Oak Tree Housing Association Agrees Deal to Deploy Full Fibre in Greenock | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Oak Tree Housing Association, which provides social housing across parts of Inverclyde in Scotland and owns 1,960 homes, has reached a new access agreement (wayleave) with Openreach (BT). The deal will enable the operator to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across numerous buildings in the town of Greenock. According to the announcement, the partnership will work to deploy their new full fibre network into around 400...
London Internet Exchange Deploys 25th 400Gbps Ethernet Port | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The not-for-profit London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900 members (broadband, mobile, CDN providers etc.), has celebrated achieving a “major milestone” after they deployed their 25th 400GE (Gigabits per second) port across their global network. The first 400GE port was provisioned several years ago in 2021, largely as a response to rising demand for ultra-high...
Competition Concerns Raised Over New Openreach FTTP Broadband Discount | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A number of Openreach’s rivals are understood to have raised fresh competition concerns with Ofcom after the operator introduced a new discount on upgrades (here). The offer was designed to help encourage ISPs to shift customers off older copper-based broadband services and on to newer full fibre (FTTP) lines, but not everyone is happy. The issue concerns proactive migrations, which arise where an internet provider (ISP) proposes to upgrade your older...
Broadband Outages on Shetland After Second Subsea Fibre Break in 3 Months | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of ISP Sky Broadband, Vodafone and possibly others on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland, started suffering from a loss of internet connectivity yesterday after the main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) subsea fibre optic cable suffered damage on Friday; the second time in 3 months. Faroese Telecom’s SHEFA-2 cable reaches Shetland via two landing sites, including one stretch that goes North...
Sky and RM Tech to Improve High-Speed Fibre Connectivity for UK Schools | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Education technology provider RM Technology and Sky Business Wholesale (Comcast) have signed a new partnership. The move aims to provide a fully resilient, high-speed connectivity solution for schools across the UK by leveraging Sky’s network to deliver a 100Gbps-ready, fibre-first network. The move is said to have enhanced RM Technology’s existing portfolio with fully resilient, high-speed services, including a dedicated Network-to-Network Interface...
Broadband ISP Aquiss Launch UK FTTP Broadband Packages via Gigaclear | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss this week appears to have added yet another alternative network to their platform after reaching an agreement to sell packages to homes and businesses covered by Gigaclear’s full fibre (FTTP) lines, which primarily cover rural premises across various parts of England. Gigaclear’s network is currently available to over 612,000 premises across rural parts of England. But we haven’t previously seen many other retail ISPs...
Virgin Media UK Give TV Customers Free Access to Kids Channels During Oct 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who also take their pay TV service and have children, may like to know that the provider will be offering free access to their premium children’s TV channels throughout the whole of October 2025 “at no extra cost“. The offer, which includes the ability to watch these channels either at home or on the go via the Virgin TV Go app, arrives just in time for the October half-term and covers...
BT Completes £1.9m Full Fibre Build for Swansea Bay City Deal | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme has today announced the completion of their £1.9m Full Fibre Infrastructure Build project with BT, which has helped to upgrade 69 key public sector sites with “future proofed” broadband connectivity. Just to recap. The UK and Welsh Governments gave approval for a £55m digital infrastructure investment under the £1.3bn Swansea Bay City Region project back in 2021 (here), which among other things...
Broadband Disrupted Near Durham UK After Vandals Cut Fibre Optic Cables | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A number of homes, businesses and several network operators, including Netomnia (Youfibre, Brsk) and Openreach (BT), were impacted yesterday outside the City of Durham after vandals gained access to a chamber and cut vital fibre optic cables; disrupting local broadband connectivity for a protracted period. The incident appears to have occurred sometime during the small hours of Wednesday (1st Oct) morning, around the junction of Littletown Lane and...
EE to Expand 5G Standalone Mobile Cover to 99 Percent of UK Population by 2030 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) have today announced that they’re aiming to expand the population coverage of their latest 5G Standalone (5GSA) mobile network to reach 99% of the UK by the end of FY30. The move appears to be a reaction to VodafoneThree’s (Vodafone and Three UK) target (here) of achieving the same outcome by 2034. Just to recap. Earlier deployments of 5G were largely Non-Standalone (NSA), which meant they were partly reliant...