Bharti Bosses Join BT Group’s UK Board as Non-Executive Directors | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group has this morning announced that Bharti Mittal, the Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, and Gopal Vittal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Airtel Limited, will both join the company’s Board as non-independent non-executive directors. In case anybody has forgotten. Last year saw Bharti Global (via Bharti Televentures UK Ltd), the Indian multinational conglomerate, agree to acquire French...
Broadband ISP TalkTalk Follows Brand Refresh with FTTP Price Cut and TV Campaign | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More UK ISP TalkTalk has followed last week’s launch of their refreshed branding (here) by kicking off a nationwide marketing and TV campaign. The campaign will run across social media, video-on-demand, outdoor, and audio channels, and features the provider’s new tag line: “Now you’re TalkTalkin“. They’ve also cut the price of their 150Mbps full fibre package. According to the announcement, TalkTalk’s 150Mbps broadband package has now been reduced to just £25...
Sky Mobile UK Offers Discounted £1 Pay Monthly 5G SIM Only Plan | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More New customers looking to join mobile operator Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband), which is a virtual provider (mvno) on O2’s national 4G and 5G network, may like to know that they’ve launched a bunch of new discounts on their SIM Only plans. For example, you can now get 1GB of data, including unlimited calls and texts, for just £1 per month (down from £3). In addition, Sky Mobile’s 10GB data plan has been reduced to £10 per month (down from £14), while 60GB is...
Giffgaff Expand UK Full Fibre Broadband Trial with Extra Speed Options | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile network provider giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica and uses O2’s associated virtual operator (MVNO) platform, has provided customers of their new home broadband trial – based on nexfibre and Virgin Media’s 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP / XGS-PON) network – with additional speed options other than 500Mbps. The trial has been running with “up to 500” live customers for a couple of months now (here and here). The service initially only offered...
Openreach to Cut Price of FTTP Broadband Rental on UK Proactive Upgrades | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) appears to be giving UK migrations from legacy fixed lines to modern Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband services a boost by offering UK ISPs and their customers a special discount on rental prices, albeit only when upgrades occur via their Proactive Upgrades process. Consumers are normally the ones to initiate an upgrade to full fibre (FTTP), but with Proactive Upgrades the initiator is your ISP. Proactive...
Vodafone Launch UEFA Champions League Travel eSIM for Football Fans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile and broadband telecoms giant Vodafone UK has announced the launch of a new Champions Travel eSIM, which forms part of the operator’s major new multi-year partnership with UEFA and UC31 to support the development of women’s and men’s European football. The Champions Travel eSIM apparently aims to “provide worry-free travel with global data connectivity in 206 countries“, including UEFA’s 55 member associations. The Champions Travel eSIM includes...
Ofcom Celebrate as 1.6 Million UK People Switch Broadband or Phone via OTS | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has this morning hailed the fact that 1.6 million consumers have now switched landline (phone) or broadband provider using their new One Touch Switch (OTS) process since it launched for the first time exactly one year ago. The OTS system, which went live on 12th September 2024 – after over 17 months of delays (here), remains a Gaining Provider Led (GPL) process, where the customer contacts their new...
First UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contract Completes in North Northumberland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government have this morning confirmed that GoFibre has become the first network operator to complete one of their subsidised roll-out contracts under the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The announcement relates to GoFibre’s £7.3m (state aid) contract to deploy a full fibre (FTTP) network across 3,750 hard-to-reach premises in North Northumberland. The smaller Type A (Local) contract for North Northumberland (Lot 34.01) was...
Court rejects Verizon’s appeal over $46.9m data sharing fine | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The court ruled that Verizon’s actions had clearly triggered the Communication Act’s privacy protections This week, the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit as rejected Verizon’s appeal to overturn a $46.9m fine issued to it last year for illegally handing customer location data to third parties without consent. In its appeal, Verizon said that the FCC’s decision had been “arbitrary and capricious”, arguing that the location data was not...
Openreach Gives Rival Networks Access to Improved Underground PIA Process | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Openreach has announced that rivals looking to run new fibre optic broadband lines via their existing UK cable ducts and poles (i.e. Physical Infrastructure Access) will shortly be able to benefit from a new Underground (UG) process. This is aimed at managing retrospective UG self provide (SPO) Network Adjustment (NA) orders. The Network Adjustment process, which is part of PIA, usually reflects situations where Openreach are required to make their...