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ISP News Archives for September 2025

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Virgin Media UK Create Fixed Wholesale Broadband Unit for Consumer and Business

17th Sep 2025 (7 Comments)

Broadband network operator and retail ISP Virgin Media (O2) has this morning announced the creation of a single dedicated Fixed Wholesale unit, which will bring together their consumer and business facing wholesale teams under one roof. This will allow rival ISPs to access their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network – currently available to 7 million premises.

Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Adopts AI to Improve Customer Broadband Installs

17th Sep 2025 (12 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 600,000 premises (mostly in remote rural parts of England) and is home to 150,000 customers, has today announced that they’ve adopted Vyntelligence’s AI video technology – the first UK retail fibre provider to do so – to improve customer installation journeys by reducing unnecessary work.

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Openreach Sees UK Full Fibre Broadband Traffic Grow 35 Percent in H1 2025

17th Sep 2025 (21 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed that broadband data traffic across their UK full fibre (FTTP) network alone increased by more than 35% between Jan and June 2025, compared to the same period in 2024. The busiest day so far was on 21st Feb, when a large Fortnite (video game) patch saw users gobble a total of 372PB (PetaBytes).

Transport for Wales Trials Satellite Broadband for Bus WiFi Services

16th Sep 2025 (5 Comments)

Transport for Wales (TfW), which is a not-for-profit organisation owned by the Welsh Government, has begun trials of a new satellite internet solution to connect the unique demand-responsive transport (DRT) based fflecsi bus services in the rural area of Machynlleth (Powys). Users of the service can now benefit from onboard WiFi.

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Wireless ISP WiFi Scotland Brings Full Fibre Broadband to Rural Moray

16th Sep 2025 (3 Comments)

Some 43 homes and businesses around remote rural parts of Moray in the Scottish Highlands have gained access to gigabit broadband speeds thanks to a new deployment by local ISP WiFi Scotland. The provider was able to harness public funding via the R100 Voucher Scheme (SBVS) to connect premises around the Craigellachie and Ben Aigan areas.

Sky UK Informs Workers that up to 600 Staff Face the Chop

16th Sep 2025 (24 Comments)

Sky UK (Sky Broadband, Sky TV, Sky Mobile – Comcast etc.) has today begun notifying their workforce that up to 600 of them are likely to be made redundant by the end of this year, while around 300 more may be impacted by a wider business reorganisation. Many of those expected to be cut appear to come from Sky’s tech and networking teams.

New Full Fibre Broadband Network Goes Live at Margam Park, Neath Port Talbot

16th Sep 2025 (0 Comments)

The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme has announced the completion of a £150,000 project to deploy a new full fibre broadband network across Margam Park (Neath Port Talbot) in South Wales, which will also reach homes in the surrounding area.

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Ofcom UK Propose to Speed Up NGSO Licensing for LEO Broadband Satellites

16th Sep 2025 (0 Comments)

The UK broadband, media and communications regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a new consultation that proposes to improve the existing license process for non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) systems, such as those like Starlink, OneWeb and others that offer broadband from satellites in a Low or Medium Earth Orbit (LEO and MEO).

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Freedom Fibre Expand UK Wholesale Broadband Partnership with PXC

16th Sep 2025 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre, which has so far grown their FTTP (XGS-PON) based gigabit broadband network to cover 350,000 premises across various parts of England and North Wales, has this morning announced the expansion of its established partnership with PlatformX Communications (formerly TalkTalk Wholesale).

Beware Email Scams Seeking Feedback on the UK’s Emergency Alerts Test

16th Sep 2025 (2 Comments)

The recent nationwide mobile test of the UK’s new Emergency Alerts service has, perhaps inevitably, been followed by a new wave of email phishing scams and spams over the past week. This attempts to impersonate the government by claiming to seek feedback from recipients on whether or not they received the alert.

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O2 UK Expands Mobile 5G Standalone Network to 500 Towns and Cities

16th Sep 2025 (17 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that they now have the “country’s largest 5G Standalone deployment” after extending the coverage of their new ultrafast mobile broadband network to parts of 500 towns and cities, reaching more than 70% of the UK’s population (c.49 million people). Crucially this is provided to consumers “at no extra cost“.

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SignalTracker Compares Performance of UK Mobile Operators to Virtual Siblings

16th Sep 2025 (6 Comments)

A new study from SignalTracker, which runs a popular Android mobile app (not iOS) for monitoring and examining mobile network performance, has revealed the results of a study into the speed differences between the UK’s primary mobile operators (MNO) and their virtual operator (MVNO) siblings. Unsurprisingly, EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2 outperformed mvnos.

Broadband ISP LitFibre Launch New UK Business Packages up to 2.4Gbps UPDATE

15th Sep 2025 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Lit Fibre, which harnesses CityFibre’s national UK full fibre (FTTP) network (covering c.4.5 million premises), has this afternoon announced the launch of three new line-only broadband packages for business customers – offering symmetric speeds from 500Mbps and up to 2.4Gbps, with contract options of 36, 24 and 12 months available.

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Mobile Operator GiffGaff Launch UK Full Fibre Broadband Packages UPDATE2

15th Sep 2025 (44 Comments)

Mobile network provider giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica and uses O2’s associated virtual operator (MVNO) platform, has today officially taken their home broadband products – powered by nexfibre and Virgin Media’s full fibre networks – out of trial and made them available as commercial products for consumers to order.

TalkTalk Survey Claims Wi-Fi is Most Popular UK Name for Broadband UPDATE

15th Sep 2025 (35 Comments)

A new online survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Axicom on behalf of broadband ISP TalkTalk and conducted by OnePoll, claims to have found that “Wi-Fi” is the “most popular name” for home internet connections. One third of those asked said they use Wi-Fi to describe their internet connection, pipping “broadband” and “internet” to the post.

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Ookla Launch Scheme to Help People Verify if Places Offer Good Broadband

15th Sep 2025 (2 Comments)

Network testing firm Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband Speedtest.net service, has today launched a new Speedtest Certified™ scheme. The program seems to be designed to help people verify whether properties like hotels, stadiums, event venues, office buildings, and airports are able to deliver “superior connectivity“.

Mobile Operator Talkmobile UK Finally Introduce eSIM Support

15th Sep 2025 (6 Comments)

Mobile operator Talkmobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on parent Vodafone’s (VodafoneThree) national UK 4G and 5G network, has finally begun to offer eSIM (Electronic SIM) support to new customers who join by taking one of their SIM Only plans.