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27th January, 2026 (1 Comment)

New research from Point Topic has revealed that global fixed broadband lines grew by 1.46% or 22.42 million in Q3 2025 (up from 1.12% in Q2 2025) to total 1.56 billion connections. The subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks also remained strong in the UK at almost 7%, but this is down from 11.7% in Q4 2024.

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15th January, 2026 (2 Comments)

City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have already deployed their gigabit fibre network to cover 1.9 million UK homes, has today announced the appointment of Emma Dark as Customer Experience and Service Director, and Nemanja Zec as Head of Customer Service Operations to “support the next phase of growth“. Improvements to support are also coming.

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5th January, 2026 (13 Comments)

City-focused alternative broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have already deployed their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover 1.9 million UK homes passed, has just become the latest telecoms provider to increase the customer cost impact of their existing mid-contract pricing policy.

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Hyperoptic UK Engineers Training Near Truck 2022

2nd December, 2025 (15 Comments)

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have already deployed their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover 1.9 million UK homes passed, has informed ISPreview that they’re making some “modest adjustments to our teams working on multi-unit residential buildings” and as a result there may be a few redundancies. Less than 5% of employees are said to be affected.

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15th October, 2025 (23 Comments)

A recent study from New Street Research has predicted that the UK will lose around 250,000 subscribers to fixed broadband services this year, which would mark “the first time there has ever been a decline” in the market. Competition from Starlink (satellite), fixed wireless and mobile broadband rivals are said to be the main cause.

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29th September, 2025 (6 Comments)

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have deployed their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover 1.9 million UK premises, has told ISPreview they’re NOT currently seeking more funding to keep their network expansion going. The company’s latest accounts to the end of 2024 show they generated maiden adjusted earnings of £2.7m in 2024 (vs a loss of £4.7m in 2023) and gross profit rose 20% to £87m.

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31st July, 2025 (9 Comments)

Network testing firm Opensignal has published a new study that examines the “striking gap” between the home broadband speeds users are promised by ISPs and the speeds they actually experience – “the biggest factor behind this disconnect is the in-home Wi-Fi environment“.

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3rd June, 2025 (41 Comments)

In a somewhat surprising development for an ISP that has spent the past few years campaigning against mid-contract price hikes. City-focused UK ISP Hyperoptic has this week refreshed the pricing of their broadband packages to adopt the same structure of annual price rises as many of the largest internet providers.

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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.

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15th April, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) and Point Topic have published their 2025 report into the impact of alternative gigabit speed “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks on the UK. The study reveals that their coverage grew by 27% in 2024 to top 16.4 million premises (down from 57% in 2023 [12.9m]) and could grow to 18.6m in 2025.

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19th March, 2025 (5 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe has just published their 2025 ranking of 39 European countries (EU39) with the strongest take-up and coverage of gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband ISP networks. This sees the UK pass 21.4 million homes (up by 4.2m in the year) with take-up of 37.1% and a prediction that it’ll cover 31m by 2030. But growth has slowed a bit.

13th March, 2025 (4 Comments)

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 claims to have built an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million UK homes in parts of 64 towns and cities (inc. 340,000 customers), has today announced that they’ve appointed former Openreach (BT) veteran Mark Barlett to be their new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

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Hyperoptic UK Engineers Training 2022

27th January, 2025 (10 Comments)

City-focused ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 has built an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million homes in parts of 64 UK towns and cities, has informed its staff that 2025 will see a “reduced volume of work” and thus a potential reduction in their infrastructure teams of nearly 130 jobs (out of nearly 280 potentially impacted roles).

13th December, 2024 (7 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which has built a full fibre broadband (FTTP / B) network to cover “more than” 1.73 million UK homes in parts of 64 towns and cities (mostly MDUs), has been fined £50,000 by the Westminster Magistrates Court in London after they were found to have carried out unsafe street works.

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19th November, 2024 (12 Comments)

A new YouGov survey conducted by network operator AllPoints Fibre, which is the UK wholesale division of Fern Trading’s recently consolidate alternative FTTP broadband ISP networks (Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, and Swish Fibre), claims to have found that the “vast majority of people” (72%) think it’s “misleading” to advertise part-copper broadband (e.g. FTTC) as ‘fibre’.

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2nd November, 2024 (0 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which has already extended their full fibre (FTTP / B) network to cover “more than” 1.73 million UK homes in parts of 64 towns and cities (mostly MDUs), has today announced that they’re kicking off their Black Friday deals early with some modest price cuts.

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23rd October, 2024 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which has so far deployed their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million homes in parts of 64 UK towns and cities, has today announced that they’ve appointed Geoff Heddle to be their new Director of Product.

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