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29th Jul 2025 (3 Comments)

The Telecoms Minister, Sir Chris Bryant, recently issued an important update on their efforts to boost growth by removing barriers to digital infrastructure deployment. The statement covered progress with flexi-permits and softening the rules for new mobile masts, but it also touched on how they intend to help get gigabit broadband into large residential buildings (blocks of flats / apartments).

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28th Jul 2025 (19 Comments)

Consumers looking to join UK internet provider File Sanctuary, which sells broadband packages via Openreach and CityFibre’s national networks, may like to know that they’ve today launch a 2300Mbps (symmetric) speed package via the latter’s platform. The price starts at just £55 per month.

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28th Jul 2025 (53 Comments)

BT (inc. Plusnet and EE) is expected to reveal a change to their existing mid-contract pricing policy, which means that new customers who sign-up for a broadband package on or after 31st July 2025 (5th August with Plusnet) will be subject to a +£4 price rise on 31st March 2026 and then +£4 again on 31st March 2027 (up from the previous £3 increase). Mobile plans will also increase, by different amounts.

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28th Jul 2025 (12 Comments)

Mobile network provider giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica and harnesses O2’s virtual operator (MVNO) platform in the UK, has today launched a new range of travel data (4G/5G mobile broadband) add-ons that will be available to customers who plan on roaming across any one of over 40 EU countries and several selected locations (e.g. USA, Turkey).

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28th Jul 2025 (13 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed that they’ve just put their 5000th EV (Electric Vehicle) on the road to support their broadband and phone engineers (up from 4,300 at the start of 2025). The move marks a key milestone on their plan to become a zero emissions business by March 2031.

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28th Jul 2025 (11 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has this morning informed ISPreview that they’ve created and launched a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) tool, Lumi AI, which aims to “drive its customer service turnaround strategy” by helping customer service agents to provide “faster, more effective and more personalised” support.

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27th Jul 2025 (11 Comments)

Thousands of homes and businesses across Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland, have suffered disruption to their broadband services this weekend after part of the main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) submarine (subsea) fibre optic cable was damaged. Premises on the Orkney Islands were also hit.

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27th Jul 2025 (4 Comments)

Carlisle-based alternative network operator and ISP Grain (Grain Connect), which a week ago secured a major £225m funding boost (here), on Friday revealed that their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network had now covered 270,000 UK premises (up from 250k in March 2025) – from Aberdeen to Brighton, Carlisle to Cornwall, Leicester to Liverpool and Newcastle to Newport etc.

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26th Jul 2025 (34 Comments)

A couple of weeks have passed since Sky Broadband became the largest retail ISP to go live on CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (here). But some rival providers have privately begun to note that customers who sign-up to Sky’s service seem to be getting earlier installation dates than they can. We take a closer look.

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25th Jul 2025 (22 Comments)

The debt strained TalkTalk Group, which has recently been going through another turbulent time due to payment disputes with suppliers and reports of a possible sale (here, here and here), has secured an additional £100m funding deal from existing shareholder Ares Management. This may be enough to reduce some of the financial pressures.

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25th Jul 2025 (21 Comments)

A recent study by telecom analyst firm Tarifica, which examined the change in fixed broadband ISP pricing between 2023 and 2025 across six major European countries (Italy, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands), has found that prices fell in every country except the UK where they rose by 7.86%.

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25th Jul 2025 (3 Comments)

The VP of Engineering at satellite broadband operator Starlink (SpaceX), Michael Nicolls, has revealed that last night’s 2.5 hour long network outage of their mega constellation – impacting all terminals (business and residential) – was caused by a “failure of key internal software services” in their core network.

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24th Jul 2025 (34 Comments)

Some customers of mobile operator EE (BT), as well as those on other networks who might be trying to contact them, are currently experiencing a partial service outage that is disrupting their ability to make calls (others complain they also can’t receive calls). The operator has declared this to be a priority 1 incident. The issue also seems to be impacting some landline calls.

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24th Jul 2025 (0 Comments)

Residents in the tiny rural Gwynedd (Wales) village of Llangwnnadl have been left without access to fixed broadband and phone services for several weeks. Local news reports claim that the situation began after a telecoms pole replacement was carried out by Openreach, which is unusual as normally such work is carried out to fix and not cause a fault.

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24th Jul 2025 (3 Comments)

The Government’s (DSIT) Building Digital UK agency has today published their first 2025 progress report on the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which covers the April to December 2024 period. The data reveals that some 1,188,400 UK premises have received gigabit-capable broadband coverage by BDUK’s gigabit programmes since their inception.

24th Jul 2025 (0 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) and network technology provider Ontix have this morning announced that they’ve enhanced 4G mobile (mobile broadband) capacity in the city of Bristol in South West England, specifically the historic Clifton area, by extending their deployment of several small cells.

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24th Jul 2025 (14 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone has published their first combined Q1 FY26 financial results with Three UK. The figures show that the merged entity has 1.654 million fixed broadband customers (up by 44k in Q1 vs 61k in the previous quarter) and a huge combined mobile base of 28.765m – making them the “biggest mobile network operator in the UK“.

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