B4RN Secure Finance from Triodos Bank UK to Expand Rural 10Gbps Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which is a community built and supported network that has so far deployed their 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) lines to cover 30,000 rural premises in England, has announced that they’ve secured new finance from Triodos Bank UK to help expand their network into the North East of England. The provider, which is a registered Community Benefit Society (i.e. they can’t be bought by a commercial operator and...
Netomnia Rapidly Expands UK FTTP Broadband as Take-up and Revenues Rise | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More One of the country’s largest alternative broadband networks, Netomnia (Substantial Group), will today publish their Q3 2025 results. The figures reveal that revenues on their multi-gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network increased to £27.7m (up from £23.6m in Q2 and 125% YoY) and take-up reached 14% (up from 13.4%). Some 2.8 million premises are now covered (up 241k in Q3 vs 243k in Q2). The results confirm that Netomnia is continuing to build at a rapid...
Vodacom taps Starlink for mobile backhaul across Africa | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The telco will also resell Starlink’s services to enterprise customers Today, African mobile operator Vodacom has announced a new deal with SpaceX’s Starlink, aiming to use the latter’s satellite constellation to improve connectivity in rural Africa. The partnership will see Starlink satellites provide backhaul services for Vodacom’s mobile networks, helping to enable better service to customers in remote regions and support the expansion of...
Survey Claims 41 Percent of UK People Hit by Broadband Outages | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new Uswitch commissioned Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was conducted between 31st October and 4th November 2025, has claimed that 41% of respondents experienced at least one loss of broadband connectivity in the past 12 months and “15 million Brits” (67%) experienced outages lasting for three hours or more. The survey goes on to claim that internet outages totalled 238.7 million hours in the past year, which is said to be costing the UK...
Openreach Raises Prices on Copper Lines to Boost UK Fibre Broadband Adoption | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Openreach has today announced a raft of above inflation price hikes on some of their older copper-based line products for UK internet and phone providers, which are designed to “encourage” comms providers to upgrade their customers to “digital alternatives” and full fibre (FTTP) technology; before legacy services are switched off in January 2027. Just to recap. The legacy phone switch-off was last year delayed to 31st January 2027 in order to give...
Altnet Broadband ISP Toob Wins Two North East Contact Centre Awards | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hampshire-based alternative broadband network and UK ISP toob, which has deployed a full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, have today announced that they’ve won two awards at the North East Contact Centre Awards (NECCA) 2025. The full-fibre provider, and their dedicated Contact Centre in Stockton-on-Tees, were recognised in the individual and organisational categories, winning the...
Cellnex delivers first consolidated site for VodafoneThree | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release London, 12 November 2025 – Cellnex, Europe’s leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure, today announced it has delivered its first VodafoneThree consolidated mast, five months ahead of schedule. Containing both software and hardware improvements, the site – located in Burnley – is now delivering fast and reliable 4G and 5G coverage to both Vodafone and Three customers. The project involved a full baseband modernisation to boost...
ISP Octaplus Test New AI Support System with UK Broadband Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet service provider Octaplus, which sells broadband packages to consumers via various full fibre networks, has today begun an exclusive “early-stage” rollout of their new AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered support system – Ask Octa AI – with a selected group of existing customers. Consumer sentiment toward the use of AI chatbots tends to be quite mixed, with many viewing it as being more of a negative (i.e. a way of reducing the number of actual...
Cellnex Delivers First Consolidated 4G and 5G Mast Site for Vodafone and Three UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Wireless infrastructure firm Cellnex has today announced that they’ve delivered the “very first” consolidated 4G and 5G mast site for the recently merged mobile operators of Vodafone and Three UK (VodafoneThree) – five months ahead of schedule, which was established in the Lancashire (England) town of Burnley. Many more are expected to follow. So far, most of the immediate post-merger network performance improvements have stemmed from VodafoneThree’s...
UK ISP TalkTalk Business Follows Consumer Division by Refreshing its Brand | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business broadband and Ethernet provider TalkTalk Business (TTB), which was demerged from the wider TalkTalk Group in 2023, has now followed the re-branding of the group’s wholesale (PXC) consumer division by today unveiling a “bold new brand identity and website” of its own. The rebranding is said to “reflect the Salford-headquartered company’s shift from a traditional connectivity provider into a more agile and comprehensive technology partner“. While...