Broadband ISP Truespeed Mourns Passing of Chairman Clarke Osborn | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The staff of alternative UK retail broadband ISP Truespeed, which now forms part of the wider FreedomTruespeed Group (FTG), were informed last week that the rural internet provider’s former Chairman since 2014, Clarke Osborne, had sadly passed away after being unwell for some time. Clarke was a founder-shareholder of Wandsdyke Networking which later evolved to become Truespeed Communications. He joined the Truespeed board as its non-executive Chairman in...
DCF Estimate 200,000 Engineers Could Leave UK Telecoms Workforce by 2030 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report from the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), an industry think-tank, has today been published that examines the apparently “growing workforce and skills challenges” of the telecoms sector and highlights how 200,000 UK engineers are expected to leave the workforce by 2030 – risking a future “skills cliff“. But quite a few of those may be leaving due to maturity of the full fibre broadband build. However the report – ‘Expanding the Network‘,...
Why the telecom industry acquisition problem is really about retention | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article By Sylwia Kechiche, VP Industry Analysis at Opensignal In a market where full fibre broadband now passes 82% of UK premises and mobile connections outnumber people, acquiring genuinely new customers is hard. Most acquisition growth today comes from switching, not from bringing net new subscribers into the market. Every customer an operator wins is one another operator has lost. In such an environment, retention is no longer a...
Who is Responsible When Broadband Fails – 45 Percent of UK Businesses Don’t Know | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new online survey of 401 full-time UK business connectivity decision-makers, which was conducted by alternative UK broadband network provider LightSpeed Networks (company with a vested interest), claims to have found that 45% of respondents have experienced a fault where “responsibility between suppliers was disputed or unclear“. The study suggests that clear accountability during a network outage remains a challenge for many businesses and 34% of...
Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract for Orkney and Shetland to be Awarded Soon | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More After a long delay it appears as if the Scottish Government may finally get around to awarding a new gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Orkney & Shetland by the end of 2026. The procurement, which forms part of the UK’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme, aspires to expand full fibre (FTTP) networks to 13,550 premises in hard-to-reach parts of the remote Northern Isles. The SG first put out a contract notice for all this back in December 2024, which at...
Business UK ISP Gamma Reach Agreement on £1bn Cash Offer by Epiris | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business ISP and IT provider Gamma Communications has this morning confirmed that their board has proposed to accept a cash offer from private equity firm Epiris, which implies an enterprise value of approximately £1.079bn. The deal, if approved, will be managed through a newly incorporated entity called Bradbury Bidco Limited. Regular readers will recall that the battle for control of Gamma has been going on for months now, with Matthew Riley’s Giacom,...
Wildanet Grows Revenue But Takes £17m Write-Down on UK Fibre Broadband Assets | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More After a turbulent year, broadband provider Wildanet, which is deploying a new 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, has published their annual accounts to the end of 2025 and revealed revenue growth of 43% to £2.51m (2024: £1.75m). But they also wrote another £17.1m off the value of their assets. Just to recap. Over the past few years Wildanet has come under many of the same pressures as other UK...
TP-Link Launch First Wi-Fi 8 Broadband Routers with Speeds up to 22Gbps | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Networking kit manufacturer TP-Link, which builds a lot of broadband routers, WiFi extenders and smart home devices, today claims to have soft launched the “world’s first” commercial Wi-Fi 8 products – the Archer 9 Ultra router and Deco 8 Ultra mesh Wi-Fi system. But the kit will use a draft specification, since the full standard isn’t due to be ready until May 2028. Just to recap. The next gen Wi-Fi 8 standard (802.11bn – “Ultra High Reliability“) will...
Virgin Media and Openreach Fail Property Owner Over Cable Damage and Repair | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Five tenants of a building in Gloucester (Gloucestershire, England) could be left without a working UK broadband and phone service after the property owner, Mo Mujaed, claimed that Openreach had deployed a new telecoms (telegraph) pole that damaged a seemingly exposed Virgin Media cable in the process, which served the building. According to Mr Mujaed, Openreach’s civil engineering contractor, Quinns, arrived earlier in the month and “installed a new...
Some Customers of Broadband Altnet Gigability Suffer Service Suspension | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative UK broadband network and ISP Gigability, which first cropped up in 2024 (here and here) with plans to build a full fibre network across rural villages in Shropshire (England), appears to have run into a problem on part of their network after a couple of their customers in the medieval market town of Much Wenlock indicated they’d been given one month’s notice of service closure. The provider is currently only known to have conducted a limited...