Study Claims 5 Million Brits on UK Coast at Risk of Accidental Mobile Roaming Charges | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults (weighted to be nationally representative), which was commissioned by Uswitch.com, has claimed that more than 5 million people (9.8%) have seen their phone connect to an overseas network while they were still in the UK, triggering a roaming charge or alert. But 76% of respondents still think this is “impossible” or have never heard of it. In the past we’ve seen plenty of occasions where people living in certain...
Openreach Build to 7 New Areas Under Scotland’s Project Gigabit Broadband Scheme | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has issued a progress update on their £157m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit contract for the ‘Rest of Scotland’ area (here), which originally aimed to upgrade 65,000 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas to full fibre (FTTP) broadband and has just started building across several new locations. According to the latest June 2026 data from the Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency (here), Openreach is currently...
Ofcom Hit Virgin Media UK with £28m Fine for Preventing Contract Cancellations | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has today been fined £28 million by Ofcom after the UK telecoms regulator found that they had made it difficult for customers to cancel their contracts. Millions of customer calls were said to have been “deliberately mishandled, creating unnecessary barriers to switching or cancelling“. Readers with long memories might recall that this investigation started all the way back in 2023 (here), after some...
Rural Broadband Altnet ISP Airband Prepares Sale of UK Business | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network provider Airband, which has built a mixed Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) gigabit broadband network across rural parts of England and North Wales, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve now “commenced a formal sale process” to try and find the right “long-term owner” for the business. The provider only recently went through a period of restructuring, which resulted more jobs losses and adjusted the company’s focus toward...
Grain Broadband Ad Banned by ASA Over Misleading YouFibre Price Rise Claim | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a cheeky email advert from broadband ISP Grain Connect, which headlined with a warning about Virgin Media “taking over YouFibre & BRSK“. But YouFibre successfully complained that the rest of the promotion had made “misleading price rise claims“. Just for some context. The parents of the Virgin Media and O2 group of companies, including InfraVia Capital via nexfibre, are currently in the process...
‘Ghost investor’ in True Corp could expose weaknesses within Thailand’s SEC | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The Thai telco is questioning the validity of a newly reported $1 billion stake in the business The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is under scrutiny this week after individual investor, identified as Supaporn Pimphong, has reported a trade bringing her ownership of telco True Corporation to 7% – but the telco says it has doubts the trade really took place. The discrepancy came to light when True asked the SEC to verify a filing...
Broadband Altnets Spar with Ofcom Over Openreach UK Copper Line Retirement | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecom regulator’s proposal in their Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR), which sought to adopt a different approach to copper line retirement in favour of full fibre optic (FTTP) broadband lines on Openreach’s national UK network, has, perhaps predictably, attracted criticism from rivals that worry it may hand the incumbent an advantage. Just to recap. As part of the recent TAR, Ofcom also launched a consultation on changing the thresholds for...
Community Fibre Offer 3 Months Free Broadband and Remove Mid-Contract Hikes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network operator and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has built their 5Gbps speed full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to 1.4 million homes (mostly in London and the South East) and rising, has launched a summer sale that offers three months of free service across all packages for new customers and removes their previous mid-contract price hikes. Prices now start from just £12.50 a month for their basic 35Mbps package and rise through various...
BDUK Tweak Connect Fibre’s Derbyshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has tweaked alternative network ISP Connect Fibre’s (Fibre Assets) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Derbyshire (LOT 3) in England again. The contract now has a reduced “total scope” of reaching 12,876 hard-to-reach premises via a public subsidy £34.64m. The contract, which was first announced back in December 2023 (here), originally aimed to cover an additional 17,000+ premises and was...
Ookla Benchmarks 22 Countries for 5G Mobile Broadband in AI Workloads | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Ookla (Accenture), which operates the popular broadband Speedtest.net benchmarking service, has today published a new report that evaluates metrics like 5G upload capacity, latency under load, and cloud infrastructure pathways across 22 countries in order to identify how well they’ll handle AI workloads. The first thing to understand here is that AI readiness tenders to favour specific kinds of network performance, such as upload capacity, latency under...