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Eir Take BT to Court in £67m Damages Claim Over N.Ireland Contract UPDATE

8th July, 2025 (0 Comments)

Irish network operator Eir is taking BT (Openreach) to the High Court in London over a claim for damages worth £67m, which relates to a long-running dispute over the UK broadband giant’s Northern Ireland Public Sector Shared Network (NIPSSN) contract to provide connectivity services; the same one that attracted a £6.3m fine from Ofcom in 2020.

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Coverage of Gigabit Broadband Nears 88 Percent of UK in H1 2025

30th June, 2025 (4 Comments)

ISPreview has this morning published our biannual H1 2025 summary of UK fixed broadband coverage, which reveals that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP networks have grown to reach 78.06% of premises (up from 73.53% in H2 2024) and 87.84% are within reach of “gigabit” 1000Mbps+ speeds (up from 85.87%). Read on to see details for England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland…

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Fibrus Hits EBITDA Breakeven as UK Broadband Customers Top 113.5k

9th June, 2025 (9 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative network operator Fibrus, which has been rolling out their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and Cumbria (England), has today published a summary of their latest results. The data reveals that they achieved EBITDA breakeven in March 2025 and are now home to 113,500 customers (up from 100k in Nov 2024).

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Openreach Say FTTP Broadband Now Covers 90 Percent of N.Ireland

16th May, 2025 (2 Comments)

Openreach has confirmed that their new 1.8Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network has now covered 90% of Northern Ireland, which is up from 87% a year ago. The operator is currently still in the process of investing another £100m to push this figure up to 97% for a total of more than 830,000 homes and businesses (here).

Ofcom Spring 2025 Data – Gigabit Broadband Covers 27.24 Million UK Premises

8th May, 2025 (6 Comments)

Ofcom has today published its Spring 2025 update on UK fixed broadband and mobile coverage, which reveals that “full fibre” (FTTP) lines now reach 74% of homes (up from 69% in July 2024), while 86% are within reach of a gigabit network (up from 83%) and 62-85% of premises can get an outdoor 5G signal (up from 61-79%).

Broadband ISP Fibrus Helps Boost N.Ireland Economy by £431m Since 2020

6th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

A new economic and social impact report from Grant Thornton has claimed that Infracapital-backed network operator Fibrus, which is building a full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across several rural parts of the UK, has contributed £431 million (expenditure) to the Northern Ireland economy since beginning operations in 2020.

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BT Consults on Closure of its Londonderry Office by End of 2025

1st May, 2025 (2 Comments)

Telecoms and broadband giant BT has confirmed that, as part of their ongoing UK programme to modernise and consolidate the number of offices they have – shrinking them from around 300 to just 30 locations, they’ve begun a consultation on the closure of their Londonderry office. The move, which could be implemented by the end of 2025, puts around 140 jobs at risk.

April 2025 Progress Update on BT’s 10Mbps UK Broadband USO

29th April, 2025 (3 Comments)

UK ISP BT has published their first biannual progress update for 2025 on their delivery of Ofcom’s somewhat maligned 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband. The provider has so far helped to build a USO connection to over 8,411 premises (up from 8,248 in Oct 2024), with 349 further builds in-progress (up from 215).

Fibrus Founder Criticises Openreach “Pole Tax” on UK Fibre Broadband Builds

17th April, 2025 (27 Comments)

The co-Founder & Chair of UK broadband ISP Fibrus, Conal Henry, has criticised network operator Openreach (BT Group) for the “pole tax” they claim is being levelled against them, which is said to be “twice the cost of paying our own staff, just to rent some poles and holes built by the British taxpayer“.

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Virgin Media O2 and Mutual Energy Make UK Streetworks Safer by Joining LSBUD

10th April, 2025 (4 Comments)

The LSBUD (Line Search Before You Dig) organisation, which offers an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has said that Northern Ireland’s underground pipes and cables will be “safer than ever before” after Virgin Media (O2) and Mutual Energy joined their platform.

Fibrus Launch 2025 Broadband Community Fund with Pot of £120,000

10th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Infracapital-backed broadband operator and UK ISP Fibrus, which is building a full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has this week re-launched their Community Fund for 2025 with a pot of £120,000 to invest across a variety of rural community groups within the operator’s network patch.

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Broadband ISP Fibrus to Deploy Nokia Deepfield Across UK Network

8th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Infracapital-backed network operator Fibrus, which is building a full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has today announced a new 5-year agreement to deploy Nokia’s Deepfield solution across their UK network. This is a network monitoring, management and security solution.

Broadband Operator Fibrus Reorganises UK Business and Appoints New MDs

3rd April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative network operator Fibrus, which is currently busy building a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has today announced a reorganisation of their business and also the appointment of two new Managing Directors (MD) to “lead their next phase of growth“.

Fibrus Extend Cumbria UK Gigabit Broadband Build by 21,000 Premises

28th March, 2025 (6 Comments)

Infracapital-backed network operator Fibrus has today confirmed what we first reported last week (here), which is that their £108m publicly funded Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract in Cumbria (Lot 28) has been “extended” to cover an additional 21,000 premises in hard-to-reach areas. But it’s a bit more complex than that.

Fibrus CEO Apologises for Lengthy Broadband Outages in Northern Ireland

13th February, 2025 (2 Comments)

The CEO and Co-Founder of UK ISP Fibrus, Dominic Kearns, has apologised to the several thousand premises in Northern Ireland that are still without access to their full fibre broadband network following Storm Éowyn (pronounced ‘Ay-oh-win’), which struck nearly three weeks ago. But most of their customers are now back online.

nPerf Ranks Fastest UK Fixed Broadband ISPs by Nation and Speed

7th February, 2025 (3 Comments)

Internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from a new crowdsourced study into fixed broadband ISP speeds across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But oddly the results only cover Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, Vodafone, TalkTalk, Fibrus (NI) and Ogi (Wales).

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N.Ireland Assembly Blasts Broadband and Mobile Providers Over Storm Eowyn Response

6th February, 2025 (10 Comments)

Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have this week criticised UK broadband and mobile operators, particularly Vodafone, BT, EE, Sky Broadband, Vodafone, O2 and Fibrus, for their response to the damage caused by Storm Éowyn. The complaints touched on issues of slow repairs, absent compensation and poor communication with customers.