A case study: LilaConnect’s migration to gaiia in 16 weeks | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Case Studies Growing UK fiber internet provider LilaConnect migrated to gaiia in 16 weeks. Here’s how they made it happen, and how it paid off. LilaConnect, the retail subsidiary of The Freedom Fibre Group, delivers full-fiber broadband to communities across the northwest of the UK. But, with a strategy of rapid growth across multiple towns and regions, the company needed a modern operations platform that could scale as fast as its network. After...
SpeedGeo Study Names Fastest UK Mobile and Broadband ISPs in 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The relatively new SpeedGeo project, which stems from a Polish team that compares internet quality based on the broadband speeds of real users, has today published their 2025 results for the United Kingdom. The outcome named Virgin Media as the fastest fixed broadband ISP, while Three UK came top for mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.). The study is based on data gathered from real measurements conducted by users of their V-SPEED applications, including via...
Creditors Allegedly Set to Take Control of Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A major newspaper has claimed that creditors of the indebted Abingdon-based alternative broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) network across 612,000 premises in rural parts of England and is home to c.160,000 customers, are set to take control of the business after an attempt to sell the company failed. The provider currently still holds an aspiration to extend their network reach to 1 million UK premises. However, like so many...
Openreach List Next 132 UK Areas for Copper to FTTP Switch – Tranche 23 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Openreach (BT) has just published the next batch (Tranche 23) of 132 exchanges in their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell programme – covering 1.23 million premises. This reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option, where it’s available). Currently, there are two schemes for moving away from old copper...
UK Broadband and Phone Provider KCOM Promotes Richard Schafer to CEO | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator KCOM, which has deployed their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across a big chunk of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has today announced that they’ve promoted Richard Schäfer to the position of permanent Chief Executive Office (CEO) to replace Tim Shaw, who stepped down last year (here). Richard originally joined KCOM in February 2025 as Chief Finance Officer (CFO), before stepping up as interim CEO six months...
BT and EE to Shift Legacy UK Customers to Pounds and Pence Pricing Policy | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband and mobile giant BT (EE) has today announced that they’re following the UK government’s latest guidance, which requested that they “proactively move customers onto price changes with clear pounds and pence pricing amounts instead of inflation-linked rises“. But the risk is that this may result in some customers being hit by much bigger mid-contract price hikes in the future. In case anybody has forgotten, there’s currently a growing storm...
Survey Claims Quarter of UK Broadband Users View £4 Price Hike as Unmanageable | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Over the past few months a number of broadband ISPs have announced an increase to their annual mid-contract price hikes policy of £4 (BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk etc.). But a new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was conducted during December 2025 for Uswitch.com, claims to have found that 24% of broadband users view such a rise as “unmanageable“. Not that anybody needs reminding, but at the start of 2025 Ofcom began requiring telecoms providers...
Openreach Pick Garret Kavanagh to Lead UK Complex Engineering Unit | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT), which is currently busy investing £15bn to deploy Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology to 25 million UK premises by the end of 2026 (currently 21m premises passed), has today announced that they’ve promoted Garret Kavanagh to be their new Managing Director for Complex Engineering, effective April 2026. Garret began his career as an engineering graduate at BT Group in 2006 and, since then, has built...
ITS Technology Grows UK Full Fibre Network as Turnover Hits £34m | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The ITS Technology Group, which have deployed various open access and business-focused full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the UK, recently published their annual accounts and revealed an expansion of their network length by 13%, as well as a 12% increase in coverage and a 99% rise in take-up (on-net grew 77% and off-net grew 30%). The operator’s full fibre network was last year said to “pass” more than 465,000 UK businesses (inc....
Grain Add Sheffield to UK Full Fibre Broadband Network Expansion | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Carlisle-based alternative broadband ISP Grain, which has so far built their point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 270,000 UK premises (aiming for 600,000 in the future) and in 2025 secured a £225m funding boost (here), has issued a brief announcement to confirm that the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield will be the next to get their network. The choice of adding Sheffield, which is home to around 560,000 people, is an interesting...