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New Survey Reveals Best and Worst UK Cities and ISPs for Broadband Reliability

3rd March, 2025 (10 Comments)

New research from Broadband Genie, which surveyed 3,200 people across the UK, claims to have identified the best and worst cities, as well as internet providers, for broadband reliability. Overall, Gloucester was named as the best UK city for reliability (only 8% experienced outages last year), while Belfast (51%) was the worst.

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Vodafone UK Tests IBM Quantum Safe Tech for Internet Security

3rd March, 2025 (0 Comments)

Customers of Vodafone UK’s mobile and broadband services, specifically those that also use their internet anti-malware ‘Secure Net‘ service (included with their ‘Pro II Broadband’ packages), may in the near future be able to benefit from quantum-safe cryptography after the operator collaborated with IBM on a new Proof of Concept (PoC) test.

Study Claims 40 Percent of UK 5G Mobile Connections are Really 4G

3rd March, 2025 (40 Comments)

New research from SignalTracker, which runs a popular Android mobile app (but not iOS) for monitoring and examining mobile phone reception, appears to show that although your handset may say 5G, it frequently only has a 4G connection. In UK samples, when the 5G icon was displaying, 38% of tests were in fact found to be a 4G connection.

Firefighters Called to Blaze at BT’s Adastral Park Research Site UPDATE

2nd March, 2025 (7 Comments)

Multiple Suffolk Fire and Rescue crews were called in late yesterday morning to tackle a blaze at the first floor of an office block on BT’s research and development focused Adastral Park site near Ipswich. The business park is home to around 150 other ICT companies that contribute toward both BT and their own development.

Streetwave to Map 4G and 5G Mobile Coverage Across East Midlands

2nd March, 2025 (5 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has revealed that they’ve won another contract, this time via the Derbyshire County Council (DCC) in England, to map 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage across another 10,000km of the UK’s road network in the East Midlands of England, using bin lorries.

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Northern Telecom Acquires Wireless Broadband Provider Dyfed Telecom

1st March, 2025 (0 Comments)

Good news. Business broadband ISP and communications provider Northern Telecom, which normally focuses on serving the North of England, has announced the acquisition of Wales-focused wireless provider Dyfed Telecom. The move comes shortly after HMRC filed a winding-up petition against the Kidwelly-based business (here).

CityFibre Closing in on £500m UK FTTP Broadband Funding Deal

1st March, 2025 (25 Comments)

Alternative network operator CityFibre, which has so far deployed their 2.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network to cover 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS), is reportedly close to reaching agreement on a much needed £500m equity financing deal to support its existing roll-out and fuel consolidation.

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Netomnia Broadband ISP YouFibre to Launch UK Mobile Plans in 2025

1st March, 2025 (11 Comments)

The CEO of alternative broadband operator Netomnia, Jeremy Chelot, has provided a small update on what was previously merely a future aspiration to potentially introduce a mobile phone service to their retail ISP YouFibre (inc. Brsk). The plan now is to launch their first mobile plans sometime this year.

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Internet Voice Provider Skype to Close Service in May 2025

28th February, 2025 (20 Comments)

In somewhat of a surprising development, global software and technology giant Microsoft has just announced that they intend to close one of the internet’s most familiar Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) style brands, Skype, during May 2025.

MultiGig Broadband ISP Yayzi Goes Live with UK Mobile Plans

28th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

Back in May 2024 we reported (here) that internet provider Yayzi Broadband were preparing to make some big changes, not least by launching a Mobile (SIM) service. The good news is that the ISP recently put their new mobile service live, which is harnessing Three UK’s national 4G and 5G network.

Broadband ISP Cuckoo Offers Bill Credits to Cycling UK Members

28th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Internet provider Cuckoo, which is the retail full fibre (FTTP) ISP for the consolidated AllPoints Fibre (Fern Trading) network and also offers packages via Openreach and CityFibre’s networks, has launched a new offer for Cycling UK’s 70,000 members that gives them a £50 bill credit when they join the service.

Quickline Build FTTP to 2 Villages in Yorkshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

28th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network operator and UK ISP Quickline has today issued a small progress update on their £44m state aid supported gigabit broadband roll-out contract for South Yorkshire (Lot 20 – here) in England, which aims to reach 32,100 additional premises in hard-to-reach rural areas (plus 29,000 via a complementary commercial build).

Openreach to Start Closure of 105 National UK Exchanges in April 2025

28th February, 2025 (67 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has confirmed that they will kick off their project to close around 4,600 of their legacy exchanges from 1st April 2025, starting with the introduction of a “stop sell” on new service provisions for an initial batch of 105 sites (due to complete by around 2030/31). This will impact various broadband, PIA and Ethernet services from ISPs.

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ISPs BT, EE, Plusnet and Vodafone Tweak UK Broadband Pricing Policies

28th February, 2025 (17 Comments)

Several broadband and mobile operators, including Vodafone, BT, EE, and Plusnet, have this week notified of a small but useful tweak to their mid-contract price hikes policy, which means that new customers who sign-up will not be hit by the price increase that was previously due to start around the end of March 2025.

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Wireless and UK Satellite Broadband ISP Brdy Facing Insolvency UPDATE2

28th February, 2025 (2 Comments)

Satellite internet provider Brdy, which offered a mix of satellite and wireless (5G) broadband solutions to rural parts of the UK, appears to be in difficulty after customers of the service started reporting a lack of support and connection problems. Shortly after that, the same users noted how their accounts had been taken over by rival ISP Bentley Telecom.

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Openreach Reveal UK Price for 1Gbps Symmetric FTTP Broadband UPDATE

27th February, 2025 (74 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has just revealed how much they’ll charge ISPs for their new symmetric 1Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband package, which is due to launch on 1st April 2025 and will initially only be available to locations being covered as part of their rural Project Gigabit contracts (here).

Alternative Cornwall UK Broadband Network Wildanet to Cut Jobs UPDATE

27th February, 2025 (2 Comments)

More bad news today as alternative rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is busy deploying a gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, has revealed that “external forces” have pushed them into a period of restructuring that is expected to result in a loss of up to 35 jobs (roughly 18% of the workforce).