Openreach: Ask Me Anything about my Crystal Ball | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The UK’s largest fibre network operator is using AI tools to prevent thousands of full fibre broadband cancellations each month Broadband engineers fast a myriad of obstacles when deploying fibre to customers’ homes, some of which can result in significant delays. When these issues occur, customers can feel left in the dark, unsure about the specific problems or when installation will ultimately be competed. Now, Openreach says it is using two new...
Lessons from the Cambium collapse | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Viewpoint Article Many of the customers who chose Cambium did so for good reason. That’s what makes this sting, says Jack Raynor, president of NetExperience. Contributed by Jack Raynor, President, NetExperience This month, Cambium Networks eliminated 53.6% of its global workforce and placed its UK subsidiary into administration, according to the company’s own SEC filing. Administrators are now searching for buyers for parts of the business, and the...
Openreach list UK cities with most analogue phone lines yet to make digital switch | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Six months now remain until the old analogue phone network (PSTN/WLR) is switched off in favour of modern IP-based digital alternatives. In order to help highlight the urgency of this, Openreach have published a league table showing how many lines have yet to make the switch across the UK’s ten largest cities. London naturally has the largest pool of laggards at 235,934 lines. The good news is that across all ten cities and their surrounding areas,...
CommunityFibre connect London’s first 8.5Gbps home broadband line | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network operator and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has deployed their full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to 1.4 million homes (mostly in London and the South East), has today boosted their top package speeds from 5Gbps to 8.5Gbps (symmetric) and connected their first live customer to the new tier. But you’ll need deep pockets. The move could be seen as a response to rival providers, such as EE (Openreach), YouFibre (Netomnia) and CityFibre’s...
Government publish Q2 2026 UK gigabit broadband rollout progress report | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK agency has published their calendar Q2 2026 progress report on their publicly subsidised gigabit broadband rollout schemes. The data reveals that some 1,462,910 premises have received coverage under BDUK’s gigabit programmes since their inception (up from 1.42m in March 2026), including 46,300 premises over the past quarter. At present over 91% of UK premises can already access a 1000Mbps+ (1Gbps) capable broadband...
GoFibre’s Sept 2026 update on North East Scotland gigabit broadband build | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network operator GoFibre, which is deploying full fibre (FTTP) broadband across rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has provided an update on their rollout in the North East of Scotland under the publicly subsidised Project Gigabit contract. Work is now underway in St Fergus, Inchmarlo, Kincardine O’Neil, Collieston and Newburgh, as well as Kingswells. Just to recap. GoFibre’s Project Gigabit contract for North...
SpaceX set to launch first fully operational Starlink V3 broadband satellites | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Next week looks set to be a pivotal moment for SpaceX as the company will attempt to launch their Starship rocket again (Flight 14), which will for the first time attempt to place Starship into a proper orbit around the Earth and then deliver 26 fully operational commercial Starlink V3 broadband satellites (not test samples like before). Starlink currently has around 11,100 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) – mostly at altitudes of between c.340-550km....
What it costs to leave a UK broadband contract early – ranked by each ISP | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Comparison service Switchity has taken data submitted by 2,472 UK households between May and August 2026 and used it to work out how much it typically costs to cancel a broadband ISP contract early, both generally and by each internet provider. The average (median) household faces a cost of £279 and Virgin Media came out as the most expensive to leave (£360). The data source for all this reflects people who used the site’s own calculator to work out the...
EXA Infrastructure to build new transatlantic cable EXA Meridian | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release First transatlantic cable built by a single operator in a decade expands EXA Infrastructure’s transatlantic core as demand for fibre-pair capacity accelerates EXA Infrastructure, one of the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platforms throughout Europe, today announced the launch of EXA Meridian, a new 6,552 km transatlantic subsea cable between New Jersey, U.S., and Brean, UK. Scheduled to be ready for service in 2029, EXA Meridian...
Email users of broadband ISP BT suffer barrage of password reset messages | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of BT’s UK broadband packages, specifically those that also make use of their included Email platform, have recently begun complaining about receiving hundreds of unsolicited password reset messages (sometimes as many as 1,000 TXTs) – each containing a onetime four digit PIN code to verify their BTInternet mail account. Firstly, we should point out that a lot of online services use one-time codes (sent to your mobile or a different email)...