Broadband ISP Zen Internet Integrate ITS Technology and Prep Sky Leased Lines
Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has today announced that ITS Technology‘s business-focused UK full fibre network is now live on their Fibre Hub, which forms part of their recently agreed partnership (here) and essentially aggregates access to a number of full fibre broadband networks for partner providers. But that’s not the only development that Zen has announced.
The CEO of Zen, Richard Tang, has also announced that they will be launching Sky (Sky Business) based leased lines to their partners from next Wednesday (13th August 2025), Trooli’s FTTP broadband in a couple of weeks, and CityFibre leased lines around mid-September 2025.
In addition, Richard said the ISP had just agreed heads of terms that will onboard two additional alternative networks, and they’re already busy integrating them. The official announcements on both of those should surface within the next 3 months. Finally, Zen said they’d also added Freedom Fibre’s consumer FTTP footprint to their platform, although this was technically also confirmed a month or so ago (here).
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None of this came as a big announcement, but rather via a short video summary.
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Trooli is available on the Zen residential website. Fibre Hub is Zen’s network aggregation platform for channel partners, the reference to Trooli going live refers to its launch within Fibre Hub.
Would be interesting to know how well Zen’s fibre hub could scale up & how big an ISP it could cope with connecting to multiple networks through it.
Have to give Richard props here . Zen could have left standing still blurring into a myriad of providers however he keeps Zen relevant and thinks outside of the box .
A good move returning to the CEO position and keep the interviews coming
Fun fact: Zen Internet themselves support IPv6 – admittedly manually (requested via email) _but_ the Fibre Hub / Wholesale side has zero support for it. Which is odd, given they share so much of the same infrastructure.
I think this was a surprise to them, too, as the ticket to request it be enabled for such a connection took about three days to get an initial response!
I think Zen should take over all the lines in the UK as there best broadband service as offer good value for money and good service. I would recommend Zen to people I know so get more customers and hope be more broadband speed coming in the future. I would like Zen go star trek speed on broadband hope get that speed one day.
Yes – unfortunately as has been proved by most industries the bigger a company gets the more pressure for profit at the expense of customer care, support.
While it’s private company now you can blame Richard if he ever sold out to a private equity or a bigger ISP