Quickline Confirm Expansion of Yorkshire UK Gigabit Broadband Projects | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural broadband ISP Quickline has today confirmed that they’ve reached an agreement with the Government’s Project Gigabit broadband roll-out programme. The deal will see them expand their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover an additional 6,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England. Until today Quickline had already secured several deployment contracts for the West Yorkshire and the York area (Lot 8), North...
Hey! Broadband Top 35,000 Customers on F&W’s UK Full Fibre Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More UK ISP Hey! Broadband, which caters for areas covered by F&W Networks (Fibre and Wireless) alternative gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines – mostly across the South East of England, has revealed that their customer base has now reached over 35,000 (up from 30,000 in mid-November 2024). Customers of the service typically pay from £27 per month for their top 900Mbps (symmetric) package, which compares with £33 for 400Mbps and then £23 for...
Mobile Operator VOXI UK Tops 1 Million Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is a virtual network operator (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone, has today celebrated the milestone of reaching 1 million customers. The operator has come a long way since it first launched in 2017, when they initially appeared to be focused on the student market. Since launching, the operator has expanded its availability to cater for all users and offers a distinctive mobile proposition by providing customers with...
CItyFibre begins M&A drive with acquisition of Connexin’s fibre network | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The deal will see over 185,000 premises added to CityFibre’s full fibre network Today, wholesale fibre network operator CityFibre has announced the acquisition of smaller altnet Connexin’s network infrastructure. The deal will see CityFibre integrate Connexin’s fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network in Hull and East Riding, which currently reaches over 80,000 premises, with a further 20,000 planned for the future. The deal will also see CityFibre take...
Sparkle Reinforces Partnership with Al-Bawaba to Provide Services to Corporate Customers in Libya | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Rome, 20 March 2025 Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, and Al-Bawaba for Telecommunications and Informatics Co., a Libyan ISP provider offering a wide range of ICT solutions, have enhanced their commercial partnership to provide international connectivity services to and from Libya. The agreement is based on a state-of-the-art fully redundant infrastructure – which relies on Al-Bawaba’s Libyan...
Work begins on E2A transpacific subsea cable | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The E2A system, linking Japan and the USA, is expected to be ready for service in 2028 Today, an international consortium including Chunghwa Telecom, SoftBank Corp., SK Broadband, and Verizon Business has announced the start of construction of the East Asia to North America (E2A) submarine cable system. The E2A system, which features 12 fibre pairs and a total capacity of over 182Tbps, will span approximately 12,500km across the Pacific, connecting...
Welsh Government to Reopen ABC Broadband Vouchers this Spring | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Welsh Government (WG) has revealed that their Access Broadband Cymru (ABC) grant scheme is to “reopen” this spring 2025, albeit with some changes. The scheme previously offered funding to help rural homes get a faster broadband service installed in areas of slow connectivity, until it was paused last summer (here). The long-running ABC scheme essentially offered vouchers (grants) to homes in poorly served areas that weren’t expected to benefit from...
Broadband ISPs Report UK Connectivity Problems with Vulnerable DrayTek Routers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A number of broadband ISPs from across the United Kingdom (and possibly other countries too), such as ICUK and Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), have this weekend noticed an unusual increase in internet disconnections among customers who have DrayTek routers at home or in the office. The issue seems to be caused by a “router vulnerability“. Regular readers will know that DrayTek has been in the news a few times recently due to security vulnerabilities (here...
Broadband Operators in the UK Watch Nervously as DZS Falls Over | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The chances are reasonably good that quite a few of our readers won’t have heard of the name DZS (DZSi / Zhone) before, but they’re a supplier of fibre optic networking kit to a number of broadband operators in the UK, USA and elsewhere across the world. Why is this relevant, you ask? This week, they “commenced a liquidation proceeding“. DZS formally commenced a liquidation proceeding under chapter 7 of the United States Bankruptcy Code on 14th March...
BT in partnership talks with AT&T and Orange as international unit struggles | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News UK incumbent BT has approached AT&T Orange regarding potential partnerships for its international business, Bloomberg has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter The article suggested that this could include the sale of a portion of BT’s global division, although the discussions remain in the early stages, with no guarantee of fruition. “We’re keeping everything open and this means we’ve been speaking to third parties about a range...