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ISP News Archives for October 2025

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Guernsey Regulator to Approve Spectrum for 5G Mobile Rollout from JT and Sure

15th Oct 2025 (0 Comments)

The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has “provisionally approved” the release of new radio spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.6GHz bands in order to enable telecoms operators JT and Sure to roll-out 5G mobile (mobile broadband) services across the islands of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark from “early 2026“.

SpaceX Gives Closer Look at its Next Generation v3 Broadband Satellites

15th Oct 2025 (4 Comments)

SpaceX’s global Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds across the UK and globally via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has provided their best view yet of what the company’s next generation v3 (GEN3) satellites will look like when deployed to orbit. Each one will have 10 times more capacity than earlier v2 satellites.

Broadband Focused TalkTalk Group Set to Cut a Further 100 UK Jobs

15th Oct 2025 (10 Comments)

The debt strained TalkTalk Group, which at this point has been through a demerger of its businesses and in 2024 secured a £400m refinancing package to avoid a default on its debts (here, here) – not to mention the recent £120m funding deal (here), is reportedly set to axe around 100 more jobs as part of its latest restructuring effort.

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Nurtur and BroadbandUK Launch New Availability Checker for Property Listings

14th Oct 2025 (9 Comments)

Proptech solutions provider Nurtur and comparison service developer BroadbandUK have just become the latest to offer UK property listing providers (Estate Agents etc.) another address-level option for enabling house hunters to see what kind of broadband connectivity and speeds are available to the houses they’re considering.

Ofcom Will Tomorrow Kick Off the UK 5G Mobile Auction for 26GHz and 40GHz

14th Oct 2025 (14 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that the first bidding on their auction of the 26GHz and 40GHz millimetre wave (mmW) spectrum bands for use by 5G mobile (mobile broadband) operators will get underway tomorrow, with BT (EE), O2 (Telefonica UK / Virgin Media) and Vodafone (VodafoneThree) all taking part.

Lit Fibre Introduce New UK Broadband Pricing on National and Local Networks

14th Oct 2025 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Lit Fibre, which harnesses CityFibre’s national UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (they originally ran their own fibre network too – here), has today introduced a new national broadband pricing framework that charges residential consumers more for those on their National (off-net) vs Local (on-net) network tiers.

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Neos Networks Claim UK Data Centre Builds Being Delayed by Fibre Availability

14th Oct 2025 (8 Comments)

Connectivity provider Neos Networks, which operates one of the biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has claimed in a new survey that 82% of UK data centre operators have delayed site builds or expansion due to fibre availability.

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TP-Link Boasts “breakthrough” with First Wi-Fi 8 Connectivity Test

14th Oct 2025 (5 Comments)

Networking kit manufacturer TP-Link, which develops a lot of broadband routers, WiFi extenders and smart home devices for network operators and consumers, today claims to have hit a “major technological milestone” after they conducted their first successful connectivity test using a prototype of the next gen Wi-Fi 8 standard (802.11bn – Ultra High Reliability).

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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 (27 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 (14 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“.