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Study: Italian Piracy Shield risks outweigh intended benefits

An academic paper, prepared in advance of an international conference on network and service management, suggests that Italy’s Piracy Shield causes significant collateral damage. In the paper, 90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield, the University of Twente researchers, Raffaele Sommese, Anna Sperotto, Antonio Prado, Jeroen van […]

October 15, 2025By Colin Mann

Aprecomm launches AIVRA AI agent

Aprecomm, a provider of intuitive, self-healing network and customer experience solutions, has announced the launch of AIVRA (Aprecomm Intelligent Virtual Response Assistant), a continuously learning AI agent designed to transform how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) interact with their data. With AIVRA, Aprecomm says ISPs gain “real-time access to their entire operational ecosystem through a unified, […]

October 14, 2025

Survey: Third of consumers considering switching ISPs

In advance of the 2025 Network X conference, Airties, a specialist in AI-driven software that improves the connectivity experience, has announced findings from a consumer survey, independently conducted by Qualtrics, of more than 2,000 households across the US and UK. The survey revealed a looming churn crisis for ISPs: approximately one-third of households are considering […]

October 9, 2025

Virgin Media streamlines customer installations

Virgin Media customers are benefiting from faster installations after the operator rolled out new training for 1,000 frontline technicians to improve customers’ joining experience. Now live across all nexfibre full-fibre connections, with plans to be rolled out more widely over the coming months, the project ensures that technicians arrive with all the tools and equipment […]

October 9, 2025

Virgin Media refreshes bundles

Virgin Media is refreshing its bundle line-up which its says will “put entertainment at the heart, simplify its offering and provide even more value for its customers” – including faster broadband, more HD channels, and Netflix included as standard across a selection of broadband and entertainment packages. New and re-contracting customers can choose from five […]

October 2, 2025

UK, Spain among top performers on August Netflix ISP Speed Index

During August 2025, 0.5 per cent of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) saw an increase of 0.2 Mbps, 18 per cent stayed the same, 81 per cent decreased  0.2 Mbps, and 0.5 per cent went down 0.4 Mbps on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which ISPs provide the best prime-time Netflix […]

September 9, 2025

Nowell named Zen Business MD

Zen Internet, the UK’s independent telecommunications and network connectivity provider, has appointed Jon Nowell as managing director of its Business division. Nowell will oversee the sales, engineering, architecture and business development functions within Zen’s business division with a focus on delivering scalable, future-ready connectivity solutions to organisations across the UK. With more than 20 years’ experience […]

September 9, 2025

Community Fibre hits 400k connections

Community Fibre, the London broadband network, reports it has connected more than 400,000 homes and businesses across the capital, serving over 1.4 million users. With a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network covering 1.3 million properties in London, it has seen a 33 per cent increase in its customer base in the past year, reaching a network penetration […]

September 9, 2025

India: Nokia, Netplus deliver advanced IPTV services

Nokia has announced that Netplus, the Indian Internet Services Provider (ISPs), has deployed the latest 400G routing technology and software-defined access network (SDAN) platform from Nokia, to scale its high-speed broadband and IPTV services across Punjab and other cities. The deployment enables Netplus to deliver more immersive and flexible services to nearly two million users […]

August 20, 2025

Spain, Hong Kong, Singapore top Netflix ISP Speed Index

This July marked the fifth year of reporting results on the updated Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offer the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. In July’s results, 26 per cent of ISPs saw an increase of 0.2 Mbps, 72 per cent stayed the same, and 2 […]

August 13, 2025