Openreach UK Launch Rental Discount on up to 1Gbps EAD Ethernet Tiers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has notified UK internet providers (ISPs) about the looming launch of a new special offer on their Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) lines for speeds of 1Gbps or below. The deal will apply a rental discount of 10% on the current one-year term rental prices with no CPI price rises for a full 36 or 60 months in return for signing up to a new 36 or 60-month term. Competition in the business connectivity market for high-speed...
Broadband ISP WightFibre Start Charging for “Free” Phone Line Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet service provider WightFibre, which is deploying a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), have begun informing existing customers of their full fibre packages that they’ll now have to pay a monthly fee to keep their “free” phone line service. Just to recap. Until recently WightFibre had been bundling a “free” fibre-based phone line service with any...
Bad Weather Delays Fix for Broken Shetland Subsea Fibre Cable Until Tuesday | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Bad weather means customers of broadband and mobile providers Vodafone, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland, will have to wait until Tuesday until repair ship Cable Vigilance can complete its fix of the recently broken SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) subsea cable. The SHEFA-2 cable reaches Shetland via two landing sites, including one stretch that goes north up to the...
JT Group Acquire Isle of Man Broadband and Mobile Provider Manx Telecom | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband, technology and telecoms operator JT (Jersey Telecom), which is owned by The States of Jersey and headquartered in St Helier, has expanded its reach from the English Channel Islands to include the Isle of Man after they partnered with CVC DIF (CVC Capital Partners) to acquire the Manx Telecom Group. Manx Telecom is of course the primary telecoms network for premises across the remote Isle of Man, which is a British Crown Dependency in the Irish...
Openreach Damages Netomnia’s Main Fibre Optic Cable Near Bristol | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hundreds of customers on Netomnia’s (Substantial Group) alternative broadband network in the Bristol (South West England) area, which has now covered 2.8 million UK premises RFS (inc. 400,000 customers) with their full fibre (FTTP) lines, are suffering connectivity problems after Openreach “took down one of our main cables” yesterday afternoon. According to a brief service status update, which was posted to the website of their main ISP, YouFibre: “We...
Scottish Government Upgrades Broadband Coverage Checker | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Scottish Government put out a brief notice this week to say that their “upgraded address checker … is now live” for broadband coverage, which apparently “now includes more detailed info on access and our delivery programmes“, albeit seemingly without providing any further specifics to better explain what’s changed. The checker itself can be found here – https://broadbandchecker.service.gov.scot – and to our eyes the output is still fairly basic. In...
New Scotland-based UK Broadband ISP Fibeo Set to Launch in 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The United Kingdom isn’t exactly short on consumer ISP options right now, but Glasgow-based Fibeo has revealed to ISPreview that they’re currently planning to join the club sometime in “early” 2026 – powered by the Dotlines Catena Cloud platform and the PXC (formerly TalkTalk Wholesale) broadband network. At present the internet provider’s official website is just a blank holding page, although they’re promising no hidden costs and to “[put] people first...
Ofcom Make Part of 1900MHz Band Available for 5G Mobile on UK’s Rail Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More As expected, Ofcom has today confirmed that they will make part of the 1900MHz radio spectrum band (1900-1920MHz), which had previously gone unused by mobile operators, available for use by both the UK’s rail network (5G / data services) and to extend coverage for the 4G Emergency Services Network (ESN). Mobile operators do in fact make use of the 1900MHz band, just not the 20MHz slice of unpaired spectrum in question (i.e. they lacked an ecosystem for...
BDUK Summarise Progress of UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contracts | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s (DSIT) Building Digital UK agency has today finally started to publish monthly updates on the delivery progress of contracts that have been awarded under their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which among other things reveals that some 150,730 contracted premises have already been built out of a planned total of 1,002,270 (October 2025). Just to be clear. The figures in this update are not directly comparable to the figures...
Germany, switching on to fibre | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The German broadband market is currently focused on an aggressive transition from older Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) infrastructure to high-speed fibre optic services. This transition is being driven by a combination of commercial necessity and increasing regulatory demand for transparency. Vodafone Germany is taking commercial action to actively encourage this technology shift. The company has launched a new set of aggressive fibre tariffs from...