Starlink Toys with Cheaper Residential 100Mbps Broadband Satellite Plan | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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). Starlink currently has around 8,940 satellites in orbit (c.5,400 are v2 / V2 Mini) – mostly at...
Project Kuiper’s Global Satellite Broadband Network Rebrands to Amazon Leo | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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. Amazon currently has approval to deploy and operate their own constellation of 3,236 LEO satellites as part of Project Kuiper...
Streetwave Publish Map of South Yorkshire 4G and 5G Mobile Cover and Data Speed | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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. Streetwave has spent the past two years harnessing waste (bin / refuse) collection trucks to map mobile network...
ISPA Reveal WINNERS of the 2025 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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‘. The award categories were once again revised for this year’s event, not least through the introduction of...
Safaricom rebuffs govt calls to spin off mobile money platform M-Pesa | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The operator’s largest private shareholder, Vodacom Group, says the carve out would harm Safaricom’s value proposition for customrs Kenya has a debt problem. As of June 2025, the country’s public debt stood at KES 11.81 trillion (around $ 91.3 billion), roughly 67.8 % of the country’s GDP. As a result, debt servicing is regularly consuming a huge amount of public funds; in the 2025 financial year, debt servicing cost the country more than...
Openreach Update – Project Gigabit Builds in Wales, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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. Just to recap. Openreach has previously been chosen to deliver all of Project Gigabit’s Cross-Regional (Type C) procurements (here, here and here) via a Single Supplier...
BDUK Publish Q2 – Q3 2025 Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Progress Report | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK agency has today published the latest Q2 – Q3 2025 progress report on their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The data reveals that some 1.3 million premises have now received coverage from BDUK’s gigabit programmes since their inception, albeit only 131,090 via Project Gigabit’s contracts. At present over 88% of UK premises can already access a 1000Mbps+ capable broadband network (here) and Ofcom...
London ISP Community Fibre Launch 100Mbps “Business Ready” Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network builder and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has invested c.£1bn to deploy a 5Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network across 1.342 million UK homes (inc. 185k businesses within 200 metres of their network) – mostly in London, have today launched a new entry-level 100Mbps package for small businesses. The “Business Ready Broadband” product is said to have been exclusively designed for smaller business operators, such as hairdressers, corner shops,...
Business ISP FluidOne Appoints New CEO as Current Boss Steps Down | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business focused UK broadband ISP, IT and Cloud solutions provider FluidOne has today announced that their existing Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Russell Horton, is to step down after seven and a half years in the post. Russell is to be replaced by Paul Kahn. The announcement credits Horton with growing the business into a £100m+ secure connected cloud solutions provider, which serves 2,200 business customers across the UK. Under his leadership, the...
City of London Corp Picks Roc Technologies to Deliver New Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The City of London (CoL) Corporation has picked Roc Technologies to deliver a new end-to-end networking connectivity solution, encompassing a UK-first enterprise SASE rollout for public services, AI-driven wireless capability and high-availability internet connectivity. The move comes after Roc reached a deal to harness Vorboss’ 100Gbps full fibre network in the area (here). Coverage of the new Cloud supported network will span the City of London...