O2 UK Reduce Flexibility to Swap Your Phone After 90 Days, Now it’s 11 Months | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media), specifically those with the ‘Switch Up‘ service on their plan that gives you the flexibility to swap your Smartphone after 90 days (without having to pay off your contract), have recently been informed that the operator will shortly extend this period to 11 months. The change wasn’t mentioned to us when we queried last week’s somewhat controversial change to O2’s annual price rise policy (here and here),...
Broadband Provider GoFibre Named One of Scotland’s Fastest Growing Companies | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network GoFibre, which is rolling out a gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has been named as one of the top 50 fastest-growing businesses in Scotland by the UK Fast Growth Index for 2025. The Index identifies the fifty fastest-growing companies in seven regions and nations namely London, the Midlands and the East of England, the North of England, Northern Ireland,...
Uncertainty Clouds Future of North Shropshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The MP for North Shropshire in England, Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat), has called on the Government to take urgent action in its ongoing attempts to find a solution after network provider Freedom Fibre scaled back their £24m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for the region in June 2025. Just to recap. The contract with Freedom Fibre originally aimed to cover “around” 12,000 hard-to-reach rural homes in North Shropshire with a...
EE and Three UK Attract Most Complaints for Broadband and Mobile in Q2 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Ofcom has today published their latest quarterly Q2 2025 study of UK consumer telecoms and TV complaints, which names EE as attracting the most gripes from customers for fixed broadband and Pay TV services, while Three UK took the most flak for Mobile services. Take note that the regulator’s report only covers complaints that Ofcom itself has received and not those sent directly to an ISP, the ISPA or an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) complaints...
Ofcom Express Disappointment over O2’s UK Mobile Price Hike, But Doesn’t Act UPDATE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today said they’re “disappointed” by mobile operator O2’s (Virgin Media) recent decision (here) to increase their annual mid-contract price rises beyond what customers agreed when they signed-up (often above inflation too) and then forcing that upon existing customers. But so far an expression of disappointment is all they’ll do. Just for some context. At the start of 2025 Ofcom began requiring UK telecoms providers...
Ofcom UK Grant Gateway Licence for Amazon’s Project Kuiper Broadband Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has today granted a new gateway licence for Amazon’s future Project Kuiper network. The move supports the retail giant’s effort to launch a global mega-constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will deliver affordable ultrafast broadband and mobile (4G, 5G) services to rival Starlink (SpaceX). Amazon is already well into the early process of launching its global mega-constellation of 3,236 compact...
Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Scheme Given Green Rating | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme, which includes various broadband and other digital infrastructure upgrades as part of the wider £1.3bn Swansea Bay City Region project, has received a green rating in its latest Gateway Review, which is said to reflect its progress in improving digital connectivity across the region. Just to recap. The UK and Welsh Governments gave approval for a £55m digital infrastructure investment under...
VMO2 in talks with Netomnia for £2bn takeover | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The move would be the largest consolidation of the UK altnet market to date According to a report from the Financial Times, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has entered into negotiations to acquire fibre altnet rival Netomnia for £2 billion. The move would represent the start in earnest of long-awaited consolidation of the UK’s fibre broadband market. Founded in 2019, Netomnia’s fibre network currently covers 2.8 million premises, with roughly 400,000 ISP...
ACOME talks tackling ambitious carbon goals and the conundrum of cost | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interviews At Connected Britain, we spoke with Aurelien Bergonzo, Director of Telecom Datacom, and Infrastructure Business Unit at ACOME, to discuss how to more deeply embed sustainability throughout the telecoms supply chain Is sustainability truly a priority for telcos? At Connected Britain 2025, the topic of carbon neutrality and sustainable networks was as prominent as ever, but evidence of true progress at scale was in short supply. For ACOME’s...
Equinix to build £3.9bn Hertfordshire data centre | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Equinix, Inc., the world’s digital infrastructure company®, has completed its acquisition of an 85-acre plot permitted for data centre development in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Equinix plans to invest £3.9 billion in the project, which will deliver 250+MW of compute capacity to the UK’s critical national infrastructure. Once fully built out, it will deliver world-class digital infrastructure and skills in the UK, supporting local,...