BT unveils new ‘sovereign platform’ for enterprise customers | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News BT has unveiled a new “sovereign platform” designed to give UK businesses and public bodies greater control over their networks, data, and emerging services such as cloud-hosted applications and AI. The platform, announced on Monday, consolidates a suite of services that BT says will be delivered from UK-based infrastructure and supported only by staff located in the UK. The company frames the move as a response to growing geopolitical uncertainty...
Freely’s UK Broadband TV Streaming Service Adds More Channels | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband-based live TV streaming service Freely, which is supported by most of the major UK TV broadcasters (BBC, ITV etc.) and is an evolution – not (yet) a replacement – for the existing Freeview service (inc. Freeview Play and Freesat), has said they’re adding another 7 channels to the free platform via partnerships with Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland and CNN. The first of these channels, CNN Headlines (channel 305), has already gone live...
New HBO Max Streaming Service to Get UK Launch in March 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Get ready for yet more online video content fragmentation as the CEO of American TV and Movie streaming giant HBO Max, Casey Bloys, has announced that its service will finally go live in the UK and Ireland during March 2026. But the platform will be going live in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein first, on 13th January 2026. Historically, if you wanted to watch HBO’s content in the UK (e.g. “It: Welcome to Derry,” “House...
Vodacom buys $2.1bn stake in Safaricom, gains majority control | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The shares, purchased from the Kenyan government and Vodacom’s parent company Vodafone, give it a 55% stake in the business This week, South Africa telecoms giant Vodacom has announced a deal to increase its stake in Kenya’s Safaricom to 55%, in a deal worth $2.1 billion. The deal would see Vodacom acquire a 15% stake in the business from the Kenyan government and a further 5% stake from its parent company Vodafone. Acquiring a controlling stake in...
“Not just a pipe”: Incognito talks ISP agility and value-added services | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview At Connected Britain 2025, we caught up with Incognito Software Systems’ Sonya Goodanetz to discuss how speed alone is no longer enough for consumers “Customers don’t buy technology. They buy products and services. You’ve got fibre and you’ve got speed – now what?” Far from a rhetorical question, this is a major challenge facing ISPs in the UK, where strong competition is leaving providers struggling to attract and retain customers. Speaking...
Quickline Build Full Fibre to 10,600 Extra UK Premises Under Project Gigabit Contract | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has today announced that they’ve now covered 10,610 premises as part of their publicly subsidised Project Gigabit contract. The alternative network actually holds several Project Gigabit contracts, but this one specifically relates to their £118.9m...
Virgin Media UK Adds Support for Fox’s Tubi Streaming Service to TV Platform | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of home broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who take their Pay TV service (usually via one of their TV 360, Stream or v6 box platforms), may like to know that the service has now added support for Fox Corporation’s ad-supported streaming service, Tubi, at no extra cost. Tubi, which claims to entertain over 100 million monthly active users across the world, is currently home to a vast catalogue of over 60,000 movies and TV...
Viral Video Sees Neighbours Argue Over Openreach Digging Up Garden | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new set of TikTok videos have recently gone viral – after being viewed over 4 million times – for their depiction of two neighbours arguing over whether or not Openreach have dug up the wrong garden, while engineers are busy laying a new fibre optic broadband cable in the background. But there seems to be a key bit of context missing from the debate. According to the BBC’s description of the event, Melanie Abbott returned home to find that Openreach’s...
Vitrifi Calls in the Administrators Over UK Wholesale Platform for Full Fibre AltNets | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Fern Trading (Octopus Investments) backed company Vitrifi, which was first incorporated back in 2021 and offered a cloud-based software platform to help alternative network providers (altnets) offer wholesale products (details), appears to have filed a new notice stating their intention to appoint an administrator. The notice itself (here), which was first filed on 1st December 2025, doesn’t reveal much and has yet to appear on either The Gazette or...
Ofcom UK Approve Short Duration 2.3GHz Licenses for Pop-up Mobile Cover | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has given its blessing to the “early 2026” introduction of short “notice, short duration licences” for outdoor and indoor use in the 2320-2340MHz radio spectrum band, which could support everything from pop-up 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) coverage to TV broadcasting etc. The idea seems to be that companies and organisations could harness the spectrum to power temporary mobile networks (e.g. 4G and 5G), such as for...