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ISP News Archives for April 24, 2025

UK Government Confirms Europe-first Ban on SIM Farms

24th Apr 2025 (18 Comments)

The UK government has today confirmed its intent to ban SIM Farms (both possession and supply) some 6 months after the new Crime and Policing Bill (CPB) receives Royal Assent. The move is designed to better protect the public from fraudsters and scammers who also use the devices for criminal purposes (e.g. sending scam/spam messages and calls to mobile users).

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Royal Borough of Kingston in London to Get New 10km Full Fibre Network

24th Apr 2025 (2 Comments)

Digital infrastructure firm Boldyn Networks, which is perhaps best known for helping to build a number of open access UK mobile and fibre networks, has been picked by Kingston Council (Kingston upon Thames) in London to build a new 10km long fibre (broadband, Ethernet etc.) network in the royal borough. Virgin Media’s business division will also be involved.

O2 UK Give Mobile Customers Discount with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

24th Apr 2025 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today informed us that customers of their various Airtime plans can now take ‘Xbox Game Pass Ultimate’ for £14.99 per month and get a £1 airtime saving – offering access to hundreds of games with an annual saving of £12.

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Zen Internet Survey Claims 52 Percent of Brits Still Have a Landline

24th Apr 2025 (42 Comments)

A new Censuswide survey conducted on behalf of UK broadband ISP Zen Internet, which involved 2,000 nationally representative UK consumers aged 16+ (surveyed during Q1 2025), claims to have found that 52% of Brits still have a landline, yet only 15% use it regularly. But only a third intend to take (or have already) the digital voice alternative when the switchover occurs.

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Virgin Media O2 Reveals Some Internet Traffic Trends of UK Children

24th Apr 2025 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 have this morning revealed new mobile, internet, and TV data showing a weekday afternoon surge in traffic after 3.40PM, as children across the UK reach for screens after school. This is largely driven by TV/streaming, YouTube and homework related activity.

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Full Fibre Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Suffers UK Service Outage

24th Apr 2025 (0 Comments)

Some customers of city-focused UK ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 claims to have deployed an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million homes in parts of 64 towns and cities, appear to be suffering from a sizeable but partial network outage this morning.

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UK Broadband ISPs Should Stop Making Service Status Pages Useless

24th Apr 2025 (20 Comments)

The ability of a broadband provider to offer an effective and informative ‘Service Status‘ page, which can be useful for keeping customers updated about developments during network outages, is a crucial but often overlooked feature of modern internet provision. Yet in recent years’ ISPs seem to have been making them less and less effective or removing them entirely.

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