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...
Rural UK Broadband ISP Airband Launch 1Gbps Wireless Package | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural internet provider Airband, which has deployed a full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband network to cover various parts of Wales and South West England, has today announced that they’ve launched a 1Gbps speed package for those homes and businesses covered by their latest wireless networking technology. Apparently four of their existing FWA sites have already been upgraded in Shropshire and Wrexham to take advantage of the new “hyperfast...
Altnet Broadband ISP Lightning Fibre Expand FTTP Cover on CityFibre’s Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Eastbourne-based alternative broadband network and UK ISP Lightning Fibre, which is building a new gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) service across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has today announced that they’ve also expanded their existing wholesale partnership with CityFibre to help them reach “thousands of new premises” in towns across the South Coast of England. The altnet, which has built to a number of locations like Eastbourne, Brighton and...
Which? Reveals Best and Worst UK Areas for Mobile Signal via New MAP | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Consumer magazine Which? has today teamed up with crowdsourced network benchmarking firm Opensignal to produce a new UK map of mobile network quality. The map uses real-world data to create a percentage score for how consistent the signal is in each postcode area in the year to August 2025 – split by EE, O2, Three UK and Vodafone. The map itself is said to be based on over 17 million network tests taken across the UK over the last 12 months from users of...
UK ISP Zen Internet Boost Core Network with 400Gbps Neos Networks Link | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Connectivity provider Neos Networks, which runs one of the biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has boosted their partnership with broadband ISP Zen Internet by providing a 400Gbps upgrade between Manchester and London. The “strategic upgrade” is said to be designed to ensure that Zen’s core network is ready for the future, while also...
Wi-Fi Alliance Launch New Certification for Smart Home and IoT Devices | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a new “Wi-Fi for Matter” certification for Smart Home and IoT (Internet of Things) products, which is intended to help consumers and manufacturers identify when a particular device supports a key set of features – delivering a stronger level of confidence in their capabilities. Several existing Wi-Fi Alliance certifications have actually been combined to deliver the new Wi-Fi for Matter certification. These all meet the...
Ofcom Publishes 2025 UK Report on Openreach’s Independence | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published their annual 2025 monitoring report into Openreach’s independence from BT, which found only a “low number of breaches of compliance” and noted that, overall, “compliance appears to be well-established and well-embedded“. Just to recap. The annual report (PDF) process was established some years ago as part of Ofcom’s effort to monitor Openreach’s progress toward becoming a distinct “legally separate”...
ISP Zen Internet Acquire Fibrehop’s UK Consumer Broadband Base | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has today revealed that they’ve acquired the consumer customer base of Fibrehop. The development came to light as part of Richard Tang’s (Zen’s CEO) latest interview with the boss of business connectivity provider Triangle Networks, Paul Anslow – the now former owner of Fibrehop. At the time of writing we don’t have any solid details on the agreement itself (financial or otherwise) or know how many customers...
Watch this space: DE-CIX planning orbital Internet Exchange | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The Space-IX initiative will work to outline how best to connect the ever-growing orbital infrastructure ecosystem This week, the world’s largest Internet Exchange (IX) operator, Germany’s DE-CIX, has announced it is setting its future goals sky-high – literally. With its new Space-IX initiative, the Frankfurt-based company says it is not only exploring how best to provide interconnect services to orbiting satellites, but even the merits of putting...