Channel Islands Customers on Airtel Vodafone Start Migration to Sure | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile and broadband operator Sure, which serves the English Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, has confirmed that customers of the Airtel Vodafone service have started to be migrated on to their network. The move follows last year’s £48m deal to build a new “world-class” 5G mobile broadband network across the islands as part of Sure’s acquisition of the operator. Readers may recall that the original deal (here) only became possible after the States...
Broadband Group TalkTalk Set to Appoint PJT Partners to Oversee UK Break-up | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The debt strained TalkTalk Group, which has already been through a demerger of its businesses and last year secured a £400m refinancing package to avoid a default on its debts (here, here) – not to mention the latest £120m funding deal to help tackle recent financial pressures (here), is reportedly set to appoint advisers PJT Partners to help sell off its remaining operations. The long-established UK internet and phone provider – home to 3.2 million...
Grain Adds Town of Nelson to UK Full Fibre Broadband Rollout Plan | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Carlisle-based broadband ISP Grain, which recently secured a major £225m funding boost to continue their expansion (here), has today announced that they’ve added the Lancashire (England) town of Nelson – home to a population of almost 30,000 people – to their build plan for a new full fibre (FTTP) network. Nelson is an interesting choice given the existing collection of networks. For example, both Openreach and Virgin Media (nexfibre) have already...
Data centre operators face infrastructure reckoning as AI drives 10x power demand growth | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release A comprehensive new analysis warns that data centre operators and telecom infrastructure providers face their most challenging decade yet, as AI workloads create unprecedented demands on power, water, and regulatory systems that threaten traditional operating models. The strategic report “From Infrastructure to Intelligence” by StrategyARX Managing Director Roland da Silva argues that AI workloads now represent 20-25% of data centre...
Welsh Full Fibre Broadband ISP Ogi Confirms Departure of Current CEO | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Infracapital-backed UK ISP Ogi, which is rolling out a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across South Wales (110,000 RFS premises passed by end of 2024), has today announced the departure of their current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founding member, Ben Allwright, after 5 years in the post. Ben said he was “immensely proud of what we have achieved at Ogi” and spoke of how he was now “excited to explore new challenges and contribute...
Cross-Party Inquiry Finds UK Unprepared for Attacks on Subsea Fibre Cables | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has today published the results of their cross-party inquiry into the growing threats facing the country’s undersea fibre optic data cables. The report finds that the UK has “plenty of cable routes and good repair processes” for routine breakages, but the UK can’t protect all of it from adversaries and must improve. Damage to submarine cables is, sadly, not uncommon. According to the United...
Owners of Fishing Trawler Ordered to Pay Virgin Media £346k Over Cable Break | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The High Court of Ireland has ruled that the owners of an Irish-registered fishing trawler, MV The Lida Suzanna, should pay the wholesale division of broadband provider Virgin Media some $397,514 (£346k) to cover the cost of repairing a key undersea fibre cable that runs between the UK and Ireland. The 218.7km long cable in question is Sirius South, which was originally deployed in 1998 by NTL (they later became part of Virgin Media after the merger with...
New UK Broadband ISP NuFibre Adopts WiFi 6 Home Routers from Genexis | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More New internet provider NuFibre, which was recently established by the existing owners of Yayzi Broadband (here), have signed an agreement to adopt broadband routers and mesh WiFi extenders from European network kit manufacturer Genexis. The ISP will thus become the first such UK provider to deploy the Genexis Elite HX30 residential gateway (router) and Home CX30 WiFi extender. The Genexis Elite HX30 is a WiFi 6 device (peak wireless speeds of 3Gbps) with...
Hollow Core Fibre Cables Step Closer to Commercialisation in the UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Fibre optic network technology provider Relativity Networks has entered into a strategic partnership with UK-based Network Planning Solutions (NPS), an international provider of fibre installation and support services, in order to support commercial deployments of Hollow-Core Fibre (HCF) cables and infrastructure. Conventional single mode optical fibre cables work by guiding laser light through solid glass (silica) cores, which need to be extremely...
Altnet Broadband ISP Grain Expands UK Full Fibre Network in Grimsby | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Carlisle-based alternative broadband operator Grain, which in July 2025 secured a major £225m funding boost (here), has announced that they’re expanding the coverage of their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network deeper into one of their original deployment towns – Grimsby in Lincolnshire. The operator’s broadband network, which is home to over 43,000 customers and covers 270,000 UK premises (aiming to reach 600,000 in the future), first...