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telecommunications ISPreview UK 4d ago

Openreach Extend and Add New UK FTTP Broadband Discounts UPDATE2

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today notified Communication Providers (broadband ISPs etc.) about a further extension on some of their existing offers for Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines and 10Gbps Cablelink products under their Equinox incentives, while also introducing three new FTTP offers (some of which target Virgin Media areas). Firstly, Openreach have just extended a […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 4d ago

Cluttons Survey of UK People and MPs Reveal Problems with Broadband and Mobile

Consultancy firm Cluttons and polling company YouGov have published the results from a new survey of 2,055 UK people and 108 MPs, which among other things found that 27% of consumers are frustrated with their home broadband (Wi-Fi) connection every week and 42% have difficulty accessing 4G or 5G mobile outside half the time or […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 4d ago

UK Ranks 3rd for Mobile Broadband Speeds vs Countries of Similar Size to Poland

French benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from an unusual new study, which compared the fastest average mobile broadband download speeds (4G and 5G) of 20 countries with a similar size (land area) to Poland. The results saw the United Kingdom rank 3rd with an average speed of 105.8Mbps. nPerf’s latest study was […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 4d ago

EE Deploy 5G+ Mobile Broadband to 25 Key UK Events and 30 Tourist Towns

Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that 25 major events and more than 30 tourist destinations (seaside and market towns) will have been upgraded to support their latest 5G Standalone (5G+) mobile broadband technology this summer, bringing faster data speeds and better congestion management. Just to recap. Early 5G deployments were Non-Standalone (NSA), which […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 4d ago

Altnet ISP Lightning Fibre Launch Wi-Fi 7 Routers for UK Broadband Customers

Eastbourne-based ISP Lightning Fibre, which is deploying a full fibre broadband (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England (they also hold a partnership to harness CityFibre’s wider UK network – here), have partnered with Genexis to launch a new range of Wi-Fi 7 capable routers and mesh extenders for customers. The first […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 4d ago

Sky Glass and Stream UK TV Customers Suffer ITVX Fast Forward Bug

Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service are suffering from an annoying bug with the ITVX app, which causes any TV show or movie you may be watching to suddenly skip right to the end and then report the content as having been watched. The issue, which […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 5d ago

County Broadband ISP Customers Set for UK Migration to Truespeed

Customers of alternative rural full fibre broadband ISP County Broadband are to be migrated to the Truespeed brand over the next few months. The move follows last year’s merger of the two altnets (here), which at the time created a single operator covering 177,000 premises (RFS) and 40,000 customers. Since then Truespeed has also merged […]

telecommunications ISPreview UK 1w ago

Government Unveil Plan to Protect UK Subsea Internet Cables from Sabotage

The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT / DCMS) has today proposed “tougher fines and prison sentences” for those who damage subsea infrastructure essential for UK broadband access and trade, with consultation planned to take place later this year. Damage to submarine cables is sadly not all that uncommon. According to the […]

telecommunications Light Reading 1w ago

US pay-TV sheds 2M subscribers in Q1

US pay-TV providers lost about 2.03 million subs in Q1 2026, a slight improvement from a year-ago loss of 2.17 million, says MoffettNathanson. Virtual MVPDs, a category that includes YouTube TV, lost 948,00 in the typically weak period.