Gov Consults on Fees for New Digital UK Map of Underground Cables | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has today opened a new consultation on the sharing of information and fees payable by street works firms as part of operating the new National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), which is a digital map of underground UK pipes and cables (broadband, water etc.) that is partly designed to help reduce accidental damage. The government currently sees huge potential for such maps to help improve the way that national infrastructure is planned,...
NordVPN Names UK as Third Most Targeted Country for Internet Malware | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The latest Q2 2025 threat protection report from NordVPN, which is a familiar Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, has revealed that the UK now ranks third in the world for the number of cyberattacks it attracts – having seen a surge of 103 million incidents (up by 7% in Q1) of malware being sent to Brits via emails and texts, malicious sites and infected attachments etc. First things first, NordVPN has a clear vested interest here as the data...
Broadband ISP TalkTalk Publish UK Accounts to Reveal Surge in Losses | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More In a perhaps unsurprising development, the TalkTalk Group finally published their annual accounts yesterday and revealed that they made a statutory loss before tax of £465m for the year ended 28th February 2025 (up from £153m last year). The company also lost 420,000 UK broadband customers, leaving them with a group total of 3.2 million. Quite a few of the figures in the group’s latest report were already in the public domain (here and here), although...
GIC takes 25% stake in MásOrange and Zegona’s new Spanish FiberCo | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The joint venture’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network will span 12.2 million premises, making it one of the largest networks in Europe This week, Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC has agreed to purchase a 25% stake in MásOrange and Vodafone Spain’s upcoming fibre network joint venture, internally known as ‘Surf’. Vodafone Spain and MásOrange announced the creation of the joint venture in January. The business, estimated to be worth €8–10 billion,...
SKT bolsters GPUaaS offering with new ‘Haein’ cluster | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release SK Telecom announced the launch of its new sovereign GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) based on the latest NVIDIA B200 GPUs. The newly launched GPUaaS features one of Korea’s largest GPU clusters, consisting of over 1,000 NVIDIA B200 GPUs integrated into a single cluster. It delivers state-of-the-art performance in Korea and represents an advancement over the H100-based GPUaaS released in December 2024. It is expected to contribute significantly...
Telecoms Industry Leader Steve Leighton Joins Altnets in Landmark Appointment | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Industry veteran Steve Leighton, an influential figure in the UK telecoms industry and Chairman of ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association), joins award-winning ISP infrastructure specialists Altnets as Strategic Advisor on 1 August 2025. This appointment comes at a critical juncture as Altnets aims to increase market share, accelerate growth, and redefine how the telecoms sector approaches infrastructure distribution. More than just a new chapter...
Qualcomm Reveals How Next Gen WiFi 8 Will Prioritise Reliability Over Speed | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The development of the next gen Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn – Ultra High Reliability) standard – led by Task group IEEE802.11bn – is said to be making “steady progress” and, according to Qualcomm Technologies, a high-level of consensus has now been achieved on a significant portion of the future standard that will focus more on improving network reliability than speed. At present most UK consumers have yet to even adopt kit that supports either the Wi-Fi 6E...
CityFibre Hints at Future Plans for 100Gbps UK Broadband Network in 2030s | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator CityFibre, which has already deployed their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across around 4.5 million UK premises, recently indicated to Mobile Europe’s Digital Telco event that they would be looking to upgrade to 50G-PON or 100G-PON during the early to mid 2030s. The operator, which has long aspired to reach 8 million premises (c.30% of the UK) and just secured a major £2.3bn funding boost to fuel...
Virgin Media O2 and Daisy Group Launch New Merged B2B Company O2 Daisy | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The business division of UK broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 – VMO2 Business – have this morning announced that their recent merger with the Daisy Group has today resulted in the launch of a new B2B telecoms company called O2 Daisy (not to be confused with O2’s anti-scam AI chatbot of the same name). The new company, which will have annual pro forma revenues of around £1.4bn (Daisy Group holds a 30% stake in the business and VMO2 holds the...
IX Wireless Remove 15m Metal Broadband Mast in Heywood After 2yr Campaign | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A two-year-long campaign by residents and councillors in the Rochdale town of Heywood has succeeded in getting broadband provider IX Wireless (UK ISP 6Gi / Opus Broadband) to remove their 15-metre tall metal mast / pole on Snowden Street. The council said the structure had an “unsightly appearance” and that there had been “little or no consultation with local communities” before its deployment. The company, which holds an aspiration to cover 250,000...