Southern Water harness Openreach’s UK fibre broadband network to detect leaks | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Utility company Southern Water, which supplies drinking water to millions of customers across the South of England, has announced that they’ve deployed Lightsonic’s technology that works by harnessing Openreach’s (BT) existing fibre optic broadband network to help detect underground water leaks in pipes. As we’ve reported before (here, here, and here), fibre optic cables aren’t only useful for transmitting data using pulses of laser light. Such cables...
Scaling industrial 5G from technical capability to measurable business value | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article by Masarra Mohamed, Senior Research Analyst, Communications Platform as a Service, at IDC On September 9th, at Connected Britain 2026 in London, I moderated a panel discussion that highlighted a clear evolution in the industrial 5G market, with enterprise interest moving beyond validation toward a more disciplined assessment of where 5G drives meaningful operational performance. As panelists discussed deployment economics, and what’s...
CommunityFibre doubles UK broadband speeds for new customers at no extra cost | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has built a full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 1.4 million homes (across London and the South East) and aims to reach 2m by 2028-2029 (here), has launched a new promotion that doubles their package speeds for new customers “at no extra cost“. The new promotion, running for orders made between now and 11:59pm on 14th October 2026, is available on their 24-month packages (excluding the Essential...
New study benchmarks Malware blocking by free third-party DNS providers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study has been published that attempts to benchmark the effectiveness of several popular and free third-party Domain Name Service (DNS) providers to see how effective they are at blocking 100 malware and phishing websites (whittled down from an original list of 41,000 to reduce the risk from false positives). The results make for an interesting read. For context. DNS providers typically convert Internet Protocol (IP) addresses into a human-readable...
Pine Media extends FTTP broadband to 40,000 premises in South Yorkshire | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network builder and UK ISP Pine Media, which has been steadily deploying their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure across parts of Sheffield and South Yorkshire (England) for quite a few years now, has just revealed that they’ve now covered 40,000 premises. The milestone, which is a notable increase from the 36,700 premises they reported roughly five months ago, represents one of the network provider’s...
Vodafone and Ericsson trial AI-powered real-time translation and noise-free calls | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Vodafone and Ericsson have successfully demonstrated two AI-powered voice services, real-time noise cancellation and language translation, running directly within the mobile network. Vodafone Group and Ericsson have successfully trialed two pioneering, network-native AI-powered voice services that will transform the experience of a standard mobile phone call. The trial demonstrated real-time noise cancellation for crystal-clear audio, and...
JioHotstar comes to Sky Q, Sky Glass and Stream as part of UK launch | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Sky has announced that customers of their broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service, as well as those on their older satellite-base Sky Q platform, can how also access JioHotstar, which is often described as being India’s largest premium streaming platform. JioHotstar, which boasts of having more than 530 million monthly active users, offers more than 160,000 hours of programming across 12+ Asian languages via its...
Temporary Vodafone UK mast brings some relief to Lancaster after network attacks | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The government MP for Lancaster and Wyre, Cat Smith, has today confirmed that mobile operator Vodafone has finally erected a new but temporary mobile mast in central Lancaster, which became necessary after the old site was taken offline in April 2026 following repeated attacks of vandalism by gangs of youths. The problems appear to have started well over a year ago after the original mast site, which was shared with O2 (Virgin Media) and sat on top of a...
European Institutional Investors Pact aims to boost bloc’s tech startups | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The scheme, cocreated by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, aims to direct more institutional investment into European innovation Thirteen institutional investors have expressed their intent to invest in large EU-based funds focussed on tech start-ups and scale-ups, following the introduction of the European Institutional Investors Pact (EIIP). The EIIP is a voluntary framework led by the European Commission and...
Broadband ISP Aquiss calls on Ofcom and TOTSCo to fix One Touch Switching | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Shropshire-based independent UK ISP Aquiss has today called on Ofcom and the The One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo) to fix the One Touch Switch (OTS) process, which was designed to make it easier and quicker to change internet provider, but sadly still suffers from a problem with “unsolicited transfers” due to some ISPs trying to game the system. The OTS system, which went live on 12th September 2024 via a central messaging platform (Hub) that is run...