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27th October, 2025 (0 Comments)

Bad weather means customers of broadband and mobile providers Vodafone, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland, will have to wait until Tuesday until repair ship Cable Vigilance can complete its fix of the recently broken SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) subsea cable.

Tim Creswick Vorboss CEO

23rd October, 2025 (6 Comments)

London-focused ISP Vorboss, which has built and operates a 100Gbps speed fibre optic network for businesses in the UK’s capital city, has this afternoon informed ISPreview that long-serving company Founder and CEO, Tim Creswick, will be stepping down from the role after 19 long years.

ScaleFibre SmartRIBBON 3456F Cable

22nd October, 2025 (0 Comments)

American network supplier ScaleFibre, which manufactures and delivers optical fibre connectivity kit and cables to broadband operators, has announced that they’ve established ScaleFibre UK Ltd as part of their expansion into Europe. Giving digital network builders in the UK another option to consider.

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Elevate Chairman Chris Baldock and CRO Andy Tatlock with Councillors from St Helens Council

21st October, 2025 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator Elevate, which back in April 2025 secured the contract to build a new “hyperfast” full fibre broadband network in the Merseyside (England) town of St Helens (here), has today revealed that they’ve made “substantial progress” on the deployment with 4,874 metres worth of fibre already installed.

Shetland-and-Orkney-UK-Google-Map

18th October, 2025 (2 Comments)

Homes and businesses on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland, could see the full restoration of local broadband services by around next weekend. Connectivity was disrupted earlier this month after Storm Amy caused damage to the main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) subsea fibre optic cable (here).

R100-Subsea-cable-work

15th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

A scientist from the University of Portsmouth’s School of Mathematics and Physics has successfully bid for £772,372 of funding from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which will be used to design a surveillance algorithm and maritime training programme to help identify, repair and reduce damage to undersea infrastructure (e.g. energy pipes and fibre optic internet cables).

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training telegraph poles openreach engineers

15th October, 2025 (12 Comments)

The House of Commons Library within the UK Parliament has published a useful new document that helps to summarise and explain some of the core rules around the deployment of poles (telegraph poles) for broadband network expansion. In recent years, these have often become a point of some contention for communities that don’t want them.

Fibre optic speeds of the future visualised for MJ by CoPilot on 28062024

14th October, 2025 (8 Comments)

Connectivity provider Neos Networks, which operates one of the biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has claimed in a new survey that 82% of UK data centre operators have delayed site builds or expansion due to fibre availability.

11th October, 2025 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISP and UK network builder Exascale, which has deployed their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to a few thousand premises in part of Telford and Wrekin, this week did something quite unique by quietly founding a brand new Internet Exchange (IX) in the Midlands (MidlandsIX).

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Fiber Optic cables connected to an optic ports and Network cables connected to ethernet ports

6th October, 2025 (8 Comments)

The not-for-profit London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900 members (broadband, mobile, CDN providers etc.), has celebrated achieving a “major milestone” after they deployed their 25th 400GE (Gigabits per second) port across their global network.

Shetland-and-Orkney-UK-Google-Map

4th October, 2025 (5 Comments)

Customers of ISP Sky Broadband, Vodafone and possibly others on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland, started suffering from a loss of internet connectivity yesterday after the main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) subsea fibre optic cable suffered damage on Friday; the second time in 3 months.

ethernet optical fibre by 123rf

3rd October, 2025 (0 Comments)

Education technology provider RM Technology and Sky Business Wholesale (Comcast) have signed a new partnership. The move aims to provide a fully resilient, high-speed connectivity solution for schools across the UK by leveraging Sky’s network to deliver a 100Gbps-ready, fibre-first network.

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Swansea-Bay-Map-2021

2nd October, 2025 (7 Comments)

The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme has today announced the completion of their £1.9m Full Fibre Infrastructure Build project with BT, which has helped to upgrade 69 key public sector sites with “future proofed” broadband connectivity.

IOEMA UK and Europe Fibre Route Map 2025

30th September, 2025 (5 Comments)

The IOEMA Fibre project, which was first announced last year (here) and now plans to build a 1,600km long repeatered subsea fibre optic cable between the UK and several neighbouring countries, has revealed that its seventh landing point in Northern Europe – Scheveningen (Netherlands) – has now been confirmed and is to be delivered by Greenhouse Datacenters.

R100-Subsea-cable-work

19th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has today published the results of their cross-party inquiry into the growing threats facing the country’s undersea fibre optic data cables. The report finds that the UK has “plenty of cable routes and good repair processes” for routine breakages, but the UK can’t protect all of it from adversaries and must improve.

Hollow Core Fibre Cross-Sectional View by CoPilot for MJ on 190925

19th September, 2025 (10 Comments)

Fibre optic network technology provider Relativity Networks has entered into a strategic partnership with UK-based Network Planning Solutions (NPS), an international provider of fibre installation and support services, in order to support commercial deployments of Hollow-Core Fibre (HCF) cables and infrastructure.

IX-Wireless-6Gi-UK-Broadband-Network-Diagram

17th September, 2025 (11 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a second investigation into wireless broadband operator IX Wireless (supported by ISP 6Gi / Opus Broadband). The probe will examine whether the provider failed in its duty to ensure that its overhead lines were at the correct height and that they complied with rules around the inspection and maintenance of infrastructure.

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