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ISP News Archives for October 2025

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Major UK Banks Scale Back Support for Alternative Broadband Networks

22nd Oct 2025 (11 Comments)

Two of the largest backers of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, NatWest and Lloyds, have now scaled back new lending to the heavily indebted sector. The move follows an earlier report in August 2025 (here), which revealed that a number of banks had set aside funding to cover loans issued to altnets (now deemed unlikely to be repaid in full).

Study Sees Coverage and Speed Improvements from Vodafone and Three UK Merger

22nd Oct 2025 (22 Comments)

Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has reported that they’ve seen the “first measurable improvements” in their data from the recent merger between mobile operators Vodafone and Three UK, which appears to indicate that VodafoneThree is delivering some “significant coverage” improvements and “faster speeds” (mobile broadband).

ScaleFibre Launches in the UK Market to Supply Broadband Networks

22nd Oct 2025 (0 Comments)

American network supplier ScaleFibre, which manufactures and delivers optical fibre connectivity kit and cables to broadband operators, has announced that they’ve established ScaleFibre UK Ltd as part of their expansion into Europe. Giving digital network builders in the UK another option to consider.

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Manx Telecom Scraps Free Email and Migrates Users to Paid Platform

22nd Oct 2025 (3 Comments)

Broadband, phone and mobile operator Manx Telecom (MT), which is the primary telecoms network for premises across the remote Isle of Man, has announced that their free email service (Manx.net) is to be migrated to a new platform run by Junara. But customers that wish to continue using the service will, from 21st Jan 2026, need to pay £65 a year (or £6.50 per month).

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Court Fines BT £9K Over Permits and Substandard Roadworks in Cumbria UK UPDATE

22nd Oct 2025 (10 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms giant BT (Openreach) has been fined a total of £9,000 at the Barrow Magistrates Court in Cumbria (England) after Westmorland and Furness Council (WFC) brought a successful prosecution against the operator for carrying out roadworks “without permits“, while also “failing to reinstate the road adequately“.

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ASA UK Ban Broadband ISP Zzoomm’s Ethically Questionable Direct Mail Ad

22nd Oct 2025 (7 Comments)

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has today banned yet another direct mailing advert for alternative full fibre broadband ISP Zzoomm, which occurred after it was found that the mail was NOT “obviously identifiable as a marketing communication” and misled recipients about the importance of its content.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Tries to Entice UK Customers with 900Mbps for £30

21st Oct 2025 (41 Comments)

Internet provider TalkTalk has today continued their efforts to boost the take-up of their home broadband services by launching their self-proclaimed “lowest ever price” on a 900Mbps full fibre (FTTP) package, which drops it from £38 to £30 per month on a 24-month minimum term for new subscribers.

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Elevate Make Rapid Progress on New Fibre Broadband Network in St Helens

21st Oct 2025 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator Elevate, which back in April 2025 secured the contract to build a new “hyperfast” full fibre broadband network in the Merseyside (England) town of St Helens (here), has today revealed that they’ve made “substantial progress” on the deployment with 4,874 metres worth of fibre already installed.

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CEO of UK Broadband Altnet MS3 to Step Down at Christmas After 4 Years UPDATE

21st Oct 2025 (5 Comments)

The CEO of Hull-based alternative UK network operator MS3, Guy Miller, has today announced his intention to “step away” from the company at Christmas after an “incredible four years“. The provider’s full fibre (FTTP) broadband network currently covers 234,000 premises (212k RFS) in the North of England and has connected 20,000 customers.

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Openreach Publish October 2025 Update on UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

21st Oct 2025 (34 Comments)

National network operator Openreach (BT) has published the latest quarterly update on their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP technology. The update reflects all the recent changes and progress with their existing locations and doesn’t appear to add any new areas beyond those confirmed in July 2025 (here).

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Major Amazon Web Services Outage Disrupting Global Internet Services UPDATE5

20th Oct 2025 (27 Comments)

Connectivity to many popular internet services and systems across the world, such as Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Signal, Perplexity, Slack, HMRC, Roblox, Ring and many more (payment providers, VoIP services etc.), are being disrupted this morning after cloud-platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) appeared to suffer a major global outage.

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Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK Sees 285 Percent Rise in Phishing Threats

20th Oct 2025 (5 Comments)

Broadband, phone and TV provider Virgin Media (O2) and their security partner, Akamai, have this morning warned that they’ve seen a 285% rise in phishing attempts this year. This figure has jumped to a huge 232,365 average new phishing threat entries to their threat intelligence feeds each day between April to June 2025.

Major UK Pension Funds Commit £40m to Improve Rural Broadband UPDATE

20th Oct 2025 (7 Comments)

The UK Government has announced the launch of the Sterling 20 initiative, which is a partnership of the country’s twenty largest pension funds and insurance companies (Nest, Aviva, Legal & General, M&G etc.) that have all agreed to pump extra investment into local infrastructure and businesses to boost growth. Rural broadband will be one of the winners.

Shetland Expecting Fix for Broken Subsea Fibre Cable to Occur Next Weekend

18th Oct 2025 (2 Comments)

Homes and businesses on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland, could see the full restoration of local broadband services by around next weekend. Connectivity was disrupted earlier this month after Storm Amy caused damage to the main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) subsea fibre optic cable (here).

Derbyshire County Council Commits £900k to Plug Rural Broadband Gaps UPDATE

18th Oct 2025 (0 Comments)

The Derbyshire County Council (DCC) in England has agreed to invest £900,000 to support the launch of two grant programmes, which will aim to improve broadband connectivity in at least some of the communities – predominantly rural ones – that are currently still expected to miss out on access to faster connections.

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Full Fibre Broadband ISP 4th Utility Sees UK Turnover and Take-up Surge

18th Oct 2025 (0 Comments)

Network operator and broadband ISP 4th Utility, which have been quietly deploying their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to UK homes (SDU) and large residential buildings (MDU), this week published their annual accounts for the year ended 31st March 2025 and reported a “doubling of monthly subscriptions sold through the year“.

ISP Virgin Media UK Discount 1130Mbps Home Broadband to £29.99 with Netflix

17th Oct 2025 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to join Virgin Media (O2) should note that the ISP has just introduced some bigger discounts across some of their home broadband and bundle packages. For example, Virgin’s 1130Mbps (1Gbps) package is now just £29.99 per month on a 24-month minimum term (price increases to £33.99 from April 2026 and £37.99 from April 2027).