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5th Aug 2025 (1 Comment)
Shropshire-based UK broadband ISP Aquiss has today announced that they’ve become one of the first third-party retail internet providers to offer full fibre packages for businesses via Netomnia’s growing national network, which includes symmetric speeds from 75Mbps and up to 8Gbps (7000Mbps average).
5th Aug 2025 (7 Comments)
German-based network kit manufacturer AVM, which is a familiar developer of home networking products (e.g. FRITZ!Box routers are used by various UK consumers and several ISPs), has officially notified their customers and clients of how the company name is being changed from AVM to FRITZ!.
5th Aug 2025 (3 Comments)
Good news. Broadband and mobile services on the remote Shetland and Orkney Islands (Scotland), which have been disrupted since part of the main SHEFA-2 (Faroese Telecom) submarine (subsea) fibre optic cable was damaged over a week ago (here), could be restored as soon as this Wednesday or Thursday after the French repair ship ‘Cable Vigilance‘ arrived.
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4th Aug 2025 (21 Comments)
The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (CIIA) has today raised “serious concerns” about the financial resilience of the UK’s broadband sector, which appears to be based on the fact that six of the country’s thirteen “major” ISPs currently operate without an internal audit – potentially exposing them to “unchecked risks and increasing the likelihood of corporate collapse“.
4th Aug 2025 (6 Comments)
Customers of mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) have recently been notified that, from 11th August 2025, they will no longer be able to access the provider’s “Priority” service via the website. Priority exists to reward loyal subscribers with various special offers and discounts.
4th Aug 2025 (11 Comments)
A two-year-long campaign by residents and councillors in the Rochdale town of Heywood has succeeded in getting broadband provider IX Wireless (UK ISP 6Gi / Opus Broadband) to remove their 15-metre tall metal mast / pole on Snowden Street. The council said the structure had an “unsightly appearance” and that there had been “little or no consultation with local communities” before its deployment.
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4th Aug 2025 (5 Comments)
The business division of UK broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 – VMO2 Business – have this morning announced that their recent merger with the Daisy Group has today resulted in the launch of a new B2B telecoms company called O2 Daisy (not to be confused with O2’s anti-scam AI chatbot of the same name).
4th Aug 2025 (42 Comments)
Network operator CityFibre, which has already deployed their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across around 4.5 million UK premises, recently indicated to Mobile Europe’s Digital Telco event that they would be looking to upgrade to 50G-PON or 100G-PON during the early to mid 2030s.
3rd Aug 2025 (2 Comments)
The development of the next gen Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn – Ultra High Reliability) standard – led by Task group IEEE802.11bn – is said to be making “steady progress” and, according to Qualcomm Technologies, a high-level of consensus has now been achieved on a significant portion of the future standard that will focus more on improving network reliability than speed.
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2nd Aug 2025 (18 Comments)
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has begun to trial panic alarms for their staff after revealing that UK engineers reported 450 incidents of abuse and assault in the year to the end of March 2025, which is up 8% in the last year and represents a shocking 40% increase when compared with 2022-23. Other providers have seen a similar trend.
2nd Aug 2025 (5 Comments)
Network operator PlatformX Communications (PXC), which is a trading name of UK provider TalkTalk that sells wholesale solutions to ISPs and other network providers, has recently been causing some frustration among their partners. The problem began after they attempted to set an early date for the withdrawal of SMPF based broadband products (shared unbundled lines).
1st Aug 2025 (13 Comments)
The London Court of Appeal has refused permission for Justin Le Patourel to appeal against an earlier dismissal (here) of his £1.3bn class action claim against BT via the Collective Action on Land Lines (CALL) campaign. The organisation had accused the broadband and phone provider of overcharging several million of its landline-only phone customers.
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1st Aug 2025 (1 Comment)
Infracapital-backed alternative network operator Fibrus, which is rolling out their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and Cumbria (England), has today announced that they’ve so far donated £57,805 to 32 community groups across Northern Ireland as part of their 2025 Community Fund.
1st Aug 2025 (0 Comments)
Civil engineering firm M Group, which was itself acquired by private equity firm CVC (here) in 2024 and also harbours a telecoms (broadband and mobile) focused division, has today announced the completion of their deal to acquire rival UK and Ireland focused technology, telecoms and street works firm Telent for an undisclosed sum.
1st Aug 2025 (1 Comment)
Rural focused UK ISP Quickline has revealed that they’ve now covered 2,000 premises as part of their £73.5m state-aid supported Project Gigabit roll-out contract for North Yorkshire (Lot 31), which was awarded a year ago (here). The contract aims to extend gigabit-capable broadband to reach an additional 36,300 premises in some of the hardest-to-reach areas.
1st Aug 2025 (0 Comments)
The UK Government has this morning revealed that a total of 58 government-funded rural 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live as part of the industry-led £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project. The most recent additions have occurred around the North Yorkshire town of Hawes – also impacting Hardraw, Appersett, Snaizeholme and Sedbusk.
1st Aug 2025 (16 Comments)
Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has published some new insights from their fixed line network, which among other things reveals a fall in UK data traffic on Friday afternoons during the summer months, with as much as an 8% dip between 3-5pm compared to the winter, as “remote workers clock off early“.
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