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Truespeed Suffers Broadband Outage in North Somerset and Bristol UPDATE

17th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Customers of rural broadband ISP Truespeed, which has deployed their own full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of Devon, Wiltshire and Somerset in England, are reporting that the provider appears to be suffering from a service outage that seems to be primarily impacting premises in the Bristol and North Somerset areas.

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HS2 Signs £99.6m Passenger Telecoms Deal for New UK Rail Network UPDATE

17th February, 2025 (8 Comments)

High Speed 2 Ltd, which is a non-departmental public body that is wholly funded by the UK Government’s Department for Transport (DfT) and oversees the HS2 rail project, has signed a £99.6m deal (£80.5m in public funding) with Hitachi and Telent to design and deploy telecommunications services across the new rail network, including passenger voice and broadband connectivity.

Brsk to Extend UK Full Fibre Broadband Network into Barnsley

17th February, 2025 (14 Comments)

Alternative fibre optic ISP Brsk, which is currently in the final stages of being merged into Netomnia’s network (here), has reportedly confirmed that approximately 50,000 homes and businesses across the South Yorkshire (England) market town of Barnsley will be the next to benefit from their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband.

Gigaclear Advisors to Hunt Fresh Funding for Rural UK Broadband Build UPDATE

14th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 580,000 premises (RFS) in rural parts of England (inc. over 130,000 customers), is reportedly hiring advisors to help it find new funding in order to continue their network deployments across the UK.

Full Fibre UK Broadband ISP Youfibre Launch New Loyalty Promise

14th February, 2025 (16 Comments)

Broadband ISP Youfibre, which is available to those covered by Netomnia’s (Brsk) 10Gbps capable FTTP network, has today launched a new “Loyalty Promise” for its renewing customers. The move is part of an effort to help set them apart from the market’s largest ISPs, which often hit existing customers with price hikes at the end of their term.

LightSpeed Broadband Finally Puts FTTP Live in Cromer and Sheringham

14th February, 2025 (9 Comments)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has so far built their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and West Midlands, has finally started to put their new network live in the neighbouring coastal Norfolk towns of Cromer and Sheringham.

London Broadband ISP Community Fibre Launch Cheap 100Mbps Tier

14th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has deployed their 3Gbps speed FTTP network to cover 1.32 million UK premises (mostly in Greater London), has this week introduced a new entry-level tier that offers symmetric speeds of 100Mbps from just £19 per month on a 24-month minimum term.

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ISP KCOM Upgrades Customers to Symmetric FTTP Broadband Speeds

13th February, 2025 (12 Comments)

Hull-based broadband ISP KCOM, which has spent the past few years building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has begun upgrading their packages to support symmetric speeds. But only up to a maximum upload speed of 500Mbps.

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Broadband Altnet Freedom Fibre Appoints New UK COO

13th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre, which has built a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network that it wholesales out to UK ISPs across the North West and West Midlands of England, have today appointed Lindsey Sutherland to be their new Chief Operations Officer (COO). This will become effective from 4th March 2025.

Ofcom Propose to Share Upper 6GHz Band for UK Mobile and WiFi

13th February, 2025 (11 Comments)

After conducting more research, the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today formally begun to consult on a proposal that will allow low power indoor WiFi and mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.) networks to “share” access to the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425 to 7125MHz). But full implementation could take years.

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Freshwave Claims Better Indoor Mobile Signals Can Grow UK Economy by £70bn

13th February, 2025 (11 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave, which is backed by investment firm DigitalBridge and naturally has its own vested interests in this field, have published a new study that claims a focus on improving indoor mobile (4G, 5G etc.) signals and “eliminating mobile dead zones” could help to grow the UK economy by £70bn a year.

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Ofcom Shames TalkTalk and O2 for UK Telecoms Complaints – Q3 2024

13th February, 2025 (7 Comments)

Ofcom have today published their Q3 2024 study of UK consumer telecoms complaints, which names and shames TalkTalk for attracting the most complaints about broadband, while O2 took the most flak mobile and Virgin Media was put on the naughty step for Pay TV.

LINX Surpasses 725Gbps of Traffic at Manchester UK Internet Exchange

13th February, 2025 (1 Comment)

The not-for-profit London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles a large chunk of UK and global data traffic through their switches via around 900 members (broadband ISPs, mobile operators etc.), has today announced that their regional internet exchange in Manchester has hit a new “record maximum traffic peak” of 725Gbps (Gigabits per second).

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Virgin Media O2 Switches on 5G Standalone for UK Businesses UPDATE

13th February, 2025 (2 Comments)

After launching their first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) based mobile broadband network for consumers in February 2024 (here), mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today expanded the service’s availability to include large enterprise, public sector, and SME (business) customers on eligible tariffs.

Fibrus CEO Apologises for Lengthy Broadband Outages in Northern Ireland

13th February, 2025 (2 Comments)

The CEO and Co-Founder of UK ISP Fibrus, Dominic Kearns, has apologised to the several thousand premises in Northern Ireland that are still without access to their full fibre broadband network following Storm Éowyn (pronounced ‘Ay-oh-win’), which struck nearly three weeks ago. But most of their customers are now back online.

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Vodafone UK Send Mixed Messages Over Static IP Availability for Broadband UPDATE

13th February, 2025 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and UK ISP Vodafone has today confirmed to ISPreview that customers of their fixed line consumer broadband packages, which are supplied over Openreach and CityFibre’s national networks (FTTC and FTTP), should still be able to request a Static IP (Internet Protocol) address. But this is despite some support staff telling users the opposite.

Vodafone and Three UK Confirm New Leadership Team for Merger

12th February, 2025 (18 Comments)

Mobile network operators Vodafone and Three UK (CK Hutchison) have this afternoon announced their newly formed General Management Team for the future merged company. The new appointments followed a selection process and were approved by the MergeCo Governance Board, with representatives of both operators as shareholders of the new entity.