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Openreach Pole Problem Triggers Long Broadband Outage in Welsh Village UPDATE

24th Jul 2025 (0 Comments)

Residents in the tiny rural Gwynedd (Wales) village of Llangwnnadl have been left without access to fixed broadband and phone services for several weeks. Local news reports claim that the situation began after a telecoms pole replacement was carried out by Openreach, which is unusual as normally such work is carried out to fix and not cause a fault.

BDUK Issue First 2025 Update on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Progress

24th Jul 2025 (3 Comments)

The Government’s (DSIT) Building Digital UK agency has today published their first 2025 progress report on the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which covers the April to December 2024 period. The data reveals that some 1,188,400 UK premises have received gigabit-capable broadband coverage by BDUK’s gigabit programmes since their inception.

O2 UK and Ontix Expand 4G Mobile Small Cells to Bristol’s Clifton Area

24th Jul 2025 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) and network technology provider Ontix have this morning announced that they’ve enhanced 4G mobile (mobile broadband) capacity in the city of Bristol in South West England, specifically the historic Clifton area, by extending their deployment of several small cells.

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VodafoneThree UK Hits 1.65 Million Broadband Users as Mobile Tops 28.76m UPDATE

24th Jul 2025 (14 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone has published their first combined Q1 FY26 financial results with Three UK. The figures show that the merged entity has 1.654 million fixed broadband customers (up by 44k in Q1 vs 61k in the previous quarter) and a huge combined mobile base of 28.765m – making them the “biggest mobile network operator in the UK“.

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BT See Loss of 169k Openreach UK Broadband Lines and Appoints New CFO

24th Jul 2025 (72 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT Group just published a short trading update to the end June 2025 (Q1 FY26), which reveals that Openreach lost another 169,000 total broadband lines to rival networks over the past quarter (down from 243k in the previous quarter). But they also saw their “full fibre” (FTTP) coverage grow to over 19 million premises (up by 1m) and take-up increased to 37% (up from 36.13%).

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VIDEO – Voneus Brings Gigabit Wireless Broadband to St Clears in Wales

24th Jul 2025 (0 Comments)

Rural UK broadband operator Voneus, which continues to deploy a gigabit-capable fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks across poorly served rural areas, has announced that they’ve deployed their wireless network across the small Carmarthenshire (Wales) town of St. Clears.

Broadband Provider Exascale Joins CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Network

23rd Jul 2025 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP and network builder Exascale, which has also deployed their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to a few thousands premises in part of Telford and Wrekin, has today signed a partnership to harness CityFibre’s network and thus deliver FTTP and Ethernet services to more UK homes and businesses.

Three UK Discounts Unlimited 4G and 5G Home Broadband to £17

23rd Jul 2025 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator Three UK appears to have introduced one of the biggest discounts yet on their 4G and 5G powered unlimited Three Home Broadband packages, which have just been discounted to only £17 per month on a 24-month minimum contract term (or £28 if you take it as a rolling monthly plan).

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Mobile Operator Spusu UK Cuts International Data Roaming Charges

23rd Jul 2025 (3 Comments)

The SIM-Only mobile provider spusu, which holds a virtual operator (MVNO) agreement via BTWholesale to harness EE’s national 4G and 5G network, has today announced “sweeping cuts” to their international data (mobile broadband) roaming charges across 150 countries and slashing rates by at least 50% in over 100 of those.

Virgin Media O2 Adopt Trustly’s Pay by Bank Solutions for UK Customers

23rd Jul 2025 (17 Comments)

Broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has today signed a new partnership that will see them adopting Trustly’s “next-generation” Direct Debit account automation and one-off Pay by Bank solutions. The goal is to streamline payments and onboarding processes as part of the UK operator’s commitment to “making customers’ lives easier“.

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Vodafone UK Improves Customer Support with “Just Ask Once” Service

23rd Jul 2025 (10 Comments)

Broadband and mobile provider Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has today launched a new service called ‘Just Ask Once‘, which will essentially see “one person deal with a customer’s query from start to finish, until it is sorted“. The operator claims this will mean no more waiting on hold, no more transfers between agents and no more repeating yourself.

WhoFi – Researchers Find Way to Identify and Track People via WiFi Signals

23rd Jul 2025 (2 Comments)

Over the years we’ve seen various different uses for wireless WiFi signals being developed, such as the ability to see through walls (here) or to act as a motion sensing alarm system (here). Now a team of Italian researchers have figured out how to identify individual people by the biometric identifier they give off when walking through Wi-Fi signals.

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Matthew Hare Steps Back from Executive Chairman Role at FullFibre

23rd Jul 2025 (3 Comments)

Matthew Hare, the Executive Chairman of alternative UK broadband operator FullFibre Limited, has announced that he is “stepping back” from the role after only being appointed to the post in January 2025 following the merger with fellow altnet Zzoomm (here), where he was previously the CEO.

Netomnia Expand FTTP Broadband Coverage to 2.56 Million UK Premises

23rd Jul 2025 (30 Comments)

Alternative network operator Netomnia (Brsk, Youfibre) has today published their Q2 2025 results, which reveals that their multi-gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.56 million UK premises (up 243k in the quarter) and is home to 341,000 customers (up 54k).

Grain Secures £225m Funding to Accelerate UK Full Fibre Broadband Rollout

22nd Jul 2025 (6 Comments)

Network operator and ISP Grain (Grain Connect) has this afternoon announced that they’ve secured a £225m funding boost (mostly debt and some equity), which will enable them to expand the reach of their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover c.600,000 UK premises. This is said to be the “next step” on the road to 1 million premises.

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Openreach List Next 137 UK Areas for Copper to FTTP Switch – Tranche 21

22nd Jul 2025 (36 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today published the next (Tranche 21) batch of 137 exchanges in their “FTTP Priority Exchange Stop Sell” programme, which reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option).

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Ofcom to Make Q and V Bands Available for UK Satellite Broadband Gateways

22nd Jul 2025 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today unveiled their proposals for allowing broadband satellite operators (e.g. Starlink and Amazon) to harness the Q and V radio spectrum bands (37.5–43.5GHz, 47.2–50.2GHz and 50.4–52.4GHz) to help boost the backhaul data capacity of their ground-based gateway sites. This will also support the deployment of future satellites.