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Survey Claims 4.3 Million UK People May Lose O2 Data Access After 3G Switch Off UPDATE

9th Jan, 2025 (33 Comments)

A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch.com and conducted on 7th Jan 2025, has claimed that more than 4.3 million Brits could potentially be left without access to mobile broadband if they don’t upgrade their device before O2 switches-off their 3G service (inc. MVNO’s Tesco Mobile, GiffGaff and Sky Mobile etc.).

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Broadband Users on CityFibre’s UK Network Suffer Nokia ONT Problems UPDATE2

9th Jan, 2025 (23 Comments)

Some broadband ISP customers on Cityfibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which covers 4 million UK premises, are currently experiencing ongoing connectivity problems due to an unspecified issue that seems to only be affecting those that have one of Nokia’s Optical Network Terminals (ONT) installed inside their building.

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UK Internet Domain Registry Nominet Suffers Cyber Attack

9th Jan, 2025 (2 Comments)

The UK internet domain registry, Nominet, has confirmed to ISPreview that their network has suffered an “unauthorised intrusion” after hackers exploited a “zero-day vulnerability” in the Virtual Private Network (VPN) software they use, which is supplied by Ivanti and enables their people to access systems remotely.

CityFibre Begins Project Gigabit Broadband Roll Out for Sussex

9th Jan, 2025 (4 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has this morning announced that they’ve begun the roll-out phase of their £108m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract for the West & East Sussex (Lot 16 & 1) area in England. This will extend their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband ISP network to an additional 57,000 hard-to-reach rural premises.

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Nexfibre’s UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Covers 2 Million Premises UPDATE2

9th Jan, 2025 (15 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with ISP partner Virgin Media (VMO2) and uses the same build teams, has today revealed that the roll-out of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network has reached its coverage target of 2 million premises on time and is now moving on with the next phase.

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BT Make Largest Ever UK Commercial EV Fleet Order of 3,500 Vehicles

9th Jan, 2025 (15 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group (inc. Openreach) has today announced the “UK’s largest ever commercial Electric Vehicle (EV) fleet order“, which will see them purchasing around 3,500 new EVs and thus expanding their EV fleet to nearly 8,000 by the time the order is complete in 2026.

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Scam Callers Target Broadband ISP BT’s UK Digital Voice Switchover

8th Jan, 2025 (15 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has warned customers of UK broadband ISP BT (inc. EE) to be on alert for phone scammers who are now actively impersonating BT’s support agents in order to exploit the ongoing migration onto digital landlines (Digital Voice). The scammers do this by trying to con customers into sharing their financial (payment) details.

Comms Council UK Appoints New Chair to Represent VoIP Providers

8th Jan, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Comms Council UK, which represents the United Kingdom’s national Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today announced that they’ve appointed new Chair, Tracey Wright, to replace Eli Katz, who, after 20 long years of service, stepped down as Chair on the 6th of January 2025.

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Wireless ISP Kijoma Broadband Vanishes During UK Service Outage UPDATE2

8th Jan, 2025 (12 Comments)

Little-known fixed wireless ISP Kijoma Broadband (Kijoma Solutions), which generally covers rural parts of West Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire in England, appears to have vanished (including email and website) after appearing to suffer a service outage that started just before 9am yesterday morning.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK Starts Phasing Out NOW TV on Bills UPDATE

8th Jan, 2025 (2 Comments)

Customers of budget internet provider TalkTalk, specifically those who take their Pay TV service, have had it confirmed that the ISP will be phasing out their single billing integration of Sky’s NOW TV streaming service (i.e. customers will no longer be able to add NOW TV Plans to a single bill from the ISP). Netflix integration was also removed last month.

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Openreach Reveals Biggest UK Broadband Traffic Events for 2024

7th Jan, 2025 (6 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed that broadband usage across their UK network increased by 10.5% in 2024 (higher than the c.9% recorded for 2023 and 2.5% in 2022) to total 103,590 PetaBytes (PB) of data, with December 2024 being the “busiest month of the year for broadband traffic” (1st Dec 2024 was the busiest day).

Altnet UK Broadband Operator Freedom Fibre Signs Armed Forces Covenant

7th Jan, 2025 (1 Comment)

Alternative network provider Freedom Fibre, which are busy rolling out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks across different parts of England (North West and Midlands), has today announced that they’ve become the latest operator to sign the Armed Forces Covenant (AFC).

GoFibre Begin FTTP Broadband Build for Ovington in County Durham

7th Jan, 2025 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network ISP GoFibre has today announced that they’ve begun to expand their new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network into the rural village of Ovington in County Durham, which forms part of their state aid supported Project Gigabit contract with the government (this also includes nearby villages such as Hutton Magna and Gainford).

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O2 UK Complete 4G and 5G Upgrades for 1500 Postcodes in Nottingham

7th Jan, 2025 (3 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve completed a project to upgrade the capacity of their 4G and 5G mobile services across “over” 1,500 postcodes in the East Midlands city of Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England), which should mean “faster” mobile broadband speeds and greater reliability.

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Strategic Move Sees Lyca Group Shift Mobile Focus to New Markets

7th Jan, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Group behind mobile operator Lyca Mobile, which in the UK is a virtual operator (mvno) on EE’s network, has this morning announced a “strategic reorganisation” that it says aims to “drive efficiency and foster global growth“. This will include, among other things, “plans” for global expansion into Spain and the USA during early 2025.

Welsh ISP Ogi Make Progress on 10Gbps Full Fibre Rollout in Central Cardiff

7th Jan, 2025 (0 Comments)

Infracapital-backed network builder and UK ISP Ogi, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across South Wales (100,000 premises are already covered / RFS), has today announced the completion of their network expansion to connect businesses in Cardiff’s city centre economic gateway.

131,000 Premises to Benefit from New Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts UPDATE

7th Jan, 2025 (7 Comments)

The UK Government and Openreach (BT) have today confirmed their latest four UK contract awards – valued at £289m+ – under the Project Gigabit broadband roll-out scheme, which we leaked last week (here). Some 131,000 premises in rural parts of North and Southwest Wales, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Devon, Somerset, Essex, North East England and Worcestershire will benefit.