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ISP News Archives for November 17, 2025

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Increases UK Mid-Contract Price Hikes to £4

17th Nov 2025 (22 Comments)

Perhaps inevitably, TalkTalk has today become the latest internet and phone provider to increase the customer cost impact of their existing mid-contract pricing policy, which will be introduced from 16th November 2025. But the price increase itself won’t hit until April 2026.

House of Lords Report Calls for UK Broadband Investment to Boost Home Working

17th Nov 2025 (6 Comments)

The cross-party Home-based Working Committee (Lords Select Committee) has published its report on remote and hybrid working in the UK, which among other things finds that the government should “increase long-term investment in digital infrastructure, particularly broadband” in order to properly support such working.

Full Fibre’s Impact – Fibrus Report Makes Three Predictions for UK Rural Areas in 2025

17th Nov 2025 (8 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a full fibre network across parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has published a new report that outlines three predictions for how the UK’s rural areas might look in 2050 and highlights the “extraordinary potential” of such communities as engines of growth.

Virgin Media UK Make Linear FAST TV Channel Content Available On-Demand

17th Nov 2025 (1 Comment)

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who also take a Pay TV service via one of their TV 360, Stream or v6 box platforms, have today been informed that they’ve added video-on-demand (VoD) capabilities, “at no extra cost“, to at least some of their growing line up of FAST channels.

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Great Western Railway Pilots Hybrid Network to Boost Onboard Wi-Fi

17th Nov 2025 (5 Comments)

The Great Western Railway (GWR), which operates most train services across the Great Western Main Line (GWML) – the rail line in England that runs between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads, has joined with Peninsula Transport, Network Rail and Motion Applied to pilot faster on-board broadband (WiFi) using “technology from the world of Formula 1“.

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Ofcom Consult on Impact of Openreach PIA on the UK Leased Line Market UPDATE

17th Nov 2025 (1 Comment)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a “narrow consultation” that proposes to amend their leased line access (LLA) market analysis for the ongoing Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR) to reflect a “greater potential impact” from Openreach’s Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product (this allows rivals to run new fibre via existing cable ducts and poles).

Peter Merz - Head of Standards at Nokia Technologies

Nokia Interview – 6G to Focus on Efficiency More than Mobile Broadband Speed

17th Nov 2025 (9 Comments)

The Head of Standards at Nokia Technologies, Peter Merz, has today told ISPreview – as part of our latest interview – that they’re conscious of wanting to avoid what mobile operators call “G-fatigue” (over-hyping) with their development of future 6G mobile (broadband) technology, which he says will be more about “intelligence and efficiency” than raw data throughput.

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