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ISP News Archives for February 2025

 
Voneus Engineer Vans

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.

network disconnected broadband isp lan router uk 123rf

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.

Gigaclear-engineer-at-work-on-mini-digger

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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St-Neots-Openreach-Cable-Theft-Google-Map

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.

Grain-FTTP-Engineer-from-Behind

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.

Community Fibre UK ISP 2023 Branding

17th Feb 2025 (7 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP CommunityFibre appear to be coming back online after the operator suffered a sizeable network outage in London today, which has been disrupting internet connectivity for thousands of users over the past few hours (since just after 11:30am this morning).

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wightfibre engineer with ftth cable

17th Feb 2025 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), recently published their latest annual results to 30th September 2024 and revealed that their full fibre network now covered 88% of island premises (up from 80% in June 2024).

Trooli engineer next to van

17th Feb 2025 (8 Comments)

Rochdale-base broadband ISP Zen Internet has revealed that Trooli’s alternative full fibre network, which at the last update (July 2024) covered 370,000 homes and businesses across parts of England and Scotland, is “now available to buy” via their service after being almost fully integrated as part of last year’s wholesale agreement.

Truespeed-2023-Van-on-Rural-Road

17th Feb 2025 (0 Comments)

Customers of rural broadband ISP Truespeed, which has deployed their own full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of Devon, Wiltshire and Somerset in England, are reporting that the provider appears to be suffering from a service outage that seems to be primarily impacting premises in the Bristol and North Somerset areas.

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HS2 Rail Project Map from Website 170225

17th Feb 2025 (8 Comments)

High Speed 2 Ltd, which is a non-departmental public body that is wholly funded by the UK Government’s Department for Transport (DfT) and oversees the HS2 rail project, has signed a £99.6m deal (£80.5m in public funding) with Hitachi and Telent to design and deploy telecommunications services across the new rail network, including passenger voice and broadband connectivity.

Brsk-engineer-over-chamber-PR-301024

17th Feb 2025 (14 Comments)

Alternative fibre optic ISP Brsk, which is currently in the final stages of being merged into Netomnia’s network (here), has reportedly confirmed that approximately 50,000 homes and businesses across the South Yorkshire (England) market town of Barnsley will be the next to benefit from their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband.

Gigaclear-Engineers-Talking

14th Feb 2025 (5 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 580,000 premises (RFS) in rural parts of England (inc. over 130,000 customers), is reportedly hiring advisors to help it find new funding in order to continue their network deployments across the UK.

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14th Feb 2025 (16 Comments)

Broadband ISP Youfibre, which is available to those covered by Netomnia’s (Brsk) 10Gbps capable FTTP network, has today launched a new “Loyalty Promise” for its renewing customers. The move is part of an effort to help set them apart from the market’s largest ISPs, which often hit existing customers with price hikes at the end of their term.

LightSpeed-Broadband-Nokia-Router

14th Feb 2025 (9 Comments)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has so far built their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and West Midlands, has finally started to put their new network live in the neighbouring coastal Norfolk towns of Cromer and Sheringham.

CommunityFibre-Engineer-at-Work-2024

14th Feb 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has deployed their 3Gbps speed FTTP network to cover 1.32 million UK premises (mostly in Greater London), has this week introduced a new entry-level tier that offers symmetric speeds of 100Mbps from just £19 per month on a 24-month minimum term.

kcom engineer ourside house fttp install

13th Feb 2025 (12 Comments)

Hull-based broadband ISP KCOM, which has spent the past few years building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has begun upgrading their packages to support symmetric speeds. But only up to a maximum upload speed of 500Mbps.

Freedom-Fibre-van-travelling-on-rural-hillside

13th Feb 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre, which has built a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network that it wholesales out to UK ISPs across the North West and West Midlands of England, have today appointed Lindsey Sutherland to be their new Chief Operations Officer (COO). This will become effective from 4th March 2025.

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