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Low-cost mobile operator iD Mobile (Currys) has announced that they’ve signed a new multi-year extension deal to continue their long-standing Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) partnership with Three UK, which has been in place ever since they first launched back in 2015. The renewed partnership means that iD Mobile customers will continue to benefit from […]

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has moved to try and deflect some of the negative attention they’re likely to get from the confirmation of today’s annual inflation linked price hikes. The provider has done this by shifting the blame for those rises on to the shoulders of Ofcom and their wholesale providers (mainly Openreach). As we reported […]

News Reports show that smartphone uptake is stagnating, potentially offering a major hurdle for the adoption of 5G services In the short time since launching 5G services, India’s mobile network operators have been rolling out infrastructure at a rapid pace, seemingly adding new locations almost daily. Reliance Jio’s 5G network reportedly covers 134 cities across India, while rival Bharti Airtel has said that most parts of the country should be covered by the new technology by March. But while...

Broadband ISP Truespeed, which is deploying a full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England, has once again bucked the industry trend of inflicting substantial price hikes on customers by extending their previous price freeze into 2023 and launching a cheaper plan for “financially vulnerable” customers. The announcement simply means that Truespeed’s […]

Most of the major UK broadband ISPs can now confirm how much their annual price hikes will be after the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published their latest UK inflation figures, which saw the Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit 10.5% (up from 5.4% in Jan 2022) and the Retail Price Index (RPI) reach 13.4% (up […]

Credible sources have informed ISPreview.co.uk that customers of UK broadband ISP Plusnet (part of the BT Group) may soon lose the ability to directly add BT Sport TV to their service (this currently costs from an extra £17.15 a month), with the feature allegedly due to then be closed by June 2023. The move to […]

Northern Ireland-based civil engineering firm Viberoptix, which is working alongside ISPs like Fibrus to roll-out full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks in the UK, has launched a new “Fibre Campus” to train new engineers in the specialist skills required to support such work in Cumbria, England. The Newtown Rigg Fibre Campus is located within the former […]

A specialist broadband ISP for the UK education market, Talk Straight (aka – Schools Broadband and Trust IT), has today announced that they’ve acquired Essex based internet and manager solutions provider United Network Technologies (UNT) for an undisclosed sum. Both providers appear to serve some of the same market. For example, UNT already delivers ISP […]

Press Release Nokia today announced that Telefonica Spain has successfully trialed 25G PON technology The trial, the first in Spain to demonstrate symmetric speeds of 20 Gbps, showed that the state-of-the-art 25G PON can co-exist with Telefonica’s existing GPON solution. Telefonica, with almost 60 million FTTH homes passed already deployed in their multiple business units, has validated with this trial that current GPON and XGS-PON broadband technologies can co-exist seamlessly on the same...

News According to reports, the layoffs primarily affect territorial retail managers and retail dealers According to recent reports, a unknown number of T-Mobile’s retail stores have been closed and around 600 retail staff members have been laid off, according to estimates from analyst Jeff Moore of Wave7 Research. The job cuts primarily appear to affect territorial retail managers and those involved with retail dealers and indirect retail sales. Staff impacted by these job cuts have already...