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13th October, 2025 (2 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has today appointed Paul North as Managing Director (MD) of its Partner division. At the same time, Stephen Warburton, who previously ran Zen’s Partner division for over 20 years and was also holding responsibility for Zen’s Consumer divisions, will now be able to focus exclusively on the consumer side of things.

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27th September, 2025 (9 Comments)

Broadband ISP Zen Internet appears to have quietly begun a new programme of package upgrades (regrades) for some of their customers on CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. The move essentially upgrades those on their 100Mbps (symmetric speed) plan to the faster rate of 160Mbps “at no extra cost“.

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25th September, 2025 (10 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has today announced that MS3 have become the latest alternative network to sign a wholesale partnership deal. The move means that Zen’s customers will soon be able to order packages via the new FTTP network and no doubt the altnet will also join their Fibre Hub (network aggregation platform for use by other ISPs).

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11th September, 2025 (6 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has today revealed that they’ve acquired the consumer customer base of Fibrehop. The development came to light as part of Richard Tang’s (Zen’s CEO) latest interview with the boss of business connectivity provider Triangle Networks, Paul Anslow – the now former owner of Fibrehop.

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11th September, 2025 (1 Comment)

Connectivity provider Neos Networks, which runs 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 boosted their partnership with broadband ISP Zen Internet by providing a 400Gbps upgrade between Manchester and London.

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9th September, 2025 (1 Comment)

Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has announced that they’ve appointed Jon Nowell to be the new Managing Director (MD) of their business division. Jon will be responsible for overseeing the related sales, engineering, architecture and business development functions.

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13th August, 2025 (0 Comments)

As first hinted at last week (here), broadband ISP Zen Internet has today revealed details of their new “strategic partnership” with Sky Business Wholesale (Comcast). The move gives Zen’s partners (other ISPs etc.) and direct business customers access to Sky’s Ethernet-enabled exchange footprint.

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8th August, 2025 (6 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has today announced that ITS Technology‘s business-focused UK full fibre network is now live on their Fibre Hub, which forms part of their recently agreed partnership (here) and essentially aggregates access to a number of full fibre broadband networks for partner providers. But that’s not the only development that Zen has announced.

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21st June, 2025 (1 Comment)

ISPreview has today published our latest biannual study of how the United Kingdom’s broadband download and upload speeds have changed across the fastest nationally available fixed line ISPs, mobile network operators and Starlink (satellite) services since the end of 2024. But this time we’ve made some changes to the structure of our top lists.

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16th June, 2025 (2 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has built various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has today announced a reciprocal partnership with retail provider Zen Internet and spoken of their ambition for future network expansion within the next 2 years.

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14th June, 2025 (8 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has revealed that Freedom Fibre’s alternative full fibre (FTTP) network, which at the last update covered 315,000 premises in parts of England and North Wales (4th Nov 2024), is now live on their service and being sold to consumers after being almost fully integrated following last year’s wholesale deal (here).

Nathan Rundle, CEO - Gigaclear and Richard Tang, CEO - Zen Internet

4th June, 2025 (39 Comments)

The CEO of Abingdon-based alternative rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, Nathan Rundle, has told Richard Tang, CEO of Zen Internet, that they’re still focused on extending their full fibre (FTTP) network to 1 million UK homes in ultra rural areas. But the provider is concerned about Ofcom’s proposed changes to the market getting in the way.

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Allison Kirkby CEO of BT Group and Richard Tang CEO of Zen Internet

29th May, 2025 (80 Comments)

The CEO of ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has today shared a new interview with the CEO of BT Group, Allison Kirkby, which touches on everything from how they’d “love to” participate in the future consolidation of alternative networks (but not for a while) and the way that building a more valuable asset via FTTP broadband may compensate for having a smaller UK market share.

Zen Internet CEO Launching The Fibre Hub in London

7th May, 2025 (16 Comments)

Rochdale-base UK ISP Zen Internet has today officially launched The Fibre Hub, which essentially aggregates access to a number of major and smaller alternative full fibre broadband networks (Openreach, CityFibre, Trooli, Freedom Fibre etc.) and offers that up to partners (e.g. other ISPs) at the wholesale level.

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1st May, 2025 (36 Comments)

National network access provider Openreach (BT) has confirmed that their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which offers broadband speeds of up to 1800Mbps to UK homes via hundreds of ISPs, has now covered 18.3 million UK premises (Ready for Service). This is now growing at a rate of 1.1 million premises (RFS) per quarter.

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30th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

The CEO of ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has today shared three recent interviews with the bosses of several alternative network providers, including B4RN (Tom Rigg), MS3 (Guy Miller) and Quickline (Sean Royce). Each provides a useful progress update on their efforts to deploy full fibre (FTTP) broadband across different parts of the UK.

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24th April, 2025 (42 Comments)

A new Censuswide survey conducted on behalf of UK broadband ISP Zen Internet, which involved 2,000 nationally representative UK consumers aged 16+ (surveyed during Q1 2025), claims to have found that 52% of Brits still have a landline, yet only 15% use it regularly. But only a third intend to take (or have already) the digital voice alternative when the switchover occurs.

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