Ofcom Shame TalkTalk and O2 for UK Broadband and Mobile Complaints in Q1 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Ofcom have today published their latest quarterly (Q1 2025) study of UK consumer telecoms complaints, which names TalkTalk as attracting the most negative feedback from customers for fixed broadband, while O2 took the most heat for Mobile and Virgin Media were put on the naughty step for Pay TV services. Take note that the regulator’s report only covers complaints that Ofcom itself has received and not those sent directly to an ISP, the ISPA or an...
New Civil Engineering Firm Allestra Group Setup to Tackle UK Telecoms | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The former MD of street works firm Light Source, Steve Hill, this week announced that he’d established the Nottingham-based Allestra Group to serve the telecommunications (broadband etc.), renewable energy, multi-utilities, network design, and traffic management sectors with similar engineering solutions. The core focus of the new company will initially be on telecommunications and multi utility services, where they already appear to be working with the...
Broadband ISP Fusion Fibre Group Joins F&W’s UK Full Fibre Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural network builder and ISP Fusion Fibre Group, which has deployed a few of its own FTTP broadband networks to various remote communities, has today entered into a new strategic partnership with alternative network operator F&W Networks (Fibre and Wireless) to “accelerate the rollout of ultrafast, reliable full-fibre broadband across Southern England“. Just to recap. F&W claims to have so far managed to extend their gigabit-capable broadband...
Tele2 to spin off Baltic towers with GCI | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The new joint venture will own 2,700 sites in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania Today, Swedish telco group Tele2 has announced that it will spin off its Baltic tower assets, forming a joint venture with Global Communications Infrastructure (GCI). The newly formed business will include own 2,700 telecoms towers and rooftop sites across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The business will be split 50:50 between the two owners, with Tele2 to serve as an...
EchoStar teams up with MDA Space for LEO satellite plans | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News EchoStar has taken another critical step towards plans to launch a new constellation of low Earth orbit satellites by 2029. By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities MDA Space has been selected as the prime contractor for EchoStar’s low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, which has an estimated price tag of $5 billion. Colorado-based EchoStar announced the decision to land with MDA Space for an initial contract, valued at approximately $1.3...
Study Claims UK Public WiFi Networks Failing Child Safety Standards | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study from Guest Metrics, which has a vested interest in selling content filtering solutions, claims to have identified “widespread failures in public WiFi compliance” after it identified that 80% of the venues it tested had no content filtering (no age checks, no splash pages, no logging) to protect children from adult content – a key part of the UK government’s new Online Safety Act (2023). According to the study, many of these networks were...
SpaceX Plan Cheap Starlink Community Broadband Sharing Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More SpaceX’s Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds to the UK and globally via a massive constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), appears to have leaked out plans for a new “Community” product that could allow multiple subscribers to share access to the service via a single terminal (dish) in return for a cheaper rental. At present Starlink has around 8,100 satellites in orbit (c.4,300 are v2 / V2 Mini) – mostly at altitudes...
Wessex Internet to Expand South Wiltshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government (DSIT) appears set to expand their £18.8m (state aid) Project Gigabit contract with rural UK ISP Wessex Internet for South Wiltshire (LOT 30). This originally aimed to build their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband network to cover “around” 14,500 hard-to-reach premises in the area (here), but will now look to reach 21,197 premises. Project Gigabit’s contracts are not static and their scope, as well as committed levels of public funding, can...
Gigaclear’s East Gloucestershire FTTP Broadband Rollout Contract Shrinks | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK government has posted a Project Gigabit contract modification that shrinks Gigaclear’s £16.6m contract for rural parts of East Gloucestershire (Lot 18), which originally aimed to expand their gigabit-capable broadband network to 4,400 additional premises. But the change shrinks the value of this contract to £10.81m “due to removal of 899 premises” from its scope. As we’ve said before. Project Gigabit’s contracts are not static and their scope, as...
Virgin Media O2 Expand UK 3G Mobile Switch Off to Watford | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that customers in the large Hertfordshire (England) town and borough of Watford will be the next UK location to go through their 3G mobile (broadband) switch-off programme on 17th September 2025. This follows completed withdrawals in Durham, Norwich, Telford, Guildford and Torquay. The process, which is due to reach nationwide completion by the end of 2025, should free up radio spectrum so it...