{"id":45984,"date":"2026-05-12T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=45984"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:11:08","slug":"amazon-leo-claims-satellite-broadband-to-boost-uk-economy-by-2bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/amazon-leo-claims-satellite-broadband-to-boost-uk-economy-by-2bn.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Leo Claims Satellite Broadband to Boost UK Economy by \u00a32bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/leo.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Leo<\/a> (Project Kuiper) service, which is building a huge constellation of ultrafast internet satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally, has published the results of a new study &#8211; commissioned by itself &#8211; from Oxford Economics that forecasts how LEO broadband services could boost UK economic output by \u00a32bn and support more than 24,000 jobs by 2035.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/amazon\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> Leo is currently still in its commercial beta phase and will start to launch properly through 2026 and 2027. The service currently has approval to deploy and operate their own initial constellation of <strong>3,236 LEO<\/strong> broadband satellites (altitudes of between 590km to 630km). A total of c.<a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/kp\/stats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">300 Kuiper satellites<\/a> have already been placed into orbit (they need at least 500 for basic global coverage) and many more are due to follow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/amazon\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> Leo is expected to cost up to around $20bn (\u00a314.9bn) to deliver, using a mix of rockets from ULA, Arianespace, Blue Origin and even SpaceX, by around 2030\/31. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/amazon\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> is said to have also spent $11bn to gobble Globalstar, which shows how serious they are.<\/div>\n<p>The new report &#8211; titled &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/resource\/the-global-value-of-leo-satellite-broadband-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span class=\"text v2\">The Global Value of LEO Satellite Broadband Services<\/span><\/strong><\/a>&#8216; &#8211; highlights how <span class=\"text v2\">just 62% of rural UK premises have access to gigabit-capable broadband, which compares with 91% in urban areas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s latest Connected Nations 2025 data). But it suggests that t<\/span><span class=\"text v2\">his is where LEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> broadband could &#8220;<em>make a real difference<\/em>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The paper expects that LEO-enabled services will have a relatively subdued effect in its incremental scenario, with an estimated 110,000 UK people using LEO internet services by 2035. As LEO services become more cost-competitive, they expect the number of LEO internet users to increase to almost 0.5 million and 4.1 million in their intermediate and transformative scenarios by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>The productivity increase due to enhanced connectivity is, they forecast, likely to generate an additional \u00a32 billion in their intermediate scenario by 2035, supporting more than 24,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"width: 100%; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2026-uk-internet-statistics\/Oxford-Economics-Study-of-UK-LEO-Satellite-Broadband-Impacts.webp?t=1778583627\" alt=\"Oxford-Economics-Study-of-UK-LEO-Satellite-Broadband-Impacts\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Henry Worthington, Managing Director at Oxford Economics, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> broadband has the potential to become an important complement to terrestrial networks by extending internet access to communities that have long been underserved by traditional infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Our analysis shows that, under the right conditions, wider adoption could generate substantial economic benefits by improving productivity, supporting digital inclusion, and helping more people and businesses participate in the digital economy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual, it&#8217;s worth taking such claims with a pinch of salt, not least because trying to accurately gauge the economic impact of deploying faster broadband via any technology is notoriously difficult. Part of this stems from the fact that most premises won\u2019t be starting from a point of zero connectivity and other technologies are also improving their coverage (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> etc.).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, we&#8217;re all very different in our consumption requirements, and not all homes and businesses get the same benefit from having access to significantly faster speeds than are currently available. Not to mention that we don&#8217;t yet know how much Amazon&#8217;s own service will cost consumers, although it&#8217;ll need to be competitive with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/starlink\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a> and that&#8217;s a significantly more mature service \/ network.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> have noted that there are around 110,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> broadband users in the UK and most of those are now believed to be on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/starlink\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a>. As such many are already seeing the benefit of such services and this will no doubt continue to improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon Leo (Project Kuiper) service, which is building a huge constellation of ultrafast internet satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally, has published the results of a new study &#8211; commissioned by itself &#8211; from Oxford Economics that forecasts how LEO broadband services could boost UK economic output by \u00a32bn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,77,34],"class_list":["post-45984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-politics","tag-satellite","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/116561305254697364","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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