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Quickline 2025 Female Engineer Walking

3rd December, 2025 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has today announced that they’ve now covered 10,610 premises as part of their publicly subsidised Project Gigabit contract.

gigaclear engineers in rural uk field

3rd December, 2025 (8 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) network across 612,000 premises in rural parts of England and is home to c.160,000 customers, has today announced that they’ve secured “at least” £80m in new funding from its consortium of existing banks. The provider now claims to be “fully funded to deliver its plans“.

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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Openreach 10Gbps Nokia ONT from SIN Document

2nd December, 2025 (41 Comments)

After revealing the pilot pricing for their future 3.3Gbps (3300Mbps) full fibre broadband tier last month (here), we overlooked that network operator Openreach (BT) had also published an updated technical document (SIN) for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology. This has now added a selection of faster tiers beyond 3.3Gbps, such as 5.5Gbps and up to 8.5Gbps.

iDNET_uk_broadband_isp_logo_image_2021

1st December, 2025 (9 Comments)

Broadband provider iDNET has recently added support for three additional alternative Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks, including Trooli, Netomnia (business plans only) and Freedom Fibre, which is on top of their partnerships with existing networks including CityFibre, Openreach, MS3 and FullFibre.

fibre optic uk network cable flay glowing - 123rf

1st December, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access and business-focused full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the United Kingdom, has today announced that their XGS-PON powered 10Gbps capable fibre network has now gone live across parts of Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear, England) and Glasgow (Scotland).

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Upp-Engineers-Jacket

29th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Court of Appeal in London has dismissed an attempt by investment firm LetterOne (L1), which had been seeking compensation after the previous Government used the new National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) to force them into selling Upp’s full fibre broadband network to rival operator nexfibre at a loss (retail customers went to Virgin Media).

Netomnia-UK-Engineer-walking-on-road

28th November, 2025 (20 Comments)

Customers connected to UK ISP Youfibre (and other ISPs) on one of the country’s largest alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks, Netomnia (Substantial Group), are currently understood to be experiencing “intermittent connectivity or slower-than-usual performance” due to an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

Wight-Fibre-Pleio-Netgen-TV-Deal

28th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which have deployed their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), has become the latest internet provider to make Netgem TV’s new PLEIO set-top-box – including support for the new Freely live TV streaming service – available at a discounted price.

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Vodafone-UK-Store-Picture

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.

zen internet uk isp

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.

FTTP External Wall Box Install by Openreach Engineer 2022

27th November, 2025 (48 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has this afternoon revealed the first pricing for their forthcoming pilot of XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP lines, which is due to get underway in March 2026. But for now they’re only revealing how much they’ll charge for the 3.3Gbps (3300Mbps) tier.

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internet_statistics_growth by 123rf

27th November, 2025 (11 Comments)

The latest estimated Q3 2025 market statistics from telecoms analyst firm Point Topic have revealed that, for the first time, Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based UK subscriber broadband ISP connections (11.56 million) have overtaken the previous generation of hybrid Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC/VDSL2) lines (10.6m).

Connect-Fibre-and-PLEIO-asset

27th November, 2025 (3 Comments)

Alternative broadband operator and UK ISP Connect Fibre, which has been rolling out their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network across the East of England, have today become the latest internet provider to make Netgem TV‘s new PLEIO IPTV set-top-box and streaming service available via their TV bundles. The new kit is both more powerful and supports the new Freely live TV streaming service.

Steve Leighton ISPA Chair 2025

27th November, 2025 (34 Comments)

The Strategic Advisor for fibre supplier Altnets and Chair of the UK Internet Service Provider’s Association (ISPA), Steve Leighton, has made a number of recommendations on how he believes the broadband sector can address one of its “most pressing challenges” – low adoption of full-fibre services despite expanding network coverage.

Voneus-engineers-working-up-pole

26th November, 2025 (12 Comments)

Alternative rural UK broadband network Voneus has been criticised after a network fault resulted in two premises in villages near Brecon (Wales) losing connectivity, which by itself wouldn’t be a huge development. But in this case, the provider later chose to “decommission” the service rather than repair it, leaving those affected offline.

Big Ben, London Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament - 123rf

26th November, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Chancellor of the UK Government, Rachel Reeves MP, has today announced her Autumn 2025 Budget and there appears to be no current sign of anything significantly new for broadband and mobile infrastructure (except an update on pushing gigabit broadband into MDUs). In addition, there’s no indication that any of the recent calls for targeted business rates relief on digital infrastructure have been heeded.

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