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ISP News Archives for March 13, 2026

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Starlink to Boost UK Broadband Capacity and Coverage via New Earth Stations

13th Mar 2026 (10 Comments)

SpaceX has revealed that they’re seeking approval from Ofcom to deploy two more gateway earth stations in Harlow (Essex) and Mulberry Wharf (London), which would connect Starlink’s mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to the internet (or to a private network) – improving the network’s data capacity and coverage.

UK ISP TalkTalk Says Last Chance to Benefit from Price Freeze Until 2027

13th Mar 2026 (0 Comments)

Broadband provider TalkTalk has notified those looking to join its service that they still have a few more days to sign-up and “lock in their monthly bill until next year“. This is because the ISP, not unlike other major providers, currently “guarantee no price rises until 2027 – when customers sign up before 30th March 2026“.

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Openreach Publish Tweaked 2026 Update on UK FTTP Broadband Build Plan

13th Mar 2026 (18 Comments)

National network operator Openreach (BT) has published a new March 2026 update on their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband ISP technology. The update reflects all the recent changes and progress with their existing locations (doesn’t add new areas) and has also tweaked their info. to give people “clearer information about when to expect full fibre build to start“.

Rural England Broadband ISP Airband Appoints Jarlath Finnegan as Chairman

13th Mar 2026 (4 Comments)

Alternative broadband provider Airband, which has built both a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based network to cover rural parts of the Midlands, Cheshire, Oxfordshire, South West England and North Wales, has today announced that Jarlath Finnegan has been appointed as Chairman following Ian Fishwick’s departure.

Second Publicly Funded UK 4G Mobile Mast for Total Not Spots Goes Live on Islay

13th Mar 2026 (0 Comments)

The UK Government has today announced that the industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) project has put its second Total Not Spot (TNS) site live, which has helped to expand 4G (mobile broadband) coverage on the remote Island of Islay (Scotland) – reaching Machir Bay, Saligo Bay, Loch Gorm, and Cultoon Stone Circle, as well as along the western coast.

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Hubble Network Builds Satellite Network to Connect Regular Bluetooth IoT Devices

13th Mar 2026 (1 Comment)

The Hubble Network, which specialises in connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices (e.g. sensors, parcel tracking, stolen vehicle recovery etc.), has confirmed the first-ever direct-to-satellite connection using standard, commercially available Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips. The development could enable ordinary Bluetooth devices to transmit data globally from virtually anywhere on Earth.

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Starlink Start Lowering Altitude of 4400 LEO Broadband Satellites to Boost Safety

13th Mar 2026 (0 Comments)

SpaceX appears to have begun their planned move to lower the orbit of around 4,400 of their Starlink ultrafast broadband satellites from around 550km to 480km, which is due to take place over the course of 2026. So far 652 satellites have completed orbit lowering while 972 are currently on the way down.

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UK Gov Launch Address Checker for Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE

13th Mar 2026 (33 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today launched a new address checker, which enables homes in England and Wales to see whether they’ll be able to benefit from the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband networks under their publicly funded £5bn Project Gigabit programme. But at the time of writing it’s “currently unavailable due to a technical problem“.

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