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...
Scotland Restart Gigabit Broadband Rollout Tender for Fife, Perth and Kinross | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Scottish Government (SG) has officially relaunched their proposed gigabit broadband roll-out procurement for Fife, Perth and Kinross. The proposed contract is valued at £28,557,891 excluding VAT and aims to help expand such a network to cover an estimated total number of 17,830 premises in hard-to-reach areas (i.e. those not covered by any other gigabit networks). Just to recap. The move comes after the SG stopped their previous tender back in June...
Openreach Replaces Current UK CEO Clive Selley with Katie Milligan | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More In a significant development, national broadband operator Openreach (BT) has this morning announced that they’re replacing long-serving CEO, Clive Selley, with current Deputy CEO Katie Milligan from 1st April 2026. Clive will then will become CEO of BT International, where he succeeds Bas Burger who has decided to leave BT after 18 years of service on the same date. Clive was originally appointed to the role of CEO at the start of 2016 and has thus...
Macquarie Take Control of UK Fibre and Multi-Utility Provider Last Mile Infrastructure | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Australian investment group Macquarie Asset Management has acquired Infracapital’s 50% stake in the Last Mile Infrastructure Group, which gives it 100% control of the multi-utility infrastructure group that designs, builds, owns and manages more than 930,000 “connections” across Great Britain (including electricity, gas, water, wastewater and fibre optic broadband etc.). The company, which was originally founded in Scotland in 2002 (currently registered...