Study Examines Impact of Solar Storms on Starlink Broadband Performance | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new study from a team of three researchers working out of the University of California (USA) has taken a “deep dive” into the impact of solar storms on Starlink’s global network of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The results uncovered some “previously overlooked patterns” of vulnerability and suggest that “more adaptive, region-aware mitigation strategies” may be needed. The Starlink constellation currently has around 8,990...
House of Lords Report Calls for UK Broadband Investment to Boost Home Working | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The cross-party Home-based Working Committee (Lords Select Committee) has published its report on remote and hybrid working in the UK, which among other things finds that the government should “increase long-term investment in digital infrastructure, particularly broadband” in order to properly support such working. Currently, over 88% of UK premises can already access a 1000Mbps+ (gigabit) capable broadband network (here), while Ofcom separately...
Broadband ISP TalkTalk Increases UK Mid-Contract Price Hikes to £4 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Perhaps inevitably, TalkTalk has today become the latest internet and phone provider to increase the customer cost impact of their existing mid-contract pricing policy, which will be introduced from 16th November 2025. But the price increase itself won’t hit until April 2026. Just to recap. At the start of 2025 Ofcom began requiring telecoms providers to adopt a new approach to mid-contract price hikes, which did away with the old percentage and...
Full Fibre’s Impact – Fibrus Report Makes Three Predictions for UK Rural Areas in 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Infracapital-backed alternative broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a full fibre network across parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has published a new report that outlines three predictions for how the UK’s rural areas might look in 2050 and highlights the “extraordinary potential” of such communities as engines of growth. The new ‘Future of Rural‘ report, which was commissioned by Fibrus and authored by “leading Applied Futurist“, Tom...
Nokia Interview – 6G to Focus on Efficiency More than Mobile Broadband Speed | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Head of Standards at Nokia Technologies, Peter Merz, has today told ISPreview – as part of our latest interview – that they’re conscious of wanting to avoid what mobile operators call “G-fatigue” (over-hyping) with their development of future 6G mobile (broadband) technology, which he says will be more about “intelligence and efficiency” than raw data throughput. The future 6G standard is currently still in the early Research and Development...
Ofcom Consult on Impact of Openreach PIA on the UK Leased Line Market | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a “narrow consultation” that proposes to amend their leased line access (LLA) market analysis for the ongoing Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR) to reflect a “greater potential impact” from Openreach’s Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product (this allows rivals to run new fibre via existing cable ducts and poles). The regulator has already recognised that competitive conditions are different across...
Great Western Railway Pilots Hybrid Network to Boost Onboard Wi-Fi | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Great Western Railway (GWR), which operates most train services across the Great Western Main Line (GWML) – the rail line in England that runs between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads, has joined with Peninsula Transport, Network Rail and Motion Applied to pilot faster on-board broadband (WiFi) using “technology from the world of Formula 1“. At present the technical details of the project remain very limited and it’s unclear exactly which...
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...