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ISP News Archives for November 5, 2025

Telefonica Strategic 5 Year Plan Announcement

Key News for Virgin Media O2 as Telefonica’s Strategic Plan to Focus on UK

5th Nov 2025 (8 Comments)

Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica, which forms part of the joint venture that controls broadband and mobile operators Virgin Media and O2 UK, has today announced the outcome of their recent Strategic Review and set out the six pillars underpinning their new five-year strategic plan. This includes consolidation and retaining the UK as one of their core markets.

Sky UK to Scrap Sky Live 4K Smart Camera for Sky Glass After Just 2 Years

5th Nov 2025 (2 Comments)

Customers of Sky Glass, which uses your broadband and WiFi connection to stream on-demand video and live TV channels directly to Sky’s own brand TV sets (without a satellite dish), have been informed that if they also took out the £290 dedicated 4K HDR smart camera add-on (Sky Live) then this will shortly become an expensive paper weight.

Openreach CEO Threatens to Scrap 30M UK Premises Target for FTTP Broadband

5th Nov 2025 (50 Comments)

The CEO of network access provider Openreach (BT), Clive Selley, has warned Ofcom and the UK Government that he is “going to hold fire” on seeking approval for the final phase of the operator’s plan to deploy full fibre (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology to 30 million premises. At least until the regulator and tax environment show themselves to be favourable.

London ISP Vorboss Launch New Connectivity Product for Smart Public Services

5th Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

London-focused ISP Vorboss, which has built and operates a 100Gbps speed fibre optic network for businesses in the UK’s capital city, has today announced the launch of a connectivity product that’s “built to enable essential public services across the capital“.

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ISP Lightning Fibre Launch UK Business Broadband Services via CityFibre

5th Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

Eastbourne-based broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which is building a new multi-gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex + Kent in England (140,000 premises) and also holds a partnership to harness CityFibre’s wider UK network (here), has today launched a new range of business packages via the CF side of their service (off-net).

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London Internet Exchange Launch New Bandwidth Options for Peering

5th Nov 2025 (3 Comments)

The not-for-profit London Internet Exchange, which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900+ members (broadband ISPs, mobile and CDN providers etc.), has announced that networks with multiple 100GE ports (lagged ports) will now be able to access new peering bandwidths of 130Gbps and 150Gbps for “increased flexibility and value“.

Rural Broadband ISP Voneus Secure UK Funding to 2030 as More Job Cuts Loom

5th Nov 2025 (5 Comments)

Alternative UK broadband network Voneus has today officially confirmed what we touched on last month (here), which reveals that they’ve strengthened their position for “long-term growth” with a business reorganisation and have secured funding through to 2030 (i.e. renegotiation of an existing £70m debt facility). But more job cuts are set to follow.

R100 Gigabit Broadband Rollout Reaches 93,800 Premises in Scotland

5th Nov 2025 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government (SG) recently revealed that 93,800 premises have now benefitted from their £697m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach (up from 83,419 in July 2025), which is rolling out full fibre (FTTP) broadband to remote rural areas. But the full roll-out is still not expected to complete until early 2028.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Issue Trading Update and Explores New Ownership Structures

5th Nov 2025 (1 Comment)

The TalkTalk Group has today published a very brief trading update for the half year ended 31st August 2025, which largely only highlights the positives (unlike their annual accounts) and claims to have “delivered a solid first-half performance“. The group is currently aiming to tackle its debts by targeting £146m in total savings by FY28.

Major UK Phone Providers Agree to Crackdown on Scam Calls and Fraud

5th Nov 2025 (12 Comments)

A new landmark Telecommunications Charter has today been agreed between several of the UK’s leading broadband, mobile and phone providers, which commits BT (EE), Virgin Media (O2), VodafoneThree, Tesco Mobile, TalkTalk, Sky (Sky Broadband) and the Comms Council UK to a “crack down on scam calls and fraud“. A sub-charter also exists for B2B phone services.

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