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ISP News Archives for December 17, 2025

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Report Claims Virgin Media O2 UK Set to Outsource IT to Tata in Forthcoming Deal

17th Dec 2025 (1 Comment)

A new report has claimed that broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) are reportedly in the process of reaching a new agreement with India’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which is allegedly said to be worth around £750m over 10-years. The move could see the telecoms provider outsourcing some of their IT, such as in application management and infrastructure services.

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Opensignal 2025 Study Ranks Big UK Broadband ISPs by Quality and Speed

17th Dec 2025 (3 Comments)

Internet connection testing firm Opensignal has today published their 2025 Fixed Broadband Experience report, which gauges the performance of major ISPs across the UK including BT (inc. EE), Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Three UK, Virgin Media and Vodafone. Overall, Virgin Media scored wins in every single national connectivity category.

Rural UK Broadband Provider Airband Tops 30,000 Customers

17th Dec 2025 (2 Comments)

Alternative internet provider Airband, which has built a mix of both Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based broadband networks to cover various rural parts of Wales and South West England, has today announced that they’ve hit their target of reaching 30,000 customers (up from 19,000 in March 2024).

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Wholesale Provider PXC Launch CityFibre Business FTTP for UK ISPs

17th Dec 2025 (0 Comments)

Network provider PlatformX Communications (PXC), which is a trading name of UK internet provider TalkTalk and sells wholesale solutions to ISPs (inc. other network providers), has today announced that they’ve made CityFibre’s Business Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband services available to all their partners.

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36,000 North Lanarkshire Council Tenants to Get Gigabit Broadband

17th Dec 2025 (0 Comments)

The North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) in Scotland has announced that they intend top roll-out “ultrafast broadband” connectivity across “all social housing” within the local authority (council documents suggest the goal is for speeds of 1Gbps), which is aimed at closing the authority’s digital divide, while improving access to knowledge, skills and jobs.

Virgin Media O2 See 8% Rise in UK Broadband Usage and 18% in Mobile Traffic for 2025

17th Dec 2025 (0 Comments)

Telecoms giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has today released their 2025 Year in Review to explore how Brits lived online in 2025, which reveals “record levels” of data consumption including an 8% rise in broadband usage (down from 8.1% in 2024) and an 18% rise in mobile traffic through the year (up from 9%) – driven by growing use of AI, live sports and major game releases.

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Top 15 Fastest and Slowest UK Local Authorities for Mobile Broadband in 2025

17th Dec 2025 (5 Comments)

Network testing firm Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband Speedtest.net service, has this morning published a new analysis of mobile 4G and 5G network data performance across UK local authorities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK-wide median mobile download speed rose 15% to 63.03Mbps in 2025, but big gaps remain.

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