Sparkle, ASN and Elettra to build GreenMed subsea cable in the Mediterranean | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announces the construction of GreenMed, a next-generation subsea cable system designed to enhance route diversity, resilience and low-latency connectivity between Europe and the Middle East. The system will be engineered and manufactured by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), a major player in the submarine cable industry, and installed by Elettra...
Government Launch Review of UK Mobile Network Market to Help Boost 5G | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has today opened a call for evidence to support their new ‘Mobile Market Review‘, which aims to ensure that their policy and regulatory frameworks are updated to support investment, innovation, competition and consumers. The review could help to boost the rollout of fast 5G and future 6G mobile broadband networks. Regular readers will know that Mobile Network Operators (MNO),...
ISPA Starts Hunting for the Best UK Broadband Providers of 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today kicked off their annual hunt for the best broadband ISPs and internet companies ahead of their forthcoming 2026 awards event (the 28th one they’ve held), although this time around they don’t appear to have made too many changes to the categories. The winners of the previous 2025 awards event were unveiled back in November last year (here), which among other things saw several alternative...
Full Fibre ISP Hyperoptic Add Faster and Cheaper UK Broadband Social Tariffs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have deployed their gigabit speed network to cover 1.9 million UK homes, has recently and quietly added two new options to their existing social tariffs for those on state benefits (Fair Fibre Plans). The new options add symmetric speeds of 500Mbps and 1Gbps, making them among the fastest such tariffs on the whole market. The provider first launched their Fair Fibre Plans back in...
Altnet Broadband ISP Toob Adopts Phonely VoIP Service for UK Digital Phone | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hampshire-based alternative network and UK ISP toob, which has built a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, has today agreed a new partnership to offer a digital landline service via Phonely’s VoIP platform. Under the agreement, new and existing customers will be referred to Phonely’s UK-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) if they need...
Broadband Altnet Netomnia Prepares Around 50 UK Redundancies | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has already expanded their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 3 million UK premises (here) and is close to signing a major consolidation agreement with either Virgin Media’s (nexfibre) parents or CityFibre (here), is understood to have held talks over redundancies with around 50 employees. According to ISPreview’s sources, staff were first notified about the latest development with jobs...
Let third-party AI assistants access WhatsApp, EU tells Meta | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The European Commission’s ‘preliminary view’ is that Meta is stifling competition by blocking competitors’ AI assistants from WhatsApp The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Meta, presenting its preliminary view that Meta breached EU antitrust rules by excluding third party AI assistants from accessing and interacting with users on WhatsApp. The statement says that Meta is likely to be abusing its dominant position in the...
Business UK ISP MLL Telecom Appoints Stuart Wallis as New CEO | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business internet and managed service provider MLL Telecom has today announced that Stuart Wallis has been promoted to become the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The move follows Shaun Ledgerwood’s decision to step down as CEO after six years in the role. Stuart, who has over 25 years career experience in the telecom sector, previously served as MLL’s Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) for 5-years and has been a member of MLL’s senior leadership...
BT Group shuffles exec team at Openreach and BT International | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release BT Group today announces leadership succession within Openreach and BT International. Katie Milligan, currently Deputy CEO of Openreach, will become CEO, Openreach on 01 April 2026. She succeeds Clive Selley, who will become CEO of BT International. He succeeds Bas Burger who has decided the time is right for him to leave BT after 18 years of service, including nine years on the Executive Committee, also on 01 April 2026. Allison Kirkby,...
UK govt celebrates £100m expansion of chip challenger Fractile | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The investment will see the expansion of the company’s sites in both London and Bristol This week, the government has announced that UK-based chip startup Fractile has pledged to invest £100 million in its UK operations over the next three years. The investment covers the expansion of its London and Bristol sites, bringing a major boost to the UK’s emerging AI hardware ecosystem. In a speech today, the UK’s AI Minister Kanishka Narayan praised the...