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ISP News Archives for February 18, 2025

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Virgin Media UK Bring Full Fibre to 14,000 Homes in Filey and Pickering

18th Feb 2025 (2 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre and retail ISP partner Virgin Media (O2) have today confirmed that they’ve made their symmetric 2Gbps speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network available to more than 14,000 homes in the North Yorkshire (England) towns of Filey and Pickering for the first time.

LightSpeed Broadband Expand Staffordshire FTTP Rollout to Kidsgrove and Scholar Green

18th Feb 2025 (3 Comments)

Network operator and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has already built their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and West Midlands, has today revealed that their new network has started to launch “in the Staffordshire region” with the town of Kidsgrove and village of Scholar Green (the latter is more in Cheshire).

Voneus to Cut Jobs and Slow UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE

18th Feb 2025 (6 Comments)

Rural broadband operator and UK ISP Voneus, which has spent the past few years rolling out a gigabit-capable fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) network across poorly served areas, has today informed staff about a fresh round of redundancies after “market conditions” meant it was “no longer possible” to continue their previous pace of deployment.

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Study Claims 3.9 Million UK Homes Owed Compensation for Broadband Issues UPDATE

18th Feb 2025 (4 Comments)

A new study from comparison site Go.Compare, which used data gathered from YouGov (survey of 2,000 UK residents) and the ONS, has claimed that more than 3.9 million UK households were owed compensation for broadband issues in the last year. But take that figure with a big pinch of salt.

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Gigaclear Start New Oxfordshire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

18th Feb 2025 (7 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural ISP Gigaclear has today announced that they’ve kicked off the construction phase of their £25.4m (state aid) Project Gigabit contracts for South Oxfordshire (Lot 13.01 – c.5,500 premises) and North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02 – c.4,200 premises), which will extend their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to around 9,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas.

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Broadband Outage in St Neots After Thieves Steal Openreach Cable

18th Feb 2025 (12 Comments)

Broadband, phone and Ethernet services in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots have been disrupted after criminals ripped up and stole around 500 metres worth of Openreach’s (BT) copper telecoms cable, which has impacted four of their fibre street cabinets in the area – serving premises with around 380 customers.

Broadband ISP Grain to Expand its Bradford Full Fibre Network

18th Feb 2025 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect) has announced that they’re going to expand the coverage of their existing gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based UK broadband network in the West Yorkshire (England) city of Bradford, although the details of their expansion remain unclear.

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