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ISP News Archives for June 25, 2025

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Openreach Cuts UK Price of 1Gbps Business FTTP Broadband Tier

25th Jun 2025 (6 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach announced another change to their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband services today, which cuts the annual wholesale rental of their premium small business focused 1Gbps (220Mbps upload) tier from £1,173.36 to £900 excluding VAT (inc. FTTPoD). The change will be effective from 1st August 2025.

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Opensignal Compares 4G and 5G Performance of Three UK and Vodafone

25th Jun 2025 (13 Comments)

Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published an updated study that compares Vodafone and Three UK’s mobile broadband performance in terms of 4G Download Speed and “Excellent Consistent Quality“, which is intended to help provide an indication for how the recently completed merger might impact things.

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Openreach Summarises New ONTs for UK FTTP Broadband Lines UPDATE2

25th Jun 2025 (43 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has published a new Suppliers Information Note (SIN) for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP lines, which provides an updated summary of all their old, existing and future Optical Network Terminal (ONT) modems that they’ve deployed or intent to deploy. Two new suppliers – Zyxel and Sercomm – are also mentioned.

CityFibre Scoop 2025 RoSPA Gold Award for Health and Safety

25th Jun 2025 (2 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which has already covered 4.3 million UK premises with their new 10Gbps capable full fibre broadband network, has today revealed that – for the 5th consecutive year – they’ve won the Gold Medal Award at this year’s annual Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Awards 2025 event.

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Mobile Network Operator Three UK Suffer Calling and SMS Outage UPDATE10

25th Jun 2025 (53 Comments)

Some customers of mobile operator Three UK (VodafoneThree) are this morning reporting yet another partial network outage, which appears to be preventing users from either making or receiving calls. The issue also appears to be disrupting access to Voicemail and extends to virtual operators too (e.g. iD Mobile, Smarty etc.).

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Freedom Fibre Scales Back North Shropshire Project Gigabit Broadband Contract UPDATE

25th Jun 2025 (12 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has just announced that alternative network provider Freedom Fibre has had to scale back their £24m (state aid) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for North Shropshire (LOT 25.02 in England), which originally aimed to cover “around” 12,000 hard-to-reach rural homes (here).

Openreach Tweaks Fixed Fee for Excess Construction Charges on EAD UPDATE

25th Jun 2025 (4 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has informed providers of high-speed Ethernet connections that, effective from 1st October 2025, the one-off Fixed Fee for Excess Construction Charges (ECC) on new Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) lines will increase from £638 to £708 excluding VAT (an increase of 10.97%). But in reality, customers won’t pay any extra.

Ofcom UK Directs Tismi to Block Specific Phone Numbers Due to Serious Misuse

25th Jun 2025 (1 Comment)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued an update on their investigation into communications provider, Tismi (Tismi BV), which directs the company to “block all calls and messages” sent to or from specific mobile numbers allocated to it by the regulator after they were “linked to serious fraud or misuse“.

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Remote Rural Wales Village Cut-Off from Landlines by Overheated Exchange

25th Jun 2025 (14 Comments)

Residents in the remote rural village of Penmachno, which sits in the isolated upland Machno valley area of North Wales (Conwy), have complained – via the local community council – that Openreach and BT recently left them unable to make or receive calls for several days due to a heat related fault that started on 19th June 2025.

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Gov Asks UK Organisations to Donate Used Tech to Digitally Excluded Brits

25th Jun 2025 (2 Comments)

The UK Government has today invited organisations to sign-up to a new charter, which is being backed by Deloitte, Vodafone (VodafoneThree), BT and others. The charter encourages members to change how they manage and dispose of IT assets, with the aim of increasing device donations to the 1.5 million people who currently lack access to a basic laptop, tablet or smartphone.

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