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New Mapping Technology Looks to Boost UK Fibre Broadband Rollout

5th Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

The specialist consultancy firm for UK utilities and infrastructure, Dalcour Maclaren, has taken the wrappings off its new bespoke fibre planning tool that it hopes will boost the roll-out of full fibre broadband by transforming the wayleave (legal land/property access agreements) and consent process for network operators.

1p Mobile UK Hints at Imminent Launch of eSIM Support

5th Jun 2025 (15 Comments)

Mobile network operator 1p Mobile this week indicated that the long-awaited introduction of eSIM (Electronic SIM) support to their service – hopefully for both new and existing customers – could finally begin to go live around the end of this month.

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Broadband ISP Youfibre Launch New UK Account Portal, Struggles a Bit

4th Jun 2025 (16 Comments)

Internet provider Youfibre, which uses Netomnia’s (Brsk) fast-growing national full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, this week launched a new ‘My Account’ service / portal for customers. But this ended up becoming a victim of its own success after the ISP notified that “unprecedented demand” was preventing some customers from being able to log-in.

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Altnet Broadband ISP Quickline Brings Tech Support Back to UK

4th Jun 2025 (9 Comments)

Alternative rural broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), has today announced that they’ve moved their Customer Technical Support Team in-house. Previously, it was outsourced to a company based in South Africa.

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CEO of Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear Warns Ofcom Has Gone Too Far

4th Jun 2025 (39 Comments)

The CEO of Abingdon-based alternative rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, Nathan Rundle, has told Richard Tang, CEO of Zen Internet, that they’re still focused on extending their full fibre (FTTP) network to 1 million UK homes in ultra rural areas. But the provider is concerned about Ofcom’s proposed changes to the market getting in the way.

EE UK Launch Nintendo Switch 2 Bundles for Pay Monthly Mobile Customers

4th Jun 2025 (2 Comments)

Customers of mobile and broadband ISP EE may like to know that the provider has today soft launched a new range of “exclusive” Nintendo Switch 2 bundles for users to add to their existing packages. The deals are set to become available via the operator’s EE Store tomorrow (5th June 2025) to coincide with global availability.

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Netomnia and ISP YouFibre Claim to Fix Broadband Speed and Latency Issues UPDATE

4th Jun 2025 (13 Comments)

Some customers of UK broadband ISP Youfibre, which harnesses Netomnia’s 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, have seen their service return to normal after appearing to suffer from a noticeable drop in network latency and upload performance over the past few days. But for others, the issue is ongoing.

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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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Openreach Default to More Expensive Biz FTTP and SOGEA Broadband Installs UPDATE

2nd Jun 2025 (16 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) caught our eye this week, which came after several of ISPreview’s industry sources notified us that the operator had “implemented a nationwide change” on 1st June 2025 that affected how SOGEA (FTTC etc.) and FTTP broadband services are provisioned for UK business premises.

Vorboss Target London’s Local Councils with New Full Fibre Partnership

2nd Jun 2025 (0 Comments)

London-focused network provider Vorboss, which operates a 100Gbps capable full fibre network in the city, has today announced a new strategic partnership with Roc Technologies to deliver “best-in-class network solutions” tailored specifically for local councils across the capital.