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UK Fibre Awards 2025 Name Winning Broadband Operators

6th June, 2025 (5 Comments)

The fourth annual UK Fibre Awards event was held yesterday in London, which saw a number of broadband ISPs and full fibre network builders across several categories pick up awards for their achievements. Some of this year’s winners included Gigaclear for ‘Best Rural Fibre Provider’ and MS3 for ‘Best Overall Fibre Provider’ (they scooped several wins).

Civil Engineering Firm Network Plus Overhauls Delivery of UK Field Services

3rd June, 2025 (0 Comments)

One of the UK’s largest utility contractors, Network Plus, which also helps a number of network operators to deploy full fibre broadband infrastructure, has appointed workforce management firm Totalmobile to overhaul how it manages and delivers its field services across the country.

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BT International Launches to Serve Multinational Customers

3rd June, 2025 (2 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group yesterday officially launched their new standalone ‘International’ unit to serve their multinational customers, which was previously predicted (here) to comprise over 8,000 staff and will report separately from the company’s UK business.

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Openreach Default to More Expensive Biz FTTP and SOGEA Broadband Installs UPDATE

2nd June, 2025 (16 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) caught our eye this week, which came after several of ISPreview’s industry sources notified us that the operator had “implemented a nationwide change” on 1st June 2025 that affected how SOGEA (FTTC etc.) and FTTP broadband services are provisioned for UK business premises.

Vorboss Target London’s Local Councils with New Full Fibre Partnership

2nd June, 2025 (0 Comments)

London-focused network provider Vorboss, which operates a 100Gbps capable full fibre network in the city, has today announced a new strategic partnership with Roc Technologies to deliver “best-in-class network solutions” tailored specifically for local councils across the capital.

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Vodafone and Three UK Officially Complete £16bn Mega Mobile Merger UPDATE

2nd June, 2025 (69 Comments)

The huge £16bn+ merger between mobile network operators Vodafone and Three UK (CK Hutchison) officially completed today, which will change the competitive dynamic of the UK market. The deal is also expected to help improve the national coverage of the latest 5G Standalone (mobile broadband) technologies, but concerns remain over jobs and consumer pricing.

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NatWest Funding to Help Glide Expand UK High-Speed Wi-Fi Network

27th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Clevedon-based business, student and residential ISP Glide Group, which is separately still busy expanding their full fibre broadband network, has today announced that a recent funding boost from banking giant NatWest has enabled it to start preparing for an “ambitious expansion” of its high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity infrastructure too.

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Business ISP Onecom Signs Deal to Harness AllPoints Fibre’s UK Platform

27th May, 2025 (2 Comments)

Broadband operator AllPointsFibre Networks (APFN) has today signed a new deal with UK business ISP Onecom, which enables the internet service provider to provide business-grade Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) connections using APFN’s new aquila wholesale platform (an aggregated network using several operators).

Openreach Delay UK Launch of Ethernet Access Direct 2.0 Until Dec 2026

24th May, 2025 (25 Comments)

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has notified UK broadband ISPs of a 9-month delay to the planned launch of their new Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) v2.0 product for businesses, which appears to have been prompted by Ofcom’s current Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR). The move means that EAD 2 won’t become available until the end of 2026.

BT Faces Formal Trade Dispute After Union Rejects Pay Offer

23rd May, 2025 (15 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT appears to be facing another dispute over workers pay after the Prospect union, which represents a majority of staff at management grades within the UK company, overwhelmingly rejected a “derisory” pay offer from the employer (96% of those who voted elected to reject the offer on turnout of 68%).

Full Fibre Broadband ISP CommunityFibre Grows UK Take-up to 25 Percent

23rd May, 2025 (45 Comments)

Alternative network ISP CommunityFibre (CF) has finally published – much earlier than before – their full annual accounts to the end of 2024. The results reveal that their 5Gbps speed full (FTTP) broadband network ended the year with a coverage of 1.342 million homes (plus c.200k businesses) and residential customers of 336,000 (25% take-up). But employees fell to 737 (2023: 930).

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Altnet Freedom Fibre Pick VeloxServ to Power its Wholesale B2B Connectivity

22nd May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator Freedom Fibre, which has already grown their gigabit full fibre broadband network to cover 315,000 UK premises (Nov 2024) across parts of England (Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Essex), has chosen VeloxServ to support its wholesale B2B (business) connectivity offering.

Openreach Boost UK FTTP Rollout Pace as BT Broadband Customers Fall to 8.2M

22nd May, 2025 (48 Comments)

The BT Group has today published their biannual full year (H2 FY25) results to March 2025, which reveals that Openreach’s full fibre (FTTP) network added 2.2 million premises to their UK coverage in H2 (up from 2.1m in H1) to cover 18.08m (4.9m in rural areas) and will accelerate its rollout by 20%. But broadband line losses to rivals hit 243k in the last quarter (up from 208k).

Virgin Media O2 Business Launches Teams Phone Mobile

21st May, 2025 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) has today followed BTWholsale by launching Microsoft’s ‘Teams Phone Mobile‘ service to its large business customers (250+ employees) in the UK, which among other things makes it easy to move between mobile and desktop Teams calls seamlessly.

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Vodafone Top 1.61 Million UK Broadband Customers as Mobile Declines

20th May, 2025 (13 Comments)

Mobile network operator and UK ISP Vodafone has today published their Q4 FY25 financial results, which confirms that their fixed line broadband base grew by a healthy 61,000 in the last quarter to total 1.61 million customers (down from 72k added in Q3 2024). But their mobile base fell again to total 18.175m (down by -125k in Q4 vs -174k in Q3).

UK ISP Spitfire Criticise Openreach for Lack of PSTN Switch Off Contract Clarity UPDATE

20th May, 2025 (12 Comments)

Business telecommunications and UK broadband ISP Spitfire has today called on Openreach (BT) to provide “much needed clarity” for service providers, and the businesses they support, on new contracts related to the looming switch-off of the old Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) in favour of IP-based digital phone (VoIP etc.) services.

No Resolution Yet in £120m Dispute Between Vodafone UK and Former Franchisees

19th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Last year we reported on how broadband and mobile provider Vodafone had been hit with a £120m+ legal claim from over 60 current and former UK franchisees (here). The group, which said they were challenging the “financial, mental, and physical impacts of the retail giant’s “irrational” business decisions“, today reported that their attempt to mediate a solution “has come to an end with no resolution“.