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Fibre optic speeds of the future visualised for MJ by CoPilot on 28062024

14th October, 2025 (8 Comments)

Connectivity provider Neos Networks, which operates one of the biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has claimed in a new survey that 82% of UK data centre operators have delayed site builds or expansion due to fibre availability.

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14th October, 2025 (5 Comments)

Networking kit manufacturer TP-Link, which develops a lot of broadband routers, WiFi extenders and smart home devices for network operators and consumers, today claims to have hit a “major technological milestone” after they conducted their first successful connectivity test using a prototype of the next gen Wi-Fi 8 standard (802.11bn – Ultra High Reliability).

Vodafone-UK-Pro-3-Broadband-WiFi-7-UltraHub

13th October, 2025 (171 Comments)

Over the past few minutes we’ve started to receive reports from customers of Vodafone UK about a significant outage of their national network. The details are currently quite limited, with reports coming in from users of both their fixed line home broadband and mobile services, albeit mostly from mobile data (4G/5G) users.

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FTTP External Wall Box Install by Openreach Engineer 2022

13th October, 2025 (12 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the UK’s alternative broadband networks, has today expressed its “huge disappointment” after Ofcom rejected the competition concerns they helped raise over a recent price cut to Openreach’s “full fibre” (FTTP) lines where proactive migrations are used.

Vodafone-UK-5G-Antenna-and-Radio-Ericsson

13th October, 2025 (7 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has demonstrated how harnessing 200MHz of radio spectrum in the Upper 6GHz band, using a chipset with the MediaTek M90 Modem within a standard Smartphone, can deliver download speeds of 2.5Gbps over a 5G network using carrier aggregation to combine multiple radio frequencies on a single link. Upload speeds ranged from 50-180Mbps.

Virgin-Media-O2-Flat-Colour-Logo-UK

13th October, 2025 (7 Comments)

Telecoms giants Virgin Media and O2 UK (VMO2) have today announced a refresh of their Volt bundles, which enable customers to combine both the broadband and mobile services of both providers into a single package at a discounted rate. New and upgrading customers who purchase a Volt bundle can now choose between a Classic, Plus or Ultimate Plan.

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Building Digital UK Logo 2023

13th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

The Government has today informed ISPreview that its Building Digital UK (BDUK) executive agency, which has responsibility for delivering gigabit broadband and better mobile connectivity across the nation (e.g. the £5bn Project Gigabit scheme), is to be integrated back into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) from 1st November 2025.

13th October, 2025 (4 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has today appointed Paul North as Managing Director (MD) of its Partner division. At the same time, Stephen Warburton, who previously ran Zen’s Partner division for over 20 years and was also holding responsibility for Zen’s Consumer divisions, will now be able to focus exclusively on the consumer side of things.

2025 Openreach FTTP engineer up pole for Project Gigabit

13th October, 2025 (27 Comments)

The Deputy CEO of national network access provider Openreach (BT), Katie Milligan, has warned that until “the market really stabilises” then they won’t be able to predict when their current broadband line losses to rivals will stop (Openreach lost 707k in 2024 and expects to lose about 900,000 this financial year).

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13th October, 2025 (14 Comments)

The saying goes that criminals will steal anything that isn’t bolted down, but the opposite now seems to be true in Nottinghamshire (England), where a spate of recent metal thefts has seen criminals making off with the steel covers from several of Virgin Media’s (O2) broadband and phone street cabinets.

Airport UK WiFi and Mobile User Overlooking Plane by 123rf ID189808456

13th October, 2025 (2 Comments)

Business broadband and phone provider Planet Telecom has announced the launch of SIMOVO, which is said to be a new UK-based mobile eSIM-only operator built for “modern travellers who want a simpler, more flexible way to stay connected in the UK and abroad“.

11th October, 2025 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISP and UK network builder Exascale, which has deployed their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to a few thousand premises in part of Telford and Wrekin, this week did something quite unique by quietly founding a brand new Internet Exchange (IX) in the Midlands (MidlandsIX).

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2025 Openreach engineer testing connections in exchange PR 200125

10th October, 2025 (19 Comments)

Openreach (BT) has today published the next (Tranche 22) batch of 94 exchanges 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).

airband fttp build telegraph pole

10th October, 2025 (11 Comments)

Rural broadband provider Airband, which has deployed its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based networks to cover various parts of Wales and South West England, appears to have become the latest alternative network (altnet) to expand beyond their existing reach by adopting Openreach’s full fibre lines for off-net areas.

2025-Openreach-female-engineer-at-work-up-telecoms-pole

10th October, 2025 (19 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has just announced that their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Mid West Shropshire (Lot 25.01), which was originally held by Voneus until they “mutually agreed to terminate” it at the end of 2024 (here), has now been merged into Openreach’s (BT) existing call-off 3 deployment contract.

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10th October, 2025 (0 Comments)

Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which gathers crowdsourced data from consumer speedtests via its App, has today published a new report that attempts to identify how far behind fixed wireless broadband (FWA) networks are in terms of performance and quality vs modern fixed line networks between 11 different countries. The gap is biggest in countries like the UK.

Virgin-Media-O2-2025-Engineer-up-telecoms-poles

10th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) and network operator partner nexfibre, which share some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve once again expanded the reach of their symmetric 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network to more than 13,000 additional homes in the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield.

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