Openreach’s Essex and North East England Project Gigabit Broadband Contract Expands | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK government has posted a Project Gigabit modification for Openreach’s £61.3m (public subsidy) contract to extend the reach of their full fibre (FTTP) based gigabit broadband network across Essex and North East England. This increases the value by £610,393 to £61.92m and will now reach an additional 269 premises in remote rural areas (total target now 24,707 premises). Just to remind. Project Gigabit’s contracts are not static and their scope, as...
2026 New Year Honours for Building Digital UK’s Strategy Director | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government has published their annual New Year Honours List for 2026, which this time saw Matt Agar, Strategy Director for the government’s Building Digital UK agency within DSIT, being named an “Officer of the Order of the British Empire” for “services to Digital Infrastructure and Broadband“. The King’s New Year Honours list is said to recognise the achievements and public service of people across the UK, from all walks of life. Anyone can...
Broadband ISP Zen Internet Saw UK Network Traffic Grow 21 Percent in 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet has this morning revealed that average network traffic across their service rose by 21% during 2025, with the highest peak of data usage being set on 11th November 2025 (22% above last year’s peak) – largely driven by live football streaming (this often dominated peak demand). What distinguishes 2025 is not the existence of such peaks, but how frequently they now occur on top of sustained demand. Zen...
The H2 2025 Top Fastest UK Mobile and Home Broadband ISPs | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More ISPreview has today published our final biannual study of the United Kingdom’s broadband download and upload speeds for 2025, which reveals how the performance of the fastest nationally available fixed line ISPs, mobile network operators and Starlink (satellite) services has changed since H1 (mid-year). The results in this report stem from web-based speed testing by consumers and are thus inevitably impacted by a number of factors, such as the rising...
Virgin Media UK’s Winter Broadband Sale Cuts 2Gbps to £49.99 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More New customers looking to join Virgin Media (O2) may like to know that they’ve kicked off their Winter Sale today, which will run until 4th February 2026 and offers a variety of discounts across their various broadband packages, TV bundles (these all include Netflix Standard) and triple-play deals with O2’s mobile SIMs. The new deals aren’t all that different from what we saw around the Black Friday period, although there are a few notable ones. For...
Community Fibre Drop Mid-Contract Broadband Price Hikes for New UK Customers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative network operator and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has invested c.£1bn to deploy a 5Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network across 1.342 million UK homes (inc. 185k businesses within 200 metres of their network) – mostly in London, has just removed all of their mid-contract price hikes for new customers. The provider had previously adopted a pricing policy that increased the monthly price that customers pay for their package by £2 each...
Frustrations Over Unreliable FibreNest Broadband on Carlisle Housing Estate | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Residents of the 100-home Amberwood estate in Carlisle (Cumbria, England), which was originally built by Persimmon Homes and thus served by a single full fibre (FTTP) network from FibreNest (recently acquired by OFNL), have expressed frustration after another protracted broadband outage hit the area – allegedly the latest in a long list of disruptions over the past 6 years. The latest outage is said to have disrupted internet connectivity for three long...
Consolidation Tracker for Alternative UK Gigabit Broadband Networks | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The past couple of years have been awash with news and predictions about rising consolidation within the UK’s market for alternative fixed broadband networks (altnets). But keeping track of so many developments can be difficult, so ISPreview has decided to start a new tracker, which monitors related announcements since 2020 onwards. Most altnets across the market are currently looking at consolidation as a way of balancing against the difficult market...
2025 vs 2024 – UK Broadband and Mobile Speeds vs the World | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More ISPreview is today ending 2025 by taking our annual look back to see how the United Kingdom’s position, in terms of the top 50 fastest countries for fixed broadband and mobile speeds (4G, 5G), has changed since 2024. Overall, the UK’s global rank for mobile speed is now 59th (down from 53rd last year), while our ranking for fixed broadband is 44th (unchanged). The following report was created by harnessing data from Ookla’s popular Speedtest.net database...
1,000 UK Broadband Users Warned of “Illegal” TV Streaming by FACT | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has sent a warning message (via email and text) to over 1,000 broadband internet users in the UK that have been identified as using “illegal TV streaming services“, which calls on them to “immediately cease using illegal TV streaming services or face the risk of prosecution“. “People who access illegal TV streaming services are potentially liable to prosecution for criminal offences, including under Section...