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SpaceX has announced that they will have to de-orbit (scrap) around a hundred of their older “early-version 1” Starlink ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) because of a design flaw, which might otherwise cause the space platforms to fail in orbit and become non-manoeuvrable. The operator’s constellation currently has around 5,438 LEO […]

The release of the latest monthly UK inflation figures, which saw the Retail Price Index (RPI) fall to 4.9% (down from 13.4% at this time last year), means that UK customers of Virgin Media and O2 can now confirm how much they’re going to be impacted by the operator’s next round of annual price hikes. […]

Customers of banking and money management app Revolut may be interested to learn that they’ve just become the “first financial institution in the UK” to launch an eSIM based mobile service, which is intended more for travellers (roaming) than those seeking an alternative mobile service in the home market. The eSIM standard is an alternative […]

The TalkTalk Group has today issued a progress update on their ongoing demerger and refinancing efforts, which claims that “significant progress” has been made since their last update (Nov 2023) toward the separation of their network wholesale platform business (“PlatformX Communications“) and their residential ISP (“TalkTalk Consumer“). In case anybody has forgotten, TalkTalk spent much […]

News The €3.4 billion deal has been complicated by 5G-related third-party agreements with Wind Tre’s rivals In May last year, CK Hutchison announced it was carving out the fixed and mobile assets of its Italian operator Wind Tre, aiming to sell 60% of the newly formed company to Swedish infrastructure fund EQT. The deal, valuing the business at €3.4 billion, was seen as the latest step of Wind Tre’s ‘asset light’ strategy, at a time when the highly competitive Italian market was leading to...

Mobile operator O2 (VMO2) has today hit a key milestone after they rolled out enhanced 4G (mobile broadband) coverage across 100 rural sites as part of their commitment under the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, which aims to extend geographic 4G cover (aggregate) to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025. […]

Mobile operator Vodafone has today launched their “Connected Spaces Vision” plan, which offers unlimited data to business customers that need to live stream video from IoT smart surveillance cameras over a mobile broadband (4G or 5G) network. But this is more than just a mobile plan, it’s a suit of video security features. The new […]

Alternative network provider Zzoomm, which is rolling out their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of England, appears to have finally launched their new IP-based digital “Voice” (phone) service for customers on their full fibre lines. But it doesn’t seem to be a fully integrated product. The operator, which is being fuelled […]

After a lengthy pilot programme, Openreach (BT) has finally revealed the commercial launch date and final pricing for their faster Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband tiers, which from 1st April 2024 will make it possible for UK ISPs to push their top download speeds to 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both 120Mbps upstream) to consumers. The original pilot started […]

Scottish ISP Lothian Broadband (LBN), which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network across rural parts of East Lothian, the Highlands and Fife, has announced that their network rollout is now being expanded across rural parts of the Black Isle area. The provider, which also operates the Highland Broadband sub-brand across the […]