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24th Sep 2025 (13 Comments)
The CEO of BT Group, Allison Kirkby, appears to be gearing up for the government’s annual 2025 Budget announcement by complaining that the operator pays “10 times the amount our peers pay in countries like Germany and the Netherlands” on things like business rates, energy levies and other costs associated with regulation and compliance.
24th Sep 2025 (3 Comments)
British-registered mobile operator Vodafone has today published a new white paper with Meta and Google, which shows the benefits of advanced video compression technology, via the AV1 video codec, for Smartphone users on their mobile broadband networks. But it also notes that many people use budget handsets, which often lack full support it.
24th Sep 2025 (15 Comments)
Public service broadcaster Channel 4 has this morning announced the launch of three new streaming channels – 4Reality, 4Homes, and 4Life, which are to made exclusively available via the new broadband-based live TV streaming service – Freely – in the UK.
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24th Sep 2025 (7 Comments)
The latest independent data from Thinkbroadband has today helped us to produce an updated assessment of how big – in terms of network coverage (premises passed) – the top 17 largest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks in the UK have become by September 2025. Once again, we compare this data against official coverage claims.
24th Sep 2025 (15 Comments)
National network operator Openreach (BT) has this morning confirmed that their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which offers broadband speeds of up to 1,800Mbps to homes via hundreds of UK ISPs, has now covered 20 million premises (up from 18.3m on 1st May 2025) and take-up has risen to around 38%.
23rd Sep 2025 (17 Comments)
The Co-Founder and Chairman of alternative rural broadband ISP Fibrus, Conal Henry, will tomorrow tell the Connected Britain event that Government subsidies (e.g. the £5bn Project Gigabit programme) are being “wasted” due to Ofcom’s rules allegedly making the roll-out of rural broadband “unnecessarily expensive“.
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23rd Sep 2025 (8 Comments)
New techy-focused broadband ISP Olilo, which only launched a few short weeks ago (here), has this week announced that they’ve just placed their first consumer Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) orders via the aquila platform from AllPoints Fibre Networks’ (APFN). The latter is a wholesale platform that aggregates connectivity from several different full fibre networks.
23rd Sep 2025 (0 Comments)
Network operator nexfibre and supporting broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), which share some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve expanded the reach of their symmetric 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network to more than 21,000 homes in the West Sussex seaside town of Littlehampton “for the first time“.
23rd Sep 2025 (12 Comments)
Openreach (BT), which is currently in the process of converting the “majority” of their commercial UK vehicle fleet (i.e. 23,000 vans and cars) to Electric Vehicles by the end of March 2031, has announced a new deal that will see myenergi supply thousands of smart ‘zappi’ EV chargers to its engineers – giving them a simple way to charge vehicles at home overnight.
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23rd Sep 2025 (0 Comments)
The London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has announced that customers travelling along a picturesque 45-mile stretch of the line in Northumberland (England) can now access “significantly improved mobile phone and Wi-Fi connectivity“. This is thanks to a joint project with Railsite Telecom, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK).
23rd Sep 2025 (0 Comments)
Customers of SpaceX’s popular Starlink broadband service, which offers ultrafast low-latency internet speeds across the UK and the world via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), may like to know that they’ve added a useful “Event Log” feature to their accompanying App.
23rd Sep 2025 (4 Comments)
Hampshire-based alternative network builder and UK ISP toob, which has deployed a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, has today announced that they’ve connected their 100,000th customer (up from 90k on 12th June 2025).
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23rd Sep 2025 (56 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today provided more details to ISPreview on their future plans for a trial of full fibre broadband (FTTP) using 10Gbps capable XGS-PON technology in early 2026. The trial is planned to reach about 40,000 premises in Guildford and push download speeds from ISPs up to a blistering 8.5Gbps (8,500Mbps).
23rd Sep 2025 (16 Comments)
One of the country’s largest alternative broadband networks, Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has now covered 2.8 million UK premises RFS (inc. 400,000 customers) with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network (up from 2.7m on 1st Sept 2025), have this morning announced a refresh of their brand following the merger with Brsk.
22nd Sep 2025 (18 Comments)
Mobile operator Vodafone UK (VodafoneThree) has revealed that they intend to switch off their now ancient 2G based mobile network “during 2030“, roughly three years ahead of the government’s official 2033 deadline for the phasing out of both 2G and 3G services (here). The operator has already shut down its 3G network (here).
22nd Sep 2025 (0 Comments)
Tarana Wireless has announced that their next-generation “6GHz” capable G1 wireless (ngFWA) platform and kit is now ready to deploy in the UK with the addition of support for the UK’s Band C (5725-5850 MHz). This can be enabled via an “optional, free software upgrade to unlock the 6 GHz spectrum as it is available“.
22nd Sep 2025 (14 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today provided a progress update on the difference that their innovations (e.g. drones, mini-exchanges, LiDAR-powered planning etc.) are making to their ongoing roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology. This network now covers 20 million premises.
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