Fibrus launch UK pay TV service as broadband network covers 472,000 premises | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Infracapital-backed alternative broadband network and ISP Fibrus, which has deployed their full fibre network across rural parts of Cumbria in England and Northern Ireland, has today announced the launch of their own Netgem PLEIO powered pay TV service and published a preview of their annual results showing revenues growing 53% to £45m. At the time of writing the company’s full accounts haven’t yet been published, but Fibrus does provide plenty of useful...
Study ranks UK 46th globally for the average cost of mobile broadband data | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Comparison site Broadband Genie has today published a new study, which analysed 3,446 SIM-only mobile phone tariffs across 234 “countries” to identify the average cost per GigaByte (GB) of data (mobile broadband) for each. The United Kingdom ended up ranking 46th with an average of $0.27 (£0.20) per 1GB of data – behind Italy and France, but in front of Germany and Spain. The new study essentially examined the monthly subscription price of various...
Tesco Mobile Grows to 5.9 Million UK Customers on Revenues of £1.23bn | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator Tesco Mobile, which is one of the UK’s largest virtual (mvno) mobile providers and harnesses O2’s national network, last week published their latest annual accounts to the end of 2025 and revealed that they are now home to a total customer base of 5.9 million (up 3.51%). The company’s revenues also climbed 11% to £1.23bn. The provider, which has also recently been linked to discussions over the potential launch of full fibre broadband...
O2’s Satellite mobile service extended to UK business customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that their recently launch consumer Direct-to-Device (D2D) based O2 Satellite service (here), which enables normal Smartphones to connect to their UK mobile network via Starlink’s cell-focused broadband satellites, is being made available to business customers via O2 Business. Regular readers may recall that the consumer variant of O2 Satellite typically costs an extra £3 inc. VAT extra per month,...
Bidding war erupts over UK business ISP Gamma as Waterland tackles Epiris | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A week has passed since business ISP and IT provider Gamma Communications accepted a cash offer from British private equity firm Epiris worth £1.079bn (here). But a new report claims that the Waterland private equity firm hasn’t given up their pursuit and plans to table a larger bid. Last week it seemed like Epiris (Bradbury Bidco Limited), which was recently linked to separate talks for TalkTalk’s wholesale business (PXC), had put themselves in pole...
Starlink impose 10Mbps speed cap on heavy users of its “unlimited” broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of Starlink’s ultrafast satellite broadband service, specifically those on their residential plans with “unlimited” data usage, have reported that they’ve had their internet speeds capped to c.10Mbps after consuming huge amounts of data. But this is despite their usage patterns being the same for, sometimes, several years. Starlink currently has around 11,100 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) – mostly at altitudes of between c.340-550km....
Starlink tweak Personal Maritime Broadband Plan to support bigger boats | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Good news. Starlink’s new Personal Maritime Plan for users of their ultrafast satellite broadband service, which is currently only being offered to selected customers, has corrected one of the biggest annoyances that appeared shortly after it first launched last month. The plan was previously limited to personal boats of up to 40ft in length, but this has now been extended to 60ft. As we pointed out in our article on the new plan, a lot of personal sail...
UK ISP Grain Connect offers up to 9 months half price full fibre broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More New customers looking to sign-up with Carlisle-based broadband provider Grain, which has deployed their point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 300,000 UK premises and connect 60,000 customers, may like to know that the ISP has launched a new discount that reduces some packages to half price for up to 9 months of service. In short, customers subscribing to Grain’s entry-level 250Mbps Full Fibre package, which normally costs £19.99 per month,...
Ofcom UK is not looking to harness lots of new spectrum for 6G mobile | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Ofcom this week began a new consultation on the UK’s provisional views and positions for the next World Radiocommunication Conference 2027 (WRC-27), which among other things appeared to indicate that the regulator would, at least for now, only support the release of an extra 125MHz of spectrum in the 7GHz band (7125-7250MHz) for use by future mobile broadband networks (i.e. 6G). The next WRC, which is due to be held in Shanghai (China) between 18th...
Netflix hikes UK prices for customers of its video streaming service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The popular broadband-based Movie and TV video streaming service, Netflix, has today updated their website to hike the monthly prices across all three of their plans for customers again. New customers will see the change immediately, while the timing for existing customers will depend upon your billing date (usually following 30 days’ after notification). In short, ‘Standard with Ads‘ will shoot up from £5.99 to £7.99 per month, while ‘Standard‘...