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ISP News Archives for August 7, 2025

Shareholders Boost UK Broadband ISP TalkTalk’s Funding Deal to £120m

7th Aug 2025 (11 Comments)

The debt riddled TalkTalk Group has issued an additional update this afternoon on their recent £100m funding deal (here), which reveals that the funding level has been increased by £20m to total £120m. The modest boost came other existing financial stakeholders agreed to participate.

O2 UK Deploys 4G and 5G Freshwave Small Cells to 13 Sites in Cornwall

7th Aug 2025 (5 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today continued to boost the provider’s 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) capacity and coverage by deploying Freshwave’s small cells across 13 holiday resort locations in Cornwall (South West England). Most of these are being deployed across the towns of St Ives and Newquay.

Giffgaff Offers 100GB Mobile Data SIM to UK Students for £10

7th Aug 2025 (6 Comments)

Mobile provider giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica and harnesses O2’s virtual network operator (MVNO) platform in the UK, has today launched a new mobile plan specifically for students that offers them 100GB (GigaBytes) of mobile broadband data for just £10 per month on a 12-month term.

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Broadband ISP Fusion Fibre Group Joins F&W’s UK Full Fibre Network

7th Aug 2025 (2 Comments)

Rural network builder and ISP Fusion Fibre Group, which has deployed a few of its own FTTP broadband networks to various remote communities, has today entered into a new strategic partnership with alternative network operator F&W Networks (Fibre and Wireless) to “accelerate the rollout of ultrafast, reliable full-fibre broadband across Southern England“.

New Civil Engineering Firm Allestra Group Setup to Tackle UK Telecoms

7th Aug 2025 (0 Comments)

The former MD of street works firm Light Source, Steve Hill, this week announced that he’d established the Nottingham-based Allestra Group to serve the telecommunications (broadband etc.), renewable energy, multi-utilities, network design, and traffic management sectors with similar engineering solutions.

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Ofcom Shame TalkTalk and O2 for UK Broadband and Mobile Complaints in Q1 2025

7th Aug 2025 (7 Comments)

Ofcom have today published their latest quarterly (Q1 2025) study of UK consumer telecoms complaints, which names TalkTalk as attracting the most negative feedback from customers for fixed broadband, while O2 took the most heat for Mobile and Virgin Media were put on the naughty step for Pay TV services.

Plusnet, Sky and EE Win UK Broadband Awards in Telegraph Readers Survey

7th Aug 2025 (4 Comments)

A new survey of broadband ISPs by Telegraph readers has handed out awards across several categories to Sky Broadband, EE and Plusnet, with the latter scooping wins across three categories. But neither BT, Vodafone, Virgin Media nor TalkTalk were deemed good enough to win anything, which is despite Virgin technically being the fastest provider.

Nexfibre Publish Q2 2025 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update

7th Aug 2025 (19 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has published their latest quarterly (Q2 2025) build update and confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.3 million UK premises. But its future remains uncertain.

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