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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)
Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media, specifically those who take their Pay TV services, can now gain exclusive free access to 3 months of Fit at Home, a workout (fitness) app that attempts to cater for all kinds of people. The service usually costs an extra £10 per month.
15th April, 2025 (2 Comments)
Sky (Sky Broadband, Sky TV etc.) has refreshed their Sky VIP scheme, which typically offers special discounts and rewards to existing customers. This began after the My Sky App introduced (9th April 2025) a new “first-for-Sky discounts marketplace“, exclusively available to their VIP customers.
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13th April, 2025 (24 Comments)
In a somewhat unsurprising development, newspaper reports have today claimed that Vodafone and Three UK (CK Hutchison) may be gearing up to support their merger by discussing the launch of a new Pay TV service. Such products are typically sold as part of a bundle (convergence), such as alongside fixed broadband, phone and mobile plans.
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.
3rd April, 2025 (0 Comments)
Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who take TV services via one of the provider’s TV 360, Stream (Flex) or v6 set-top-box platforms, have today been informed that the provider has just added two new Rakuten TV FAST channels to its service “at no extra cost“.
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31st March, 2025 (0 Comments)
The long-running pan-European battle over video streaming-related technology between Nokia and Amazon (Prime) has this morning been settled with the announcement of a new license agreement – Nokia’s first patent license deal with a major streaming platform. But the terms of the agreement remain confidential.
31st March, 2025 (3 Comments)
Sky UK has today published their latest bi-annual Attention Index report for the July to December 2024 period, which reveals various TV viewing figures across their network and also states that Sky Broadband customers used 19.1 billion gigabytes of data in the last six months.
25th March, 2025 (0 Comments)
Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media’s (O2) Pay TV services (delivered via their TV 360, V6 or Stream boxes) have today been informed that the provider has launched ‘Premier Sports Rugby’ on their platform, which is said to be the “UK’s first dedicated 24/7 rugby channel“. But you’ll need to be subscribed to Premier Sports in order to get it.
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21st March, 2025 (21 Comments)
Sky’s sibling NOW TV video streaming platform appears to have now largely completed the deployment of its new app and User Interface (UI), adding a “new look and some great new features“. The roll-out of the new app started on 18th February 2025 and has taken “several weeks” to deliver, although some devices have yet to benefit.
20th March, 2025 (2 Comments)
Customers of broadband and mobile network operator Vodafone UK may like to know that the provider has today added support on their Pay Monthly Airtime plans (i.e. those with the “Entertainment” feature) for Disney+ Premium Plans (video streaming service), which complements their existing choice of Amazon (Prime Video) and YouTube Premium plans.
19th March, 2025 (10 Comments)
Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) may like to know that the provider recently began the slow process of phasing-out their old TV 360 Mini boxes, which are usually deployed to support for multi-room systems. But the company is now increasingly working to replace these with their modern ‘Stream’ set-top-boxes (STB) instead.
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11th March, 2025 (13 Comments)
Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE has today revealed the results from last year’s trial delivery of TV content via a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) technology, which reflects BT’s effort to integrate their “world’s first” MAUD (Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery) solution into their CDN (originally Edgio).
10th March, 2025 (19 Comments)
Ofcom’s rules require that all “phone, broadband and pay-TV providers” must “warn customers when their current contract is ending, and what they could save by signing up to a new deal” (usually sent between 10-40 days before the end of your contract). But an ongoing legal challenge makes the situation for customers of Sky TV a bit more confusing.
7th March, 2025 (0 Comments)
Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who take Pay TV services via one of the provider’s TV 360, Stream or v6 box platforms, may like to know that the company has just added two new FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television) channels to its TV service “at no extra cost“.
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).
19th February, 2025 (0 Comments)
Digital entertainment platform Netgem TV has today announced that their IPTV box and service, which is typically bundled by broadband ISPs like Brsk, TalkTalk, Connect Fibre, CommunityFibre and others, will benefit from a new collaboration with the FIFA+ streaming platform that will bring “unparalleled access to free, high-quality football content” to users of the service.
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