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ISP News Archives for February 4, 2025

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UK ISP Sky Broadband and TV Confirms Price Increases for 2025 UPDATE3

4th Feb 2025 (34 Comments)

Customers of Sky UK’s (Sky Broadband, Comcast etc.) internet, phone and TV products have today been told to brace for an average annual price increase of 6.2% (down from 6.7% last year), which will be introduced from April 2025. But broadband and phone customers who are unhappy about this will be able to exit their contracts penalty free.

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Ofcom Propose to Auction Upper 1.4GHz Band for UK 4G and 5G Mobile UPDATE

4th Feb 2025 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to auction off a 25MHz (spectrum frequency) slice of the 1.4GHz band (i.e. the “upper block” of 1492 to 1517MHz) to mobile operators (EE, O2, Vodafone / Three UK), which will be able to use it for their 4G and 5G based mobile broadband services.

Octopus Energy Users Offered £200 Amazon Voucher for Taking Cuckoo Broadband

4th Feb 2025 (11 Comments)

Internet provider Cuckoo, which is the full fibre (FTTP) retail broadband ISP for the consolidated AllPoints Fibre (Fern Trading) network and also offers packages via Openreach and CityFibre’s networks, has today launched a new offer that rewards existing Octopus Energy customers – who switch to their service – with a £200 Amazon gift card.

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CityFibre UK Completes Primary FTTP Broadband Build in Bracknell

4th Feb 2025 (7 Comments)

Network access provider CityFibre, which has so far built their 2.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover around 4 million UK premises, have today confirmed the completion of their “primary” £20m build in the Berkshire (England) town of Bracknell.

GoFibre Quirkily Compares its UK Rural Broadband Speeds to Major World Cities

4th Feb 2025 (5 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network ISP GoFibre has today published the results of a new study, which reveals how well (download speed) their new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network – present in parts of remote rural Scotland and Northern England – compares with a selection of major world cities. It’s interesting, if a bit on the random side.

RootMetrics Test Names EE as BEST UK Mobile Network for H2 2024

4th Feb 2025 (8 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has today published their H2 2024 study of UK mobile networks (calls, texts etc.) and mobile broadband performance, which once again sees EE (BT) continuing to win all the award categories, followed by Vodafone and Three UK. But O2 (Virgin Media) found itself at the bottom of the table.

Vodafone UK Surge to 1.55 Million Broadband Users as Mobile Falls to 18.3M

4th Feb 2025 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has today published their Q3 FY25 financial results, which confirms that their fixed line broadband base grew by a new record to total 1.549 million customers (up by 72k in Q3 vs 50k in Q2). But their mobile base fell again to total 18.3m (down by -174k vs -93k in Q2), due entirely to a fall in their prepaid/PAYG base.

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Broadband ISP Grain to Rollout its UK Full Fibre Network into Bury

4th Feb 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect) has confirmed that they’re planning to expand their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network into the Greater Manchester (England) town of Bury. The UK network currently covers over 220,000 premises and connects 30,000 customers.

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