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Virgin-Media-O2-Engineer-Handing-Leaflet

26th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband, phone and pay TV provider Virgin Media has this morning launched a new promotion that gives existing customers the opportunity to earn up to £70 if they refer a friend (it’s normally £50). The incentive will also give the new customer up to £70 too.

Sky Mobile UK

26th September, 2025 (6 Comments)

Some customers of the Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband, Sky TV etc.) service, which harnesses O2’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator platform, have recently been complaining about a spate of problems with getting eSIMs activated. But the good news is that Sky now appears to have removed the faulty eSIMs and has begun contacting users to sort replacements.

LNER New Mobile Mast in Northumberland from YouTube Video PR 230925

23rd September, 2025 (0 Comments)

The London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has announced that customers travelling along a picturesque 45-mile stretch of the line in Northumberland (England) can now access “significantly improved mobile phone and Wi-Fi connectivity“. This is thanks to a joint project with Railsite Telecom, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK).

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virgin media o2 network engineer at work 2021

17th September, 2025 (7 Comments)

Broadband network operator and retail ISP Virgin Media (O2) has this morning announced the creation of a single dedicated Fixed Wholesale unit, which will bring together their consumer and business facing wholesale teams under one roof. This will allow rival ISPs to access their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network – currently available to 7 million premises.

Virgin-Media-O2-5G-SA-Mobile-Mast-Surrounded-by-Trees-2023

16th September, 2025 (17 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that they now have the “country’s largest 5G Standalone deployment” after extending the coverage of their new ultrafast mobile broadband network to parts of 500 towns and cities, reaching more than 70% of the UK’s population (c.49 million people). Crucially this is provided to consumers “at no extra cost“.

Mobile-broadband-UK-operator-network-speed by 123rf

16th September, 2025 (6 Comments)

A new study from SignalTracker, which runs a popular Android mobile app (not iOS) for monitoring and examining mobile network performance, has revealed the results of a study into the speed differences between the UK’s primary mobile operators (MNO) and their virtual operator (MVNO) siblings. Unsurprisingly, EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2 outperformed mvnos.

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giffgaff broadband install by virgin media engineer

15th September, 2025 (44 Comments)

Mobile network provider giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica and uses O2’s associated virtual operator (MVNO) platform, has today officially taken their home broadband products – powered by nexfibre and Virgin Media’s full fibre networks – out of trial and made them available as commercial products for consumers to order.

giffgaff-trial-picture-using-virgin-media-branded-kit

12th September, 2025 (23 Comments)

Mobile network provider giffgaff, which is owned by Telefónica and uses O2’s associated virtual operator (MVNO) platform, has provided customers of their new home broadband trial – based on nexfibre and Virgin Media’s 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP / XGS-PON) network – with additional speed options other than 500Mbps.

Sky Mobile UK

12th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

New customers looking to join mobile operator Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband), which is a virtual provider (mvno) on O2’s national 4G and 5G network, may like to know that they’ve launched a bunch of new discounts on their SIM Only plans. For example, you can now get 1GB of data, including unlimited calls and texts, for just £1 per month (down from £3).

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Which?'s postcode based map of uk mobile signal quality 2025

11th September, 2025 (5 Comments)

Consumer magazine Which? has today teamed up with crowdsourced network benchmarking firm Opensignal to produce a new UK map of mobile network quality. The map uses real-world data to create a percentage score for how consistent the signal is in each postcode area in the year to August 2025 – split by EE, O2, Three UK and Vodafone.

virgin media o2 network engineer at work 2021

10th September, 2025 (3 Comments)

Broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have this afternoon announced that they’ve hired their 1,000th apprentice. The move follows the August 2025 launch of their new £1 million Apprenticeship Talent Fund, which is creating funded opportunities for smaller organisations to train apprentices and build a future workforce.

O2-Daisy

8th September, 2025 (0 Comments)

Business ISP Gamma Communications has today announced that they’ve signed a 6-year commitment with B2B telecoms company O2 Daisy, which extends an existing agreement and has been expanded to reflect the recent merger between VMO2 Business (Virgin Media and O2) and Daisy Group. A 7-year wholesale revenue agreement is also involved.

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virgin media van at dusk 2020

8th September, 2025 (18 Comments)

The CEO of Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica, Marc Murtra, has told Reuters that the outcome of their Strategic Review will see the group buying up telecom assets in Europe, which could potentially include gobbling Liberty Global’s stakes in UK broadband and mobile giants nexfibre, Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2).

East Midlands Rail Train at Station PR 020425

7th September, 2025 (4 Comments)

Network analyst firm Streetwave has today shared the results from a recent survey they conducted, which tested the mobile broadband coverage and performance of 4G and 5G networks – including EE, Three UK, Vodafone and O2 – while travelling along the Midland Main Line (MML) from London to Sheffield in Yorkshire via the East Midlands.

Emergency Alerts UK Gov Test Image from Vodafone UK PR 010925

6th September, 2025 (10 Comments)

Just a reminder that the UK government will conduct another major nationwide test of the Emergency Alerts service at 3pm tomorrow (Sunday 7th September 2025), which will be sent out via mobile networks to supporting handsets. This is otherwise normally only intended to be used if there’s a “danger to life nearby” (severe flooding, fires and extreme weather etc.).

Scam Alert UK Finger on Computer Keyboard Warning

4th September, 2025 (2 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that they’ve blocked more than 600 million scam text messages from reaching their customers phones so far in 2025 (more than double the number in 2023 and 2024 combined). But the operator warns that they’ve seen a “significant rise” in gambling, recruitment and car finance scam texts.

Tesco-Mobile-UK-SIM-Card

4th September, 2025 (47 Comments)

Tesco Mobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on O2’s national platform, appears to be causing some confusion among their base by informing “all of our current Pay as you go (PAYG) customers” that they are in the process of being “migrated” to the provider’s new PAYG Essentials tariff.

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