Virgin Media UK Make Linear FAST TV Channel Content Available On-Demand | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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. “For the first time, [customers] can watch unmissable episodes from their favourite FAST channel shows whenever suits them outside of the linear TV...
O2 UK Hit Customer with £1,000 Bill After Losing their Mobile Number | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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. Like many of O2’s customers, Sam was recently notified that he was going to be hit by an...
No Solution Yet for West Herefordshire and Peak District Gigabit Broadband Project | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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. Just to recap. The network operator originally secured both the £23.4m West...
CEO of Broadband ISP Zen Internet Calls for Ban of Mid-Contract Price Hikes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More 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. The remarks came after the Government reacted angrily to O2’s recent decision to increase their annual mid-contract price...
Amazon rebrands Project Kuiper as Amazon Leo | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Amazon Leo will face fierce competition from SpaceX’s Starlink, which has a considerable headstart, both in terms of satellites launched and commercial partnerships With Amazon inching ever closer to its commercial satellite service launch, the company has this week rebranded its satellite initiative from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. The new name finds its origin in the low Earth orbit (LEO) in which its operational satellites will sit, discardng...
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...