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ISP News Archives for June 2025

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Landowners Lobby UK Government for Higher Rents on 5G Mobile Masts

9th Jun 2025 (9 Comments)

A group of land and property owners, including the British Property Federation (BPF) and National Farmers Union (NFU) among them, have written a new letter that calls on the UK government to suspend earlier reforms that made it easier and cheaper for mobile and broadband operators to deploy their infrastructure on private land.

EE UK Start Enabling Voice Over 5G Standalone Option on Smartphones

9th Jun 2025 (27 Comments)

Some of ISPreview’s readers have informed us that mobile operator EE (BT) appears to have pushed out a new carrier update, which enables the “Voice Over 5G Standalone” network feature on Smartphones that can support it. Currently, we’ve only seen reports of this from Apple iPhone users.

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Fibrus Hits EBITDA Breakeven as UK Broadband Customers Top 113.5k

9th Jun 2025 (9 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative network operator Fibrus, which has been rolling out their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and Cumbria (England), has today published a summary of their latest results. The data reveals that they achieved EBITDA breakeven in March 2025 and are now home to 113,500 customers (up from 100k in Nov 2024).

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Openreach Finally Kicks Off Larger FTTP Broadband Build in Oxford

9th Jun 2025 (15 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has finally started to deploy their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP network across the Cathedral City of Oxford (Oxfordshire) in England, which mostly reflects the central area covered by their main exchange.

Openreach Allegedly Threatens to Block New TalkTalk Broadband Customers

8th Jun 2025 (39 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has reportedly warned the heavily indebted UK broadband ISP TalkTalk that they could block them from putting new customers on to their network. The threat allegedly arose after the ISP missed several monthly payment deadlines to the network operator, its biggest supplier, due to cash flow issues.

Scotland Stops £43m Gigabit Broadband Tender for Fife, Perth and Kinross

7th Jun 2025 (5 Comments)

ISPreview has uncovered that the Scottish Government (SG) have stopped their tender for a supplier to deliver on the proposed £43m (state aid) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out scheme in Fife, Perth and Kinross (Lot 4 – Scotland). This had been expected to help expand full fibre (FTTP) connectivity to an estimated 28,441 premises in hard-to-reach rural areas.

Rural Broadband ISP Truespeed Extends FTTP to 109,000 UK Premises

6th Jun 2025 (10 Comments)

Alternative network provider Truespeed, which have deployed their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to rural parts of Devon, Wiltshire and Somerset in England, has published their annual accounts to the end of 2024 and revealed that they’ve now covered 109,000 premises RFS (up from 100k in Jun 2024) and have 24,000 customers (up from 21k).

Wireless ISP Symmetris Broadband Merges into Sister Provider WiSpire

6th Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

Fixed wireless access UK ISP Symmetris Broadband, which together with their partners have already deployed a number of networks across rural parts of Norfolk and Suffolk in England (including some FTTP via the Gigabit Village off-shoot), appears to have recently been merged into sister operator WiSpire (both are associated to InTouch Systems).

ASDA Mobile UK Refreshes Pay Monthly and Pay As You Go Plans

6th Jun 2025 (11 Comments)

The mobile operator division of supermarket chain ASDA, which is powered by a virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Vodafone, has just launched a refreshed SIM-Only range with a reduced number of products, featuring reduced pricing across some of their key plans.

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ISP Gamma and Clear Business Boosted by UK Strategic Partnership

6th Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

Multi-utility operator Clear Business, which provides UK SMEs with access to lots of different services (broadband, mobile, energy, payment, water etc.), has today announced that they’ve “strengthened” their strategic partnership with business ISP Gamma Communications.

INCA Calls on Lords to Address UK Broadband Woes for Remote Working

6th Jun 2025 (19 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative broadband operators, has today proposed several priority recommendations to help address – as part of a Lords Select Committee inquiry – the gaps in critical broadband infrastructure that could be holding back home-based working.

UK Fibre Awards 2025 Name Winning Broadband Operators

6th Jun 2025 (5 Comments)

The fourth annual UK Fibre Awards event was held yesterday in London, which saw a number of broadband ISPs and full fibre network builders across several categories pick up awards for their achievements. Some of this year’s winners included Gigaclear for ‘Best Rural Fibre Provider’ and MS3 for ‘Best Overall Fibre Provider’ (they scooped several wins).

O2 UK Add Data Rollover as Standard to Pay Monthly Plus and Ultimate Plans

5th Jun 2025 (14 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has this morning announced that new and upgrading customers on their ‘Pay Monthly Plus’ or ‘Ultimate Plan’ (phone, tablet, or SIM only) can make the most of any unused 4G or 5G data (mobile broadband) each month as it will now roll over to their following months’ airtime allowance.

Virgin Media O2 UK Gives Away iPad with Selected Broadband Bundles

5th Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to sign-up with Virgin Media (O2) may like to know that the ISP has today refreshed some of their home broadband packages today and is also offering a 9th Gen iPad 64GB in space grey when they purchase an 18-month MegaVolt package online, at least while stocks last.

CityFibre UK Finish Primary £15m FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wokingham

5th Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which has so far built their 5.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 4.4 million UK premises (4.2m Ready for Service), has today confirmed the completion of their “primary” £15 million build across the market town of Wokingham in Berkshire (England).

Vodafone UK Launches New 5G Mobile Data Travel eSIM Service

5th Jun 2025 (13 Comments)

Mobile network operator Vodafone has today launched a new 4G and 5G-ready mobile data (broadband) Travel eSIM service, which now extends to 206 destinations on 700 networks – supported by its GenAI system for customer service. But they’re still just one option in a growing sea of similar services, where standing out is difficult.

Ofcom UK Set to Begin Hunt for New Chairman to Replace Lord Grade

5th Jun 2025 (4 Comments)

The UK communications and media regulator, Ofcom, is reportedly preparing to kick off a new recruitment process – at the government’s (DSIT) behest – to find a replacement for the organisation’s current Chair, Michael Grade (Lord Grade of Yarmouth), who has been in the role since May 2022 and previously held senior positions at the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.