Broadband provider Fibrus make time limited offer to TalkTalk customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Infracapital-backed alternative network and UK ISP Fibrus, which has built their own full fibre broadband infrastructure across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has responded to TalkTalk’s recent difficulties by offering the provider’s customers a special deal to switch (i.e. those within their network patch). For TalkTalk customers still in contract, Fibrus said they’re offering up to £400 towards any early termination fees they...
Opensignal study finds UK mobile broadband networks can handle AI | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which examines mobile network performance by gathering crowdsourced data from users of their testing App, has published a new study that attempts to examine conversational AI readiness across text, voice and video interactions. Overall the UK has a good readiness score, but not without some weak points. We’re often being told that next generation broadband and mobile networks are key to supporting the development of...
Bentry Infrastructure reveal expansion of RunFibre’s UK FTTP broadband network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The new Bentry Infrastructure Group (BIG) has today revealed to ISPreview that, after having recently acquired alternative network provider RunFibre from FibreNova, they’re investing in a “major commercial expansion” of full fibre broadband to reach locations across the North West, Midlands and London in England – building at a rate of 3,000 premises per month. Regular readers may recall the RunFibre had previously only deployed a small amount of...
Open letter – Opus Broadband complains to UK Govt over TalkTalk’s sale to BT | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet provider Opus Broadband, which had been working alongside Alchemy Partners on a since failed c.£100m bid for TalkTalk’s debt-ridden consumer business – before BT stepped in to avoid a sudden collapse, has today published an Open Letter that they just sent to the Secretary of State for Culture (DCMS), Lisa Nandy MP, which highlights their objections to the BT deal. Just to recap. Opus had a live offer for the consumer business, which they say had...
Openreach name next 112 UK areas for copper to full fibre switch – tranche 26 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Openreach (BT) has today published the next batch of 112 exchanges (Tranche 26) under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell scheme – reflecting a further 619,724 premises. This reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option, where available). Currently, there are two schemes for moving away from old copper...
Vodafone UK upgrades cost saving target to £1bn by 2032 after network progress | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator Vodafone UK (VodafoneThree) has today issued an update to confirm that, after taking full control of Three UK and making progress on their network merger, they’ve been able to upgrade their outlook and now expect to make cost savings of £0.8bn by fiscal 2030 (up by c.£100m) and then £1bn by 2032. VodafoneThree originally established a post-merger plan to invest £11bn into upgrading their 5G mobile infrastructure and coverage over the next...
Survey claims power cuts are top cause as “broadband outages” hit half of UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new Uswitch commissioned Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was conducted between 29th September to 2nd October 2026, has claimed that 26.7 million people suffered a “broadband outage” over the past year, with power cuts said to be overtaking ISP faults as the number one cause. But 4.6m (32%) are apparently unaware that power cuts can also stop digital phones working. The above figures seem to be a rather bold extrapolation from a fairly small...
Sky Mobile UK switches to 24-month minimum contract terms | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator Sky Mobile, which is estimated to be home to around 4-5 million subscribers in the UK and harnesses O2’s virtual (mvno) network platform, will today switch from using 12-month minimum term contracts and instead adopt a choice of either a 24-month or 30-day term for new customers. Longer contracts typically save new customers more money, at least during your first term, albeit with the caveat that they also lock you in to the service for...
New survey claims loyalty to mobile operators costing UK people £9bn a year | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK people, which was commissioned by Lebara, has found that UK broadband providers (18%) lead the list of contracts consumers are reluctant to leave, followed by mobile networks (15%) and TV packages (14%). But the study estimates that staying loyal to major mobile networks could make consumers £9bn a year worse off. According to the survey, 56% of respondents stay faithful to their mobile operator even when it’s to their...
End of the line as UK ISP Aquiss switch off final FTTC broadband service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Shropshire-based independent ISP Aquiss has today announced that they switched off their final Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) based Openreach broadband service on 7th October 2026, which follows the withdrawal of all their legacy ADSL copper lines back in August 2026 (here). But the underlying technology of FTTC (VDSL2) still lives on via SOGEA packages. Just to give a little context here. Aquiss are only talking about FTTC as a product from Openreach, not...