Vodafone UK Launch Pay TV and 5G+ SuperMobile Broadband Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has this morning announced the launch of two major new products, including the provider’s first pay TV product for UK customers with a home broadband, 5G Broadband or mobile plan and “SuperMobile“, which promises to give you up to 4x faster data speeds via their 5G+ (Standalone) network for an additional cost. The new products are being introduced as part of VodafoneThree’s wider post-merger plan to...
Broadband ISPs EE and BT Revamp UK Pay TV Packages and Pricing | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet, mobile and phone providers BT and EE will today refresh their range of pay TV (IPTV) and broadband bundles, which will see various TV plans renamed and features changed. For example, the current ‘Entertainment’ package will become ‘Entertainment Plus’ and there will be a new ‘Entertainment’ plan in its place, which excludes some key content. At present existing customers of the base ‘Entertainment‘ plan typically enjoy access to NOW TV...
Norfolk County Council Issues Update After CityFibre Scale-Back Fibre Broadband Build | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Norfolk County Council (NCC) in England has published a new document, which reveals the future plan for gigabit broadband deployments after CityFibre scaled-back their contracted roll-out of full fibre infrastructure under the UK government’s Project Gigabit scheme in May 2026. As expected, Openreach (BT) look set to pick up the slack. In case anybody has forgotten, CityFibre announced in the spring that their Project Gigabit contracts had all been...
Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme Closes to New UK Projects | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has confirmed that their long-running Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which offered grants to help those in digitally disadvantaged areas get significantly faster internet connections installed, has now closed to the submission of new voucher projects. The GBVS typically offered grants worth up to £4,500 to help both rural and some poorly served urban premises (homes and businesses) to get a...
Sceye and SoftBank demo stratospheric connectivity platform | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Sceye, a U.S. aerospace and material science company specializing in High-Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) for telecommunications and real-time environmental monitoring, today announced the successful trans-Pacific flight of its Service Test 1 (ST1) mission from New Mexico to Japan. Traveling more than 15,000 km through the stratosphere in 13 days, upon arrival over Japan, ST1 demonstrated mobile broadband connectivity to unmodified...
Building Digital UK Agency Promotes Ben Whitestone to Permanent CEO | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) organisation, which holds responsibility for expanding gigabit broadband and better mobile connectivity across the United Kingdom (e.g. the Project Gigabit and 4G Shared Rural Network schemes), has officially promoted Ben Whitestone to the post of permanent Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Regular readers might recall that Dean Creamer (CBE) previously held the top post between September 2023 and January 2026...
The fibre is built. Now what? | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article by Ayswarya Ashok, Founder and CEO of Halleyx The UK fibre story has been told in terms of homes reached. Full fibre now reaches 24.9 million premises (82% of UK homes), with 47% taking a full-fibre service. By 2028, Ofcom expects 73% of UK homes to have access to at least two gigabit-capable networks. The industry has spent years answering: “Can we connect the home?” But in an MDU, that question is only the beginning. An apartment...
Virgin Media Accounts for 44 Percent of Big UK Broadband ISP Outage Searches | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study from DTP Group has analysed monthly UK internet searches relating to broadband outages among the country’s largest ISPs and found that Virgin Media tops the table as the provider most commonly associated with service disruptions, accounting for 44% of searches (i.e. 27,100 searches every month related to Virgin Media outages). BT ranked second after Virgin, accounting for 24% of all outage-related monthly searches, with an average of 14,800...
Feasibility Study on New Subsea Fibre Cable for Shetland Islands Begins | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Scottish Government yesterday set out their work plan for the next five years, which among other things initiated a feasibility study to “identify and evaluate potential options” for deploying a new subsea fibre optic cable between mainland Scotland and the Shetland Islands. The goal being to improve broadband and mobile redundancy, as well as performance. Shetland is already connected by two major subsea fibre cables, including the SHEFA-2 (Faroese...
Ookla Study Reveals Quality of 4G and 5G Mobile Signals on London Underground | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking giant Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has today published one of the first independent studies of real-world 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage quality on the London Underground. The good news is that it works and exists exactly where TfL says it should. Boldyn Networks, using kit from Nokia and others, currently holds a 20-year concession deal with...