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ISP News Archives for September 12, 2025

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BBC Expands Low Latency Video Streaming Trial on iPlayer Service

12th Sep 2025 (10 Comments)

The BBC’s Research & Development division has extended the testing period and increased the number of devices able to take part in their beta trial of “low latency streaming” on their iPlayer service. This aims to reduce the delay on live TV shows/events that exists between terrestrial broadcasts and streamed content.

First UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contract Completes in North Northumberland

12th Sep 2025 (2 Comments)

The UK Government have this morning confirmed that GoFibre has become the first network operator to complete one of their subsidised roll-out contracts under the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The announcement relates to GoFibre‘s £7.3m (state aid) contract to deploy a full fibre (FTTP) network across 3,750 hard-to-reach premises in North Northumberland.

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Ofcom Celebrate as 1.6 Million UK People Switch Broadband or Phone via OTS UPDATE

12th Sep 2025 (6 Comments)

The UK communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has this morning hailed the fact that 1.62 million consumers have now switched landline (phone) or broadband provider using their new One Touch Switch (OTS) process since it launched for the first time exactly one year ago.

Vodafone Launch UEFA Champions League Travel eSIM for Football Fans

12th Sep 2025 (3 Comments)

Mobile and broadband telecoms giant Vodafone Group has announced the launch of a new Champions Travel eSIM, which forms part of the operator’s major new multi-year partnership with UEFA and UC31 to support the development of women’s and men’s European football.

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Openreach to Cut Price of FTTP Broadband Rental on UK Proactive Upgrades

12th Sep 2025 (2 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) appears to be giving UK migrations from legacy fixed lines to modern Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband services a boost by offering UK ISPs and their customers a special discount on rental prices, albeit only when upgrades occur via their Proactive Upgrades process.

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Giffgaff Expand UK Full Fibre Broadband Trial with Extra Speed Options

12th Sep 2025 (23 Comments)

Mobile network provider giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica and uses O2’s associated virtual operator (MVNO) platform, has provided customers of their new home broadband trial – based on nexfibre and Virgin Media’s 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP / XGS-PON) network – with additional speed options other than 500Mbps.

Sky Mobile UK Offers Discounted £1 Pay Monthly 5G SIM Only Plan

12th Sep 2025 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to join mobile operator Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband), which is a virtual provider (mvno) on O2’s national 4G and 5G network, may like to know that they’ve launched a bunch of new discounts on their SIM Only plans. For example, you can now get 1GB of data, including unlimited calls and texts, for just £1 per month (down from £3).

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