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Broadband ISP Ogi Expand Full Fibre Spine to Connect More Cardiff Businesses

16th October, 2025 (2 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative network operator and ISP Ogi, which has deployed their FTTP broadband network across 100,000 homes and businesses in South Wales (RFS), has managed to expand their full fibre spine in Cardiff to reach more businesses following an earlier deal to hook up Cardiff Arms Park as an anchor tenant.

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BT Group Appoint Greg McCall as New UK Chief Security and Networks Officer

16th October, 2025 (0 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT Group has today announced the retirement of industry veteran Howard Watson as its Chief Security and Networks Officer (CSNO), which will take effect in March 2026. Greg McCall, the operator’s current Chief Networks Officer (CNO), will be promoted to replace him – effective 1st January 2026.

BT Group Warn UK Gov Not to Choke Broadband Investment with Biz Rates Hikes

16th October, 2025 (19 Comments)

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of BT Group, Simon Lowth, has called on the UK government to “rethink” its proposed changes to UK business rates, which they warn could “risk a slowdown” in digital infrastructure (broadband and mobile) investment and lead to “higher bills” for consumers and businesses.

Beaminster Car Crashed into Openreach Pole

Car Crash Knocks Out Openreach Broadband and Pole in Dorset UK Town UPDATE2

16th October, 2025 (23 Comments)

Hundreds of people in the Dorset town of Beaminster have reportedly been left without working broadband and digital phone connectivity for several days after a car crashed into one of Openreach’s telecoms (telegraph) poles in the area and promptly burst into flames. Police are currently still trying to locate the driver, which could suggest a criminal aspect.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Trial mmW 5G Band for Broadband Speeds of 4Gbps UPDATE

16th October, 2025 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media), which just spent £13m to secure 800MHz (frequency) of 26GHz (band) spectrum and 1,000MHz of 40GHz spectrum in Ofcom’s auction of the two 5G centric millimetre wave (mmW) bands (here), has revealed that a test of the new spectrum has already delivered mobile broadband speeds of 4Gbps (4,000Mbps).

Ofcom Reveal Initial Results of UK 5G Mobile Auction for 26GHz and 40GHz

16th October, 2025 (12 Comments)

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has this morning revealed the initial (principal stage) results from their auction of the 26GHz and 40GHz millimetre wave (mmW) spectrum bands for use by 5G mobile (mobile broadband) operators, which saw EE (BT), O2 (Virgin Media) and Vodafone (VodafoneThree) pay a combined £39m to secure more airwaves.

University of Portsmouth Team Get £772k to Develop Subsea Cable Surveillance

15th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

A scientist from the University of Portsmouth’s School of Mathematics and Physics has successfully bid for £772,372 of funding from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which will be used to design a surveillance algorithm and maritime training programme to help identify, repair and reduce damage to undersea infrastructure (e.g. energy pipes and fibre optic internet cables).

Freely’s UK Broadband TV Streaming Service to Get 10 New Channels

15th October, 2025 (13 Comments)

Broadband-based live TV streaming service Freely, which is supported by several major UK TV broadcasters (BBC, ITV etc.) and is an evolution – not (yet) a replacement – for the existing Freeview service (inc. Freeview Play and Freesat), has revealed that they’ll add 10 new streaming channels to the free platform in 2026.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Agrees New 10-year Renewable Energy Deal

15th October, 2025 (4 Comments)

Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), which currently aims to achieve Net Zero Carbon (i.e. removing as many emissions as they produce) across their operations, products and supply chain by 2040, has today signed a new 10-year Power Purchase Agreement with The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) to harness renewable electricity.

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Parliament Publishes Useful UK Summary of Rules for Broadband Poles

15th October, 2025 (12 Comments)

The House of Commons Library within the UK Parliament has published a useful new document that helps to summarise and explain some of the core rules around the deployment of poles (telegraph poles) for broadband network expansion. In recent years, these have often become a point of some contention for communities that don’t want them.

Fixed UK Broadband Subscribers Predicted to Fall by 250,000 in 2025

15th October, 2025 (23 Comments)

A recent study from New Street Research has predicted that the UK will lose around 250,000 subscribers to fixed broadband services this year, which would mark “the first time there has ever been a decline” in the market. Competition from Starlink (satellite), fixed wireless and mobile broadband rivals are said to be the main cause.

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Guernsey Regulator to Approve Spectrum for 5G Mobile Rollout from JT and Sure

15th October, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has “provisionally approved” the release of new radio spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.6GHz bands in order to enable telecoms operators JT and Sure to roll-out 5G mobile (mobile broadband) services across the islands of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark from “early 2026“.

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SpaceX Gives Closer Look at its Next Generation v3 Broadband Satellites

15th October, 2025 (4 Comments)

SpaceX’s global Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds across the UK and globally via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has provided their best view yet of what the company’s next generation v3 (GEN3) satellites will look like when deployed to orbit. Each one will have 10 times more capacity than earlier v2 satellites.

Broadband Focused TalkTalk Group Set to Cut a Further 100 UK Jobs

15th October, 2025 (10 Comments)

The debt strained TalkTalk Group, which at this point has been through a demerger of its businesses and in 2024 secured a £400m refinancing package to avoid a default on its debts (here, here) – not to mention the recent £120m funding deal (here), is reportedly set to axe around 100 more jobs as part of its latest restructuring effort.

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Nurtur and BroadbandUK Launch New Availability Checker for Property Listings

14th October, 2025 (9 Comments)

Proptech solutions provider Nurtur and comparison service developer BroadbandUK have just become the latest to offer UK property listing providers (Estate Agents etc.) another address-level option for enabling house hunters to see what kind of broadband connectivity and speeds are available to the houses they’re considering.

Ofcom Will Tomorrow Kick Off the UK 5G Mobile Auction for 26GHz and 40GHz

14th October, 2025 (14 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that the first bidding on their auction of the 26GHz and 40GHz millimetre wave (mmW) spectrum bands for use by 5G mobile (mobile broadband) operators will get underway tomorrow, with BT (EE), O2 (Telefonica UK / Virgin Media) and Vodafone (VodafoneThree) all taking part.

Lit Fibre Introduce New UK Broadband Pricing on National and Local Networks

14th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Lit Fibre, which harnesses CityFibre’s national UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (they originally ran their own fibre network too – here), has today introduced a new national broadband pricing framework that charges residential consumers more for those on their National (off-net) vs Local (on-net) network tiers.