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Norfolk County Council Issues Update After CityFibre Scale-Back Fibre Broadband Build

3rd September, 2026 (6 Comments)

The Norfolk County Council (NCC) in England has published a new document, which reveals the future plan for gigabit broadband deployments after CityFibre scaled-back their contracted roll-out of full fibre infrastructure under the UK government’s Project Gigabit scheme in May 2026. As expected, Openreach (BT) look set to pick up the slack.

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Starlink Trials Personal Maritime Broadband Plan for Small Boat Owners

28th August, 2026 (6 Comments)

Starlink’s (SpaceX) ultrafast satellite broadband service has finally responded to complaints from small boat owners about the company’s recent restrictions on international roaming, which threatened to make the service untenable for those who sail around different parts of the world – sometimes for months. But a new Personal Maritime Plan may be the answer, albeit with caveats.

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UK Team Finds Tiny Atomic Changes Can Create Smarter Wireless Antennas

26th August, 2026 (1 Comment)

A team of researchers from the Queen Mary University of London have discovered a new way to make wireless communication devices, such as antennas, more adaptable by making tiny atomic changes to the structure of a material that can “dramatically improve its ability to respond to electrical signals“. The work could have applications in everything from home Wi-Fi to satellites and mobile broadband networks etc.

£70m High Speed Broadband Project in Wales Gets New Supplier After Error

21st August, 2026 (4 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has revealed that an “unforeseen administrative error” meant they neglected to name one of the approved suppliers for their £70m (public subsidy) Extending High Speed Broadband (EHSB) project when the original list was announced earlier this year (here). The supplier, BB4W Ltd (Broadband 4 Wales), has now been added to the framework.

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Sky UK Users Can Watch 4 Live Sports TV Events at Same Time on One Screen

19th August, 2026 (6 Comments)

Customers of Sky’s broadband-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream pay TV streaming devices and service, as well as those on their older Sky Q satellite platform, may like to know that the TV and broadcast giant has today soft launched ‘Your Multiview‘ – allowing subscribers to watch up to four live Sky Sports events simultaneously on one screen.

Ookla Maps Size of Starlink’s Direct to Cell 4G Mobile Satellite Beams

19th August, 2026 (1 Comment)

Network benchmarking giant Ookla (Accenture), which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has cleverly used data collected from Smartphones using Starlink’s 4G mobile satellite data connectivity to map the size of their individual Direct-to-Cell (DTC) beams in the real-world.

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Government Hands £13m to Boost Wi-Fi on UK Trains and Satellite Broadband

18th August, 2026 (4 Comments)

The UK Space Agency has this morning announced that they’ve spread £13m of public funding across 16 new projects under the ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) programme, which covers everything from deploying on-board Wi-Fi on remote Scottish railways to improving the availability of 5G and future 6G mobile networks – typically via satellite-based internet connectivity.

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Starlink Reveals Forthcoming Wi-Fi 7 Satellite Broadband Router

14th August, 2026 (3 Comments)

A new regulatory filing by SpaceX has revealed that Starlink are preparing to release a new Wi-Fi 7 capable home wireless router (UTR-261 – this is same line as the Router Mini UTR-251) for customers of their ultrafast satellite broadband constellation in the UK, USA and other countries.

OneWeb Broadband Satellites Help Lift LEO Revenues 69.5 Percent at Eutelsat

7th August, 2026 (0 Comments)

European satellite operator Eutelsat just published their results for the year ended 30th June 2026 and reported that their revenues from OneWeb’s constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) “beat expectations“, jumping by 69.5% to €297m (accounting for 25% of the group’s overall revenues).

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Starlink Confirm No Standby Mode on New V5 Satellite Broadband Dish

6th August, 2026 (8 Comments)

In another annoying and somewhat perplexing development for fans of SpaceX’s popular Starlink broadband service in the UK, the company has revealed that their next generation V5 dish terminal for consumers will NOT support ‘Standby Mode‘. This is in addition to the lack of support for in-motion use, such as on top of a caravan or boat (due to lack of an integrated GPS).

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SpaceX Updates on Starlink’s V3 Broadband and V2 Mobile Satellite Plans

5th August, 2026 (1 Comment)

The top two bosses of SpaceX, Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, yesterday issued some useful updates to investors on the progress of their third generation (V3) ultrafast broadband satellites and their second generation (V2) mobile satellites, which confirmed their current launch plans and some other details on future capabilities.

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Vodafone UK Says Space 5G Mobile Service Still on Track for Early 2027 Beta

30th July, 2026 (3 Comments)

The CEO of Vodafone Group, Margherita Della Valle, has stated that their joint plan with AST SpaceMobile (aka – Satellite Connect Europe) to launch a space-based 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) service to connect regular Smartphones is still expected to enter its “beta” testing phase “at the beginning of 2027“. Despite suffering an earlier launch failure.

Derbyshire Firefighters Use O2 Satellite Service to Help Tackle Wildfire

29th July, 2026 (1 Comment)

Firefighters in Derbyshire (England) recently provided a good unintentional demonstration of why services like the new O2 Satellite add-on are so useful. The teams, who were responding to the wildfire near Tintwistle, were able to use the UK service to maintain mobile connectivity in an area with no traditional 4G or 5G mobile network coverage.

Amazon Leo Prep New Constellation of 5,105 Satellites for Global 5G Mobile

27th July, 2026 (2 Comments)

The Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) service, which is building a new mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally, has revealed plans to launch a “new constellation” of up to 5,105 satellites to connect compatible 4G and 5G mobile devices on the ground directly from space (Direct-to-Device).

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Satworks Set to Become Starlink Broadband’s Sole UK Installation Partner

27th July, 2026 (3 Comments)

Independent satellite installation company Satworks, which is based in Bolton and Blackburn and has around 180 engineers across the country, has announced that they’ve signed an agreement with Starlink’s (SpaceX) broadband service to become its “sole installation partner throughout the United Kingdom” – effective from later next month.

SpaceX Puts Starlink Broadband Live on the British Ascension Island

25th July, 2026 (3 Comments)

Good news if you’re one of the few who live on the remote Ascension Island, which is a British Overseas Territory that sits in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean and is home to almost 900 people (many of them visitors and rotating military personnel). Starlink’s ultrafast satellite broadband service has just gone live.

Virgin Media O2 UK Suffers Broadband Customer Decline as FTTP Footprint Hits 9M Premises

24th July, 2026 (14 Comments)

The latest Q2 2026 results from network operators Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today reported a fall in consumer broadband customers of -28,200 to total 5,417,900 (vs -5.3k in Q1), while their mobile base declined slightly to total 46.428m (down from 46.44m) and outdoor 5G+ (5GSA) population coverage remains at 86%.