Openreach to use fibre sensing to detect nearby water leaks | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Two pilot projects will see Openreach’s fibre network turn into real-time leak detection grid The UK’s largest fibre network operator, Openreach, has announced a pair of trials with water companies and tech partners, aiming to use their network to quickly identify costly leaks. In the first trial, in partnership with Arcadis, Thames Water, and Cadent, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology from FiberSense will be used to pinpoint leaks in...
1p Mobile UK Suffers Protracted Website and App Service Outage | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile network operator 1p Mobile, which is a virtual network operator (MVNO) on EE’s UK platform, currently appears to be suffering from a significant and protracted outage of their website and app services. The situation also seems to be delaying the provider’s ability to activate new SIMs. The outage, which appears to have started sometime last night, means that customers attempting to access 1p Mobile’s website are today being greeted by the somewhat...
Highland Broadband Secures £50m Funding to Boost Expand FTTP Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network operator and UK ISP Highland Broadband (formerly Lothian Broadband), which is deploying a 10Gbp capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of the Scottish Highlands, has today announced that they’ve secured a £50m funding boost to help support a “major expansion” of their network “throughout rural Scotland“. The new funding includes £40 million coming from Alpha Real Capital, which is a specialist real assets...
Zen bolsters The Fibre Hub with Sky Business Wholesale Ethernet partnership | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Zen Internet and Sky Business Wholesale have announced a strategic partnership that will see Zen’s partners and direct business customers gain access to Sky’s Ethernet-enabled exchange footprint. Spanning over 2,800 exchanges, with more than 80 per cent enabled for 10 Gb services, the collaboration marks a significant step forward for Zen in delivering high-performance, scalable connectivity solutions to businesses across the UK. The...
Broadband ISP YouFibre Launch New WiFi 7 Routers as Standard for UK Plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet provider YouFibre, which is the primary retail ISP outlet for Netomnia’s (Brsk) 8Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today announced that the latest Wi-Fi 7 tech will now be included as standard across all residential and business broadband packages “at no extra cost” – making it one of the first among major providers to do so. Until now only a few providers have launched Wi-Fi 7 capable routers and most of them have restricted...
EE and BT UK Remove Discovery+ and TNT Sports Content from Old TV Boxes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of broadband ISPs EE and BT who also take their Pay TV (IPTV) service, specifically those that continue to use older TV boxes, have been informed that their devices will lose support for the Discovery+ streaming app entirely from 22nd September 2025. This also impacts TNT Sports on-demand content (i.e. catch-up content, extended coverage etc.). Subscribers to the Pay TV service that have one of the service’s more modern boxes (i.e. TV Box Pro,...
Starlink Broadband Scraps Free UK Pause Mode for Paid Standby Mode | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More SpaceX’s Starlink service, which sells ultrafast broadband to the UK and globally via masses of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has done what some might consider a bit of a ‘bait-and-switch’ by suddenly replacing their ‘Pause Mode‘ (i.e. allowing you to stop and restart the service at no extra cost) with a new ‘Standby Mode‘ that costs £4.50 per month. The Starlink service currently has around 8,100 satellites in orbit (c.4,500 are v2 / V2...
Kyivstar approved to merge with Cohen Circle, clearing path for IPO | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The planned listing on the Nasdaq would make the operator the first Ukrainian company to be floated on an American stock exchange This week, the shareholders of US-based special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Cohen Circle Acquisition Corp have approved the merger with Ukrainian telco Kyivstar. The merger, first agreed in March this year, will see the creation of a $2.2 billion company that is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the...
EE UK Preparing to Launch New Broadband Router for Slower Tiers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile network operator and home broadband ISP EE (BT) is reportedly preparing to launch a second Wi-Fi 7 powered router “later this year“, which is intended to complement their existing Smart Hub Pro router (inc. Smart WiFi Pro mesh kit) that is sold alongside their fastest 1.6Gbps FTTP packages on Openreach’s network. According to information and pictures that were leaked to The Sun, which we think is fairly credible (matches some of what we’ve heard),...
Openreach Trial Use of UK Broadband Network to Detect Gas and Water Leaks | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) has joined with a number of major new partners, including Arcadis, Thames Water, Cadent, Affinity Water and Lightsonic, to trial a couple of different approaches for detecting mains water and gas leaks, which cleverly works by harnessing the operator’s existing fibre optic broadband network. The idea of using optical fibre cables, which transmit data using pulses of laser light, to detect and monitor nearby events...