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ISP News Archives for October 9, 2025

CWP Domain Goes Down and Disrupts Some UK Broadband ISP Switching UPDATE

9th Oct 2025 (6 Comments)

The Common Wholesale Platform (CWP), which is a non-profit member-owned organisation that helps alternative broadband networks to connect with the retail ISP market, appears to be suffering some sort of disruption today after their main website domain went down (CWPUK.org) and stopped some consumer switching between ISPs.

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Channel 4 and the BBC’s UKTV Platform to Exchange UK Streaming TV Content

9th Oct 2025 (4 Comments)

British TV broadcasters Channel 4 and UKTV (U platform), which is owned by the BBC’s commercial division, have today announced a major new multi-year carriage agreement, which will see C4 gaining access to stream thousands of hours of additional free TV content and shows from the BBC via their online service (The Office, Red Dwarf etc.).

O2 UK Mobile Customers Can Now Pick TNT Sports as an Extra and Save £6 PM

9th Oct 2025 (2 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 has today announced that millions of their UK customers can now enjoy the TNT Sports TV content on the discovery+ streaming app at a discounted price via O2 Extras on a 30-day rolling contract (i.e. £26.99 per month instead of the usual £30.99), while at the same time saving an additional £2 per month off their Airtime bill.

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Ofcom UK Reject Competition Concerns over Openreach’s FTTP Upgrades Offer

9th Oct 2025 (34 Comments)

At the start of this week ISPreview revealed that a number of rival broadband networks had raised competition concerns with the UK telecoms regulator after Openreach introduced a new discount on upgrades to full fibre lines (here). Ofcom has now responded to these concerns via a new open letter, which largely rejects them but remains “alive” to the concerns.

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Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK Launch Single Visit FTTP Install Programme

9th Oct 2025 (18 Comments)

Broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has this morning announced the launch of its new Single Visit Install (SVI) programme, which aims to provide customers with a faster and more reliable approach to installations. But it’s currently only live across their nexfibre built full fibre (FTTP) connections (c.2.4 million UK premises).

Tees Valley Authority Publish Performance Map of Local Mobile Signals

9th Oct 2025 (0 Comments)

The Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) in North East England, which covers Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees, has today published a map of mobile signal quality and mobile broadband performance – the result of their prior work with Inakalum to harness local bin lorries to help test 4G and 5G coverage.

Gigaclear Start East Gloucestershire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

9th Oct 2025 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband provider Gigaclear, which has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 612,000 UK premises, has this morning finally announced the start of their roll-out under Project Gigabit’s East Gloucestershire (Lot 18) contract. The £10.81m deployment is currently expected to help upgrade 3,547 premises in hard to reach areas.

Cable Thieves Knock Out Openreach Broadband in County Durham Village

9th Oct 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband internet connectivity across part of the County Durham (England) village of Shotton Colliery was left disconnected for five days earlier this week after Openreach’s local network was targeted by copper cable thieves. The activity also caused damage to some local fibre optic cables.

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