Openreach reconnect village after water leak caused month long broadband outage | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Homes and businesses in the rural Surrey (England) village of Frensham, which is said to be home to a local population of almost 1,700, have finally been reconnected by Openreach to broadband and phone services. The situation occured after they were hit by almost a month long network outage due to a “burst water pipe“. The problem appears to have started all the way back on Saturday 5th September 2026, after a burst water pipe damaged one of Openreach’s...
Broadband altnet Hyperoptic see UK losses hit £172.24m as debt strain grows | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) provider Hyperoptic, which claims to have built their gigabit broadband network to cover 2 million UK homes (mostly across blocks of flats / MDUs), has revealed that their losses for the year to 31st Dec 2025 increased to £172.24m and they’re trying to seek a solution to £98m in maturing debt. Just to recap. Hyperoptic actually published a preview of their annual accounts back in July 2026, which revealed that the...
Cross party MPs tell UK Gov to consider Household Levy to replace BBC TV Licence | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report from the cross-party Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has warned that the “current TV licence fee is outdated and no longer fit for purpose” and that “all” of the alternatives have drawbacks. The report instead proposes a Household Levy that would no longer be linked to a TV set, could be cheaper than the current licence and would cover other services (broadband?). The issue of the BBC TV Licence fee has always been a bit of a...
Vodafone UK’s new TV service goes live for broadband and mobile users | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband and mobile customers of Vodafone UK may like to know that the telecoms provider has today made their new pay TV product available to take, which is said to be priced from an additional £10 a month, or subscribers can get their ‘TV Essential‘ plan – including Netflix and HBO Max – for £17 a month. The new pay TV solution was first soft launched a month ago (here), but at the time they didn’t reveal much about its pricing or a precise launch...
CMA raise competition fears over nexfibre’s £2bn Netomnia UK broadband deal | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Competition and Markets Authority has published its preliminary findings for their fast-tracked Phase 2 investigation into the £2bn acquisition of full fibre broadband network Netomnia (Substantial Group) by the parents of nexfibre and Virgin Media (O2). Overall the CMA found the deal would result in a “substantial lessening of competition (SLC) in the wholesale supply of fixed broadband services.” In case anybody has forgotten. Nexfibre (i.e....
SoftBank completes $3.1bn purchase of DigitalBridge | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The Japanese conglomerate views the company as a piece of its rapidly expanding AI data centre strategy Today, SoftBank has completed the acquisition of digital infrastructure asset manager, DigitalBridge. The $3.1 billion deal, first announced in December 2025, makes DigitalBridge a fully owned subsidiary of SoftBank and is aimed at boosting SoftBank’s ability to “originate, finance, operate, and scale digital infrastructure opportunities...
ICEYE taps Nokia to deveop satellite comms systems | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release ICEYE, the European leader in sovereign intelligence from space, and Nokia, a global leader in connectivity infrastructure, today announced a partnership to develop secure, sovereign and high-performance broadband low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications systems for governments, supporting missions from defense and border security to emergency services and disaster response. Built on trusted European technology, the jointly developed...
Fancy an AI receptionist? BT Business will sell your company one | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Communications and broadband provider BT Business has today announced the launch of their new AI Receptionist tool, which as the name suggests is a new service that is designed to help small and medium-sized UK businesses to manage customer calls around the clock. According to BT, phone calls remain the number one preferred way to contact a business, but failing to answer them due to limited resources can have a big impact. The operator itself claims...
Govt publish evaluation of pre-2021 UK gigabit broadband voucher schemes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) directorate has today published a final evaluation of their publicly funded pre-2021 broadband voucher schemes, including the earlier incarnation of their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) and the Rural Gigabit Connectivity (RGC) scheme. Overall both were found to have produced various positive impacts. Just to recap. The GBVS in this report – delivered between November 2017 and May 2020 – was originally...
London full fibre ISP G.Network launch 8.5Gbps home broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More London-focused UK broadband operator G.Network, which claims to have built their FTTP (XGS-PON) network footprint to cover 420,000 premises across the city (395k RFS), has today followed our earlier report by launched two new multi-gigabit residential broadband products – HomePro3 and HomePro10 – offering symmetrical speeds of up to 2.5Gbps and 8.5Gbps respectively. Just to recap. G.Network, which originally aspired to expand their full fibre lines to...