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ISP News Archives for June 3, 2025

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Hyperoptic Ends Campaign Against Mid-Contract Broadband Price Hikes

3rd Jun 2025 (41 Comments)

In a somewhat surprising development for an ISP that has spent the past few years campaigning against mid-contract price hikes. City-focused UK ISP Hyperoptic has this week refreshed the pricing of their broadband packages to adopt the same structure of annual price rises as many of the largest internet providers.

GoFibre Connect 500 Customers to FTTP Broadband in Barnard Castle

3rd Jun 2025 (3 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK ISP GoFibre has revealed that their roll-out of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the County Durham market town of Barnard Castle, which forms part of their £6.6m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract to cover 4,000 hard-to-reach premises in rural Teesdale (here), has now connected over 500 customers.

CityFibre Prep New 5.5Gbps Wholesale Broadband Product for UK ISPs

3rd Jun 2025 (60 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which has already deployed their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network to cover 4.4 million UK premises (4.2m Ready for Service), has today taken the wraps off their new “Multi-Gig” product, offering its ISP partners symmetrical speeds of 5.5Gbps (Gigabits per second) – over twice as fast as their current top 2.5Gbps tier.

Civil Engineering Firm Network Plus Overhauls Delivery of UK Field Services

3rd Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

One of the UK’s largest utility contractors, Network Plus, which also helps a number of network operators to deploy full fibre broadband infrastructure, has appointed workforce management firm Totalmobile to overhaul how it manages and delivers its field services across the country.

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BT International Launches to Serve Multinational Customers

3rd Jun 2025 (2 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group yesterday officially launched their new standalone ‘International’ unit to serve their multinational customers, which was previously predicted (here) to comprise over 8,000 staff and will report separately from the company’s UK business.

Sky UK Launch New Cheaper Broadband-based Sky Glass Air TV Sets

3rd Jun 2025 (10 Comments)

As expected, Sky has today soft launched their new Sky Glass Air televisions for customers of their broadband-based pay TV streaming service, which is essentially a slimmed down version of their recently launched Gen 2 TVs (introduced February 2025). The new kit will become available to buy on Tuesday 10th June (Currys stores from 18th).

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SpaceX Planning to Launch Starlink v3 Broadband Satellites in 6-9 Months

3rd Jun 2025 (3 Comments)

The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has revealed that the first batch of their next generation Starlink v3 satellites could “start launching [into Low Earth Orbit] on Starship in 6 to 9 months“, which are eventually expected to push broadband speeds closer to gigabit (1000Mbps) territory and further improve latency times. But Musk is known for over-promising on timelines.

FullFibre and Zzoomm Set to Drop BeFibre Broadband ISP Brand UPDATE

3rd Jun 2025 (6 Comments)

Credible sources have informed ISPreview that alternative UK broadband operator FullFibre Limited (Fibre Heroes), which in early March 2025 completed its merger with Zzoomm (here), are preparing to drop one of their joint retail ISP brands – BeFibre (first acquired after FullFibre gobbled ‘Digital infrastructure’ in 2023 – here).

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