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MLL Telecom Secure Six Lots on UK Public Sector YPO Framework

10th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Business internet and managed service provider MLL Telecom has announced that they’ve been awarded a place on the latest YPO (The Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation) public sector procurement service. The decision gives them a place on six LOTS for the new framework.

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Virgin Media O2 and Mutual Energy Make UK Streetworks Safer by Joining LSBUD

10th April, 2025 (4 Comments)

The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which offers an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has said that Northern Ireland’s underground pipes and cables will be “safer than ever before” after Virgin Media (O2) and Mutual Energy joined their platform.

Elevate Put New £7m Full Fibre Broadband Network Live in Cardiff

9th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator Elevate (formerly Telcom and Luminet) has today announced that they’ve completed the deployment of a new full fibre “Hypercity” network across the city of Cardiff in Wales. The new network gives over 5,000 businesses access to dedicated internet speeds up to 10Gbps and over 4,000 homes access to speeds of up to 1Gbps.

Elevate Win Contract to Build Hyperfast Broadband Network in St Helens

7th April, 2025 (1 Comment)

Network operator Elevate (formerly Telcom and Luminet) has today announced that they’ve secured a new contract to build a “hyperfast” full fibre internet network in the large Merseyside (england) town of St Helens, which is home to a population of around 120,000.

KCOM Appointed to New YPO Public Sector Procurement Framework

28th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

The enterprise division of Hull-based broadband ISP KCOM, which has spent the past few years deploying a new full fibre (FTTP) network across 305,000 premises in parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), has today been appointed to a new public sector YPO procurement framework for Connectivity and Telecommunications Services.

Prysmian UK’s Fibre Optic Cable Workers in Hampshire Threaten Strike

27th March, 2025 (13 Comments)

Italy-based Prysmian, which specialises in the global manufacture and supply of fibre optic broadband cables (inc. related kit), is reportedly being threatened with strike action over plans to cut 40 jobs and shift their only UK HQ in Bishopstoke (Hampshire, England) to Romania.

Broadband Operators in the UK Watch Nervously as DZS Falls Over

22nd March, 2025 (16 Comments)

The chances are reasonably good that quite a few of our readers won’t have heard of the name DZS (DZSi / Zhone) before, but they’re a supplier of fibre optic networking kit to a number of broadband operators in the UK, USA and elsewhere across the world. Why is this relevant, you ask? This week, they “commenced a liquidation proceeding“.

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Gov Commit £45m for Better Internet Connectivity in Around 1,000 UK Schools

21st March, 2025 (8 Comments)

The UK Government’s Department for Education (DfE) has today committed to invest £45 million into improving internet connectivity and further plans to make digital standards a requirement for all schools across the country, which includes fibre broadband upgrades for 833 schools. The goal is to help close the remaining digital divide.

Ofcom Set Out Changes to Boost UK Gigabit Broadband in 2026 Review UPDATE3

20th March, 2025 (11 Comments)

The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published their proposals for the new Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR), which it hopes will help to “promote competition and investment” in gigabit broadband and business connectivity. Broadly speaking, the regulator will be updating and tweaking their existing approach, with few radical changes this time around.

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FTTH Council Predict Full Fibre Broadband to Cover 31 Million UK Homes by 2030

19th March, 2025 (5 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe has just published their 2025 ranking of 39 European countries (EU39) with the strongest take-up and coverage of gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband ISP networks. This sees the UK pass 21.4 million homes (up by 4.2m in the year) with take-up of 37.1% and a prediction that it’ll cover 31m by 2030. But growth has slowed a bit.

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New Technology Helps Subsea Fibre Optic Cables to Detect Sabotage

18th March, 2025 (3 Comments)

A new report reveals how several companies are responding to the growing problem of deliberate sabotage against vital subsea fibre optic cables, which carry much of the world’s internet data traffic, by turning those same cables into a sophisticated sensor net capable of detecting when, where and how an attack may be occurring.

New 280km Full Fibre Network in South Essex Covers 9,000 Businesses

17th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has revealed that their £7.5m (state aid) project to deploy a new 280km long full fibre network in South Essex (England) has now connected 250 public sector sites and covered 9,000 businesses.

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SHiFT Bring Together UK Full Fibre Operators to Improve Health and Safety

7th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

The SHiFT Group (Safety & Health in Fibre Telecoms), which was setup a few years ago to help improve health and safety practices and standards across the UK’s fibre broadband industry, has informed ISPreview that they will once again be bringing network operators together at a conference on 2nd April 2025 – at the Heart of England Events and conferencing centre.

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Progress Update as New Greenwich Full Fibre Network Expands in London

4th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Digital Greenwich Connect (DGC) project, which is as Joint Venture (JT) between DG Cities, the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Innovation Company, and full fibre broadband provider ITS Technology, has today announced the next phase of their network expansion, which will now cover both Woolwich and Eltham town centre.

LINX Surpasses 725Gbps of Traffic at Manchester UK Internet Exchange

13th February, 2025 (1 Comment)

The not-for-profit London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900 members (broadband ISPs, mobile operators etc.), has today announced that their regional internet exchange in Manchester has hit a new “record maximum traffic peak” of 725Gbps (Gigabits per second).

Broadband ISP Rocket Fibre to Build Own FTTP Network in Northamptonshire UK

11th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Corby-based internet service provider Rocket Fibre has revealed that they’re looking to expand their existing roll-out of a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband network. The operator currently holds an “initial ambition” of being able to cover 21,000 “customers” in Northamptonshire (England) with the new network.

Ofcom Refines Thinking on Cost of Adding Power Backup to UK Mobile Sites

10th February, 2025 (34 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published the results of a recent study it conducted into the costs of improving power resilience at UK mobile network sites (masts etc.). This finds that the cost of ensuring “almost everybody” could maintain access to the emergency services for up to 4 hours, in the event of a power cut, would be approx. £1bn.