EE’s New UK Safer SIM Mobile Smartphone Plans for Under 18s Go LIVE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband and mobile operator EE (BT) has today confirmed that their new mobile plans for children under the age of 18 – called “Safer SIMs” – are now available to take, after being soft launched a few weeks ago (here). The plans form part of the operator’s commitment toward “being the UK’s best network for families“. All of the Safer SIM plans include unlimited minutes and texts, pre-set parental control options (these can’t be switched off), “Stay...
ISP Zen Internet Detail UK Ethernet Partnership with Sky Business Wholesale | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More As first hinted at last week (here), broadband ISP Zen Internet has today revealed details of their new “strategic partnership” with Sky Business Wholesale (Comcast). The move gives Zen’s partners (other ISPs etc.) and direct business customers access to Sky’s Ethernet-enabled exchange footprint. At present Sky’s network spans over 2,800 UK exchanges and more than 80% of those have been enabled for 10Gbps services (i.e. Ethernet leased lines). Both Zen...
TFW Fibre Delivers First Commercial Contract for Railway Fibre Network in Wales | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator TfW Ffeibr (TFW Fibre), which is an arm’s-length initiative setup by Transport for Wales (TfW) and thus the Welsh Government, has today announced the delivered of its “first commercial fibre connectivity contract” with Cloud Centres Networks for the fibre that runs alongside local railways. Just to recap. Toward the end of last year TfW Ffeibr announced that they had built a new full fibre broadband network alongside several railways and...
Huawei’s new memory software could relieve pressure on China’s chip industry | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The latest breakthrough represents a significant boost for AI inferencing, reducing pressure on memory hardware Today, Huawei has revealed a software breakthrough in high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) technology, a milestone that could see the company’s reliance on US chips dramatically reduced. Revealed at the 2025 Financial AI Reasoning Application Landing and Development Forum in Shanghai, Huawei’s Unified Cache Manager (UCM) reportedly represents a...
VMO2 pledges £1m for STEM apprenticeships | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Virgin Media O2 has today announced it is creating a new £1 million talent fund to help charities, local authorities, small businesses and social enterprises train apprentices — removing financial and structural barriers that have long held smaller organisations back from investing in early careers talent This initiative will allow organisations to access Virgin Media O2’s apprenticeship levy fund, using this to cover the full cost of...
Spark spins off data center biz, sells 75% to Pacific Equity Partners | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The new data centre company plans to boost capacity to 130W to meet the rising demands for AI and high-performance computing New Zealand’s Spark has this week confirmed that it is spinning off its data centre arm and selling a majority stake to Sydney-based private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP). PEP will take a 75% stake in the newly created standalone platform, dubbed ‘DC Co’, in a transaction that values the business at roughly NZ$705...
SMARTY UK Mobile Launches Double and Triple Data Boosted Plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More SMARTY, which is a virtual mobile operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s (VodafoneThree) network, has moved to celebrate the summer holidays by significantly boosting the data (mobile broadband) allowances on some of their Pay Monthly SIM Only plans. For example, one of the cheapest £7 plans now comes with 24GB of data (up from 8GB) at no extra cost. The operator has also doubled the data on their £10 per month plan from 40GB to 80GB, while their top unlimited...
North Yorkshire UK Looks to Wind Up NYNet 100 Broadband Company | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The North Yorkshire Council (NYC) in England has proposed to wind-up the NYNet 100 company, which was originally created to help carry out procurement and contract management for the local authority’s Superfast North Yorkshire (SFNY) project. This has helped 201,000 premises in the rural county to access faster broadband over the last 15 years. The original state-aid backed SFNY project awarded several contracts across four phases (valued at a total of...
Jersey Competition Regulator Proposes New Telecoms Security Rules | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (JCRA) has begun a consultation on introducing new guidance for local telecoms companies on the English Channel Island of Jersey. The aim of this is to help ensure that their broadband, mobile and phone networks are both “inherently secure and reliable“. Under the newly proposed legal framework, the Authority will receive a considerably enhanced role, designed to monitor and manage compliance with the legal...
Netomnia Launch 8Gbps FTTP Biz Broadband to UK ISPs via Wholesale | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Tewkesbury-based network operator Netomnia (Brsk, Youfibre), which has so far rolled out their full fibre broadband (FTTP) lines to cover 2.56 million UK premises (341,000 customers), has today significantly expanded the wholesale availability of their infrastructure by making it available via new internet providers (ISPs). Starting with business (B2B) packages. Until now Netomnia (Substantial Group), which recently became the first alternative network...