R100 Gigabit Broadband Rollout Reaches 96,347 Premises in Scotland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Scottish Government (SG) has revealed that 96,347 premises have now benefitted from their £697m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach (up from 93,800 in Nov 2025), which is rolling out full fibre (FTTP) broadband to remote rural areas. The next areas set for upgrade include Hoy in Orkney, Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute, and Inchture in Perth and Kinross. The R100 scheme aims to reach another 113,000 premises – split across three contracts – in...
Starlink Secure Approval to Launch 7,500 Faster LEO Broadband Satellites | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Starlink (SpaceX) service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds to the UK and globally via a massive global constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has secured regulatory approval to launch 7,500 more satellites (albeit not quite the 22,000 they had originally wanted); these will sit at lower orbits, use more radio frequencies and deliver faster speeds. Just for context. Starlink currently has around 9,400 satellites in Low Earth...
Wildanet Tackle Broadband Service Outages at Multiple Sites in South West England | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of alternative broadband provider Wildanet, which has built a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon in South West England, have reported a number of different services outages on the network following the impact of last night’s Storm Goretti event. In a brief statement, posted at 8:28pm last night, the provider said: “We are aware of service interruptions at multiple Wildanet Service Locations. These...
Rural Broadband Altnet Truespeed in UK Merger Talks with Freedom Fibre | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Aviva-backed alternative gigabit broadband operator Truespeed, which has only just merged with County Broadband to create a single full fibre operator covering 177,000 premises (RFS) and 41,000 customers in England (here), is reportedly in talks with Freedom Fibre about the possibility of consolidating into an even larger network. Just to recap. The newly merged Truespeed currently focuses upon serving rural premises in parts of Devon, Wiltshire,...
Broadband ISP KCOM Reveals Hull UK’s Internet Traffic Use Over Christmas | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Macquarie-backed telecoms provider KCOM, which have deployed their own full fibre broadband (FTTP) network across 305,000 premises in parts of East Yorkshire (primarily Hull) and Lincolnshire (England), has revealed that customers in the Hull area consumed 2,500,000 GigaBytes (GB) of data traffic on Christmas Day 2025 (500,000GB more than usual) – it’s “busiest day ever for online traffic“. During the whole of Christmas week, KCOM said their broadband...
South Yorkshire Celebrates Hitting 95 Percent Gigabit Broadband Coverage | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The South Yorkshire Digital Infrastructure Team, which primarily works under the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) to accelerate the rollout of fixed gigabit broadband (1000Mbps+) and 5G mobile networks, has today celebrated having surpassed their target of reaching 95% of homes and businesses in the region with gigabit lines. The figure was officially achieved in early November 2025, thus besting the target that had been set in the...
London Internet Exchange Updates UK Fees and Service Structure for 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The member‑owned not-for-profit London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900 members (broadband ISPs, mobile operators etc.), has today announced their new service profile and fees for 2026. The 2026 update includes a few changes, such as the ability for networks to now consume 10Gbps of peering on a 100GE port, which should make the step-up to 100GE even easier. LINX...
Ofcom Proceed with Proposal to Share Upper 6GHz Band for UK Mobile and WiFi | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has this morning confirmed that the United Kingdom will become the “first country in Europe” to adopt a proposal that allows low power indoor WiFi signals and outdoor mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.) networks to “share” access to the Upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425 to 7125MHz). Ofcom has already made the Lower part (5925 to 6425MHz) of the 6GHz band available for WiFi, such as under the latest WiFi 6E and WiFi 7...
Virgin Media UK’s TV Customers Given Free Access to Premier Sports Rugby | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), such as those who take a Pay TV service via one of their TV 360, Stream or v6 Box platforms, may like to know that from today they will also gain free access to Premier Sports Rugby, the 24/7 rugby channel. The channel is said to offer access to the “most comprehensive club rugby coverage available across the UK“. Virgin TV customers can now enjoy access to the Investec Champions Cup, United Rugby...
Toxic Gas Disrupts Openreach’s UK Broadband Network in Aldershot | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) appears to have closed access to all underground structures within the Aldershot exchange (ACM) area in Hampshire (England), which occurred yesterday after they identified “suspected toxic gases” within the local underground network. The move means that Openreach’s engineers, including those working for rival broadband and phone networks that share some of the same infrastructure, are currently prevented from doing...