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Former CEO and Founder of London Full Fibre ISP Vorboss to Sue Company

16th December, 2025 (0 Comments)

London-focused ISP Vorboss and its backers, which have built and operate a 100Gbps speed fibre optic network for businesses in the UK’s capital city, have been told to expect a “rather public legal battle” after the company’s former founder and CEO, Tim Creswick, revealed via Linkedin that he was now “suing the company I created 20 years ago“.

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National Wealth Fund to Change Funding Strategy After UK Broadband Challenges

16th December, 2025 (2 Comments)

The National Wealth Fund (NWF), which was originally established by the previous government in 2021 as the UK Infrastructure Bank (here) – using public investment to help unlock more private funding for infrastructure projects, looks set to change its funding strategy in 2026 after experiencing “challenges” in certain sectors, such as broadband infrastructure (altnets).

Telecom Acquisitions Expands Hull’s Coverage for UK ISP Eclipse Broadband

16th December, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Horsham-based Telecom Acquisitions Group (TAL), which is a holding company for a number of familiar internet service provider brands (Fleur and Home Telecom etc.), has announced that ISP Eclipse Broadband has expanded the reach of its broadband and utility services further into the Hull area of East Yorkshire for both residential and business customers.

UK ISP iDNET Expands Full Fibre Broadband Coverage via ITS Technology

15th December, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband provider iDNET has recently added support for another alternative Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the shape of the ITS Technology Group. But this only covers business-focused full fibre packages, since ITS doesn’t currently offer residential products.

ITS Technology Appoints Paolo Benedetto as Chief Financial Officer

11th December, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which have deployed various open access and business-focused full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the United Kingdom, has today announced the appointment of Paolo Benedetto to be their new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) ahead of entering its “next phase of growth“.

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ISP Baltic Broadband Look to Expand UK Business Full Fibre Network

11th December, 2025 (2 Comments)

Business ISP Baltic Broadband, which has long offered a mix of fixed wireless and full fibre broadband network connectivity to firms in the Liverpool area, has hinted at a possible expansion of their 100Gbps capable network to reach 2,000 more business premises located in offices, and business estates over the next 12-months or so.

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BT’s Former Chief UK Network Architect Becomes CityFibre’s New CTIO

9th December, 2025 (6 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which have so far expanded their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband network to cover 4.6 million UK premises (4.3m RFS) and connected 730,000 customers, has today announced that BT Group’s former Chief Architect, Neil McRae, has been appointed to be the company’s new Chief Technology & Information Officer (CTIO).

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UK ISP Spitfire Launch PSTN Switch Off Migration Service for Businesses

9th December, 2025 (3 Comments)

Business telecommunications and UK broadband ISP Spitfire has today launched its new PSTN Switch Off Migration service, which is designed to provide both technical support and expertise to UK businesses making the move from the old Public Switched Telephone Network to all-IP (digital).

Openreach UK Appoints James Lowther as New MD for Commercial

9th December, 2025 (1 Comment)

National broadband and Ethernet operator Openreach (BT) has today announced the appointment of James Lowther as its new Managing Director (MD) for Commercial, which will become effective from January 2026. The new hire will join the operator’s Executive team and report to Deputy CEO, Katie Milligan.

Trooli Goes Live on PXC as FTTP Broadband Covers 460,000 UK Premises

8th December, 2025 (5 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP Trooli, which have deployed their full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 460,000 premises across parts of England and some of Scotland (up from 448k in Sept 2025), has today revealed that their recently established wholesale partnership with PXC (formerly TalkTalk Wholesale) is now “ready to trade at scale“.

Openreach Deploy 6,000th Electric Vehicle Under UK Fleet Transition

8th December, 2025 (7 Comments)

National UK network operator Openreach (BT) has revealed that they’ve just put their 6,000th EV (Electric Vehicle) on the road to support their broadband and phone engineers (up from 4,300 at the start of 2025), which is currently expected to reach 7,000 EVs by the end of March 2026.

Vitrifi Calls in the Administrators Over UK Wholesale Platform for Full Fibre AltNets

4th December, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Fern Trading (Octopus Investments) backed company Vitrifi, which was first incorporated back in 2021 and offered a cloud-based software platform to help alternative network providers (altnets) offer wholesale products (details), appears to have filed a new notice stating their intention to appoint an administrator.

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Telecoms and IT Provider Aspire Secures £200m UK Investment Boost

3rd December, 2025 (0 Comments)

Managed IT, cybersecurity and business broadband provider Aspire Technology Solutions has this morning announced news of a major new investment from existing private equity investor LDC and new minority co-investor Federated Hermes, which will take the business to a £192m valuation (up from £85 million in 2022).

Rural UK Broadband Altnet Gigaclear Secures £80m Funding from Banks

3rd December, 2025 (8 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) network across 612,000 premises in rural parts of England and is home to c.160,000 customers, has today announced that they’ve secured “at least” £80m in new funding from its consortium of existing banks. The provider now claims to be “fully funded to deliver its plans“.

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Redundancies Expected as UK Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Adjust Strategy

2nd December, 2025 (15 Comments)

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have already deployed their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover 1.9 million UK homes passed, has informed ISPreview that they’re making some “modest adjustments to our teams working on multi-unit residential buildings” and as a result there may be a few redundancies. Less than 5% of employees are said to be affected.

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ITS Technology Expand UK Full Fibre Network to Glasgow and Newcastle

1st December, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access and business-focused full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the United Kingdom, has today announced that their XGS-PON powered 10Gbps capable fibre network has now gone live across parts of Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear, England) and Glasgow (Scotland).

Court Rejects L1 Compensation Appeal Over Forced Sale of UK Broadband Network Upp

29th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Court of Appeal in London has dismissed an attempt by investment firm LetterOne (L1), which had been seeking compensation after the previous Government used the new National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) to force them into selling Upp’s full fibre broadband network to rival operator nexfibre at a loss (retail customers went to Virgin Media).