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ISP News Archives for March 2025

CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Network Suffering Disruption UPDATE2

12th Mar 2025 (19 Comments)

Customers from a number of broadband ISPs on CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – covering 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS) – appear to be experiencing sporadic service issues this morning, which range from disconnection events to problems with high network packet loss and latency.

Rocket Fibre to Disconnect Legacy UK Wireless Broadband Users

12th Mar 2025 (10 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP Rocket Fibre, which is in the process of expanding their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across more of Northamptonshire (here), has caused concern after they notified their legacy base of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) customers that they would “cease providing” the service from 31st March 2025.

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BDUK Reveal Benefits and Impacts of UK Superfast Broadband Rollout

11th Mar 2025 (6 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has posted a final evaluation of the previous ‘Superfast Broadband Programme’ (UK National Broadband Scheme), which reveals the various “economic, social, and environmental benefits” from the previous project to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) coverage – run between 2016 and 2022.

EE UK Sees Positive Result from Trial of New Content Delivery Tech for TV Services

11th Mar 2025 (13 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE has today revealed the results from last year’s trial delivery of TV content via a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) technology, which reflects BT’s effort to integrate their “world’s first” MAUD (Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery) solution into their CDN (originally Edgio).

Vodafone UK and Ericsson Trial AI Tech to Improve 5G Energy Efficiency

11th Mar 2025 (2 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve successfully conducted trials with Ericsson of three new Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) powered software solutions. This showed that they were able to reduce the daily power consumption of their 5G radio units by 33%.

PXC Signs Wholesale Deal to Harness Trooli’s UK FTTP Broadband Network

11th Mar 2025 (2 Comments)

Network provider PlatformX Communications (PXC), which was previously known as Talk Talk Wholesale before the demerger (here), has today announced that they’ve signed a new wholesale partnership to access Trooli’s alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband network in England.

Virgin Media O2 Invest £700m into UK 4G and 5G Mobile Upgrades for 2025

11th Mar 2025 (18 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ll invest the equivalent to approximately £700m this year into their ongoing Mobile Transformation Plan (MTP). This is aimed at enhancing network coverage and performance via new masts, small cells, 4G and 5G upgrades, additional spectrum deployment and increased automation via AI.

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CityFibre Target 850k UK Homes Covered by Full Fibre Altnets for Consolidation

11th Mar 2025 (39 Comments)

A new research note from James Ratzer at New Street Research has claimed that CityFibre, which have already deployed their full fibre broadband (FTTP) ISP network to cover 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS), is making progress on their plans for future consolidation and already has “up to” 850,000 homes served by other alternative networks “under M&A exclusivity“.

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Hope for Broadband and Mobile Boost as UK Gov to Publish Planning Bill

10th Mar 2025 (6 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has called on the government to be “bold and brave” when they publish their new Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) tomorrow, which it’s hoped may contain some measures that will benefit the roll-out of gigabit broadband and 4G / 5G mobile networks.

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Government Invests £23m into Cutting Edge UK Telecoms R&D

10th Mar 2025 (11 Comments)

The UK Government’s Science and Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, has today outlined a raft of new investments, reforms and appointments aimed at “supercharging innovation and helping to grow the economy“, which among other things includes an investment of £23m into “cutting edge telecoms research and deployment“.

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Alternative Broadband Networks Zzoomm and FullFibre Complete UK Merger

10th Mar 2025 (6 Comments)

Alternative broadband operators Zzoomm and FullFibre Limited (Fibre Heroes), both of which have been rolling out multi-gigabit speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) ISP networks across different parts of the UK, have today confirmed the completion of their recently announced merger (here). The deal has received all the necessary regulatory approvals.

Ofcom Propose Part of 1900MHz Band for 5G Mobile on UK Rail Network

10th Mar 2025 (8 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to make part of the 1900MHz radio spectrum band (1900-1920MHz), which was previously awarded for mobile operators but has since gone unused, available for use by both the UK’s rail network (5G mobile / broadband services) and to extend coverage for the 4G Emergency Services Network (ESN).

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Anchor Confirm WiFi Upgrade for 1,700 Housing and Care Locations in England

10th Mar 2025 (0 Comments)

England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for people in later life, Anchor, has today revealed that they’re working with Managed ISP Wifinity to deploy faster Wi-Fi infrastructure across its almost 1,700 housing locations and care homes – serving more than 65,000 residents in almost 55,000 homes.

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Confusion Surrounds Sky UK’s Position on End of Contract TV Notifications

10th Mar 2025 (19 Comments)

Ofcom’s rules require that all “phone, broadband and pay-TV providers” must “warn customers when their current contract is ending, and what they could save by signing up to a new deal” (usually sent between 10-40 days before the end of your contract). But an ongoing legal challenge makes the situation for customers of Sky TV a bit more confusing.

Strategic Shift as BT No Longer Being Ditched as UK Consumer Brand

8th Mar 2025 (66 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms giant BT appears to have confirmed that their strategy of turning EE into the group’s “flagship brand for our consumer customers”, which was eventually expected to result in the BT brand focusing more on business customers, will no longer result in the original brand being retired for consumer products.

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SHiFT Bring Together UK Full Fibre Operators to Improve Health and Safety

7th Mar 2025 (0 Comments)

The SHiFT Group (Safety & Health in Fibre Telecoms), which was setup a few years ago to help improve health and safety practices and standards across the UK’s fibre broadband industry, has informed ISPreview that they will once again be bringing network operators together at a conference on 2nd April 2025 – at the Heart of England Events and conferencing centre.

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Freedom Fibre Drops Out of Project Gigabit Broadband Contract for Cheshire UK

7th Mar 2025 (26 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has just unexpectedly announced that alternative network provider Freedom Fibre has “mutually agreed to terminate” the £43m (state aid) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Cheshire (Lot 17), which would have expanded a full fibre (FTTP) network to 15,000 premises in hard to reach areas.