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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).
16th May, 2025 (6 Comments)
A new report from the cross-industry UK Spectrum Policy Forum (UKSPF), which was conducted in collaboration with consultancy firm Coleago, has examined what might become of the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) spectrum bands after 2034 (currently used for digital TV, PMSE and others). For example, if auctioned to mobile operators, the IMT600 band could raise up to £980m.
15th May, 2025 (1 Comment)
Broadband and phone provider Virgin Media (O2) has today launched another trial to support their Digital Landline Switchover (DLS) programme (i.e. migrating old analogue landline phones to IP-based services), which this time focuses on giving support to telecare users in Cardiff (Wales) in order to help them make the switch.
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13th May, 2025 (0 Comments)
The Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF), which is a global trade body that works to address issues affecting mobile networks, has met with the UK Government’s Home Office to discuss the future Telecom Fraud Charter (TFC) and how they can improve the progress being made in tackling Application-to-Person (A2P) SMS text messaging fraud.
13th May, 2025 (11 Comments)
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a new investigation into wireless broadband operator IX Wireless (supported by UK ISP 6Gi / Opus Broadband), which will examine whether the network provider failed in its duty to minimise the visual impact of a 15-metre metal mast / pole when it was installed in Rochdale during 2023.
12th May, 2025 (20 Comments)
Industry trade body Mobile UK, which represents Three UK, EE, O2 and Vodafone, has published a new report from Assembly Research that calls on the government to “secure the UK’s economic growth goals and maintain its competitive standing” by supporting their familiar wish list of demands to help boost the roll-out and coverage of mobile networks (4G, 5G etc.).
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11th May, 2025 (24 Comments)
The One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is the industry-led organisation responsible for helping to deliver Ofcom’s solution (One Touch Switching) for easier and quicker UK consumer switching between broadband and phone providers on different networks, has successfully completed 1 million service migrations since its launch on 12th September 2024.
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%).
7th May, 2025 (0 Comments)
The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today published their annual Media Use and Attitudes 2025 report, which among other things has revealed that the proportion of UK adults with home internet access remains plateaued at 94% in 2024. But the majority of adults without internet access at home report a lack of interest in having it.
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7th May, 2025 (1 Comment)
A relatively new Liverpool-based alternative network operator called River City Networks, which was incorporated on 30th May 2023 and has one Director (Matthew Wilson), has revealed that it plans to deploy a new “gigabit dual fibre and wireless” network to serve premises in several UK cities, specifically in Liverpool, Manchester and London.
2nd May, 2025 (21 Comments)
Liberty Global has confirmed that sibling nexfibre, which is working alongside UK ISP partner Virgin Media to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre broadband (FTTP) network across over 5 million premises (c.2.2m have already been built), has scaled back its coverage target for 2025 to 2.5 million premises passed. At the same time, VMO2 “have paused our NetCo plans“.
1st May, 2025 (0 Comments)
In a not unexpected development, network operator TfW Ffeibr (TFW Fibre), which is an arm’s-length initiative setup by Transport for Wales (TfW) – itself owned by the Welsh Government (WG), has applied for Code Powers from Ofcom in order to boost their plans for a full fibre broadband network that runs alongside local railways.
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1st May, 2025 (0 Comments)
Ofcom have today published their latest quarterly (Q4 2024) study of UK consumer telecoms complaints, which shames NOW Broadband (NOW TV) and TalkTalk for attracting the most complaints about broadband, while O2 took the most heat for Mobile and Virgin Media was put on the naughty step for Pay TV services.
30th April, 2025 (0 Comments)
Network analyst firm Streetwave, which is using bin lorries to help map the coverage and performance of 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) networks across 113 UK councils, has revealed how much the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project has helped to improve mobile coverage across mid-Wales over the past 9 months – O2 saw the strongest improvement.
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).
29th April, 2025 (0 Comments)
Online shopping giant Amazon last night succeeded in launching their first batch of 27 ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for Project Kuiper. The platforms were put into space by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket that unleashed some 2.7 million pounds (12 megaNewtons) of thrust.
25th April, 2025 (0 Comments)
The One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is the industry-led company responsible for helping to implement Ofcom’s solution (One Touch Switching) for easier and quicker UK consumer switching between broadband and phone providers, has this afternoon revealed that they’re aiming to go live with a switching solution for businesses in “early 2026“.
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