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Ofcom Find Internet Access Levels in the UK Remain Stable in 2024

7th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today published their annual Media Use and Attitudes 2025 report, which among other things has revealed that the proportion of UK adults with home internet access remains plateaued at 94% in 2024. But the majority of adults without internet access at home report a lack of interest in having it.

LightSpeed Broadband Launch Full Range of eero Wi-Fi 7 Routers

7th May, 2025 (10 Comments)

Alternative network operator and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has already deployed their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and Midlands, has today become the latest provider to adopt Amazon’s range of Wi-Fi 7 capable eero routers.

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River City Networks Look to Build Fibre Broadband in UK Cities

7th May, 2025 (1 Comment)

A relatively new Liverpool-based alternative network operator called River City Networks, which was incorporated on 30th May 2023 and has one Director (Matthew Wilson), has revealed that it plans to deploy a new “gigabit dual fibre and wireless” network to serve premises in several UK cities, specifically in Liverpool, Manchester and London.

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Broadband Forum Start Interoperability Testing of 50G-PON and 25GS-PON Kit

7th May, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Broadband Forum has begun interoperability testing for the next generation of 50Gbps and 25Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable fibre optic broadband technologies, 50G-PON and 25GS-PON. Participating companies included Adtran, Broadcom, Calix, CIG, Cortina Access, Gemtek, Lambda Networks, MT2, Nokia, Sagemcom, and Vantiva.

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World Broadband Lines Top 1.5bn as UK Full Fibre Grows 11.7 Percent in Q4 2024

7th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

New research from Point Topic has revealed that global fixed broadband lines grew by 0.91% or 13.5 million in Q4 2024 (down from 1.44% in Q3 2024) to total 1.5 billion connections. The subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks also remained strong in the UK at 11.7%, putting us just two places behind the leading countries for growth.

Vodafone UK Launch First Free 7-Day eSIM Mobile Network Trial

7th May, 2025 (11 Comments)

New customers who fancy giving Vodafone’s mobile network (4G and 5G) a try in London can now do so for free for seven days as part of a new eSIM based trial, which will give you 50GB of data (mobile broadband), 500 minutes and 500 texts and all without changing your number. But various other cities and locations will soon be able to do the same.

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Government Rejects Amendment to Push FTTP Broadband into Flats UPDATE

7th May, 2025 (10 Comments)

The government has rejected an Openreach (BT) supported amendment to the new Renters’ Rights Bill (RRB) for England, which aimed to make it easier to deploy gigabit broadband into large residential buildings (blocks of flats / apartments) where deployment has been unreasonably refused or landlords cannot be contacted. But they claim to be “actively working” on a solution.

MS3 Cuts Jobs as Focus Shifts from UK Broadband Build to Take-up

7th May, 2025 (1 Comment)

Hull-based network operator MS3, which has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across 234,000 premises (207k RFS) in the North of England and connected 18,000 customers (mostly in the Hull and Humber region), have started notifying staff of redundancies as they switch to commercialise the network.

TalkTalk Group Shrinks to 3.2 Million UK Broadband ISP Customers

6th May, 2025 (17 Comments)

A new preview of the TalkTalk group’s next set of annual accounts has reportedly revealed that the UK internet provider is continuing to haemorrhage broadband customers. The latest figure puts them at around 3.2 million customers as of February 2025 (down from 3.6m last year).

Full Fibre UK Broadband Builder Quickline Opens New Facility in Leeds

6th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Rural-focused UK ISP Quickline, which is deploying a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has announced the opening of a new facility and logistics Hub in Leeds to support their ongoing network build and training for future engineers.

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Openreach Name 163 More UK Areas for Copper to FTTP Switch – Tranche 20 UPDATE

6th May, 2025 (38 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has released the next May 2025 batch of exchanges (Tranche 20) in their “FTTP Priority Exchange Stop Sell” programme, which reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. FTTP becomes the only product option).

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Better Mobile Cover Goes Live from O2 UK on East Coast Mainline

6th May, 2025 (4 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 UK (Virgin Media) has today announced, in a “railway first“, that 4G and hopefully 5G connectivity too (mobile broadband) has received a “major boost” after the London North Eastern Railway (LNER), Network Rail and the private sector completed deployment of a new custom-built Distributed Antenna System (DAS).

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New Broadband ISP Carnival Internet UK Finally Goes Live

6th May, 2025 (4 Comments)

Back in November 2024 we reported that global tech company Dotlines (Dotlines UK) were preparing to launch a new broadband ISP called Carnival Internet UK during “early 2025” (here). The good news today is that this has now gone live and pledges to donate 1% of customer bills to charities to fight digital poverty in the UK (they’ll also plant one tree or kelp plant for every month a customer stays).

Broadband ISP Fibrus Helps Boost N.Ireland Economy by £431m Since 2020

6th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

A new economic and social impact report from Grant Thornton has claimed that Infracapital-backed network operator Fibrus, which is building a full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across several rural parts of the UK, has contributed £431 million (expenditure) to the Northern Ireland economy since beginning operations in 2020.

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Sky Glass UK Customers Suffering Black Screen and Content Display Bugs UPDATE

6th May, 2025 (15 Comments)

Some customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass pay TV streaming service and device, including those on both their first and latest second generation TV sets, appear to be suffering from a frustrating bug that is disrupting their ability to view content (TV channels, streaming apps etc.) – often showing black screens, incorrect audio or error messages.

Take-up Rises as Netomnia Report Q1 Results for UK 10Gbps Broadband Network

6th May, 2025 (24 Comments)

Alternative operator Netomnia (Brsk and YouFibre), which last week reported expanding their 10Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 2.4 million UK premises (RFS) and connecting 310,000 customers (here), has today published their Q1 2025 results and seen take-up grow to 12.4% (up from 11.5% in Q4 2024).

London Full Fibre Broadband ISP CommunityFibre Reports First Profit UPDATE

5th May, 2025 (15 Comments)

Alternative network ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has deployed their 5Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to cover 1.35 million UK premises (mostly in Greater London), has reportedly “posted its maiden profit” after recording earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of £8m in 2024. Customers also grew to 336,000.