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BT and Avanti Broadband in Legal Dispute Over Rural EE UK Mobile Capacity

17th May, 2025 (12 Comments)

The High Court in London has rejected an application by mobile operator EE (BT) for interim injunctive relief against satellite provider Avanti Broadband, which had “threatened to withdraw” its backhaul services – used to help supply data capacity to some of the remotest rural UK mast sites – unless the mobile operator agreed to pay a “substantially increased rate“.

Sky TV Customers Still Suffering Problems After Huge Outage Last Night UPDATE2

16th May, 2025 (33 Comments)

Some customers of Sky’s UK pay TV services appear to still be suffering from connectivity problems this morning after the platform suffered a significant service outage late last night, which primarily seemed to impact users of their Sky Q boxes. But Sky has remained frustratingly silent during this outage.

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SpaceX Proposes Starlink Can Deliver Sat Nav to Complement GPS

15th May, 2025 (3 Comments)

SpaceX has proposed that its Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds to the UK and beyond via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), can offer Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions to complement GPS. This would meet the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) desire for an alternative to GPS.

ScotRail Upgrades Highlands Trains with Faster Onboard WiFi

12th May, 2025 (2 Comments)

Scottish train operator ScotRail has today announced that they’ve launched a new 6-month trial alongside communications provider Clarus Networks, which will extend their Starlink (satellite) based broadband upgrade of onboard WiFi – this is to include six class 158 trains that travel along their Highlands routes in Scotland.

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World Broadband Lines Top 1.5bn as UK Full Fibre Grows 11.7 Percent in Q4 2024

7th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

New research from Point Topic has revealed that global fixed broadband lines grew by 0.91% or 13.5 million in Q4 2024 (down from 1.44% in Q3 2024) to total 1.5 billion connections. The subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks also remained strong in the UK at 11.7%, putting us just two places behind the leading countries for growth.

Success as Amazon Lofts First 27 Project Kuiper Broadband Satellites

29th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Online shopping giant Amazon last night succeeded in launching their first batch of 27 ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for Project Kuiper. The platforms were put into space by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket that unleashed some 2.7 million pounds (12 megaNewtons) of thrust.

Progress on GBP70m Extending High Speed Broadband in Wales Project

28th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Welsh Government (WG) has moved into the final market engagement phase of their proposed £70m (state aid) “Extending High Speed Broadband Reach in Wales” (EHSBRW) project, which aims to help upgrade broadband for some or all of the remaining 84,000 premises (i.e. those that can’t yet get “superfast” speeds of 30Mbps+).

Starlink Sort of Fix Broadband Capacity Limit in South East England

22nd April, 2025 (6 Comments)

SpaceX’s Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds via a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), appears to have removed its capacity restrictions from the South East of England (originally covering the Greater London area and beyond). But new customers in that same area may now be hit with a £195 one-off “congestion charge” instead.

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NFU Warn Farms Being Excluded from UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout by Cost

22nd April, 2025 (9 Comments)

The National Farmers Union, which represents over 44,000 Farmers and Growers in England and Wales, has warned that a good proportion of farms in rural parts of the country are still being excluded from the ongoing deployment of gigabit-capable broadband ISP technology – often even when the network covers the local road.

Starlink Preps New UTR-251 Router for Satellite Broadband Service

20th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

SpaceX’s Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds via a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has notified the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the USA of their intent to launch a new Wi-Fi router for their customers – model code UTR-251. The new kit appears positioned to replace the previous Gen 3 (UTR-231) kit, but it has some caveats.

Hughes and Eutelsat Partner to Expand LEO Broadband Satellite Connectivity

15th April, 2025 (1 Comment)

European managed network connectivity provider Hughes Network Systems (Hughes Europe) has today announced that they’ve teamed-up with Eutelsat to harness the OneWeb network. This is a global constellation of broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is still partly supported by the UK government (11% stake).

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Ofcom Grant Kepler a UK Licence for Small Broadband Satellites

5th April, 2025 (1 Comment)

The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has finally granted Canadian company Kepler Communications a wireless telegraphy satellite earth station network licence for the operation of their new global network of CubeSats and larger sized broadband satellites. This will allow them to deploy their user terminals for a range of different services in the UK.

British Satellite Broadband Operator Avanti Opens New HQ

4th April, 2025 (1 Comment)

Avanti Communications, which is based in the UK and runs the HYLAS network of four large Ka-band communication satellites in high earth orbit (35,792km) for rural broadband and backhaul delivery across the EMEA, has this week opened a new technology HQ in the heart of Spaceport Cornwall’s Space Systems Operations Facility in Newquay.

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Amazon to Launch First 27 Project Kuiper Broadband Satellites

3rd April, 2025 (2 Comments)

Online shopping giant Amazon has confirmed that they will attempt to launch their first batch of 27 ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for Project Kuiper on Wednesday next week (9th April 2025) – mission “KA-01“. But it will take a further 79 launches before the new global mega constellation is fully completed.

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Eutelsat Boosts Deployment of OneWeb LEO Satellite Broadband for Aviation

2nd April, 2025 (0 Comments)

Eutelsat has announced that their OneWeb network, which is a global constellation of broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) that is still partly supported by the UK government (11% stake), is “now live and operational” for commercial and business aviation customers (airlines etc.) and they’re “ramping up” related deployments.

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Ferries in Orkney Bring Ultrafast Broadband to Passengers via Starlink

25th March, 2025 (8 Comments)

The Scottish Futures Trust has announced that thousands of tourists and travellers in the remote archipelago of Orkney (Northern Scotland) are set to benefit from “complimentary ultra-fast internet access“, which comes after three local ferries were upgraded to harness Starlink’s global LEO satellite broadband network – supporting onboard WiFi.

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Ofcom Propose to Authorise Satellites to Deliver UK 4G and 5G Mobile

25th March, 2025 (10 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today done as expected by proposing for the UK to become the “first country in Europe” to authorise Direct to Device (D2D) satellite services for use in regular mobile bands, which could be used to help mobile operators improve their 4G and 5G coverage.