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ISP News Archives for December 18, 2025

LCR Connect Celebrates 1,000th Connection to Liverpool UK Full Fibre Network

18th Dec 2025 (2 Comments)

The LCR Connect network, which is a £32 million joint venture that has rolled out a new 350km long multi-gigabit speed full-fibre (broadband and Ethernet) network for businesses across much of the Liverpool City Region, has today celebrated making their 1,000th connection after going live last year.

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Starlink Start Replacing First Gen Satellite Broadband Routers for Free

18th Dec 2025 (4 Comments)

Some of Starlink’s (SpaceX) customers with first generation broadband routers (UTR-201) – the ones with a dual-tone prism-like design – have recently started to be notified that their kit will soon become obsolete. But don’t worry if you’re one of the smaller portion of consumers with such hardware, because they’ll send you a free replacement.

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Quickline Provide Free Full Fibre Broadband to 50th UK Community Hub

18th Dec 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has today announced that as part of their roll-out they’ve now connected 50 community hubs (QHubs) to their new network.

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Gov Consult on Reform of UK Planning Rules to Boost Broadband and 5G Builds

18th Dec 2025 (4 Comments)

The Government has today published a new consultation on reforming planning rules, which is seeking feedback on whether they should further change planning rules and update policy guidance to help “accelerate the deployment” of digital infrastructure (full fibre broadband and 5G mobile etc.).

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VodafoneThree Bringing 400 Customer Service Roles Back to the UK

18th Dec 2025 (9 Comments)

Newly merged mobile and broadband operator VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) has today announced that they’re bringing over 400 customer contact jobs, which were previously based in India, back to the United Kingdom. The roles will now be based out of the Belfast and Sheffield centres of the operator’s partner, Concentrix.

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Virgin Media O2 Confirm UK 3G Mobile Switch-Off to Complete in Early 2026

18th Dec 2025 (5 Comments)

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), Jeanie York, has today confirmed that they’re “set to complete” their switch-off of the old legacy 3G mobile network “in the coming weeks” – largely as planned (although a few areas will still have 3G signals into “early 2026“).

Ofcom Publish Telecoms and Broadband Proposals for Hull UK and KCOM UPDATE2

18th Dec 2025 (4 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has today published the results of their Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR) for the Hull-area of East Yorkshire, which sets out how they intend to promote competition and investment in gigabit broadband (inc. business connectivity) across an area of c.198,000 premises that was previously totally dominated by KCOM’s network.

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