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Broadband ISP Home Telecom Acquires Bloomtel and OpenFibre

26th September, 2023 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Home Telecom, which is a subsidiary of the wider Telecom Acquisitions (TAL) group (TalkTalk holds a controlling stake in them), has today announced two further interesting acquisitions by welcoming customers from local operators Bloomtel and OpenFibre to the business – all for an undisclosed sum.

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Job Cut Fears Strike Rural England Full Fibre Builder County Broadband

26th September, 2023 (13 Comments)

Rural network builder and UK ISP County Broadband (CB), which holds an aspiration to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2027, appears as if it may soon become the latest network operator to make redundancies.

Voneus Merges Broadway Partners, SWS Broadband and Cadence Networks UPDATE

25th September, 2023 (5 Comments)

UK ISP Voneus, which is deploying gigabit-capable wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks across rural parts of England and Wales, has today announced that SWS Broadband and Cadence Networks are being merged into their operations. On top of that, they’ve acquired Broadway Partners from administration.

Job Losses as UK ISP TalkTalk to Demerge into Three Businesses UPDATE

22nd September, 2023 (36 Comments)

Broadband ISP TalkTalk has this week informed staff of their plan to formally demerge the group into three separate businesses for consumers, businesses and wholesale. Under the plan, the full legal demerger aims to be completed by 1st March 2024, but some redundancies are expected.

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FullFibre Ltd Boost UK Broadband Rollout with NETS International

21st September, 2023 (0 Comments)

Network operator FullFibre Limited (Fibre Heroes), which is rolling out a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure across various parts of England for other ISPs to use, has signed a new supply deal with solutions provider NETS International to help “ensure [a] faster network build“.

Security Concerns Dominate UK Parliament Debate on Vodafone and Three Merger

20th September, 2023 (31 Comments)

A meeting in the House of Commons (Parliament) was held yesterday that saw MPs from various different parties debate the proposed merger of Three UK and Vodafone (here), which highlighted how the dominant concerns for MPs centre around issues of national security, job losses and the risk of higher prices for consumers.

London Full Fibre ISP G.Network Shifts Office and Sign Logistics Deal

19th September, 2023 (1 Comment)

London-focused UK ISP and broadband builder G.Network, which is deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of London, has signed a multi-year contract with Unipart to deliver a wide range of logistic services and are setting up a new head office near Silicon Roundabout.

Wireless UK Network Provider Wifinity Acquires Next Connex

19th September, 2023 (0 Comments)

Managed Internet Service Provider Wifinity, which typically specialises in deploying WiFi style broadband networks, has continued to accelerate their UK expansion today by announcing the acquisition of yet another provider in the same space – Next Connex – for an undisclosed sum.

Fern Trading Finalise Consolidation of its UK Full Fibre Networks

14th September, 2023 (34 Comments)

After a significant number of redundancies and a long period of silence, investment group Fern Trading – part of Octopus Investments – has finally revealed the structure of their UK fibre optic network following the consolidation of FTTP broadband ISPs Jurassic Fibre, Swish Fibre, Giganet and AllPoints Fibre.

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Consortium Sniffs Possible Acquisition of Broadway Partners

13th September, 2023 (1 Comment)

A new report claims that troubled UK network operator Broadway Partners, which had been building fixed wireless and full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP networks across rural parts of Scotland and Wales – until they fell into administration, has attracted interest from a consortium involving Tiger Infrastructure Partners and Macquarie.

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UK ISP Vorboss Discount 10Gbps Price for Small London Businesses

12th September, 2023 (1 Comment)

Network builder and UK broadband ISP Vorboss, which is investing £300m to deploy their 100Gbps full fibre network – dedicated to business – across central London (they’ve already built over 500km of fibre since 2020), has launched a big discount on their 10Gbps tier for start-ups, schools, NGOs and SMEs etc.

Vodafone Shift Some UK Customer Care to Egypt and South Africa

12th September, 2023 (29 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile network operator Vodafone are to shift some of their Customer Care teams from the UK to South Africa and Egypt. The outsourcing move, which is planned to take place in November 2023, may help to lower the operator’s costs but will also put hundreds of jobs at risk.

Investment Firm KKR Gives Broadband ISP TalkTalk a £75m Boost

11th September, 2023 (3 Comments)

Budget UK ISP TalkTalk, which is currently already in the process of trying to deal with pressure from its existing debts by selling off parts of their business (here and here), managed to secure some vital support at the end of last week after global investment firm KKR agreed to provide them with a £75m non-recourse financing facility.

Telecom Acquisitions ISPs Gain Access to MS3’s UK Fibre Network

6th September, 2023 (1 Comment)

Network operator MS3, which is deploying a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 535,000 premises across the North of England by the end of 2025 (here), has today announced that several ISPs managed under the central Telecom Acquisitions (TAL) group have gained access to their network.

AltNet UK ISP Upp Launch New BusinessEssentials Broadband Package

4th September, 2023 (3 Comments)

Network operator Upp, which is investing £1bn (via LetterOne) to deploy a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network for homes and businesses across the East of England, has launched a new ‘BusinessEssentials’ package that is designed to provide its “Next Level Broadband” service to smaller firms.

CityFibre Pauses Multiple UK FTTP Builds Linked to Kier Group

4th September, 2023 (56 Comments)

CityFibre has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve recently taken the decision to exit a number of UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband contracts with build partners for a variety of reasons. One of those is known to be the Kier Group, which held various contracts for places such as Weston-Super-Mare, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bath and Worcester etc.

ISP and Utility Firm Shell Energy UK Acquired by Octopus Energy

1st September, 2023 (21 Comments)

The Shell Petroleum Company, through its 100% owned subsidiary Impello Limited (“Shell”), has today caused no big surprises by announcing that the Octopus Energy Group has acquired its retail energy and broadband ISP business – Shell Energy (UK and Germany) – for an as yet undisclosed sum.