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ISP News Archives for September 24, 2025

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First 50 Students in Lincolnshire Benefit from Quickline’s New Bursary

24th Sep 2025 (0 Comments)

At the start of this year Quickline, which is building a rural gigabit broadband network across parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), announced that they and the Lincolnshire Institute of Technology (LIoT) would support 500 students through a bursary scheme (i.e. money to help with study, travel and childcare costs). The first 50 students have now benefitted from this.

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EE UK Named Official UK Partner for the Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Launch

24th Sep 2025 (4 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they’ll once again be an official partner for the next Call of Duty video game (Black Ops 7), which is currently scheduled for release on 14th November 2025 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows (PC), Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Customers of the service can also expect a few perks, like beta access.

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BT CEO Complains UK Telecoms Operators Pay 10 Times More Than Peers

24th Sep 2025 (13 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Allison Kirkby, appears to be gearing up for the government’s annual 2025 Budget announcement by complaining that the operator pays “10 times the amount our peers pay in countries like Germany and the Netherlands” on things like business rates, energy levies and other costs associated with regulation and compliance.

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Vodafone, Meta and Google Show Impact of Video Compression on Mobile Networks

24th Sep 2025 (3 Comments)

British-registered mobile operator Vodafone has today published a new white paper with Meta and Google, which shows the benefits of advanced video compression technology, via the AV1 video codec, for Smartphone users on their mobile broadband networks. But it also notes that many people use budget handsets, which often lack full support it.

Channel 4 Prep Exclusive UK Streaming Channels for Freely’s Broadband TV Service

24th Sep 2025 (15 Comments)

Public service broadcaster Channel 4 has this morning announced the launch of three new streaming channels – 4Reality, 4Homes, and 4Life, which are to made exclusively available via the new broadband-based live TV streaming service – Freely – in the UK.

Top 17 Largest UK Full Fibre Broadband Networks by Coverage – H2 2025

24th Sep 2025 (6 Comments)

The latest independent data from Thinkbroadband has today helped us to produce an updated assessment of how big – in terms of network coverage (premises passed) – the top 17 largest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks in the UK have become by September 2025. Once again, we compare this data against official coverage claims.

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Openreach Build FTTP Broadband to 20 Million UK Homes as Uptake Hits 38 Percent

24th Sep 2025 (15 Comments)

National network operator Openreach (BT) has this morning confirmed that their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which offers broadband speeds of up to 1,800Mbps to homes via hundreds of UK ISPs, has now covered 20 million premises (up from 18.3m on 1st May 2025) and take-up has risen to around 38%.

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