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ISP News Archives for October 13, 2025

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Vodafone UK Suffer Major Outage of Mobile and Broadband Connectivity UPDATE4

13th Oct 2025 (171 Comments)

Over the past few minutes we’ve started to receive reports from customers of Vodafone UK about a significant outage of their national network. The details are currently quite limited, with reports coming in from users of both their fixed line home broadband and mobile services, albeit mostly from mobile data (4G/5G) users.

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INCA Blasts Ofcom for Rejecting Competition Concerns Over Openreach FTTP Price Cut

13th Oct 2025 (12 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, has today expressed its “huge disappointment” after Ofcom rejected the competition concerns they helped raise over a recent price cut to Openreach’s “full fibre” (FTTP) lines where proactive migrations are used.

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Vodafone Test Pushes 2.5Gbps Mobile 5G Broadband Speeds via 6GHz Band

13th Oct 2025 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has demonstrated how harnessing 200MHz of radio spectrum in the Upper 6GHz band, using a chipset with the MediaTek M90 Modem within a standard Smartphone, can deliver download speeds of 2.5Gbps over a 5G network using carrier aggregation to combine multiple radio frequencies on a single link. Upload speeds ranged from 50-180Mbps.

Virgin Media and O2 UK Refresh Volt Bundles of Broadband and Mobile

13th Oct 2025 (7 Comments)

Telecoms giants Virgin Media and O2 UK (VMO2) have today announced a refresh of their Volt bundles, which enable customers to combine both the broadband and mobile services of both providers into a single package at a discounted rate. New and upgrading customers who purchase a Volt bundle can now choose between a Classic, Plus or Ultimate Plan.

Government to Reintegrate Building Digital UK Agency Back into DSIT UPDATE

13th Oct 2025 (1 Comment)

The Government has today informed ISPreview that its Building Digital UK (BDUK) executive agency, which has responsibility for delivering gigabit broadband and better mobile connectivity across the nation (e.g. the £5bn Project Gigabit scheme), is to be integrated back into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) from 1st November 2025.

Zen Internet UK Rejigs Management Team to Boost Consumer and Partner Focus

13th Oct 2025 (4 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has today appointed Paul North as Managing Director (MD) of its Partner division. At the same time, Stephen Warburton, who previously ran Zen’s Partner division for over 20 years and was also holding responsibility for Zen’s Consumer divisions, will now be able to focus exclusively on the consumer side of things.

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Openreach Unable to Predict When UK Broadband Line Losses will Stop

13th Oct 2025 (26 Comments)

The Deputy CEO of national network access provider Openreach (BT), Katie Milligan, has warned that until “the market really stabilises” then they won’t be able to predict when their current broadband line losses to rivals will stop (Openreach lost 707k in 2024 and expects to lose about 900,000 this financial year).

Now UK Metal Thieves are Stealing the Shells of Broadband Cabinets UPDATE

13th Oct 2025 (13 Comments)

The saying goes that criminals will steal anything that isn’t bolted down, but the opposite now seems to be true in Nottinghamshire (England), where a spate of recent metal thefts has seen criminals making off with the steel covers from several of Virgin Media’s (O2) broadband and phone street cabinets.

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Planet Telecom Launch New UK-based Mobile eSIM-only Operator SIMOVO

13th Oct 2025 (2 Comments)

Business broadband and phone provider Planet Telecom has announced the launch of SIMOVO, which is said to be a new UK-based mobile eSIM-only operator built for “modern travellers who want a simpler, more flexible way to stay connected in the UK and abroad“.

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