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ITS Technology full fibre node

19th Jun, 2025 (1 Comment)

The ITS Technology Group, which has built various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the UK, has today announced that they’ve secured a £3.5 million dark fibre network build contract for Carmarthenshire (Southwest Wales) as part of the Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme.

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19th Jun, 2025 (2 Comments)

Broadband, phone and mobile operator Manx Telecom (MT), which is the primary network operator serving premises across the remote Isle of Man, could be sold to CVC Capital Partners “within a matter of weeks” as part of a proposed £500m takeover offer that is currently said to be the focus of ongoing talks.

Starlink UK Terminal and Broadband Router 2025

19th Jun, 2025 (31 Comments)

Space-based internet provider Starlink (SpaceX) last night announced that new domestic customers looking to join their ultrafast home broadband service in the UK could now sign-up and get the hardware for free (terminal/dish and router etc.), instead of paying the usual £299 (one-off).

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Spusu UK male user on mobile

19th Jun, 2025 (6 Comments)

SIM-only mobile provider Spusu, which holds a virtual operator (MVNO) agreement via BT Wholesale to harness EE’s national 4G and 5G network, has celebrated their second year of operation in the United Kingdom by gifting 5GB (GigaBytes) of free data (mobile broadband) to “all its customers” for the remainder of June (except those with unlimited data, obviously).

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18th Jun, 2025 (15 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator All Points Fibre Networks (APFN), which is owned by Fern Fibre (Fern Trading), has today announced that their long-running internal consolidation – bringing together their own-built FTTP networks and retail ISPs into a single group (Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, Swish Fibre, the original AllPoints Fibre, and Cuckoo) – has now completed.

three_uk_sim_card

18th Jun, 2025 (4 Comments)

Some customers of Three UK’s mobile network have, over the past hour, begun reporting to ISPreview (example) that they’re suffering a partial outage of the operator’s Voicemail (123) service. The issue does not appear to affect regular calls and is being reported from users in different parts of the country.

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18th Jun, 2025 (1 Comment)

A new report from pipeline safety organisation Linewatch, which raises awareness of oil and gas pipelines around the UK and encourages safe practices when digging around them, has warned that 19% of workers have been reported for digging too close to underground high-pressure fuel pipelines while carrying out utility works (electricity, water, broadband etc.).

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18th Jun, 2025 (2 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that – over the past 12-months – they’ve completed a project to upgrade the capacity of their 4G and 5G mobile services across “over” 3,000 postcodes in the city of Glasgow (Scotland), which should bring “faster” mobile broadband speeds and greater reliability to the area.

St Marys Hospital in London - Google Streeview Screenshot

18th Jun, 2025 (4 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has today shared the results from a recent survey they conducted inside St Mary’s Hospital in London, which examined the signal coverage and data performance of 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) networks – including EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2.

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Building Digital UK Logo 2023

18th Jun, 2025 (2 Comments)

The Government (DSIT) has this morning announced that they’ve appointed Lesley Cowley OBE to be the new Chair of their broadband and mobile centric Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency. The development comes after former Chair, Simon Blagden, resigned from his position back in July 2024 (here) and was replaced by Hazel Hobbs (Interim Chair).

fibre optic broadband for the home

18th Jun, 2025 (9 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents many of the United Kingdom’s alternative network operators, has today set out its formal response to Ofcom’s current Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR) and warned that the proposals risk harming altnets in the business market, while also handing Openreach too much power.

aquiss uk isp

18th Jun, 2025 (6 Comments)

Shropshire-based UK broadband ISP Aquiss has announced that they’ve launched an additional range of internet access packages based off Freedom Fibre’s network. This has so far deployed a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 350,000 premises across parts of England and Wales (aspiration to reach 1 million premises by 2030).

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18th Jun, 2025 (10 Comments)

The annual Broadband Genie 2025 Awards survey has this morning named UK ISP Plusnet as the “Best Broadband Provider” of the year, while a variety of other internet service providers also scooped various other awards across several different categories.

scotland 3d broadband map uk 123rf

17th Jun, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government (SG) looks as if they could be preparing to “relaunch” their proposed gigabit broadband roll-out procurement for Fife, Perth and Kinross during September 2025. This might take a second stab at trying to find a supplier that can help upgrade the remaining set of hardest-to-reach premises.

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17th Jun, 2025 (15 Comments)

A major newspaper has today claimed that the UK government’s imminent National Security Review (NSR), which is due to be published next week, will expand the definition of national security spending to include everything from a third runway at Heathrow Airport to food prices and rural broadband provision (e.g. the £5bn Project Gigabit scheme).

vodafone uk 2017 mobile sim logo

17th Jun, 2025 (7 Comments)

The ongoing £85.5m legal dispute between mobile and broadband giant Vodafone and a group of 62 current and former UK franchisees (here) recently experienced another twist. This came after the network operator confirmed that it had terminated the contracts of 12 franchisees who had continued working with them while also being party to the case.

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16th Jun, 2025 (30 Comments)

The CEO of BT Group, Allison Kirkby, has hinted at the possibility that network access provider Openreach could be spun off into a completely separate company in the future. But this would only be considered once their roll-out of a national gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network completes (i.e. after 2030).

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