Hyperoptic Ends Campaign Against Mid-Contract Broadband Price Hikes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More In a somewhat surprising development for an ISP that has spent the past few years campaigning against mid-contract price hikes. City-focused UK ISP Hyperoptic has this week refreshed the pricing of their broadband packages to adopt the same structure of annual price rises as many of the largest internet providers. The operator, which at the start of this year suffered another round of redundancies and spoke about having their “target of 2m homes passed...
GoFibre Connect 500 Customers to FTTP Broadband in Barnard Castle | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK ISP GoFibre has revealed that their roll-out of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the County Durham market town of Barnard Castle, which forms part of their £6.6m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract to cover 4,000 hard-to-reach premises in rural Teesdale (here), has now connected over 500 customers. The local network expansion, supported by the UK Government’s LOT 4.01 contract, aims to provide high-speed...
Senators push Homeland Security to reinstate Cyber Safety Review Board | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News A group of US Senators say that the Board is a key piece of the government’s cybersecurity strategy A group of U.S. Senate Democrats has penned an open letter to Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, imploring her to reinstate the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) as a matter of urgency. Created by the Biden administration in 2022, the CSRB was designed to review and assess major cybersecurity incidents and provide recommendations to the...
Vorboss Target London’s Local Councils with New Full Fibre Partnership | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More London-focused network provider Vorboss, which operates a 100Gbps capable full fibre network in the city, has today announced a new strategic partnership with Roc Technologies to deliver “best-in-class network solutions” tailored specifically for local councils across the capital. Vorboss has so far completed the deployment of a 700km long dedicated point-to-point fibre optic network across Central London (covering most of zones 1 and 2), which we’re...
Openreach Default to More Expensive Biz FTTP and SOGEA Broadband Installs UPDATE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) caught our eye this week, which came after several of ISPreview’s industry sources notified us that the operator had “implemented a nationwide change” on 1st June 2025 that affected how SOGEA (FTTC etc.) and FTTP broadband services are provisioned for UK business premises. In short, internet providers (ISP) could previously place a related broadband order that allowed them to choose between three Site Visit Reasons...
FullFibre and Zzoomm Set to Drop BeFibre Broadband ISP Brand | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Credible sources have informed ISPreview that alternative UK broadband operator FullFibre Limited (Fibre Heroes), which in early March 2025 completed its merger with Zzoomm (here), are preparing to drop one of their joint retail ISP brands – BeFibre (first acquired after FullFibre gobbled ‘Digital infrastructure’ in 2023 – here). The combined gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network currently reaches 600,000 premises (ready for...
SpaceX Planning to Launch Startlink v3 Broadband Satellites in 6-9 Months | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has revealed that the first batch of their next generation Starlink v3 satellites could “start launching [into Low Earth Orbit] on Starship in 6 to 9 months“, which are eventually expected to push broadband speeds closer to gigabit (1000Mbps) territory and further improve latency times. But Musk is known for over-promising on timelines. At present Starlink has around 7,650 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (c.3,300 are v2 Mini /...
Sky UK Launch New Cheaper Broadband-based Sky Glass Air TV Sets | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More As expected, Sky has today soft launched their new Sky Glass Air televisions for customers of their broadband-based pay TV streaming service, which is essentially a slimmed down version of their recently launched Gen 2 TVs (introduced February 2025). The new kit will become available to buy on Tuesday 10th June (Currys stores from 18th). In case anybody has forgotten, the Sky Glass Gen 2 TVs were priced from £14 per month and came in several sizes – 43″,...
BT International Launches to Serve Multinational Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group yesterday officially launched their new standalone ‘International’ unit to serve their multinational customers, which was previously predicted (here) to comprise over 8,000 staff and will report separately from the company’s UK business. The operator has been gradually reducing their international operations for some time as part of wider cost-cutting plans. The decision to shift what remains of that into a separate...
Civil Engineering Firm Network Plus Overhauls Delivery of UK Field Services | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More One of the UK’s largest utility contractors, Network Plus, which also helps a number of network operators to deploy full fibre broadband infrastructure, has appointed workforce management firm Totalmobile to overhaul how it manages and delivers its field services across the country. The “collaboration” will see Network Plus deploying new work order management, mobile working, and dynamic scheduling solutions to support the delivery of essential utility...