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...
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‘,...