enterprises (SOEs), aiming to improve digital connectivity, reduce costs, and expand high-speed internet access to underserved areas. This process would include integrating the currently fragmented fiber networks...