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2nd May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Business focused UK ISP, IT and Communications provider OneTek (One Tek Business Solutions), which typically provides leased lines, direct fibre connections, and point-to-point (P2P) antennas, has revealed that they intend to deploy a new full fibre network that will initially focus on providing B2B connectivity in the West Cheshire Business Estate area.

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2nd May, 2025 (21 Comments)

The latest Q1 2025 results from Virgin Media and O2 have today been released, which saw their gigabit broadband network grow by 165,000 premises in the quarter to cover 18.4 million UK homes and related customers suffer a sharp fall to total 5,694,900 (down by -44k in Q1 vs +12k in Q4 2025) “due to heavy discounting in the market“. The operator’s outdoor 5G mobile cover also increased to 77%.

2nd May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Independent Kent-based UK ISP Orbital Net (Orbital Internet Group), which runs the Vfast sub-brand that sells packages to homes via a mix of fixed wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks, has announced that they’ve appointed John Slingsby as their new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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1st May, 2025 (5 Comments)

Fixed wireless and UK broadband provider Connexin, which is backed by PATRIZIA and is in the process of being acquired by CityFibre (here), has today signed a new agreement with Southend-on-Sea city council to install their Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) wireless network on existing infrastructure across the city. This will support smart water meters, without the need for new poles.

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1st May, 2025 (4 Comments)

Neos Networks, which operates one of the biggest 34,000km long business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has today released the results of new research that claims almost all of the market’s alternative networks (96%) are considering mergers, partnerships and acquisitions with other providers.

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1st May, 2025 (2 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT has confirmed that, as part of their ongoing UK programme to modernise and consolidate the number of offices they have – shrinking them from around 300 to just 30 locations, they’ve begun a consultation on the closure of their Londonderry office. The move, which could be implemented by the end of 2025, puts around 140 jobs at risk.

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BT Four New Bailey Building in Manchester PR 290425

29th April, 2025 (11 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT today claims to have achieved the final step in their 5-year long “Better Workplace” transformation programme, which has involved modernising and consolidating the number of offices they have (going from around 300 and down to nearly 30 key locations), by opening a new office – the ‘Four New Bailey’ building – in Manchester.

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29th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

Three Business, the business-to-business arm of mobile network operator Three UK, this morning claims to have launched the “UK’s first large-scale eSIM trial” for over 50,000 business, albeit initially only available to those in the Birmingham and Bristol areas. The trial will allow customers to test Three’s network before making the commitment to switch providers.

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25th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

The One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is the industry-led company responsible for helping to implement Ofcom’s solution (One Touch Switching) for easier and quicker UK consumer switching between broadband and phone providers, has this afternoon revealed that they’re aiming to go live with a switching solution for businesses in “early 2026“.

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25th April, 2025 (5 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT Group, which is primarily focused upon and based in the United Kingdom, has continued efforts to reduce their international operations this week by announcing a “preliminary” agreement to sell their sometimes troubled Italian business (BT Italia S.p.A) to Retelit for an undisclosed sum.

Bright uk optical fibre broadband cables on flat surface - 123rf

24th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

Digital infrastructure firm Boldyn Networks, which is perhaps best known for helping to build a number of open access UK mobile and fibre networks, has been picked by Kingston Council (Kingston upon Thames) in London to build a new 10km long fibre (broadband, Ethernet etc.) network in the royal borough. Virgin Media’s business division will also be involved.

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23rd April, 2025 (2 Comments)

The CEO of alternative UK broadband operator F&W Networks‘ (Fibre and Wireless), José Luis San Martín, has today spoken to ISPreview, as part of a new interview, about his ambition for the company to ramp-up their roll-out of full fibre (FTTP) lines “once the market stabilises and financial conditions improve“. But they also remain “open” to discussions over consolidation.

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2024-Openreach-female-engineer-working-on-FTTP-chamber

17th April, 2025 (90 Comments)

The latest analyst note from Swiss Bank UBS has maintained their long-running “sell” rating on the BT Group and predicted that Openreach could lose 800,000 broadband lines to rival networks in 2025 (up from 707k in 2024). The analyst warned that the operator needed to “deploy fibre faster” to stem the bleed and “accelerate [its] cost-cutting“, otherwise they claim it may face a downside risk to free cash flow in FY26.

TalkTalk Logo on Blue Wall

16th April, 2025 (5 Comments)

Customers of broadband ISP TalkTalk Business (TTB) are once again able to use the provider’s email service after a protracted service outage, which lasted nearly a full week and appears as if it was caused by a misconfiguration of their Domain Name System / Servers (DNS).

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16th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

Street works firm M Group, which was last year acquired by private equity firm CVC (here) and also harbours a telecoms (broadband and mobile) focused division, has today announced that they’ve acquired rival UK and Ireland focused technology, telecoms and civil engineering firm Telent for an undisclosed sum.

OneWeb-Eutelsat-LEO-Satellites-in-Orbit

15th April, 2025 (1 Comment)

European managed network connectivity provider Hughes Network Systems (Hughes Europe) has today announced that they’ve teamed-up with Eutelsat to harness the OneWeb network. This is a global constellation of broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is still partly supported by the UK government (11% stake).

fibre optical broadband uk network cable 123rf

15th April, 2025 (7 Comments)

Business focused UK ISP and Managed Service Provider (MSP) Connectus has today announced that they’re investing a further £500,000 into the Doncaster Airport Business Park in South Yorkshire (England), which is on top of the £1m they previously put in to help ensure all businesses on the park could enjoy access to their gigabit full fibre (broadband and Ethernet) network.

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