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Openreach Faces Protest in Lincoln Over Rollout of 40 Broadband Poles

9th Nov, 2025 (42 Comments)

The Street Works and Permitting Manager at Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) in England, Ashley Behan, has asked network access provider Openreach (BT) to “pause” the roll-out of 40 new telecoms poles – needed to expand the coverage of their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network – until they can explain how they’re going to respond to local complaints and engage with the community.

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Ofcom Predict 97 Percent of UK Covered by Gigabit Broadband in Jan 2028

8th Nov, 2025 (9 Comments)

Somehow, we overlooked that the telecoms regulator had published the fourth edition of their forecast for Planned Network Deployments, which has revised down its expectations of future coverage after UK broadband operators did the same. The report now predicts that full fibre (FTTP) lines will reach 86-95% of homes by January 2028 – rising to 91-97% for gigabit-capable networks (i.e. FTTP and Cable).

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Sky UK in Talks to Acquire ITV’s Media and Entertainment Divisions

7th Nov, 2025 (26 Comments)

Broadband and media giant Sky UK (Comcast) is reportedly engaged in “preliminary” talks over the possible £1.6bn acquisition of ITV’s broadcasting business, specifically the company’s Media and Entertainment divisions, which include both their free-to-air TV channels and the ITV X video streaming service.

Nexfibre Publish Q3 2025 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update – 2.44M Premises

7th Nov, 2025 (11 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some parentage with ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, has published their latest quarterly Q3 2025 build update and confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.44 million UK premises. But future deployments beyond 2025 remain uncertain.

Vodafone UK Gifts Free Global Roaming to all UK Armed Forces Personnel

7th Nov, 2025 (0 Comments)

Mobile network operator Vodafone has today become the “sole UK telecommunications provider” offering complimentary global roaming for armed forces personnel, which will allow troops to call, message and use data (mobile broadband) abroad “at no extra cost” in 83 countries.

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British Airways to Supply Free In-flight WiFi by Starlink Broadband Satellites

7th Nov, 2025 (12 Comments)

Good news if you fly British Airways. The associated International Airlines Group (IAG), which also includes Aer Lingus, Iberia, LEVEL and Vueling aircraft, has reached an agreement with SpaceX’s global Starlink service to upgrade 500+ of their planes (long and short-haul) to harness the ultrafast broadband constellation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for in-flight WiFi.

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Vodafone and Three UK to Increase Mid-Contract Price Hikes on Broadband and Mobile UPD

6th Nov, 2025 (51 Comments)

Mobile and broadband provider Vodafone (inc. Three UK) is preparing to follow BT (inc. EE and Plusnet), Virgin Media and O2 by becoming the latest telecoms provider to increase the customer cost impact of their existing mid-contract pricing policy, which will be introduced on 9th November 2025 for Three UK and 12th for Vodafone. But existing customers are safe, for now.

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Pop Telecom Joins Freedom Fibre’s UK Broadband Network

6th Nov, 2025 (8 Comments)

Internet provider Pop Telecom has today become the latest ISP to join Freedom Fibre’s alternative open access network, which has so far grown their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) based infrastructure to cover 350,000 premises and connected 24,000 customers across various parts of England and North Wales.

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Ofcom to Boost UK Telecoms Security by Working with Key Countries

6th Nov, 2025 (3 Comments)

The UK communications, internet and media regulator, Ofcom, has today announced that they’ve agreed to work “more closely” with their counterparts in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The move aims to “strengthen the security and resilience of telecoms networks” and tackle consumer-facing risks from scams and fraud.

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Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Extend Full Fibre to 6,000 Homes in Widnes

6th Nov, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) and network partner nexfibre, which enjoy some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve expanded the reach of their symmetric 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network to add more than 6,000 additional homes in the industrial Cheshire (England) town of Widnes.

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BT See Openreach UK Broadband Lines Fall by 242k as FTTP Covers 20.3M Premises

6th Nov, 2025 (16 Comments)

The BT Group has today published their H1 FY26 biannual results to Sept 2025, which reveals that Openreach’s full fibre (FTTP) network added 2.2 million premises to their UK coverage to total 20.3m (level with H2 FY25 growth); including 5.5m in rural areas. But broadband line losses to rivals jumped to 242k in the last quarter (up from 169k).

BT and EE to Sell Starlink as UK Rural Broadband Solution to Customers

6th Nov, 2025 (37 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT (EE) has this morning announced a “landmark agreement” to make Starlink’s mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) available to their consumer broadband customers in “rural and remote areas“, where traditional fixed-line infrastructure is “economically unviable or geographically challenging” to build.

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Key News for Virgin Media O2 as Telefonica’s Strategic Plan to Focus on UK

5th Nov, 2025 (8 Comments)

Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica, which forms part of the joint venture that controls broadband and mobile operators Virgin Media and O2 UK, has today announced the outcome of their recent Strategic Review and set out the six pillars underpinning their new five-year strategic plan. This includes consolidation and retaining the UK as one of their core markets.

Sky UK to Scrap Sky Live 4K Smart Camera for Sky Glass After Just 2 Years

5th Nov, 2025 (2 Comments)

Customers of Sky Glass, which uses your broadband and WiFi connection to stream on-demand video and live TV channels directly to Sky’s own brand TV sets (without a satellite dish), have been informed that if they also took out the £290 dedicated 4K HDR smart camera add-on (Sky Live) then this will shortly become an expensive paper weight.

Openreach CEO Threatens to Scrap 30M UK Premises Target for FTTP Broadband

5th Nov, 2025 (50 Comments)

The CEO of network access provider Openreach (BT), Clive Selley, has warned Ofcom and the UK Government that he is “going to hold fire” on seeking approval for the final phase of the operator’s plan to deploy full fibre (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology to 30 million premises. At least until the regulator and tax environment show themselves to be favourable.

London ISP Vorboss Launch New Connectivity Product for Smart Public Services

5th Nov, 2025 (0 Comments)

London-focused ISP Vorboss, which has built and operates a 100Gbps speed fibre optic network for businesses in the UK’s capital city, has today announced the launch of a connectivity product that’s “built to enable essential public services across the capital“.

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ISP Lightning Fibre Launch UK Business Broadband Services via CityFibre

5th Nov, 2025 (0 Comments)

Eastbourne-based broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which is building a new multi-gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex + Kent in England (140,000 premises) and also holds a partnership to harness CityFibre’s wider UK network (here), has today launched a new range of business packages via the CF side of their service (off-net).