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Vitrifi Calls in the Administrators Over UK Wholesale Platform for Full Fibre AltNets

4th December, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Fern Trading (Octopus Investments) backed company Vitrifi, which was first incorporated back in 2021 and offered a cloud-based software platform to help alternative network providers (altnets) offer wholesale products (details), appears to have filed a new notice stating their intention to appoint an administrator.

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Telecoms and IT Provider Aspire Secures £200m UK Investment Boost

3rd December, 2025 (0 Comments)

Managed IT, cybersecurity and business broadband provider Aspire Technology Solutions has this morning announced news of a major new investment from existing private equity investor LDC and new minority co-investor Federated Hermes, which will take the business to a £192m valuation (up from £85 million in 2022).

Rural UK Broadband Altnet Gigaclear Secures £80m Funding from Banks

3rd December, 2025 (6 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built a full fibre (FTTP) network across 612,000 premises in rural parts of England and is home to c.160,000 customers, has today announced that they’ve secured “at least” £80m in new funding from its consortium of existing banks. The provider now claims to be “fully funded to deliver its plans“.

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Redundancies Expected as UK Broadband ISP Hyperoptic Adjust Strategy

2nd December, 2025 (14 Comments)

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which claims to have already deployed their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover 1.9 million UK homes passed, has informed ISPreview that they’re making some “modest adjustments to our teams working on multi-unit residential buildings” and as a result there may be a few redundancies. Less than 5% of employees are said to be affected.

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ITS Technology Expand UK Full Fibre Network to Glasgow and Newcastle

1st December, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access and business-focused full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across parts of the United Kingdom, has today announced that their XGS-PON powered 10Gbps capable fibre network has now gone live across parts of Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear, England) and Glasgow (Scotland).

Court Rejects L1 Compensation Appeal Over Forced Sale of UK Broadband Network Upp

29th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

The Court of Appeal in London has dismissed an attempt by investment firm LetterOne (L1), which had been seeking compensation after the previous Government used the new National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) to force them into selling Upp’s full fibre broadband network to rival operator nexfibre at a loss (retail customers went to Virgin Media).

Broadband ISP Zen Internet Expands UK Business Connectivity Products

27th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has today announced that they’ve expanded their Direct Business connectivity portfolio to give UK businesses access to “more full fibre networks than any other ISP“. The main development seems to be the launch of CityFibre’s Business FTTP, Ethernet Flex and Direct Internet Access (DIA) services.

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Autumn UK Budget 2025 Brings Little New for Broadband and Mobile UPDATE

26th November, 2025 (3 Comments)

The Chancellor of the UK Government, Rachel Reeves MP, has today announced her Autumn 2025 Budget and there appears to be no current sign of anything significantly new for broadband and mobile infrastructure (except an update on pushing gigabit broadband into MDUs). In addition, there’s no indication that any of the recent calls for targeted business rates relief on digital infrastructure have been heeded.

Utility Warehouse Prep UK VoIP Phone Service as 561,086 Take Broadband

25th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

Energy and communications provider Telecom Plus, which trades as Utility Warehouse (UW), has just published their latest H1 FY26 Results to the end of September 2025 and revealed that their broadband ISP grew its total UK customer base to 561,086 (up by 176,196 in the year) and their mobile base grew to 698,054 (up by 171,887).

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Full Fibre UK Provider ITS Technology Boost Biz Connectivity with euNetworks Deal

25th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which have deployed various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across the UK, has today announced that they’ve partnered with bandwidth infrastructure company euNetworks to provide enterprises with direct connectivity to Europe’s “most strategically important” data centres.

Rural UK Broadband ISP Quickline Appoints New Chief Commercial Officer

24th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative provider Quickline, which is building a mix of full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) broadband networks across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has today continued their recent changes in senior leadership (here) by appointing Becki Smith as their new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

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Enders Analysis Warns Largest UK Broadband Altnets Lost £1.5bn in 2024

24th November, 2025 (21 Comments)

The latest annual report from analyst firm Enders Analysis – seen by ISPreview – has calculated that the UK’s largest alternative gigabit broadband networks (i.e. BT / Openreach challengers) collectively suffered losses of £1.5bn in 2024 (up from £1.304bn in 2023 and £755m in 2022) – driven by high interest rates and rising build costs. But it suggests that many may never make a profit.

Rural UK Broadband Network Provider Truespeed Appoints New CEO

21st November, 2025 (3 Comments)

Alternative broadband provider and UK ISP Truespeed, which is in the process of merging with County Broadband to create a single full fibre operator covering 177,000 premises (RFS) and 41,000 customers (here), has announced that existing CEO James Lowther is to be replaced by the company’s current CCO, Nelson Missier, by the end of this year.

BT Claim Investing in UK Connectivity Could Offset Sick Leave for Businesses

20th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

A new study from broadband ISP BT Business has today claimed that businesses could gain “an extra nine days of productivity per employee” by 2030 through boosting investment in UK connectivity, which might potentially offset the 9.4 days of sick leave each employee is estimated to take annually (almost double pre-pandemic levels).

Progress as CityFibre Integrates Connexin’s UK FTTP Broadband Network UPDATE

19th November, 2025 (8 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre appears to be getting close to completing the integration of Connexin’s 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband infrastructure, which is present across parts of East Yorkshire (Hull etc.), Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire (England), into their national UK network.

House of Lords Report Calls for UK Broadband Investment to Boost Home Working

17th November, 2025 (7 Comments)

The cross-party Home-based Working Committee (Lords Select Committee) has published its report on remote and hybrid working in the UK, which among other things finds that the government should “increase long-term investment in digital infrastructure, particularly broadband” in order to properly support such working.

Business ISP FluidOne Appoints New CEO as Current Boss Steps Down

13th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Business focused UK broadband ISP, IT and Cloud solutions provider FluidOne has today announced that their existing Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Russell Horton, is to step down after seven and a half years in the post. Russell is to be replaced by Paul Kahn.