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Openreach Increases UK Prices on FTTP Broadband Products for ISPs

11th December, 2025 (9 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has this afternoon announced some changes and increases to the prices of their various Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband products for UK internet service providers. The changes are due to be introduced from 1st April 2026.

ITS Technology Appoints Paolo Benedetto as Chief Financial Officer

11th December, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which have deployed various open access and business-focused full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the United Kingdom, has today announced the appointment of Paolo Benedetto to be their new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) ahead of entering its “next phase of growth“.

TiVo Expand Support for Freely’s UK Live TV Streaming Service to New Devices

11th December, 2025 (9 Comments)

Smart TV Platform TiVo has secured certification to deploy support for broadband-based live TV streaming service Freely across a new category of streaming-only devices, which could help spread the service’s availability to a whole host of new hardware in the near future (similar to Netgem TV’s new PLEIO box – here, or Humax’s box – here).

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ISP Baltic Broadband Look to Expand UK Business Full Fibre Network

11th December, 2025 (2 Comments)

Business ISP Baltic Broadband, which has long offered a mix of fixed wireless and full fibre broadband network connectivity to firms in the Liverpool area, has hinted at a possible expansion of their 100Gbps capable network to reach 2,000 more business premises located in offices, and business estates over the next 12-months or so.

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Lords Report Warns Delays in Building Safety Process Hurting UK Broadband Upgrade

11th December, 2025 (3 Comments)

A new report from the cross-party House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has warned that “unacceptable” delays caused by the Building Safety Regulator’s (BSR) approval processes are leaving residents waiting for remediation of dangerous cladding in unsafe buildings, causing increased costs for leaseholders and also impacting the roll-out of new digital infrastructure.

Broadband ISP GoFibre Opens Up GoFurther Fund to Scottish Borders

11th December, 2025 (1 Comment)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network GoFibre, which is building a gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has allocated a further pot of £12,000 to their GoFurther community fund for projects and organisations in the Scottish Borders area.

Sky UK Stops Selling Sky Q Online as Users Nudged to Glass and Streaming

11th December, 2025 (55 Comments)

Sky (Sky Broadband) has recently continued their gradual move away from satellite-based Pay TV services by withdrawing their Sky Q kit and service from online sales. New customers are instead being directed to take the company’s latest broadband-based Sky Glass (Sky integrated streaming TV set) and Sky Stream (streaming set-top-box) solutions.

Utility Warehouse Starts Adding eSIM Support to UK Mobile Service

11th December, 2025 (2 Comments)

Consumer energy, broadband, mobile and insurance provider UW (Utility Warehouse), which is ultimately controlled by Telecom Plus, has recently become the latest virtual mobile network operator (mvno) to start introducing eSIM (Embedded SIM) support to their service.

Grain to Start Expanding UK Full Fibre Broadband Network in Coalville

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.

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UK ISP Airband Wins 2025 World Communication Award for Wireless Broadband

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 Expand 5G Standalone Mobile Broadband Network to Essex

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).

Gov Confirm “No Plans” to BAN Mid-Contract UK Broadband and Mobile Price Hikes

10th December, 2025 (52 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.

Ofcom Finds UK Adults Now Spend Over 4.5 Hours Online Each Day

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).

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CityFibre Updates on Future UK 50Gbps and 100Gbps Broadband Upgrades

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.

Government Launch 80 Free Local Digital Skills Training Schemes Across UK

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.).

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ASA UK Ban Ads for The One Broadband Over Misleading Performance Claim

10th December, 2025 (3 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.

ASA Bans UK Starlink Satellite Broadband Ad for Misleading Pricing

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.