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BT Group Moves to Improve UK Video Streaming with New Delivery Network

3rd Sep, 2025 (16 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms giant BT Group has today announced a new partnership with edge video delivery network MainStreaming, which they hope will deliver a smoother and “more resilient streaming experience” for UK audiences by integrating it directly into their nationwide mobile and fixed networks.

Car Fire Triggers 3 Week Openreach Broadband Outage in East Sussex Village

3rd Sep, 2025 (3 Comments)

Some residents in the semi-rural village of Catsfield in East Sussex (England), which is home to nearly 900 people, have been left without access to fixed broadband and phone services for roughly three weeks after a car fire caused damage to Openreach’s nearby telecoms pole and fibre optic cables.

Consumer Activist Proposes to Sue Sky UK Over TV End of Contract Notifications

3rd Sep, 2025 (8 Comments)

A self-proclaimed “consumer rights litigant“, Marc John, claims to have notified the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) of his plan to launch a £2bn opt-out collective proceedings claim against Sky UK (Comcast). The claim appears to focus on Sky’s alleged failure to issue end-of-contract notifications (ECNs) to millions of its satellite TV customers.

BT Agrees Deal to Sell its Radianz Business to Transaction Network Services

2nd Sep, 2025 (1 Comment)

Telecoms giant BT has today announced that their Radianz unit, which is a global network and connectivity platform for the financial services industry that generated revenues of approx. £142m during 2024/25, is to be sold to Transaction Network Services (TNS) – a provider of ultra-low latency trading infrastructure – for an undisclosed sum.

Netmore to Hook Up 1 Million Severn Trent Water Meters to Wireless Network

2nd Sep, 2025 (3 Comments)

Global network operator Netmore has today signed a 3-year deal with the UK’s second-largest water company, Severn Trent, to deploy and manage network services for 1 million smart meters across more than 20 counties. This will involve the deployment of a dual wireless Long Range Wide Area (LoRaWAN) and Narrowband-loT (NB-IoT) network.

Openreach Offers Even Quicker Proactive FTTP Broadband Upgrades to UK ISPs

2nd Sep, 2025 (4 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has once again tweaked their Proactive FTTP Upgrades process for ISPs, which will allow providers to optionally reduce the normal lead time down to just 15+ calendar days (vs the default 6 weeks). Normally it’s consumers that initiate an upgrade, but with proactive upgrades the initiator is your ISP (this may help with copper to full fibre migrations).

Survey Claims Forgetfulness Causes Brits to Miss £76.6m in Broadband Savings

2nd Sep, 2025 (6 Comments)

A new study by comparison site Go.Compare, which used data gathered from the ONS, internal data and a YouGov survey of 2,000 UK adults in May 2025, has claimed that over 77% of broadband users don’t switch ISPs as regularly as would be ideal to maximise their savings. Plus, of those users, 6% don’t switch more often because they forget to look for a better deal.

Virgin Media O2 to Donate 1,200 Pre-Owned Smartphones in Scotland

2nd Sep, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today announced that they’re working with both the Scottish Government and Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) to help people get online. This involves donating 1,200 refurbished smartphones and mobile data SIMs to Citizens Advice Bureaux (CABs) across 12 Local Authorities throughout Scotland.

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Study Warns UK Students Face £142 Broadband Penalty Due to Shorter Deals

2nd Sep, 2025 (3 Comments)

New research from Broadband Genie, which analysed the cost of 12-month and 24-month broadband deals from major UK providers during August 2025, claims to have found that 12-month broadband contracts “ideal for students” are on average 49% more expensive (costing £142.88 more a year) than two-year deals.

Founder and Boss of Major UK Broadband Altnet CityFibre to Step Down UPDATE

2nd Sep, 2025 (18 Comments)

Greg Mesch, the original founder and current CEO of the UK’s largest alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband network for ISPs, CityFibre, is reportedly to step down after setting the Openreach competitor up some 14 years ago in January 2011. The move comes shortly after the operator secured a crucial UK funding agreement worth £2.3bn (here).

EE UK Deploy 50 Extra Freshwave 5G Small Cells in Central London to Boost Mobile

2nd Sep, 2025 (4 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave has today revealed that they’ve worked with UK mobile operator EE (BT) to deploy a further 50 new Small Cell based outdoor 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) units across the City of London area, which are helping to expand the network operator’s coverage and performance.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Launch UK Brand Refresh to Help Forget the Troubles

2nd Sep, 2025 (28 Comments)

The financially troubled broadband provider TalkTalk has today attempted to start putting the recent past behind it by refreshing their brand identity a bit (inc. new website), while at the same time launching new digital platforms and a supporting marketing campaign. But it may yet take much more than this to help turn things around, although it’s a start.

Netomnia to Extend UK Broadband Reach via Openreach’s FTTP Network

2nd Sep, 2025 (34 Comments)

One of the UK’s largest alternative broadband networks, Netomnia (Substantial Group), has revealed that they’re in the process of joining Openreach’s (BT) network in order to harness their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) products in areas where their network doesn’t yet reach or may be unlikely to reach in the future. But the initial reach will be limited.

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Community Fibre Cuts Broadband Satisfaction Guarantee from 60 to 30 Days

2nd Sep, 2025 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has deployed a 5Gbps speed full fibre broadband (FTTP) network to cover 1.342 million UK homes (plus c.200k businesses) – mostly in London, has today reduced their somewhat industry leading 60 Day Satisfaction Guarantee to 30 days. But this is still better than many other providers can do.

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Microsoft Backed Researchers Significantly Improve Hollow Core Fibre Cables

1st Sep, 2025 (6 Comments)

A team of Microsoft backed and largely UK based researches, which were originally part of Lumenisity – a spinoff from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, appear to have succeeded in reducing attenuation and other signal degradation phenomena in next gen hollow core fibre (HCF) broadband cables – boosting speeds by 45%.

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ISP GoFibre Hands Out Funding to Northumberland Community Projects

1st Sep, 2025 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network GoFibre, which is rolling out a gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across remote parts of rural Scotland and Northern England, has today announced the first four charities in North Northumberland to secure investment under their community fund.

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ITS Wins Contract to Deploy Full Fibre Across Crawley’s Manor Royal Business Park UPDATE

1st Sep, 2025 (7 Comments)

ISPreview has discovered that the Crawley Borough Council (CBC) in West Sussex (England) has just awarded the ITS Technology Group with a contract for their new £1.5 million (state aid) project, which aims to provide every business in Manor Royal (business park) with the ability to connect to gigabit broadband.