Bouygues Telecom, Iliad, Orange preparing new bid to carve up SFR | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The move comes after a previous takeover bid was rejected in October 2025 According to reports, Bouygues Telecom, Iliad, Orange have confirmed that they are once again at the negotiating table with Altice France for the purchase of rival operator SFR. In a statement, the trio said that they had been conducting due diligence since early January, but no formal deal has yet been reached. “The legal and financial terms of the transaction have not yet...
ISP Commsworld Win Contract to Build West Lothian Council’s Fibre Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business UK broadband ISP Commsworld has today announced that they’ve secured a 15-year contract, worth £8.5 million, to deliver a new Wide Area Network (WAN) for West Lothian Council in Scotland. The work will upgrade the council’s existing service with a brand-new fibre optic network and provide a 10-fold increase in available bandwidth. The new network will extend across the West Lothian Council ‘estate’, including local schools, libraries, community...
Jeff Bezos to Launch 2nd Satellite Broadband Service with 6Tbps Speeds, TeraWave | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Talk about confusing. The founder of internet retail giant Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has announced that he intends to launch a second mega constellation of 6Tbps (Terabits per second) symmetric speed capable broadband satellites, albeit via his Blue Origin rocket company, called TeraWave, which seems to conflict a bit with the existing Amazon Leo project. We’ll start with a recap. The existing Amazon Leo service (formerly Project Kuiper) is currently in the...
CityFibre Report 848K Broadband Users as FTTP Covers 4.7 Million UK Premises | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK’s largest alternative 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband operator, CityFibre, has today published their latest trading update to the end of 2025 and revealed that their network now covers 4.7 million premises (4.5m RFS). Customer take-up has also grown rapidly to total 848,000 (up by 64% from 518,000 at the same time last year). The network operator has long aspired to reach up to 8 million UK premises – representing c.30% of the UK, but...
Mobile Operator EE UK Launch All-New Refurbished Phones Range | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband and mobile operator EE (BT) has this morning launched its new refurbished smartphone range with airtime, featuring iPhone and Samsung smartphones – priced from £31 per month – and claiming to offer customers a “high-quality, more sustainable and cost-effective way to upgrade“. The range comes with extended warranty included for peace of mind, as well as using manufacturer approved parts, and a 40% discount on airtime plans for students. The...
ScamBlocker Launch Own UK Digital Landline Home Phone Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Communications platform provider SONIQ Labs has launched a new “AI-powered digital landline service” called ScamBlocker Home, which connects via your existing broadband router and promises to protect UK households from telephone fraud by screening unknown callers before the phone rings. The service is said to be a direct-to-consumer product, which has been built on the company’s “enterprise-grade communications infrastructure” and seems to combine their...
DCF Examine Other Countries to Reveal Learnings for UK 2G Mobile Switch-off | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report from Plum Consulting and the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), an industry think-tank, has today been published that attempts to identify what UK mobile operators can learn from the switch-off of legacy 2G networks in other countries. Needless to say, there are a few recommendations. The government has already agreed with EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) to phase-out existing 2G and 3G signals by 2033 (here), which will free...
iQmetrix challenges industry disconnect between telecom innovation and the store experience | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More BARCELONA, Spain – January 20, 2026 – iQmetrix, the only global provider of Interconnected Commerce solutions for telecom retail, today announced its return to Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona with the first-ever Telecom Retail Summit. The exclusive half-day summit designed to spark an overdue conversation: telecom sells the most advanced technology on earth, yet delivers one of the least inspiring retail experiences in modern commerce. Bringing...
2,500 Lincolnshire UK Premises Offline After Cable Thieves Strike Openreach | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some 2,500 properties around the village of Moulton Chapel in Lincolnshire (England) are suffering “significant disruption” to their broadband and phone connectivity, which occurred after criminals cut and then stole an unspecified amount of Openreach’s copper telecoms cable in the area. According to the Lincolnshire Police, the incident appears to have occurred along Roman Road at about 8:50am in the morning on Monday (19th Jan 2026), which is an...
Openreach Expands Scotland’s Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has issued a contract modification notice for Openreach’s £157m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract in Scotland (Call off 6), which originally aimed to reach 65,070 premises in remote rural areas. But the change means it will now be expanded to tackle 77,639 premises. The original contract was officially awarded back in May 2025 (here) and formed part of...