Virgin Media Accounts for 44 Percent of Big UK Broadband ISP Outage Searches | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study from DTP Group has analysed monthly UK internet searches relating to broadband outages among the country’s largest ISPs and found that Virgin Media tops the table as the provider most commonly associated with service disruptions, accounting for 44% of searches (i.e. 27,100 searches every month related to Virgin Media outages). BT ranked second after Virgin, accounting for 24% of all outage-related monthly searches, with an average of 14,800...
Feasibility Study on New Subsea Fibre Cable for Shetland Islands Begins | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Scottish Government yesterday set out their work plan for the next five years, which among other things initiated a feasibility study to “identify and evaluate potential options” for deploying a new subsea fibre optic cable between mainland Scotland and the Shetland Islands. The goal being to improve broadband and mobile redundancy, as well as performance. Shetland is already connected by two major subsea fibre cables, including the SHEFA-2 (Faroese...
Ookla Study Reveals Quality of 4G and 5G Mobile Signals on London Underground | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking giant Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has today published one of the first independent studies of real-world 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage quality on the London Underground. The good news is that it works and exists exactly where TfL says it should. Boldyn Networks, using kit from Nokia and others, currently holds a 20-year concession deal with...
Broadband ISP Truespeed Mourns Passing of Chairman Clarke Osborn | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The staff of alternative UK retail broadband ISP Truespeed, which now forms part of the wider FreedomTruespeed Group (FTG), were informed last week that the rural internet provider’s former Chairman since 2014, Clarke Osborne, had sadly passed away after being unwell for some time. Clarke was a founder-shareholder of Wandsdyke Networking which later evolved to become Truespeed Communications. He joined the Truespeed board as its non-executive Chairman in...
DCF Estimate 200,000 Engineers Could Leave UK Telecoms Workforce by 2030 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report from the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), an industry think-tank, has today been published that examines the apparently “growing workforce and skills challenges” of the telecoms sector and highlights how 200,000 UK engineers are expected to leave the workforce by 2030 – risking a future “skills cliff“. But quite a few of those may be leaving due to maturity of the full fibre broadband build. However the report – ‘Expanding the Network‘,...
Why the telecom industry acquisition problem is really about retention | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article By Sylwia Kechiche, VP Industry Analysis at Opensignal In a market where full fibre broadband now passes 82% of UK premises and mobile connections outnumber people, acquiring genuinely new customers is hard. Most acquisition growth today comes from switching, not from bringing net new subscribers into the market. Every customer an operator wins is one another operator has lost. In such an environment, retention is no longer a...
Who is Responsible When Broadband Fails – 45 Percent of UK Businesses Don’t Know | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new online survey of 401 full-time UK business connectivity decision-makers, which was conducted by alternative UK broadband network provider LightSpeed Networks (company with a vested interest), claims to have found that 45% of respondents have experienced a fault where “responsibility between suppliers was disputed or unclear“. The study suggests that clear accountability during a network outage remains a challenge for many businesses and 34% of...
Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract for Orkney and Shetland to be Awarded Soon | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More After a long delay it appears as if the Scottish Government may finally get around to awarding a new gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Orkney & Shetland by the end of 2026. The procurement, which forms part of the UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme, aspires to expand full fibre (FTTP) networks to 13,550 premises in hard-to-reach parts of the remote Northern Isles. The SG first put out a contract notice for all this back in December 2024, which at...
Business UK ISP Gamma Reach Agreement on £1bn Cash Offer by Epiris | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business ISP and IT provider Gamma Communications has this morning confirmed that their board has proposed to accept a cash offer from private equity firm Epiris, which implies an enterprise value of approximately £1.079bn. The deal, if approved, will be managed through a newly incorporated entity called Bradbury Bidco Limited. Regular readers will recall that the battle for control of Gamma has been going on for months now, with Matthew Riley’s Giacom,...
Wildanet Grows Revenue But Takes £17m Write-Down on UK Fibre Broadband Assets | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More After a turbulent year, broadband provider Wildanet, which is deploying a new 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, has published their annual accounts to the end of 2025 and revealed revenue growth of 43% to £2.51m (2024: £1.75m). But they also wrote another £17.1m off the value of their assets. Just to recap. Over the past few years Wildanet has come under many of the same pressures as other UK...