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Vodafone UK’s CityFibre Broadband Users Can’t Upgrade to 2Gbps+

6th December, 2025 (5 Comments)

Customers of Vodafone’s fixed home broadband packages, specifically those on their 910Mbps (1Gbps) or slower Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages with major UK altnet CityFibre, have complained that the ISP is preventing them from taking out the provider’s fastest 2.2Gbps package due to the lack of an upgrade process.

Vodafone UK Launch Black Friday Sale on Broadband and Mobile

28th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK will today take the wrappings off their annual Black Friday sale, which introduces additional discounts on the monthly prices of their various fixed line home broadband packages and SIM-Only mobile plans, among other things.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet Expands UK Business Connectivity Products

27th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has today announced that they’ve expanded their Direct Business connectivity portfolio to give UK businesses access to “more full fibre networks than any other ISP“. The main development seems to be the launch of CityFibre’s Business FTTP, Ethernet Flex and Direct Internet Access (DIA) services.

Utility Warehouse Prep UK VoIP Phone Service as 561,086 Take Broadband

25th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

Energy and communications provider Telecom Plus, which trades as Utility Warehouse (UW), has just published their latest H1 FY26 Results to the end of September 2025 and revealed that their broadband ISP grew its total UK customer base to 561,086 (up by 176,196 in the year) and their mobile base grew to 698,054 (up by 171,887).

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ISP Vodafone Expand Streaming Add-ons to UK Fixed Home Broadband

21st November, 2025 (2 Comments)

Customers of Vodafone’s home broadband packages, which harness gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) lines from a mix of different networks (Openreach, CityFibre and CommunityFibre), may like to know that the internet provider has just expanded the availability of their ‘Add to Plan’ service from mobile to fixed line packages.

UK ISP Yayzi Move CityFibre Broadband Customers to Zen Internet UPDATE

20th November, 2025 (18 Comments)

Retail internet provider Yayzi Broadband has today suddenly started informing their residential broadband customers, specifically those served using CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, that they’re being “transferred” to UK ISP Zen Internet. We’ve also had this confirmed by one of Zen’s support reps.

Progress as CityFibre Integrates Connexin’s UK FTTP Broadband Network UPDATE

19th November, 2025 (8 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre appears to be getting close to completing the integration of Connexin’s 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband infrastructure, which is present across parts of East Yorkshire (Hull etc.), Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire (England), into their national UK network.

Altnet Broadband ISP Toob Wins Two North East Contact Centre Awards

12th November, 2025 (2 Comments)

Hampshire-based alternative broadband network and UK ISP toob, which has deployed a full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, have today announced that they’ve won two awards at the North East Contact Centre Awards (NECCA) 2025.

VodafoneThree Tops 1.7 Million UK Broadband Users as Mobile Rises to 28.82m

11th November, 2025 (10 Comments)

Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone and Three UK (VodafoneThree) have published their latest Q2 FY26 financial results. The figures show that they now have 1.704 million fixed broadband customers (up by 50k in Q2 vs +44k in Q1) and a huge combined mobile base of 28.824m (up from 28.765m).

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ISP Lightning Fibre Launch UK Business Broadband Services via CityFibre

5th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Eastbourne-based broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which is building a new multi-gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex + Kent in England (140,000 premises) and also holds a partnership to harness CityFibre’s wider UK network (here), has today launched a new range of business packages via the CF side of their service (off-net).

Altnet Broadband ISP Lightning Fibre Launches UK Black Friday SALE

3rd November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Eastbourne-based broadband ISP Lightning Fibre, which is building a new multi-gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England (they also hold a partnership to harness CityFibre’s network around the South Coast – here), has today launched a range of early Black Friday sales on their packages.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Prep 2025 UK Black Friday Discounts – 6 Months Half Price

1st November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Shropshire-based independent broadband ISP Aquiss has this morning unveiled its planned Black Friday discounts early by offering new customers six months of half-price service on their Openreach (FTTP + FTTC/SOGEA) and CityFibre (FTTP) based packages, which will be available to order between 1st and 30th November 2025.

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Virgin Media O2 Ponder £2bn UK Broadband Deal to Acquire Netomnia UPDATE

30th October, 2025 (86 Comments)

A major newspaper has this morning claimed that broadband giant Virgin Media (O2) have opened non-exclusive talks with alternative full fibre network operator Netomnia (Youfibre, Brsk), which could result in a £2bn deal that would expand VMO2’s network coverage and potentially remove a key competitor from the market. CityFibre are also said to be interested in the altnet.

Lit Fibre Introduce New UK Broadband Pricing on National and Local Networks

14th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

Internet provider Lit Fibre, which harnesses CityFibre’s national UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (they originally ran their own fibre network too – here), has today introduced a new national broadband pricing framework that charges residential consumers more for those on their National (off-net) vs Local (on-net) network tiers.

Broadband ISP Rebel Internet Join CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Network

10th October, 2025 (5 Comments)

Retail broadband ISP Rebel Internet, which was set up a couple of years ago by two former BT executives (here), has this morning announced that they’ve signed a new partnership to harness CityFibre’s growing 5.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – covering around 4.6 million UK premises (4.3m Ready for Service).

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Ofcom UK Reject Competition Concerns over Openreach’s FTTP Upgrades Offer

9th October, 2025 (51 Comments)

At the start of this week ISPreview revealed that a number of rival broadband networks had raised competition concerns with the UK telecoms regulator after Openreach introduced a new discount on upgrades to full fibre lines (here). Ofcom has now responded to these concerns via a new open letter, which largely rejects them but remains “alive” to the concerns.

Competition Concerns Raised Over New Openreach FTTP Broadband Discount

6th October, 2025 (24 Comments)

A number of Openreach’s rivals are understood to have raised fresh competition concerns with Ofcom after the operator introduced a new discount on upgrades (here). The offer was designed to help encourage ISPs to shift customers off older copper-based broadband services and on to newer full fibre (FTTP) lines, but not everyone is happy.