A Look at Amazon’s Project Kuiper Satellite Broadband Terminals and Speeds | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Internet retail giant Amazon recently turned up at the UK’s DSEI 2025 Defence Exhibition & Trade Show in London to showcase their Project Kuiper network of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The good news is that some of ISPreview’s readers were there and managed to collect a few new details on service speeds and network terminals. Amazon currently has approval to deploy and operate their own constellation of 3,236 LEO...
UK ISP TalkTalk Business Replaces Legacy Systems and Appoints New Ops Director | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business Ethernet and broadband ISP TalkTalk Business (TTB), which was demerged from the TalkTalk Group in 2023 and thus hasn’t mirrored the new branding from their consumer division, has today announced that they’ve restructured their operations function and appointed Dean Giblin to be their Director of Operations to “enhance client-centricity“. Dean will replace Romy Thorpe in the role, who has been acting as the provider’s Interim Director of...
TBB Launch Postcode Broadband Availability Notifications by Subscription | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Independent broadband mapping experts Thinkbroadband have today launched a useful new tool that allows you to subscribe to receive notifications about any changes to local fixed broadband availability within a postcode area. Users of the service can track up to 5 postcodes and it will send an email when changes occur. The new tool can track key changes in the local postcode area, such as when an alternative network puts a new broadband service live or...
Broadband Altnet Fibrus Publish Audited UK Accounts and Pre-Tax Loss of £57.6m | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Infracapital-backed ISP Fibrus, which has been rolling out a full fibre broadband network across N.Ireland and Cumbria (England), has published their audited accounts for the year to March 2025. The results reveal that their network now covers 440k premises (up from 410k on 2nd May 2025) and EBITDA improved by £13m year-on-year, but they also made a pre-tax loss of £57.6m. The vast majority of this network coverage has been delivered via the operator’s...
PlatformX Communications to Make 300 More UK Staff Redundant | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator PlatformX Communications (PXC), which is a trading name of TalkTalk that sells wholesale solutions to broadband ISPs and other network providers, yesterday notified hundreds of staff that they could be made redundant by around the end of this year. Some support teams will also be moving offshore from the UK. ISPreview started to notice problems yesterday after a number of PXC’s staff suddenly began reporting that they expected to be made...
Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Bring Full Fibre to 12,000 Homes in Sleaford | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator nexfibre and supporting broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), which share some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve expanded the reach of their symmetric 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to more than 12,000 homes in the Lincolnshire market town of Sleaford “for the first time“. The town was previously dominated by full fibre broadband coverage from Openreach and Netomnia’s (YouFibre, Brsk etc.)...
Ofcom UK Open Second Investigation into IX Wireless’ Broadband Poles | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today opened a second investigation into wireless broadband operator IX Wireless (supported by ISP 6Gi / Opus Broadband). The probe will examine whether the provider failed in its duty to ensure that its overhead lines were at the correct height and that they complied with rules around the inspection and maintenance of infrastructure. Just to recap. IX Wireless, which holds an aspiration to cover 250,000 UK premises...
Openreach Launch New Telecare Phone Migration Services Across UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator Openreach (BT) has today announced the official launch of their new telecare migration services across the UK. The service is designed to help UK consumers with old analogue based phone (PSTN / WLR) and medical telecare systems to safely migrate to modern broadband-based (FTTP etc.) connections with digital phone (IP-based) services. The legacy phone switch-off was last year delayed to 31st January 2027 in order to give broadband, phone,...
GoFibre to Grow UK Broadband Engineering Fleet by 140 Vehicles | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network GoFibre, which is rolling out a gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today signed a new deal with JCT600 Vehicle Leasing Solutions (VLS) to deliver a 140-vehicle fleet in order to support their network deployments. The operator currently expects their roll-out of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network to reach a footprint of 250,000...
Private 5G Market Nears Mainstream With $5 Billion Surge, Says SNS Telecom & IT | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Private LTE networks are a well-established market and have been around for more than a decade, albeit as a niche segment of the wider cellular infrastructure sector. However, private cellular networks or NPNs (Non-Public Networks) based on 3GPP-defined 5G specifications are just on the cusp of becoming a mainstream technology, with a market potential exceeding that of private LTE. Over the last 12 months, there has been a noticeable increase in...