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Grain Engineer Installing ONT

11th December, 2025 (0 Comments)

Carlisle-based broadband ISP Grain, which in July 2025 secured a £225 million funding boost to continue their UK network expansion (here), has announced that they’ve begun to expand their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines across the North West Leicestershire (England) town of Coalville; home to around 38,000 people.

Airband-Tarana-ngFWA-broadband-mast-in-the-uk

10th December, 2025 (4 Comments)

Broadband provider Airband, which has deployed both Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based networks to cover various rural parts of Wales and South West England, last night won the ‘Connected Communities Award’ for their gigabit wireless service at the World Communication Awards 2025.

o2 uk mobile sim

10th December, 2025 (3 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5GSA) mobile broadband network in Essex (England) as part of its UK-wide rollout, which is now live in a total of more than 500 locations (70% of the UK’s population or c.49 million people).

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Housing cost

10th December, 2025 (51 Comments)

The Government has clarified that it has “no plans to ban in-contract price rises” for UK consumers taking broadband, mobile and phone services, which makes their recent push to have Ofcom’s CEO, Dame Melanie Dawes, “look at in-contract price rises again“ seem increasingly unlikely to result in any big changes.

computer user

10th December, 2025 (1 Comment)

The telecoms regulator has today published their annual Online Nation 2025 report, which examines how we all use and interact with the internet in the United Kingdom. Overall, it found that 95% of people aged 16+ have access to the internet at home, and the average time spent per day online (excluding work) is 4 hours and 30 minutes (up 10 mins from last year).

Cityfibre FTTP Splicing Close Up Picture 2022

10th December, 2025 (26 Comments)

The Chief Technology Officer of major alternative network provider CityFibre, David Tomalin, has provided an update on their plans to upgrade their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband infrastructure to support 50G-PON (50Gbps Passive Optical Network) and then 100G-PON technology in the future.

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computer on outdoor table 123rf

10th December, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Government has today complemented their Digital Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) by launching 80 local schemes across the UK, which will offer free digital skills training and other support to help some of the most vulnerable in communities get online with confidence (i.e. disadvantaged young people to elderly people and the homeless etc.).

Junk mail stuffed in letterbox by 123rf ID 78201648

10th December, 2025 (2 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a direct mailing and circular advert for UK ISP The One Broadband (DSV Communications Ltd), which occurred after both were found to have misleadingly suggested that some of those who received the promotions currently only received “poor broadband connectivity” from their existing service, when that was not the case.

BDUK-Starlink-Broadband-Trials

10th December, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an online banner advert for SpaceX’s ultrafast broadband satellite service, Starlink, after it was found to be “misleading” because the offer of free terminal hardware (normally £299) omitted several key bits of material information.

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Neil McRae for Juniper Networks at MWC25 Barcelona

9th December, 2025 (6 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which have so far expanded their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband network to cover 4.6 million UK premises (4.3m RFS) and connected 730,000 customers, has today announced that BT Group’s former Chief Architect, Neil McRae, has been appointed to be the company’s new Chief Technology & Information Officer (CTIO).

Analogue-uk-phone-handset-on-red-background 123rf

9th December, 2025 (3 Comments)

Business telecommunications and UK broadband ISP Spitfire has today launched its new PSTN Switch Off Migration service, which is designed to provide both technical support and expertise to UK businesses making the move from the old Public Switched Telephone Network to all-IP (digital).

Openreach Van with 2023 O Branding

9th December, 2025 (1 Comment)

National broadband and Ethernet operator Openreach (BT) has today announced the appointment of James Lowther as its new Managing Director (MD) for Commercial, which will become effective from January 2026. The new hire will join the operator’s Executive team and report to Deputy CEO, Katie Milligan.

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Sat-Mobile-Handset-Call-Vodafone-PR-290125

9th December, 2025 (11 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today approved UK mobile companies and satellite operators to join forces and use the airwaves (mobile spectrum bands) to support Direct to Device (D2D) services, which will allow standard unmodified Smartphones to connect via satellites to improve 4G and 5G (calls, texts and broadband) coverage in remote areas and roaming.

umlaut connect UK Mobile Network Test 2026 Results

9th December, 2025 (13 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has once again come top in the annual 2026 umlaut connect UK Mobile Network Test, which deployed a range of different benchmarks to test 4G and 5G performance (voice and broadband) across 16 cities, 24 smaller towns and along 10,170km of major roads. On the flip side, O2 (Virgin Media) continued to be ranked at the bottom.

grain connect fibre optic build

9th December, 2025 (1 Comment)

Carlisle-based broadband network and UK ISP Grain, which in July 2025 secured a £225m funding boost to continue their expansion (here), has revealed that they’ve now begun to expand their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines across the large Greater Manchester (England) town of Wigan; home to around 108,000 people.

trooli_ftth_van

8th December, 2025 (5 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP Trooli, which have deployed their full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 460,000 premises across parts of England and some of Scotland (up from 448k in Sept 2025), has today revealed that their recently established wholesale partnership with PXC (formerly TalkTalk Wholesale) is now “ready to trade at scale“.

1p-Mobile-SIM-Cards-UK

8th December, 2025 (15 Comments)

Mobile network operator 1p Mobile appears as if it may finally be introducing eSIM (Embedded SIM) support to their service, which follows months of waiting after previous promises evaporated (example). Several customers spotted the feature today, but the launch currently appears to be suffering from a few teething issues.

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