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Gov’s 2025 Spending Review Delays UK Gigabit Broadband Target to 2032 UPDATE

11th June, 2025 (13 Comments)

The UK Government’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has today delivered her 2025 Spending Review, which included a few bits of new information and updated figures for telecoms. But as well as confirming £1.9bn for broadband and mobile projects (existing commitments), it also appeared to reflect a delay to the gigabit broadband roll-out from 2030 to 2032.

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World Broadband Lines Top 1.5bn as UK Full Fibre Grows 11.7 Percent in Q4 2024

7th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

New research from Point Topic has revealed that global fixed broadband lines grew by 0.91% or 13.5 million in Q4 2024 (down from 1.44% in Q3 2024) to total 1.5 billion connections. The subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks also remained strong in the UK at 11.7%, putting us just two places behind the leading countries for growth.

Virgin Media O2 Suffers Fall in UK Broadband Customers as FTTP Build Slows

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%.

Comparing ISP Prices for 1Gbps UK Home Broadband – 2025 vs 2022

19th April, 2025 (28 Comments)

A couple of years have now passed since ISPreview last examined how much money broadband ISPs were charging consumers for their gigabit broadband (1Gbps) tiers, so we’ve decided to take another look to see how things have changed between 2022, 2023 and 2025. But it might surprise some readers to learn that prices have broadly continued to fall.

Virgin Media UK Upgrade to Hub 5 Broadband Routers on All TV Bundles

11th April, 2025 (14 Comments)

New customers looking to join one of Virgin Media’s broadband and TV bundles may like to know that the ISP has recently made some further hardware updates, which means that all TV packages now include a Hub 5 router (Flex ‘service’ is excluded). Previously, some bundles still included older routers, like the now somewhat dated Hub 3.

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Point Topic Launch UK Maps of Broadband Cover by Local Authority

26th March, 2025 (8 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has today introduced a new interactive map of broadband connectivity across UK Local Authorities (LAs), which is said to “reveal significant disparities in digital infrastructure” and aims to support LAs by helping to inform their local digital strategies. The maps are also freely available to the public (recent data only).

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Virgin Media O2 UK Joins Lincolnshire’s New Street Works Charter

17th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

UK ISP Virgin Media (O2) has become the latest broadband operator to join Lincolnshire County Council’s (LCC) interesting new Street Works Charter, which aims to help cut down on road traffic disruption by encouraging a more co-operative approach to street works between different companies (reducing unnecessary works).

ISP Virgin Media UK Discounts Broadband Prices for March 2025

5th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to sign-up with broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) might like to know that the provider has just introduced some bigger discounts across their range of standalone broadband and bundle packages. For example, Virgin’s 1Gbps package is now just £36.99 per month on an 18-month minimum term (price increases to £40.49 from April 2026).

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Virgin Media Find Tuesdays are the Biggest for UK Broadband Usage

4th March, 2025 (2 Comments)

Network data from broadband ISP Virgin Media has revealed that Tuesday is the UK’s new “big night in“, with evening peak (between 8-10pm) internet traffic pushing higher than on any other day of the week – usually driven by online video gaming (mostly big update/patch downloads) and TV sports events (streaming).

Virgin Media O2 Sees UK FTTP Broadband Builds Surge and NetCo On Track

19th February, 2025 (21 Comments)

The latest Q4 2024 results from Virgin Media and O2 have been published, which saw their fixed broadband base grow by +12,000 in the quarter (vs 16.2k in Q3) to total 5,738,900. The provider’s full fibre (FTTP) network also built to another 485,500 premises, primarily via nexfibre (up from 281k in Q3), while mobile connections grew to total 45.7 million.

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2024 H2 – UK Coverage of Gigabit Broadband Nears 86 Percent

2nd January, 2025 (15 Comments)

ISPreview has today published our biannual UK summary of fixed broadband coverage for H2 2024, which found that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP networks have grown to reach 73.53% of premises (up from 67.68% in H1) and 85.87% are within reach of “gigabit” speeds (up from 83.39%). Continue on to see details for England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland.

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99 Percent of Cumbria Still Expected to Get Gigabit Broadband by 2026

30th December, 2024 (8 Comments)

The Cumberland Council in England has praised the progress being made on local broadband upgrades in the rural region, which they say has so far helped to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) networks to cover more than 95% of premises and “gigabit” (1000Mbps+) connectivity to 62%. But they also “anticipate” that gigabit cover will “exceed 99% of properties by 2026“.

ISP Virgin Media Slashes UK Broadband Prices in Winter Sale

27th December, 2024 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to join broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) should take note that they’ve today launched their Winter Sale, which significantly slashes some of their broadband and TV bundle prices. For example, Virgin’s top 2Gbps package has been reduced in price to just £55 per month on an 18-month minimum term.

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Virgin Media O2 Boosts 1,000 UK Mobile Sites with 10Gbps Fibre Backhaul

5th December, 2024 (20 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today announced that the recent introduction (here) of their new “next generation” Converged Interconnect Network (CIN) has already helped to improve its mobile network across the UK, not least by connecting 1,000 mobile sites to its proprietary 10Gbps fibre optic backhaul network.

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Virgin Media O2 Switches On New UK Converged Interconnect Network

20th November, 2024 (17 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has today announced that they’ve switched on their new “next generation” Converged Interconnect Network (CIN), which brings together its fixed line (FTTP, DOCSIS) and mobile networks (4G, 5G etc.) in a way that will make them more efficient, resilient, scalable and flexible.

Virgin Media and nexfibre Add 9,000 Witham Homes to UK FTTP Network

13th November, 2024 (2 Comments)

Broadband network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with retail ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve extended their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network to cover 9,000 additional homes in the Essex (England) town of Witham.

EY Survey Claims UK Homes Prepared to Swap from Fixed Broadband to 5G

13th November, 2024 (10 Comments)

EY has today published their annual digital home survey of 2,500 UK consumers, which among other things reveals that the cost-of-living crisis has prompted 34% to consider “more economical broadband options” and 5G mobile is increasingly becoming a substitute for traditional home broadband (33% of households are prepared to switch to this, up from 29% in 2023).