Openreach test Geotab to boost safety and cut downtime of UK vehicle fleet | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT), which has a huge fleet of 23,000 cars and commercial vans to help their engineers roll-out and support their UK broadband infrastructure, has revealed that they’re testing Geotab‘s connected vehicle fleet telematics technology to improve driver safety, cut downtime and support their sustainability ambitions. The solution, which is currently in the “early-adopter phase“, essentially tracks each vehicle in a lot more...
BT finally ends free TNT Sports TV bundle with UK broadband plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Telecoms giant BT has in recent weeks been gradually notifying their existing UK home broadband customers, specifically those with legacy packages that once came bundled with the streaming TNT Sports Pack add-on for free (formerly BTSport), that they’ll need to start paying for the add-on from 16th October 2026. Some customers never even used it. The promotion originally ran quite a few years ago, back when the service was originally known as BTSport,...
BT swoops in to acquire TalkTalk | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The rescue comes as TalkTalk Group heads into administration Today, BT has announced the purchase of TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale divisions on a debt-free basis. The deal will see BT will absorb TalkTalk’s roughly 1.5 million retails customers and 1 million wholesale customers. Service for these customers will continue uninterrupted and will likely only change once BT begins migrating them to its own systems. Clive Selley, the current CEO of...
Sateliot launches five new satellites for 5G NTN IoT | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release With this mission, the company brings the total number of satellites launched since its foundation to 11 and advances the commercial deployment of a technology that has already been validated. Sateliot, the European satellite telecommunications operator, has successfully launched five new satellites for its 5G NTN IoT network as scheduled, enabling the company to increase connection frequency and service capacity in areas without...
Ookla examine performance of 4G calling (VoLTE) and 5G voice (VoNR) mobile tech | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking provider Ookla (Accenture), which collects data from consumers via their broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has published an interesting examination of the performance differences between voice calls handled by the 4G centric Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) and 5G based Voice-over-New-Radio (VoNR) technologies. According to the study, VoLTE remains the gold standard for consistency and speed in mature deployments. For example, South...
SpeedGeo Q3 2026 study names Virgin Media fastest for UK broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The SpeedGeo project, which compares broadband connection quality by benchmarking the internet speeds of real users, has published their Q3 2026 results and once again named Virgin Media as the fastest fixed broadband ISP. But the study only examined a handful of the largest ISPs, which ignores all of the smaller often faster altnets and retail providers that exist. The latest Q3 2026 study is based on data gathered from real measurements conducted by...
Telecoms giant BT acquires UK broadband ISP TalkTalk and wholesale biz PXC | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The incredibly confusing twists and turns of the debt-ridden TalkTalk Group’s attempts to dispose of both their consumer broadband ISP business and their PXC (PlatformX Communications) wholesale business has finally reached a conclusion today. BT has agreed to acquire both businesses from administration. Just to recap. TalkTalk has long been trying to sell off their remaining businesses. In recent weeks and months the Group has held talks with various...
Rural UK broadband altnet Gigaloch suffers delay to CVA creditors agreement | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Fife-based alternative broadband operator Gigaloch, which had been rolling out a new full fibre (FTTP) network into rural parts of West Cheshire (England) and Scotland until they ran into financial difficulties last year, appears to be suffering a delay to implementation of a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) – due to the receipt of a secondary preferential claim from HMRC. The operator, which primarily focused on building across remote rural parts of...
Octopus (OITS) to split UK fibre broadband assets from other investments | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Octopus Inheritance Tax Service (OITS), which is a discretionary investment service managed by Octopus Investments, has revealed that they’re going to split out their fibre broadband assets (i.e. those held by Fern Trading – Vorboss and AllPoints Fibre Network) from other investments. The move comes shortly after Octopus backed away from a deal to acquire PXC from TalkTalk. The CEO of Octopus Investments, Erin Platts, told the Telegraph (paywall)...
Sky OS 2.0 brings proper PVR and AI voice to UK Sky Glass and Stream TV users | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Sky has revealed that the future release of their next Sky OS 2.0 software (firmware) for the provider’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service will bring some major enhancements, including revised cloud recording (PVR) capabilities and AI-powered voice search. At present Sky’s partial solution to PVR on their modern Glass and Stream platforms has been to use the ‘Playlist’ feature (in Sky OS 2.0 this will become...