SpaceX Plan Cheap Starlink Community Broadband Sharing Service | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More SpaceX’s Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds to the UK and globally via a massive constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), appears to have leaked out plans for a new “Community” product that could allow multiple subscribers to share access to the service via a single terminal (dish) in return for a cheaper rental. At present Starlink has around 8,100 satellites in orbit (c.4,300 are v2 / V2 Mini) – mostly at altitudes...
Wessex Internet to Expand South Wiltshire Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government (DSIT) appears set to expand their £18.8m (state aid) Project Gigabit contract with rural UK ISP Wessex Internet for South Wiltshire (LOT 30). This originally aimed to build their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband network to cover “around” 14,500 hard-to-reach premises in the area (here), but will now look to reach 21,197 premises. Project Gigabit’s contracts are not static and their scope, as well as committed levels of public funding, can...
Gigaclear’s East Gloucestershire FTTP Broadband Rollout Contract Shrinks | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK government has posted a Project Gigabit contract modification that shrinks Gigaclear’s £16.6m contract for rural parts of East Gloucestershire (Lot 18), which originally aimed to expand their gigabit-capable broadband network to 4,400 additional premises. But the change shrinks the value of this contract to £10.81m “due to removal of 899 premises” from its scope. As we’ve said before. Project Gigabit’s contracts are not static and their scope, as...
Virgin Media O2 Expand UK 3G Mobile Switch Off to Watford | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that customers in the large Hertfordshire (England) town and borough of Watford will be the next UK location to go through their 3G mobile (broadband) switch-off programme on 17th September 2025. This follows completed withdrawals in Durham, Norwich, Telford, Guildford and Torquay. The process, which is due to reach nationwide completion by the end of 2025, should free up radio spectrum so it...
Gov Consults on Fees for New Digital UK Map of Underground Cables | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has today opened a new consultation on the sharing of information and fees payable by street works firms as part of operating the new National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), which is a digital map of underground UK pipes and cables (broadband, water etc.) that is partly designed to help reduce accidental damage. The government currently sees huge potential for such maps to help improve the way that national infrastructure is planned,...
NordVPN Names UK as Third Most Targeted Country for Internet Malware | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The latest Q2 2025 threat protection report from NordVPN, which is a familiar Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, has revealed that the UK now ranks third in the world for the number of cyberattacks it attracts – having seen a surge of 103 million incidents (up by 7% in Q1) of malware being sent to Brits via emails and texts, malicious sites and infected attachments etc. First things first, NordVPN has a clear vested interest here as the data...
Broadband ISP TalkTalk Publish UK Accounts to Reveal Surge in Losses | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More In a perhaps unsurprising development, the TalkTalk Group finally published their annual accounts yesterday and revealed that they made a statutory loss before tax of £465m for the year ended 28th February 2025 (up from £153m last year). The company also lost 420,000 UK broadband customers, leaving them with a group total of 3.2 million. Quite a few of the figures in the group’s latest report were already in the public domain (here and here), although...
GIC takes 25% stake in MásOrange and Zegona’s new Spanish FiberCo | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The joint venture’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network will span 12.2 million premises, making it one of the largest networks in Europe This week, Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC has agreed to purchase a 25% stake in MásOrange and Vodafone Spain’s upcoming fibre network joint venture, internally known as ‘Surf’. Vodafone Spain and MásOrange announced the creation of the joint venture in January. The business, estimated to be worth €8–10 billion,...
SKT bolsters GPUaaS offering with new ‘Haein’ cluster | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release SK Telecom announced the launch of its new sovereign GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) based on the latest NVIDIA B200 GPUs. The newly launched GPUaaS features one of Korea’s largest GPU clusters, consisting of over 1,000 NVIDIA B200 GPUs integrated into a single cluster. It delivers state-of-the-art performance in Korea and represents an advancement over the H100-based GPUaaS released in December 2024. It is expected to contribute significantly...
Telecoms Industry Leader Steve Leighton Joins Altnets in Landmark Appointment | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Industry veteran Steve Leighton, an influential figure in the UK telecoms industry and Chairman of ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association), joins award-winning ISP infrastructure specialists Altnets as Strategic Advisor on 1 August 2025. This appointment comes at a critical juncture as Altnets aims to increase market share, accelerate growth, and redefine how the telecoms sector approaches infrastructure distribution. More than just a new chapter...