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ISP News Archives for June 2025

Netgem TV Add DAZN Premium TV Sports via Supporting UK Broadband ISPs

16th Jun 2025 (8 Comments)

Digital entertainment platform Netgem TV has today announced that their IPTV box and service, which is typically bundled by broadband ISPs like Brsk, TalkTalk, CommunityFibre, Wightfibre and others, will benefit from its new partnership with one of the world’s leading sports platforms, DAZN.

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Openreach Maps UK Cities by Internet Activity to Celebrate 25 Years of Broadband

16th Jun 2025 (10 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has marked “25 years of home broadband” by combining its own data with consumer research to map the UK cities by their online activity. The results found that the busiest hour of the day for internet usage in the UK is between 8-9pm, followed by 9-10pm and 7-8pm. And the highest peak of the year so far was on 14th January 2025 at 9pm.

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ITS Technology on 50Gbps Plans, UK Full Fibre Expansion and Partnering Zen Internet

16th Jun 2025 (2 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has built various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has today announced a reciprocal partnership with retail provider Zen Internet and spoken of their ambition for future network expansion within the next 2 years.

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Nexfibre Responds to Concerns Over UK Broadband ISP Onboarding Progress

15th Jun 2025 (16 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which is working alongside Virgin Media to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre broadband (FTTP) network across millions of UK premises (c.2.2m have already been built), has told ISPreview that they “remain focused on enabling as many ISPs as possible“. This came after some of ISPreview’s sources indicated that their wholesale plans seem to have stalled.

Wessex Internet Founder James Gibson Scoops King’s Birthday Honours

14th Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

The annual King’s Birthday Honours (2025) have just been published, which includes a couple of people from the United Kingdom’s telecommunications sector, such as the founder of alternative rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet, James Gibson Fleming, who scooped an MBE for services to community, charity and businesses in Dorset.

Zen Internet Starts Selling Broadband via Freedom Fibre’s UK Network UPDATE

14th Jun 2025 (8 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has revealed that Freedom Fibre’s alternative full fibre (FTTP) network, which at the last update covered 315,000 premises in parts of England and North Wales (4th Nov 2024), is now live on their service and being sold to consumers after being almost fully integrated following last year’s wholesale deal (here).

Control of Broadband Altnet ISP Runfibre Changes Again to Fibre Nova

14th Jun 2025 (2 Comments)

The ownership of alternative network operator and ISP Runfibre, which has built a small Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South Gloucestershire in England, appears to have changed again after a relatively new provider called Nova Fibre took control of the business from the Fibreray Group.

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Liberty Global Boss Claims UK Gov Wants it to Rescue Broadband Altnets

13th Jun 2025 (66 Comments)

The boss of Liberty Global (Mike Fries), one of the parents behind UK broadband provider Virgin Media (O2) and associated network builder nexfibre, has reportedly claimed that the UK Government’s Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds MP, expressed that he was “anxious” for them to step in and rescue struggling alternative networks.

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Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme Tweaks UK Eligibility Criteria

13th Jun 2025 (13 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has tweaked the eligibility criteria for their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) again, which among other things now requires that a home or business must have existing available broadband download speeds of less than 1Gbps in order to be eligible (previously it was 100Mbps).

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ISP Vodafone UK Officially Launch Pro 3 Broadband Plans and WiFi 7 Kit

12th Jun 2025 (13 Comments)

A month has passed since Vodafone first quietly introduced their new range of “Pro 3 Broadband” packages for homes (as spotted by ISPreview), which features their new WiFi 7 capable routers and wireless extenders. The good news today is that the provider has finally issued an official announcement, but it doesn’t add anything new vs our original report.

Broadband ISP Carnival Internet UK Integrates Audra Security

12th Jun 2025 (3 Comments)

New ISP Carnival Internet UK, which first went live last month (here) and is being backed by global tech company Dotlines (Dotlines UK), has announced that it’s integrating a new suite of hardware and software security products from fellow company Audra Security to “deliver a seamless and secure online experience for households“.

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Falkland Islands Government Clears Way for Starlink Broadband

12th Jun 2025 (12 Comments)

The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has, after plenty of confusion earlier this year (here), finally agreed to introduce a number of key changes that will allow both residents and businesses on the remote Falkland Islands, which is a British Overseas Territory, to finally be allowed to use Starlink’s (SpaceX) ultrafast LEO satellite broadband network.

INCA Summarises its Response to UK Gov’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan

12th Jun 2025 (3 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the country’s alternative broadband operators, has today set out how it believes the UK should deliver on the government’s recently proposed Digital Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) to help get more UK people using the internet and improve digital skills.

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Quickline Update on Project Gigabit Broadband Builds in Yorkshire UK

12th Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative rural broadband ISP Quickline has today reported that they’ve hit their “first milestones” as part of their state aid supported Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contracts for West and South Yorkshire. More than 10,000 rural premises now have access to their new full fibre (FTTP) network as a result, with more to come.

CityFibre Says Enterprise-grade Ethernet Services Reach 260,000 UK Businesses

12th Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today announced that their high-speed fibre optic based Ethernet (leased line) services are now available to over 260,000 UK businesses (up from 80,000). The expansion has been underpinned by its nationwide upgrade to 10Gbps capable XGS-PON (FTTP) broadband technology.

Toob Extends UK FTTP Broadband Network Across Portchester

12th Jun 2025 (4 Comments)

Hampshire-based alternative network builder and UK ISP toob, which has deployed a gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, has announced that their own fibre network build has now covered over 8,000 homes in the large Hampshire village of Portchester.

Openreach Tells UK Businesses to “act faster” on Legacy Phone Switch-Off

12th Jun 2025 (16 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today warned businesses across the UK that they must “act now” in order to be ready for the old Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to be switched-off in favour of IP-based digital phone (VoIP etc.) services. But many are leaving it until the last minute, “risking network outages and malfunctioning systems“.