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BT Group Finally Sells Italian Division to Telecoms Provider Retelit

25th April, 2025 (5 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group, which is primarily focused upon and based in the United Kingdom, has continued efforts to reduce their international operations this week by announcing a “preliminary” agreement to sell their sometimes troubled Italian business (BT Italia S.p.A) to Retelit for an undisclosed sum.

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Royal Borough of Kingston in London to Get New 10km Full Fibre Network

24th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

Digital infrastructure firm Boldyn Networks, which is perhaps best known for helping to build a number of open access UK mobile and fibre networks, has been picked by Kingston Council (Kingston upon Thames) in London to build a new 10km long fibre (broadband, Ethernet etc.) network in the royal borough. Virgin Media’s business division will also be involved.

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CEO of Broadband Operator F&W Networks Eyes Return to FTTP Build

23rd April, 2025 (2 Comments)

The CEO of alternative UK broadband operator F&W Networks‘ (Fibre and Wireless), José Luis San Martín, has today spoken to ISPreview, as part of a new interview, about his ambition for the company to ramp-up their roll-out of full fibre (FTTP) lines “once the market stabilises and financial conditions improve“. But they also remain “open” to discussions over consolidation.

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UBS Predicts Openreach to Lose 800k UK Broadband Lines in 2025

17th April, 2025 (90 Comments)

The latest analyst note from Swiss Bank UBS has maintained their long-running “sell” rating on the BT Group and predicted that Openreach could lose 800,000 broadband lines to rival networks in 2025 (up from 707k in 2024). The analyst warned that the operator needed to “deploy fibre faster” to stem the bleed and “accelerate [its] cost-cutting“, otherwise they claim it may face a downside risk to free cash flow in FY26.

UK ISP TalkTalk Business Recovers Email After Long Outage

16th April, 2025 (5 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP TalkTalk Business (TTB) are once again able to use the provider’s email service after a protracted service outage, which lasted nearly a full week and appears as if it was caused by a misconfiguration of their Domain Name System / Servers (DNS).

Big Move as UK Civil Engineering Giant M Group Acquires Telent

16th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

Street works firm M Group, which was last year acquired by private equity firm CVC (here) and also harbours a telecoms (broadband and mobile) focused division, has today announced that they’ve acquired rival UK and Ireland focused technology, telecoms and civil engineering firm Telent for an undisclosed sum.

Hughes and Eutelsat Partner to Expand LEO Broadband Satellite Connectivity

15th April, 2025 (1 Comment)

European managed network connectivity provider Hughes Network Systems (Hughes Europe) has today announced that they’ve teamed-up with Eutelsat to harness the OneWeb network. This is a global constellation of broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is still partly supported by the UK government (11% stake).

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Connectus Invest £500k to Upgrade Fibre Network at Doncaster Airport Biz Park

15th April, 2025 (7 Comments)

Business focused UK ISP and Managed Service Provider (MSP) Connectus has today announced that they’re investing a further £500,000 into the Doncaster Airport Business Park in South Yorkshire (England), which is on top of the £1m they previously put in to help ensure all businesses on the park could enjoy access to their gigabit full fibre (broadband and Ethernet) network.

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LINX’s LON2 Network in London Nears 1Tbps of Traffic Ahead of Big Upgrade

15th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

The not-for-profit London Internet Exchange, which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900 members (broadband ISPs, mobile and CDN providers etc.), has revealed that their LON2 network (interconnection platform) is nearing a key milestone of 1Tbps (Terabits per second) of peak network traffic and with a full technology refresh planned for later this year.

Grain Goes EBITDA Positive as UK FTTP Broadband Network Covers 250k Premises

14th April, 2025 (11 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP Grain has today announced that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has grown to cover 250,000 UK premises (up from 220k in May 2024) and 43,000 customers (up from 30,000). But crucially, they also did as expected (here) and went EBITDA positive during the quarter ended March 2025.

CEO of Broadband Altnet GoFibre Becomes Interim Boss of Wildanet UPDATE

14th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Edinburgh-based UK alternative broadband network operator and ISP GoFibre, Neil Conaghan, has now quietly also been named as the Interim CEO of network provider Wildanet – they’re doing something similar to GoFibre, albeit at the other end of the United Kingdom.

Vodafone and Three UK Reportedly Exploring TV and Broadband Bundles

13th April, 2025 (24 Comments)

In a somewhat unsurprising development, newspaper reports have today claimed that Vodafone and Three UK (CK Hutchison) may be gearing up to support their merger by discussing the launch of a new Pay TV service. Such products are typically sold as part of a bundle (convergence), such as alongside fixed broadband, phone and mobile plans.

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Universities Demo UK’s First Long-Distance Quantum-Secured Fibre Network

10th April, 2025 (12 Comments)

Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge claim to have demonstrated the UK’s “first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network” using “standard [single-mode] fibre optic infrastructure“. The test successfully transmitted a live quantum-secured video call over a distance of 410km (between Bristol and Cambridge).

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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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Focus Group Acquires UK Telecoms and Mobile Provider Matrix247

9th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Business focused broadband ISP and IT solutions provider Focus Group has today announced that they’ve acquired Rossendale-based managed IT and telecoms solutions provider Matrix247 for an undisclosed sum. The latter was originally setup by Stephen Pritchard and Geoff Wright in 1991!

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.

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CommScope and Altnets Join Forces to Boost UK FTTP Broadband Builds

9th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Network infrastructure provider CommScope has today announced that they’ve started a new collaboration with Brighton-based Altnets (the company, not the sector), the telecoms procurement specialist. The aim of this is to “accelerate the UK’s full-fibre rollout, supporting Project Gigabit and the nation’s digital infrastructure“.