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Connexin Smart Water Sensor

27th Aug, 2025 (15 Comments)

Fixed wireless and broadband provider Connexin, which is in the process of being acquired by CityFibre (here), has today revealed that their existing Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) network has already connected 250,000 smart water meters across parts of the UK.

Fibrus-Cumbria-engineers-in-trench

27th Aug, 2025 (2 Comments)

Infracapital-backed UK ISP Fibrus today confirmed the completion of their £200m (state aid) Project Stratum contract in Northern Ireland, which helped to spread their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 81,000 addition premises in poorly served rural areas “on time and within budget.”

27th Aug, 2025 (1 Comment)

SpaceX’s Starlink service, which sells ultrafast broadband to the UK and globally via a mega constellation using thousands of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has revealed the development of a new “mini laser” that will enable their satellites to connect with “third party satellites and space stations“.

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2025 Openreach engineer testing connections in exchange PR 200125

27th Aug, 2025 (42 Comments)

The Managing Director of Regulation at UK broadband operator Openreach (BT), Mark Shurmer, has called on Ofcom to ensure that they soften market regulation on them in areas of the UK deemed to be competitive due to the presence of either Virgin Media’s fixed broadband network or those where there are three or more full fibre (FTTP) network providers present.

2025-Openreach-engineer-in-van

26th Aug, 2025 (5 Comments)

Broadband and network access provider Openreach, which remains a distinct “legally separate” company away from BT, has today appointed a new independent non-executive member (NED) and expert in corporate strategy to its Board in the shape of Michael Jary.

BT Street Hub 2.0 kiosk

26th Aug, 2025 (25 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT has suffered another setback in its 10-year project, which aimed to convert a further 2,000 of their legacy payphones and kiosks – across more than 200 UK towns and cities – into smart Street Hubs (here). Preston Council rejected a couple of proposed deployments over concerns about rising “street clutter“.

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hey-broadband-engineer-fwn-hat-by-manhole

26th Aug, 2025 (6 Comments)

Internet provider Hey! Broadband, which offers services to homes in various areas covered by F&W Networks (Fibre and Wireless) alternative gigabit speed full fibre lines (mostly across the South East of England), have today announced that their customer based has surpassed 40,000 (up from 25,000 a year ago).

AI 6G Researchers from Ulster University Image

26th Aug, 2025 (0 Comments)

Researchers working out of Ulster University in Northern Ireland (UK) have harnessed AI (Artificial Intelligence) in order to develop a new type of Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (ma-MIMO) technology. The team say this could be used to make future 6G (IMT-2030) based mobile broadband networks “faster, smarter, and far more energy-efficient“.

Works to lay new paving slabs and temporary footpath closed red warning sign on London sidewalk

26th Aug, 2025 (2 Comments)

The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which provides an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has published their Digging Up Britain 2025 report and revealed that telecoms (broadband, mobile etc.) remains the “most active industry” when it comes to searching before digging (37.5% of all searches). But this was down from 39% last year.

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Email Inbox Electronic Communication 123rf

26th Aug, 2025 (12 Comments)

Some customers of Virgin Media’s (O2) broadband service have been struggling, often for several weeks now, to regain access to their email accounts – those belonging to secondary account holders. The issue began after the ISP made a change to their ID system that seemed to lock related users out with a “FORBIDDEN” message.

GoFibre Engineers Helmet

24th Aug, 2025 (5 Comments)

Edinburgh-based ISP and network builder GoFibre recently published their annual accounts to the end of 2024, which among other things revealed that their revenues increased by 71% to £2.02m (2023: £1.17m). The operator now expects their roll-out of FTTP broadband in rural Scotland and North England to reach a footprint of 250,000 premises “in the next 3 years“.

Rob Bradley, Managing Partner of the Bradley Strategy Group consultancy

23rd Aug, 2025 (25 Comments)

The Managing Partner of M&A-focused consultancy firm the Bradley Strategy Group, Rob Bradley, has today spoken to ISPreview as part of a new interview that lifts the lid on the “strategic recalibration” that is currently occurring across the UK’s alternative fibre networks – driving a wave on consolidation to correct for today’s “structurally misaligned market“.

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Sky Stream Box and TV Set

22nd Aug, 2025 (23 Comments)

The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) has dismissed Sky UK’s (Sky TV, Sky Broadband etc.) attempt to overturn an earlier decision by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, which back in 2022 ruled that the provider had broken consumer protection rules by failing to send End-of-Contract Notifications (ECN) to their satellite-based Pay TV customers.

Grain-FTTP-Engineer-from-Behind

22nd Aug, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP Grain, which recently secured a major £225m funding boost (here), has announced a second expansion of their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network this week. The latest location to benefit from this is the Leicestershire (England) city of Loughborough.

EE-Smart-Hub-Pro-Rear-Side-View.webp

22nd Aug, 2025 (43 Comments)

Some customers of mobile and broadband ISP EE (BT), specifically those on their top 1.6Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) package via Openreach’s UK network, appear to be experiencing some repeated connectivity problems with the provider’s latest Wi-Fi 7 capable Smart Hub Pro router (slower packages get the different Smart Hub Plus device).

Meridian Space LEO Satellite by SpinLaunch

21st Aug, 2025 (2 Comments)

The company responsible for developing a system of sending micro-satellites up into orbit by using a massive centrifuge instead of rockets, SpinLaunch, has partnered with Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace to help it separately develop a new global network of highly compact ultrafast broadband satellites – called ‘Meridian Space‘ – for Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

21st Aug, 2025 (5 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has today published its results from the UK’s “largest mobile coverage survey“, which used bin lorries to test the 4G/5G (mobile broadband) network coverage and speed of each mobile operator across the River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region (RSPAWIR) – reflecting 33 councils in Wales and England’s West Midlands.

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