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ISP News Archives for July 30, 2025

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CityFibre UK Finish Primary £50m Wolverhampton FTTP Broadband Rollout

30th Jul 2025 (10 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which has so far built their 5.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 4.5 million UK premises, has today confirmed the completion of their “primary” £50 million build across the West Midland’s city of Wolverhampton.

Study Claims Altnet Broadband ISPs Deliver More Speed for 28 Percent Less Money

30th Jul 2025 (28 Comments)

New research from Broadband Genie, which surveyed 3,996 UK broadband customers, claims to have found that consumers who adopt packages from ISPs that harness alternative networks (i.e. not Openreach or Virgin Media based) could be getting twice the internet speed for almost a third (28%) off the price.

Ofcom Fine UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear £122k Over Calling Info Failure

30th Jul 2025 (10 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator has today fined alternative rural broadband ISP Gigaclear £122,500 after they were found to have failed to “provide accurate and reliable caller location information to emergency services,” which could have made it more difficult for the police, fire and ambulances to find callers.

ISPA Unveil First Finalists for 2025 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

30th Jul 2025 (4 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has this morning revealed the shortlist of finalists for their 2025 annual industry awards event, which sees a record of 50 separate organisations (broadband ISPs, network builders etc.) being nominated across 17 categories. Except the “Internet Hero” and “Digital Inclusion” categories, which will be announced later this year.

Full Fibre Provider ITS Technology Appoints Charlie Versi as its COO

30th Jul 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the United Kingdom, has today announced that they’ve appointed Charlie Versi to be their new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

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Ofcom – YouTube and Streaming is Slowly Taking Over UK TV Sets

30th Jul 2025 (29 Comments)

The UK communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has today published its Media Nations 2025 report, which reveals how linear TV viewing continues to decline in favour of broadband-based video streaming platforms (particularly YouTube and Netflix). But broadcast TV currently still accounts for the majority (56%) of in-home viewing (down from 57% last year).

Virgin Media O2 Grow UK FTTP Premises by 114k in Q2 as Broadband Users Fall

30th Jul 2025 (17 Comments)

The latest Q2 2025 results from Virgin Media and O2 today have revealed that their gigabit broadband network increased by 114,900 premises in the quarter to cover 18.53 million UK homes. But related customers suffered another fall to total 5,643,500 (down by -51.4k in Q2 vs -44k in Q1) and O2’s mobile base also suffered a fall (albeit with positive results in wholesale).

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