Virgin Media O2 UK Create Dedicated Fixed Wholesale Unit for Consumer and Business | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband network operator and retail ISP Virgin Media (O2) has this morning announced the creation of a single dedicated Fixed Wholesale unit, which will bring together their consumer and business facing wholesale teams under one roof. This will allow rival ISPs to access their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network – currently available to 7 million premises. Regular readers might recall that VMO2’s long-held plan for opening up their existing...
Chris Newall Joins Ontix as Chief Executive Officer | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More London, UK, 15th September 2025 – Ontix, the next-generation infrastructure-as-a-service provider, announces the appointment of Chris Newall as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in a new chapter for the company. With over 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry, Chris joins Ontix from Clarke Telecom, where he was Sales & Strategy Director, following his role as Chief Commercial Officer at Indigo Telecom Group. Chris’s goal as the...
Lit Fibre Launch Lit Business | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Today Lit Fibre announces the launch of three new Line-only broadband services, designed to meet the growing need for fast and reliable business connections. With service speeds from 500Mbps up to 2.4Gbps and contract options of 36, 24 and 12 months available, Lit Fibre’s new offerings provide a future-ready solution for businesses of all sizes. Broadband has become as essential to businesses as electricity. From cloud services and video conferencing to...
How can the technology community best ensure the delivery of ethical AI? | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article By Tim Ensor, Board Director, Cambridge Wireless AI ethics is not a new debate, but its urgency has intensified. The astonishing progression of AI capability over the past decade has shifted the conversation from theoretical to highly practical; some would say existential. We are no longer asking if AI will influence human lives; we are now reckoning with the scale and speed at which it already does. And, with that, every line of...
Why collaboration is the key to scaling the UK’s fibre future | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article by Dave Ferry, Chief Sales Officer at ITS Scaling full fibre across the UK is not just an engineering challenge. It’s a market challenge, an ecosystem challenge, and above all a collaboration challenge. The question is not whether the UK needs better digital infrastructure – the answer is clear. The real question is how the industry works together to deliver it at scale and speed. The power of the channel The technology channel has...
VMO2 celebrates 5G Standalone milestone with giant Bakewell tart | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Virgin Media O2 has today announced that its next generation 5G Standalone network is now live in 500 towns and cities across the UK. Available to more than 70% of the UK population – some 49 million people – this represents the country’s largest 5G Standalone deployment. Customers in the 500 locations can benefit from an improved mobile experience with broader 5G coverage, higher speeds, and reduced latency. Unlike other operators, the...
Freedom Fibre Expand UK Wholesale Broadband Partnership with PXC | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre, which has so far grown their FTTP (XGS-PON) based gigabit broadband network to cover 350,000 premises across various parts of England and North Wales, has this morning announced the expansion of its established partnership with PlatformX Communications (formerly TalkTalk Wholesale). The extended agreement is said to make Freedom Fibre services available to PXC’s partners (e.g. other broadband ISPs) through...
Beware Email Scams Seeking Feedback on the UK’s Emergency Alerts Test | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The recent nationwide mobile test of the UK’s new Emergency Alerts service has, perhaps inevitably, been followed by a new wave of email phishing scams and spams over the past week. This attempts to impersonate the government by claiming to seek feedback from recipients on whether or not they received the alert. As usual with such things, the messages are structured in a way to look authentic, but neither the sending email addresses nor the main source...
SignalTracker Compares Performance of UK Mobile Operators to Virtual Siblings | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study from SignalTracker, which runs a popular Android mobile app (not iOS) for monitoring and examining mobile network performance, has revealed the results of a study into the speed differences between the UK’s primary mobile operators (MNO) and their virtual operator (MVNO) siblings. Unsurprisingly, EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2 outperformed mvnos. Many people tend to make the mistake of assuming that a virtual mobile operator will typically...
O2 UK Expands Mobile 5G Standalone Network to 500 Towns and Cities | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that they now have the “country’s largest 5G Standalone deployment” after extending the coverage of their new ultrafast mobile broadband network to parts of 500 towns and cities, reaching more than 70% of the UK’s population (c.49 million people). Crucially this is provided to consumers “at no extra cost“. Just to recap. 5GSA networks are pure end-to-end 5G that can deliver ultra-low latency times, greater...