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ISP News Archives for March 2025

EE Expand 5G Standalone Mobile Network to 50 UK Towns and Cities

19th Mar 2025 (21 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced the next batch of locations where their new 5G Standalone (SA) mobile network will be deployed and made it available to all new customers. By the end of March 2025, the new 5GSA network will be live and available to over 28 million people across 50 “major towns and cities” in the UK (over 40% of the population).

8,000 Social Homes in Barnet Set for Upgrade to FTTP Broadband

19th Mar 2025 (3 Comments)

The Barnet Council in London has reached a wayleave agreement (legal land/property access) that will enable Openreach (BT) to deploy their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 8,000 households managed by the UK council’s social housing provider, Barnet Homes.

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Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Deploy IPv6 Internet Addresses

19th Mar 2025 (2 Comments)

Good news for customers of Abingdon-based alternative network provider Gigaclear. The ISP has now confirmed to ISPreview that they recently started rolling out IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) internet addressing across their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network. The deployment is currently halfway to completion.

Some Users of UK Broadband ISP TalkTalk Struggling to Access Websites UPDATE

18th Mar 2025 (2 Comments)

Some customers of UK internet provider TalkTalk appear to be struggling to access certain websites, including major ones like github.io, due to what appears to be some sort of peering or routing issue. The ISP’s network teams are said to be “currently investigating” the ongoing issue.

Essex Council Settles Legal Dispute with Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear

18th Mar 2025 (1 Comment)

The Essex County Council (ECC) in England has this afternoon confirmed that they’ve settled their legal dispute with Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was originally raised last summer (here) over an alleged failure by the network operator to deliver on their contracted Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) build.

Students in UK and Ireland Vote Glide as the Best Wi-Fi Provider

18th Mar 2025 (3 Comments)

Business, student and residential ISP Glide Group, which is currently busy expanding their full fibre broadband network, claims to have been named the number one student WiFi provider in the UK and Ireland, according to an unspecified new student lifestyle survey.

Broadband Outage in Goole After Car Crashes into KCOM Cabinet

18th Mar 2025 (7 Comments)

Around 800 premises in the East Yorkshire (England) port town of Goole (DN14) are experiencing protracted disruption to their FTTP broadband and phone services after a car crashed into one of UK ISP KCOM’s street cabinets on Sunday night at 10:55pm, which completely disconnected the apparatus from all of its cables.

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UK Broadband ISP GoFibre Extend Community Fund to Northumberland

18th Mar 2025 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network ISP GoFibre, which is building a new gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across parts of remote rural Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve expanded the availability of their GoFurther charity fund to North Northumberland for the very first time.

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Guernsey Court Overturns £3m of Telecoms Competition Fines

18th Mar 2025 (0 Comments)

The Royal Court appears to have overturned an earlier decision by the Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA), which – between 2019 and 2022 – had fined broadband and mobile providers Sure and JT for allegedly breaking competition rules, including by sharing “commercially-sensitive information” and co-ordinating with each other.

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New Technology Helps Subsea Fibre Optic Cables to Detect Sabotage

18th Mar 2025 (3 Comments)

A new report reveals how several companies are responding to the growing problem of deliberate sabotage against vital subsea fibre optic cables, which carry much of the world’s internet data traffic, by turning those same cables into a sophisticated sensor net capable of detecting when, where and how an attack may be occurring.

O2 UK’s AI Flags 50 Million Suspected SPAM and Scam Calls a Month

18th Mar 2025 (5 Comments)

Readers may recall that mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) integrated Hiya’s new AI-powered scam detection service (‘Call Defence’) to help combat fraud and nuisance calls last November 2024 (here). Since then, more than 150 million “suspected” scam and spam calls have been flagged by the new technology, recently rising to more than 50m per month.

UK Gov Tweak Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts for Quickline and CityFibre

18th Mar 2025 (3 Comments)

The Government (DSIT) has published contract modification notices for several of Quickline and CityFibre’s state aid funded Project Gigabit broadband roll-outs across several regions – Lincolnshire and East Riding (Lot 23), South Yorkshire (Lot 20), West and parts of North Yorkshire (Lot 31) and Cambridgeshire (Lot 5). The tweaks change both the level of committed public funding and premises target.

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Ofcom to Launch Improved UK Mobile Coverage Checker Later in 2025

18th Mar 2025 (8 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, this week informed ISPreview that they’ve been “working hard to overhaul our mobile coverage checker” in order to better match people’s real-world experiences, particularly of modern 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) services, and intend to launch the result of all their work “later this year“.

Mobile Operator Spusu Continues UK Price Freeze Until 2026

17th Mar 2025 (3 Comments)

The SIM-only UK mobile provider spusu, which holds a virtual operator (MVNO) agreement via BTWholesale to harness EE’s national 4G and 5G network, has today confirmed that it will continue its existing price freeze for another year until 2026.

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Street Works Firm C-Plan Telecommunications Falls into Administration

17th Mar 2025 (5 Comments)

Long-running Scottish civil engineering firm C-Plan Telecommunications, which has been helping to deploy gigabit broadband networks north of the border for a long list of clients (e.g. Openreach, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Gigaclear, and others), has fallen into administration after allegedly losing out on forecasted work.

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Cable Thieves Knock Out Broadband in St Neots for a Second Time UPDATE2

17th Mar 2025 (10 Comments)

Criminals have, for the second time in the space of around one month (here), today disrupted Openreach’s broadband services in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots by attempting to steal an unspecified amount of the UK network operator’s local copper telecoms cable.

New 280km Full Fibre Network in South Essex Covers 9,000 Businesses

17th Mar 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has revealed that their £7.5m (state aid) project to deploy a new 280km long full fibre network in South Essex (England) has now connected 250 public sector sites and covered 9,000 businesses.