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ISP News Archives for July 3, 2025

KCOM Publish Prices for Broadband Infrastructure Sharing in Hull UK UPDATE

3rd Jul 2025 (15 Comments)

Hull-based network operator KCOM, which has already deployed their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across a big chunk of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, has today quietly published their first terms and pricing details for a new PIA solution. The product allows rivals to run new fibre via the operator’s existing cable ducts and poles.

Top 10 UK Full Fibre Providers by Share of New Build Homes – 2025

3rd Jul 2025 (9 Comments)

ISPreview has today published a 2025 summary of the top ten full fibre broadband (FTTP) operators with the largest share of the UK new build homes market, which is naturally a table that ends up being dominated by the market’s biggest network provider – Openreach (BT), followed by Hyperoptic and others.

(L) Mark Tomlinson, CEO - Country Connect & (R) Richard Tang, CEO - Zen Internet

Country Connect Target 20,000 Premises with FTTP Broadband by 2026

3rd Jul 2025 (6 Comments)

The CEO (Mark Tomlinson) of small but profitable alternative network provider Country Connect has told Richard Tang, CEO of UK ISP Zen Internet, that they’re aiming to extend their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to reach 20,000 premises by the end of 2026 (currently at c.10k RFS) and have plans to go wholesale. But if you want to buy the network, £10m will do it.

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O2 UK Boost 4G and 5G Mobile at 13,000 Scottish Postcodes for Summer

3rd Jul 2025 (5 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that – over the past 12-months – they’ve upgraded the network capacity and coverage of their 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) services at a total of 13,000 postcodes across Scotland, including at some of the country’s most remote destinations (SRN).

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CityFibre Put First Full Fibre Homes Live in Buckinghamshire for Project Gigabit

3rd Jul 2025 (2 Comments)

CityFibre, which has so far deployed their 5.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 4.4 million UK premises, has just connected its first customers in Buckinghamshire (inc. Hertfordshire and East Berkshire) as part of their £58m (state aid) Project Gigabit contract (LOT 26) to reach 34,000 hard-to-reach rural premises in the county.

Neos Networks Add DDoS Protection to Dedicated Internet Access Service

3rd Jul 2025 (4 Comments)

Neos Networks, which operates one of the biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has today announced that they’ve integrated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Mitigation as a built-in feature of its Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) service.

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Gov Planning New UK Law to Help Protect Subsea Fibre Optic Cables

3rd Jul 2025 (8 Comments)

The UK Government’s Minister for Telecoms, Sir Chris Bryant MP, has told the Joint Committee’s ongoing Undersea Cables Inquiry that they will need to draft new laws in order to better address the growing risk of deliberate sabotage against our vital subsea fibre optic cables – responsible for carrying much of the world’s internet data traffic.

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