SoftBank completes $3.1bn purchase of DigitalBridge | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The Japanese conglomerate views the company as a piece of its rapidly expanding AI data centre strategy Today, SoftBank has completed the acquisition of digital infrastructure asset manager, DigitalBridge. The $3.1 billion deal, first announced in December 2025, makes DigitalBridge a fully owned subsidiary of SoftBank and is aimed at boosting SoftBank’s ability to “originate, finance, operate, and scale digital infrastructure opportunities...
ICEYE taps Nokia to deveop satellite comms systems | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release ICEYE, the European leader in sovereign intelligence from space, and Nokia, a global leader in connectivity infrastructure, today announced a partnership to develop secure, sovereign and high-performance broadband low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications systems for governments, supporting missions from defense and border security to emergency services and disaster response. Built on trusted European technology, the jointly developed...
Fancy an AI receptionist? BT Business will sell your company one | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Communications and broadband provider BT Business has today announced the launch of their new AI Receptionist tool, which as the name suggests is a new service that is designed to help small and medium-sized UK businesses to manage customer calls around the clock. According to BT, phone calls remain the number one preferred way to contact a business, but failing to answer them due to limited resources can have a big impact. The operator itself claims...
Govt publish evaluation of pre-2021 UK gigabit broadband voucher schemes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) directorate has today published a final evaluation of their publicly funded pre-2021 broadband voucher schemes, including the earlier incarnation of their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) and the Rural Gigabit Connectivity (RGC) scheme. Overall both were found to have produced various positive impacts. Just to recap. The GBVS in this report – delivered between November 2017 and May 2020 – was originally...
London full fibre ISP G.Network launch 8.5Gbps home broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More London-focused UK broadband operator G.Network, which claims to have built their FTTP (XGS-PON) network footprint to cover 420,000 premises across the city (395k RFS), has today followed our earlier report by launched two new multi-gigabit residential broadband products – HomePro3 and HomePro10 – offering symmetrical speeds of up to 2.5Gbps and 8.5Gbps respectively. Just to recap. G.Network, which originally aspired to expand their full fibre lines to...
Broadband ISP BT set to relaunch UK pay TV service on 15th October | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More In a slightly confusing announcement, telecoms giant BT (EE) has today announced that their pay TV product, BTTV, will be “available from 15 October [2026]” as part of a new-ish bundle that “[brings] together TV, streaming services and premium content in one place, powered by BT’s award-winning broadband“. Except BT has had a bundled TV service for years. The press release does a poor job of explaining what’s actually new about all this. But in recent...
Virgin Media UK gives TV customers free access to kids channels for Oct 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Just like last year. 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 once again be gifting free access to their premium children’s TV channels throughout the whole of October 2026 “at no extra cost“. The channels, which normally cost an extra £5 per month to receive, include Sky Kids, Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, Boomerang, Nickelodeon, Nick...
Broadband router giant FRITZ! releases FRITZ!OS 8.20 firmware | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network kit manufacturer FRITZ!, which is a German developer of home networking products (e.g. FRITZ!Box routers are bundled by several UK broadband ISPs), has today informed ISPreview that they’ve begun to roll-out their latest FRITZ!OS 8.50 software update that includes various new features. Hopefully this will be less buggy than some prior updates. The new update offers a wide range of expanded features ranging from improved diagnostic tools to...
TalkTalk bidder asks Openreach to waive UK wholesale broadband charges | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The lead bidder, Epiris, for part of the debt-ridden TalkTalk Group, which is now in the final stage of its turbulent efforts to dispose of both their consumer broadband ISP business and the PXC (PlatformX Communications) wholesale business, has reportedly asked network supplier Openreach (BT) to waive several months of payments to support a rescue deal. Just to recap. Private equity firm Epiris have been attempting to secure a deal for TalkTalk’s...
Dotlines UK publish first interim results for H1 2026 as telecom offering expands | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Technology company Dotlines UK, which among other things supplies various services to UK ISPs (Catena cloud platform, routers etc.) and also runs the new broadband provider Carnival Internet, has today published its interim results for the first half of 2026 following its admission to AIM (sub-market of the London Stock Exchange) on 11th May 2026. While the Group’s UK telecom offering is still said to be in the “early stage of commercial rollout“,...