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Survey Claims Half of UK People Plan to Switch Broadband and Mobile Provider

14th Apr, 2025 (14 Comments)

A new cost-of-living study conducted by market research firm Maru, which polled 40,000 UK adults at multiple touchpoints over three years to date, claims to have found that 53% of respondents thought it was “likely” that they would need to consider changing their home broadband in order to cut costs. A further 52% said the same for their mobile phone plan.

Grain Goes EBITDA Positive as UK FTTP Broadband Network Covers 250k Premises

14th Apr, 2025 (11 Comments)

Alternative network operator and ISP Grain has today announced that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has grown to cover 250,000 UK premises (up from 220k in May 2024) and 43,000 customers (up from 30,000). But crucially, they also did as expected (here) and went EBITDA positive during the quarter ended March 2025.

CEO of Broadband Altnet GoFibre Becomes Interim Boss of Wildanet UPDATE

14th Apr, 2025 (2 Comments)

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Edinburgh-based UK alternative broadband network operator and ISP GoFibre, Neil Conaghan, has now quietly also been named as the Interim CEO of network provider Wildanet – they’re doing something similar to GoFibre, albeit at the other end of the United Kingdom.

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Ofcom UK Probe Primo Dialler Over Possible Misuse of Phone Numbers

14th Apr, 2025 (3 Comments)

The UK telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a new investigation into call centre solutions’ provider Primo Dialler, which will examine “concerns that numbers sub-allocated to [the company] are/were being misused, including to facilitate scams.”

ISP Lit Fibre Refreshes CityFibre Powered UK Broadband Packages

14th Apr, 2025 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP Lit Fibre, which now harnesses CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (they originally ran their own UK fibre network – here), has refreshed their existing range of packages and also introduced new a range of “specialised” product packages called ‘Lit Ultimate’, ‘Lit Homeworker’, ‘Lit Family’ and ‘Lit Gamer’.

Vodafone and Three UK Reportedly Exploring TV and Broadband Bundles

13th Apr, 2025 (24 Comments)

In a somewhat unsurprising development, newspaper reports have today claimed that Vodafone and Three UK (CK Hutchison) may be gearing up to support their merger by discussing the launch of a new Pay TV service. Such products are typically sold as part of a bundle (convergence), such as alongside fixed broadband, phone and mobile plans.

Fastr Broadband Complete FTTP Broadband Build in York City Centre

11th Apr, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network ISP Fastr Broadband (formerly UK Fibre Networks) has today announced that they’ve completed the roll-out of their new Adtran powered and 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the city centre of York (England), which they claim has put them within reach of 8,000 local homes and businesses.

Virgin Media UK Upgrade to Hub 5 Broadband Routers on All TV Bundles

11th Apr, 2025 (14 Comments)

New customers looking to join one of Virgin Media’s broadband and TV bundles may like to know that the ISP has recently made some further hardware updates, which means that all TV packages now include a Hub 5 router (Flex ‘service’ is excluded). Previously, some bundles still included older routers, like the now somewhat dated Hub 3.

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Universities Demo UK’s First Long-Distance Quantum-Secured Fibre Network

10th Apr, 2025 (12 Comments)

Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge claim to have demonstrated the UK’s “first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network” using “standard [single-mode] fibre optic infrastructure“. The test successfully transmitted a live quantum-secured video call over a distance of 410km (between Bristol and Cambridge).

O2 UK See Significant Inbound 2G and 3G Roaming Traffic as Switch-Off Looms

10th Apr, 2025 (19 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today warned that they’re still seeing “significant inbound roaming traffic” on their legacy 2G and 3G networks in the UK. This comes ahead of their rapidly approaching plan to withdraw the service from 1st October 2025.

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MLL Telecom Secure Six Lots on UK Public Sector YPO Framework

10th Apr, 2025 (0 Comments)

Business internet and managed service provider MLL Telecom has announced that they’ve been awarded a place on the latest YPO (The Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation) public sector procurement service. The decision gives them a place on six LOTS for the new framework.

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Virgin Media O2 and Mutual Energy Make UK Streetworks Safer by Joining LSBUD

10th Apr, 2025 (4 Comments)

The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which offers an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has said that Northern Ireland’s underground pipes and cables will be “safer than ever before” after Virgin Media (O2) and Mutual Energy joined their platform.

BT Corrects Embarrassing Error on UK Social Broadband Tariffs Page UPDATE3

10th Apr, 2025 (7 Comments)

This morning we reported on how ISP BT (EE) had updated their website to change their low-cost home broadband social tariffs for those on state benefits (Home Essentials). The changes saw the removal of their £15 per month 36Mbps “fibre” plan for those with “no income” on 1st May 2025 and some price rises. But BT has now reversed this, saying they were “changed in error“.

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Fibrus Launch 2025 Broadband Community Fund with Pot of £120,000

10th Apr, 2025 (0 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband operator and UK ISP Fibrus, which is building a full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has this week re-launched their Community Fund for 2025 with a pot of £120,000 to invest across a variety of rural community groups within the operator’s network patch.

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Vodafone Update on Harnessing UK Mobile Network to Measure Rain

10th Apr, 2025 (2 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has revealed more details about how they’re harnessing their UK mobile network to provide more accurate rain “nowcasting” (i.e. short-term forecast of rainfall – from a few minutes to a few hours ahead). This is supported by the River Severn Partnership’s Advanced Wireless Innovation Region (RSPAWIR) and Wireless DNA.

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Focus Group Acquires UK Telecoms and Mobile Provider Matrix247

9th Apr, 2025 (0 Comments)

Business focused broadband ISP and IT solutions provider Focus Group has today announced that they’ve acquired Rossendale-based managed IT and telecoms solutions provider Matrix247 for an undisclosed sum. The latter was originally setup by Stephen Pritchard and Geoff Wright in 1991!

Openreach Offers Free Proactive FTTP Broadband Upgrades to UK ISPs

9th Apr, 2025 (0 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has informed ISPs that they’ll be able to take advantage of free (connection charge) “Proactive FTTP Upgrades” for migrations to Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband speeds of 80Mbps (20Mbps upload) and above from 7th May 2025. This may or may not get passed on to related consumers.