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Vodafone Trials Optical Broadband Drones to Fix Mobile Masts

20th February, 2025 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has revealed that they’ve begun “piloting” (no pun intended, we think) a new type of done that is designed to help restore connectivity to mobile masts, such as when their underground data capacity cables are cut or damaged. The drones employ a special optical wireless link.

BT Deploy AI-ready Global Fabric Network-as-a-service Platform to 30 Equinix Data Centres

20th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT has revealed that they’ve now deployed their Global Fabric Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform to “over” 30 Equinix data-centres across the UK and world, which will grow to over 40 in the next year – spanning the world’s top 30 business locations and covering 95% of the world’s cloud interconnection traffic.

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AllPointsFibre Set to Take the Reins Off New UK Wholesale Full Fibre Network

20th February, 2025 (9 Comments)

The CEO of Fern Networks Limited (Fern Trading) backed alternative broadband network operator AllPointsFibre (APFN), Jarlath Finnegan, has this week spoken of his “excitement” ahead of officially launching their new Aquila wholesale platform into the wider UK market, which is expected to take place on 14th May 2025.

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Liberty Global CEO Updates on Virgin Media’s UK Wholesale Broadband Plan

20th February, 2025 (27 Comments)

The CEO of Liberty Global, Mike Fries, has said they’ve made “significant progress” on their plan for opening up Virgin Media’s existing UK fixed line broadband network to wholesale (rival ISPs) via a new business (NetCo) during the first half of 2025 (here). Fries also confirmed they had received “proposals from a handful of the strongest infrastructure investors” for a stake in the biz.

Netgem TV to Deliver Free FIFA+ Content via Supporting UK Broadband ISPs

19th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Digital entertainment platform Netgem TV has today announced that their IPTV box and service, which is typically bundled by broadband ISPs like Brsk, TalkTalk, Connect Fibre, CommunityFibre and others, will benefit from a new collaboration with the FIFA+ streaming platform that will bring “unparalleled access to free, high-quality football content” to users of the service.

Rural UK Full Fibre Altnet ISP Truespeed Prepares More Job Cuts

19th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

Sources have indicated to ISPreview that UK ISP Truespeed, which has deployed their alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to over 105,000 rural premises (inc. over 21,000 customers) in parts of Devon, Wiltshire and Somerset in England, has recently put more workers on notice of future redundancies.

Virgin Media O2 Sees UK FTTP Broadband Builds Surge and NetCo On Track

19th February, 2025 (21 Comments)

The latest Q4 2024 results from Virgin Media and O2 have been published, which saw their fixed broadband base grow by +12,000 in the quarter (vs 16.2k in Q3) to total 5,738,900. The provider’s full fibre (FTTP) network also built to another 485,500 premises, primarily via nexfibre (up from 281k in Q3), while mobile connections grew to total 45.7 million.

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Virgin Media UK Bring Full Fibre to 14,000 Homes in Filey and Pickering

18th February, 2025 (2 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre and retail ISP partner Virgin Media (O2) have today confirmed that they’ve made their symmetric 2Gbps speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network available to more than 14,000 homes in the North Yorkshire (England) towns of Filey and Pickering for the first time.

LightSpeed Broadband Expand Staffordshire FTTP Rollout to Kidsgrove and Scholar Green

18th February, 2025 (3 Comments)

Network operator and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has already built their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and West Midlands, has today revealed that their new network has started to launch “in the Staffordshire region” with the town of Kidsgrove and village of Scholar Green (the latter is more in Cheshire).

Voneus to Cut Jobs and Slow UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE

18th February, 2025 (6 Comments)

Rural broadband operator and UK ISP Voneus, which has spent the past few years rolling out a gigabit-capable fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) network across poorly served areas, has today informed staff about a fresh round of redundancies after “market conditions” meant it was “no longer possible” to continue their previous pace of deployment.

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Study Claims 3.9 Million UK Homes Owed Compensation for Broadband Issues UPDATE

18th February, 2025 (4 Comments)

A new study from comparison site Go.Compare, which used data gathered from YouGov (survey of 2,000 UK residents) and the ONS, has claimed that more than 3.9 million UK households were owed compensation for broadband issues in the last year. But take that figure with a big pinch of salt.

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Gigaclear Start New Oxfordshire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

18th February, 2025 (7 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural ISP Gigaclear has today announced that they’ve kicked off the construction phase of their £25.4m (state aid) Project Gigabit contracts for South Oxfordshire (Lot 13.01 – c.5,500 premises) and North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02 – c.4,200 premises), which will extend their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to around 9,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas.

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Broadband Outage in St Neots After Thieves Steal Openreach Cable

18th February, 2025 (12 Comments)

Broadband, phone and Ethernet services in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots have been disrupted after criminals ripped up and stole around 500 metres worth of Openreach’s (BT) copper telecoms cable, which has impacted four of their fibre street cabinets in the area – serving premises with around 380 customers.

Broadband ISP Grain to Expand its Bradford Full Fibre Network

18th February, 2025 (1 Comment)

Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect) has announced that they’re going to expand the coverage of their existing gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based UK broadband network in the West Yorkshire (England) city of Bradford, although the details of their expansion remain unclear.

London Broadband ISP Community Fibre Back Online After Outage

17th February, 2025 (7 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP CommunityFibre appear to be coming back online after the operator suffered a sizeable network outage in London today, which has been disrupting internet connectivity for thousands of users over the past few hours (since just after 11:30am this morning).

ISP WightFibre Extend FTTP Broadband to 88 Percent of Isle of Wight

17th February, 2025 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), recently published their latest annual results to 30th September 2024 and revealed that their full fibre network now covered 88% of island premises (up from 80% in June 2024).

Zen Internet Starts Selling Broadband via Trooli’s UK FTTP Network

17th February, 2025 (8 Comments)

Rochdale-base broadband ISP Zen Internet has revealed that Trooli’s alternative full fibre network, which at the last update (July 2024) covered 370,000 homes and businesses across parts of England and Scotland, is “now available to buy” via their service after being almost fully integrated as part of last year’s wholesale agreement.