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Virgin Media O2 Switches on 5G Standalone for UK Businesses UPDATE

13th February, 2025 (2 Comments)

After launching their first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) based mobile broadband network for consumers in February 2024 (here), mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today expanded the service’s availability to include large enterprise, public sector, and SME (business) customers on eligible tariffs.

New Gov Action Plan Supports Vulnerable Users in UK Digital Phone Switchover

12th February, 2025 (20 Comments)

The UK government has published its revised Telecare National Action Plan (TNAP), which will require major UK broadband and phone providers (e.g. BT, Virgin Media, Vodafone and Sky Broadband) to go further with protecting vulnerable telecare users when upgrading legacy phone lines to new digital (IP based) networks.

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).

Jobs at Risk as Svella Connect and Virgin Media UK Work to Settle Dispute

7th February, 2025 (6 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (inc. nexfibre and O2) and civil engineering partner Svella Connect are currently trying to resolve a difficult dispute over “contractual terms“, which touches on issues of worker safety, rate reductions, and work volumes for Nexfibre. But there’s still hope for an amicable solution that may avoid the risk of redundancies.

Virgin Media O2 to Create 100+ Early UK Career and Re-Training Opportunities

6th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has today announced that they’re planning to create more than 100 early UK careers and re-skilling opportunities during 2025, which is about half the intake figure of last year (here) and down from the c.350 they pledged to create during 2023 (here).

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Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Build Full Fibre to 12,000 Exmouth Homes

6th February, 2025 (9 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre and retail ISP partner Virgin Media (O2) have today confirmed that they’ve made their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network available to more than 12,000 homes in the port town of Exmouth (near Exeter in Devon, England) for the first time.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Blocked 168 Million Suspected Fraud Texts Over Past 2 Years

5th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that their UK network blocked 168 million suspected fraudulent text messages from reaching customers over the past two years (up from 89 million texts in 2023), with scams including fake TikTok job offers, and deals and discounts for popular brands.

RootMetrics Test Names EE as BEST UK Mobile Network for H2 2024

4th February, 2025 (8 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has today published their H2 2024 study of UK mobile networks (calls, texts etc.) and mobile broadband performance, which once again sees EE (BT) continuing to win all the award categories, followed by Vodafone and Three UK. But O2 (Virgin Media) found itself at the bottom of the table.

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Gov Reportedly Looking to Cut Support for £1bn Rural UK 4G Mobile Rollout

2nd February, 2025 (16 Comments)

A major newspaper has reported that the Government may be looking to reduced their funding commitment for the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme and its efforts to extend 4G mobile (mobile broadband) coverage into remote rural areas. The move could significantly cut the number of mobile masts due to be built with public funding.

Ofcom Probes Deeper into Flaws of New UK Broadband Switching Process

31st January, 2025 (9 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has called on major ISPs – including BT, Sky Broadband, Vodafone, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media – to provide more information in an effort to help them understand why the new consumer broadband and phone switching system (One Touch Switching) is still struggling to successfully complete many consumer migration requests.

Virgin Media O2 UK to Donate 12,000 Smartphones in 2025

30th January, 2025 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today announced that they intend to donate “up to” 12,000 pre-owned Smartphones during 2025 (c.1,000 per month) to help people in need get online and reduce e-waste, which will be conducted in partnership with the Good Things Foundation and Hubbub.

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30 Government Funded 4G Mobile UK Mast Upgrades Now Live

30th January, 2025 (13 Comments)

The boss of Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited (DMSL), which represents the four major mobile operators (EE, O2, Vodafone and Three UK), has today confirmed that a total of 30 government-funded rural 4G (mobile broadband) mast upgrades have now gone live across the United Kingdom via the industry-led £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project.

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O2 UK Use Starlink to Bring 4G Mobile to Rural Village of Craster UPDATE

28th January, 2025 (18 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has harnessed a Starlink based LEO satellite broadband connection for backhaul capacity in order to successfully expand their 4G mobile coverage across the remote rural Northumberland (England) village of Craster, which they say “previously had no coverage from any mobile operator“; 5G and fibre will follow.

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Liberty Global and Juniper Networks Test New Multi Cloud Tech in the UK

28th January, 2025 (0 Comments)

Juniper Networks and European broadband operator Liberty Global, which is one of the parents of Virgin Media and O2 UK, have just completed a joint Proof-of-Concept (PoC) in the UK that demonstrated a “cost-efficient, software-programmable, secure and seamless way” to consistently connect services and applications hosted in disparate locations and across different cloud technologies.

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Three UK and Virgin Media O2 Partner to Launch RCS Business Messaging

27th January, 2025 (10 Comments)

Mobile operators Three UK and O2 (Virgin Media) have today announced that they’re partnering with the cloud communications platform, Sinch, to make RCS Business Messaging (RBM) available on iOS (Apple iPhone, iPad etc.) for their customers – previously this was only available to Android based phones and devices.

nPerf Name EE as the UK Fastest Mobile Network in 2025 Benchmark

24th January, 2025 (13 Comments)

Internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has this morning published the results from their annual 2025 crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance, which sees EE being named as the country’s best and fastest operator for mobile data performance. But Three UK still holds the top spot for 5G-only performance.

EE Miles Ahead of O2, Three UK and Vodafone for 5G Mobile Availability

24th January, 2025 (24 Comments)

Network benchmarking provider Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net internet connection testing service, has kindly furnished ISPreview with some additional data that reveals the past and present levels of UK 5G mobile (mobile broadband) availability across EE (BT), Vodafone, Three UK and O2 (Virgin Media). Some of the results may surprise.