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telecommunications ISPreview UK 8 May

Openreach Expand FTTP Builds for Three Project Gigabit UK Broadband Contracts UPDATE

The UK government has posted contract modifications for three of Openreach’s Project Gigabit contracts – Call Off 1 (Lancashire, West Berkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire), Call Off 2 (Essex and North East England) and Call Off 3 (North Herefordshire, North Wales, Shropshire and South West Wales). The move expands their planned deployments of […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 8 May

Openreach Offers Free PSTN Migrations for Voice Only UK Phone Lines

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today moved to help facilitate the closure of the old analogue phone network (PSTN/WLR) in favour of digital (IP-based) alternatives, which they’ve done by making it free for broadband and phone providers to migrate WLR Solus (i.e. voice-only lines) to MPF (fully unbundled) or SOTAP (data-only copper broadband for […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 8 May

Alternative Broadband Network Pulse Fibre Falls into Administration

London-based broadband provider Pulse Fibre, which focuses on deploying Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) internet connections into new build UK home developments and MDUs (here), has become the latest altnet to hit troubled times after they issued a “Notice of Intention to appoint an administrator“. Regular readers might recall that, in 2024, Pulse Fibre set out their “vision […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 8 May

Revealed – the UK’s Worst Areas and ISPs for Evening Broadband Speed Drops

A new study from Broadband Genie has analysed 144,509 broadband speed tests over a 12-month period to find the best and worst locations and ISPs in the UK where your internet download speed drops at peak times. Overall the report finds that Wigan experienced the biggest drop at peak times (average fall of -55%), while […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 8 May

Study Highlights UK Competition Challenges of Netomnia’s Acquisition by Nexfibre

A new study from Point Topic has examined the impact on infrastructure level competition from nexfibre’s £2bn move to acquire full fibre broadband operator Netomnia (here). The analyst suggests that consumers in overlapping areas could see reduced infrastructure-level competition and less aggressive pricing over time, which may impact the Competition and Markets Authority‘s (CMA) assessment […]