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Study Examines Impact of Solar Storms on Starlink Broadband Performance

18th Nov, 2025 (0 Comments)

A new study from a team of three researchers working out of the University of California (USA) has taken a “deep dive” into the impact of solar storms on Starlink’s global network of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The results uncovered some “previously overlooked patterns” of vulnerability and suggest that “more adaptive, region-aware mitigation strategies” may be needed.

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Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Build Full Fibre to 6,000 Homes in Ripon

18th Nov, 2025 (7 Comments)

UK ISP Virgin Media (O2) and network partner nexfibre, which enjoy some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve expanded the reach of their 2Gbps (symmetric) speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to reach more than 6,000 homes in the North Yorkshire (England) based Cathedral City of Ripon.

Broadband ISP TalkTalk Increases UK Mid-Contract Price Hikes to £4

17th Nov, 2025 (23 Comments)

Perhaps inevitably, TalkTalk has today become the latest internet and phone provider to increase the customer cost impact of their existing mid-contract pricing policy, which will be introduced from 16th November 2025. But the price increase itself won’t hit until April 2026.

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

17th Nov, 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.

Full Fibre’s Impact – Fibrus Report Makes Three Predictions for UK Rural Areas in 2025

17th Nov, 2025 (9 Comments)

Infracapital-backed alternative broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a full fibre network across parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has published a new report that outlines three predictions for how the UK’s rural areas might look in 2050 and highlights the “extraordinary potential” of such communities as engines of growth.

Virgin Media UK Make Linear FAST TV Channel Content Available On-Demand

17th Nov, 2025 (1 Comment)

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2), specifically those who also take a Pay TV service via one of their TV 360, Stream or v6 box platforms, have today been informed that they’ve added video-on-demand (VoD) capabilities, “at no extra cost“, to at least some of their growing line up of FAST channels.

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Great Western Railway Pilots Hybrid Network to Boost Onboard Wi-Fi

17th Nov, 2025 (7 Comments)

The Great Western Railway (GWR), which operates most train services across the Great Western Main Line (GWML) – the rail line in England that runs between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads, has joined with Peninsula Transport, Network Rail and Motion Applied to pilot faster on-board broadband (WiFi) using “technology from the world of Formula 1“.

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Ofcom Consult on Impact of Openreach PIA on the UK Leased Line Market UPDATE

17th Nov, 2025 (2 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a “narrow consultation” that proposes to amend their leased line access (LLA) market analysis for the ongoing Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR) to reflect a “greater potential impact” from Openreach’s Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product (this allows rivals to run new fibre via existing cable ducts and poles).

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Nokia Interview – 6G to Focus on Efficiency More than Mobile Broadband Speed

17th Nov, 2025 (9 Comments)

The Head of Standards at Nokia Technologies, Peter Merz, has today told ISPreview – as part of our latest interview – that they’re conscious of wanting to avoid what mobile operators call “G-fatigue” (over-hyping) with their development of future 6G mobile (broadband) technology, which he says will be more about “intelligence and efficiency” than raw data throughput.

O2 UK Hit Customer with £1,000 Bill After Losing their Mobile Number

16th Nov, 2025 (21 Comments)

Most people who call up their mobile operator’s retentions team to negotiate a better deal don’t expect to walk away from that with an unexpected £1,000 bill and to later be told that “sorry … we’ve lost your [mobile] number [and] … there isn’t anything we can do about it“. Nevertheless, that’s what recently happened to one of O2’s (Virgin Media) customers.

CEO of Broadband ISP Zen Internet Calls for Ban of Mid-Contract Price Hikes

15th Nov, 2025 (46 Comments)

The boss of venerable UK broadband and phone provider Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has backed the Government’s Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Liz Kendall, in her alleged “call for an ‘outright ban on absurd’ mid-contract telecoms price rises“. But it remains unclear whether Ofcom will go that far.

No Solution Yet for West Herefordshire and Peak District Gigabit Broadband Project

15th Nov, 2025 (0 Comments)

The UK government has furnished ISPreview with a brief update on their progress toward finding a solution for Project Gigabit’s stalled full fibre broadband upgrades for rural parts of the Derbyshire Peak District and West Herefordshire. Both areas ran into difficulty (here) earlier this year after FullFibre Ltd “mutually agreed to terminate” their publicly funded contracts.

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Starlink Toys with Cheaper Residential 100Mbps Broadband Satellite Plan

14th Nov, 2025 (13 Comments)

The Starlink (SpaceX) internet service, which reflects a mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), recently introduced a new residential package for consumers – currently only available in the USA (but it may yet come to the UK) – that caps download speeds at 100Mbps, but drops the monthly price to just $50 (c.£30).

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Project Kuiper’s Global Satellite Broadband Network Rebrands to Amazon Leo

14th Nov, 2025 (3 Comments)

Internet retail giant Amazon has announced that their in-development Project Kuiper constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has been renamed to Amazon Leo. The first customer connections are also now expected to go live by the end of this year – initially in the US, Canada, UK, Germany and France.

Streetwave Publish Map of South Yorkshire 4G and 5G Mobile Cover and Data Speed

14th Nov, 2025 (5 Comments)

A few months ago we reported that the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) in England and network analyst firm Streetwave had begun a new project to map 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage and speed across the region using bin lorries (here). The data from this has now been made available to the public via a new interactive map.

ISPA Reveal WINNERS of the 2025 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

14th Nov, 2025 (4 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has tonight revealed the winners of their 27th annual 2025 internet industry and broadband awards. The night’s biggest winners included CommunityFibre, Lightning Fibre, and Wightfibre, each of which took home multiple awards. The former CEO of CityFibre, Greg Mesch, was also named ‘Internet Hero‘.

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Openreach Update – Project Gigabit Builds in Wales, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire

13th Nov, 2025 (1 Comment)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has issued a progress update on their deployment of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in rural parts of Wales, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire, which form part of their Project Gigabit contracts with the UK government.