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ISP News Archives for February 2025

CityFibre Report 518K UK Full Fibre Customers and Profitability UPDATE

11th Feb 2025 (35 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today published a key trading update for the year ended 31st December 2024 (FY24), which reveals that the coverage of their full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network has now reached 4.3 million UK premises (inc. Lit Fibre), with 518,000 live customers, and they also delivered their “first full year of profitability“.

Netomnia to Expand 10Gbps FTTP Broadband Rollout in Liverpool UK

11th Feb 2025 (8 Comments)

Network operator Netomnia (inc. Brsk and ISP YouFibre) has today announced that their £39m investment to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the city of Liverpool (Merseyside) has covered 110,000 premises (homes and businesses). But they’re now planning to add another 80,000 premises.

Ofcom Refines Thinking on Cost of Adding Power Backup to UK Mobile Sites

10th Feb 2025 (34 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published the results of a recent study it conducted into the costs of improving power resilience at UK mobile network sites (masts etc.). This finds that the cost of ensuring “almost everybody” could maintain access to the emergency services for up to 4 hours, in the event of a power cut, would be approx. £1bn.

Netgem TV Adds UK Support for Fox’s New Tubi Streaming Service

10th Feb 2025 (1 Comment)

Digital IPTV platform provider Netgem TV has today announced that their broadband-based TV box and service, which is typically bundled by ISPs like Brsk, Connect Fibre, TalkTalk, CommunityFibre and a few others, has added UK support for Fox’s free (ad supported) Tubi video streaming service.

TalkTalk announces multi-year partnership agreement with Kraken

TalkTalk Become First Major UK Broadband ISP to Harness Kraken Platform

10th Feb 2025 (18 Comments)

Internet service provider TalkTalk has today become the first major UK ISP to sign a deal that will see them adopting the cloud-based Kraken platform (part of Octopus Energy Group). The move is said to be part of the provider’s “ambition to become the most recommended Wi-Fi provider in the UK” (they obviously really mean broadband provider).

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Confusion on the Falkland Islands Over Status of Starlink’s Broadband

10th Feb 2025 (16 Comments)

Good news, SpaceX’s global Starlink broadband network is currently listed as finally coming to the poorly served Falkland Islands, which is a British Overseas Territory, sometime in 2025. Bad news, the service is already being used by hundreds of local customers and the company has just started to cut them off.

First Hints of New UK Gov Measures to Tackle Broadband Pole Complaints

10th Feb 2025 (33 Comments)

The UK Government will shortly attempt to deliver on their pledge to “end the deployment of unnecessary telegraph poles” (here) by publishing an updated Code of Practice for broadband operators to follow, which will set out new guidance on the divisive issue. We now have a good idea of what that new code will include.

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Rights Holders Move Closer to Imposing Website Blocks on VPN Providers

9th Feb 2025 (30 Comments)

Rights Holders, having recently succeeded in forcing even some third-party public Domain Name System (DNS) resolvers to block websites that have been found to facilitate internet copyright infringement (piracy), are now turning their attention to major Virtual Private Networks (VPN) like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, and others.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK Now Offering 2.3Gbps Package

8th Feb 2025 (27 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet appears to have Finally begun to make their long-awaited top tier Full Fibre Max package available over CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which means you can now take symmetric speeds of 2.3Gbps for just £55 per month.

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Streetwave UK Launch Map of Mobile Coverage and Speeds in Brent

8th Feb 2025 (0 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave, which is currently conducting various UK surveys to study the coverage and speed of 4G and 5G mobile broadband networks using bin lorries and private vehicles, has published another free and interactive visual map of their results – this time for the London borough of Brent.

Netflix Hikes Prices for UK Customers of its Video Streaming Service

7th Feb 2025 (34 Comments)

As expected, Netflix, the popular broadband-based Movie and TV video streaming service, this week updated their website to hike the monthly prices across all three of their plans for customers again. New customers will see the change immediately, while the timing for existing customers will depend upon your billing date (it usually follows 30 days’ after notification).

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New Map Shows Project Gigabit Broadband Status in England and Wales

7th Feb 2025 (17 Comments)

A new interactive map has today been published by Thinkbroadband that rather handily provides a visual overview of the government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out across England and Wales, which drills down to premises level by factoring in a total of 30 million Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRN).

nPerf Ranks Fastest UK Fixed Broadband ISPs by Nation and Speed

7th Feb 2025 (3 Comments)

Internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from a new crowdsourced study into fixed broadband ISP speeds across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But oddly the results only cover Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, Vodafone, TalkTalk, Fibrus (NI) and Ogi (Wales).

Broadband ISP Gigabit IQ Joins F&W Network’s UK Full Fibre Service

7th Feb 2025 (0 Comments)

Internet access and online security provider Gigabit IQ has today announced that they’ve become the latest ISP to join F&W Networks‘ (Fibre and Wireless) new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which mostly covers parts of the South East of England.

BT Group to Recruit 600 More UK Apprentices and Graduates in 2025

7th Feb 2025 (8 Comments)

Broadband ISP and telecoms giant BT have today confirmed that they will recruit more than 600 additional apprentices and graduates in 2025 (up from 500 in 2024) – forming part of their September 2025 intake. The roles will span across areas such as cybersecurity, software engineering and customer service.

UK ISP Plusnet Discounts 900Mbps FTTP Broadband to £37.99

7th Feb 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Plusnet has introduced a bunch of new discounts across their home broadband plans for new customers, which for example has cut the monthly price of their top 900Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) package to just £37.99 per month on a 24-month term (price increases by £3 per month from April each year). Plus there’s a £110 reward card thrown-in.

Jobs at Risk as Svella Connect and Virgin Media UK Work to Settle Dispute

7th Feb 2025 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (inc. nexfibre and O2) and civil engineering partner Svella Connect are currently trying to resolve a difficult dispute over “contractual terms“, which touches on issues of worker safety, rate reductions, and work volumes for Nexfibre. But there’s still hope for an amicable solution that may avoid the risk of redundancies.