O2 Priority Offers Prize to Cover UK Mobile or Broadband Bills for 1 Year | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of UK ISP Virgin Media and O2’s various broadband and mobile packages may like to know that their ‘Priority‘ app, which rewards existing subscribers with various special offers and discounts, has today announced a bunch of new drops and prizes available as part of its Blue Monday’s initiative through January. One of which will cover your mobile or broadband bills for 12 months. The latest additions include the “chance” (i.e. you have to open...
Business ISP Exascale Launches UK Consumer Broadband Brand | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Communications provider and UK network builder Exascale, which has deployed their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to a few thousand premises in part of Telford and Wrekin, has quietly launched a more consumer focused broadband brand that will sell packages via several fibre networks. The change means that Exascale’s main website has recently switched its focus to sell residential broadband packages, while business and wholesale...
Gov Look to Boost EE’s 4G Based UK Emergency Services Network via Satellite | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has reportedly invited interested suppliers, such as Starlink, to engage on the possibility of harnessing Direct to Device (DtD) based signals from broadband satellites to help resolve coverage gaps in the Government’s massively late and over-budget 4G based Emergency Service Network (ESN); currently being delivered by EE (BT). Just to recap. The emergency services (police, fire etc.) were supposed to have moved away from the...
Virgin Media UK Reveal XMas 2025 and New Year 2026 Broadband Traffic | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet provider Virgin Media (O2) has kindly furnished ISPreview with some general traffic stats from their fixed broadband network over the festive period, which for example reveals that Christmas Day internet traffic was up 11% on last year (broadly in line with traffic growth generally). But compared to an average Thursday in 2025, traffic was up by 22%. In terms of New Year’s Eve, Virgin Media reported that fixed broadband traffic was up 10% from...
Starlink to Shift LEO Ultrafast Broadband Satellites into a Lower Orbit | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Vice President of Starlink Engineering for SpaceX, Michael Nicolls, has revealed that they’re going to move all of the broadband satellites they currently have in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at around 550km above the planet to c.480km (impacting roughly 4,400 satellites) over the course of 2026. According to Nicolls, the “significant reconfiguration” of Starlink’s satellite constellation is a change that is “focused on increasing space safety” and is...
UK ISP BT Criticised Over Failure of Broadband Battery Backup During Power Cuts | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband provider BT (EE) has been criticised by a resident of the remote Outer Hebrides (Scotland) island of Scalpay after they found that the Battery Backup (BBU) device, which the ISP provided for their internet and Digital Voice (phone) service, failed to work in two out of three recent power cuts. A bit of a problem as the house also gets no mobile signal. The need for a BBU is relevant because the industry is now in the final process of retiring...
Gigabit Broadband Cover Reaches Nearly 90 Percent of the UK in H2 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More ISPreview has today published our biannual H2 – 2025 summary of fixed broadband coverage, which reveals that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP networks have grown to reach 81.89% of UK premises (up from 78.06% in H1) and 89.6% are within reach of “gigabit” 1000Mbps+ speeds (up from 87.84%) – close to the major milestone of 90%. Read on to see details for England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland. All the new gigabit-capable network (1000Mbps+ or 1Gbps+) coverage...
Openreach’s Essex and North East England Project Gigabit Broadband Contract Expands | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK government has posted a Project Gigabit modification for Openreach’s £61.3m (public subsidy) contract to extend the reach of their full fibre (FTTP) based gigabit broadband network across Essex and North East England. This increases the value by £610,393 to £61.92m and will now reach an additional 269 premises in remote rural areas (total target now 24,707 premises). Just to remind. Project Gigabit’s contracts are not static and their scope, as...
2026 New Year Honours for Building Digital UK’s Strategy Director | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government has published their annual New Year Honours List for 2026, which this time saw Matt Agar, Strategy Director for the government’s Building Digital UK agency within DSIT, being named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” for “services to Digital Infrastructure and Broadband“. The King’s New Year Honours list is said to recognise the achievements and public service of people across the UK, from all walks of life. Anyone can...
Broadband ISP Zen Internet Saw UK Network Traffic Grow 21 Percent in 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has this morning revealed that average network traffic across their service rose by 21% during 2025, with the highest peak of data usage being set on 11th November 2025 (22% above last year’s peak) – largely driven by live football streaming (this often dominated peak demand). What distinguishes 2025 is not the existence of such peaks, but how frequently they now occur on top of sustained demand. Zen...