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ISP News Archives for November 2025

Ofcom Warns UK Phone Providers to Ensure Customers Can Contact 999

3rd Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has opened a new compliance programme to assess whether regulated UK phone providers are meeting their obligations concerning the need to ensure access to emergency calls (e.g. 999 and 112). The move comes after a string of broadband and VoIP providers, including BT, Gigaclear and Vonage, were fined over various related failings (here, here and here).

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Boss of UK Rural Broadband ISP Quickline Exits as New Top Team Formed

3rd Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

The current CEO of alternative rural broadband provider Quickline, Sean Royce, has today announced that he’s retiring after nearly 5 years leading the business and is to be replaced by their Chief Transformation Officer, Mark Bowden. At the same time, the provider has promoted Martin Cook to Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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O2 UK Reach Grim Milestone as Mobile Network Blocks 1 Billion Scam Texts

3rd Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that over 1 billion scam text messages have been blocked by their network and prevented from reaching customers. The provider is now calling on the government to ensure that their forthcoming Fraud Strategy helps to tackle this by empowering law enforcement with the tools and resources needed to crackdown on the problem.

Rural UK Broadband ISP Quickline Discounts 1Gbps Plan to GBP 32

3rd Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

Homes covered by Quickline’s new gigabit full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, which by the end of 2025 will have covered 200,000 premises across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (up from 65,000 premises in Nov 2023), may like to know that they’ve discounted the price of their top 1Gbps tier from £49 to just £32 per month.

Virgin Media O2 Integrate Neutral Host Small Cell into Live UK 5G SA Network

3rd Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

O2 (Virgin Media) has partnered with IONX Networks to become one of the first mobile operators in the UK to successfully integrate a neutral host Small Cell into their live 5G Standalone (SA) core network, which supports the ongoing expansion of their new ultrafast mobile broadband service (currently available to more than 70% of the population).

October 2025 Progress Update on BT 10Mbps UK Broadband USO

3rd Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

ISP BT has published the biannual (October 2025) progress update on their delivery of Ofcom’s somewhat unpopular 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband. The provider has so far helped to build a USO connection to over 8,553 premises (up from 8,411 in April 2025), with 186 further builds in-progress (down from 349).

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Falkland Islands Government Grants Licence for Starlink Satellite Broadband

3rd Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has, after plenty of confusion and debate earlier in the year (here and here), finally granted a VSAT Broadband Connectivity Licence to SpaceX’s Starlink service. The move allows homes and businesses on the remote islands, which are a British Overseas Territory, to take an ultrafast internet service via Starlink’s satellite network.

Rural UK Broadband Altnet Gigaclear Hunts Buyer to Tackle £1bn Debt

1st Nov 2025 (30 Comments)

A new report has claimed that Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) network across 612,000 premises in rural parts of England and is home to c.160,000 customers, have begun the process of hunting for a buyer as one of the preferred options for tackling their £1bn debt mountain.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Prep 2025 UK Black Friday Discounts – 6 Months Half Price

1st Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent broadband ISP Aquiss has this morning unveiled its planned Black Friday discounts early by offering new customers six months of half-price service on their Openreach (FTTP + FTTC/SOGEA) and CityFibre (FTTP) based packages, which will be available to order between 1st and 30th November 2025.

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