KKR–Singtel consortium near $10bn deal for STT GDC | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The move seeks to capitalise on Southeast Asia’s booming date centre market This week, media reports suggest that a consortium led by KKR and Singtel is closing in on a deal to acquire ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC). Negotiations, which are already at an “advanced stage”, would value the data centre business at around $10.22 billion. “Singtel, as part of a consortium, continues to have discussions in relation to STT GDC. While these...
Openreach Rolls Out New Safety App to Help Protect UK Broadband Engineers | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today announced the launch of a new mobile safety app to help combat a surge in abuse and assaults on its UK telecoms engineers. Since April last year, there’s been around 700 incidents of either physical or verbal assaults and threats, including some cases where people have needed time off work to recover. The sort of incidents involved here tend to vary and in the past we’ve heard of it covering everything...
nPerf Name EE and Three UK as Fastest Mobile Broadband Networks for 2026 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More French internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has this morning published the results from their annual 2026 crowdsourced study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance. The results see both EE and Three UK being named as delivering the country’s “best Mobile Internet performances“. The latest nPerf study (PDF) is based on masses of tests carried out – between January and December 2025 – exclusively by customers of the various mobile network...
Broadband ISP Voneus See UK Turnover Rise to £6.33m as Losses Hit £38m | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Alternative rural network provider Voneus, which has built a mix of full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband networks across some remote parts of Wales and England, have published their annual accounts to the end of March 2025. The figures show that turnover increased 43% to £6.33m due to customer growth, but they suffered a loss before tax of £38m. Just to recap. Voneus was last year hit by some redundancies and a slowdown in their network build...
The Curious Case of Openreach’s Vanishing UK FTTP Broadband Coverage | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Independent data analysis has recently revealed a curious trend where patches of Openreach’s full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, often within urban areas and usually but not always associated to installs that require a more complex stage 2 process, suddenly vanish after somebody places an order. The issue is estimated to be impacting 0.3% of UK premises. Regular readers will know that there are already various reasons why areas that have already gone...
Broadband Satellite ISP Starlink Prep Free Stargaze Data to Avoid Space Collisions | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Starlink service from SpaceX, which operates a mega constellation using thousands of ultrafast broadband internet satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally, has revealed that they’re about to start making data from their Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze, available for free to other satellite operators. Starlink currently has around 9,600 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (c.6,150 are v2 / GEN2 variants) – mostly...
Is a BEAD conflict brewing between NTIA and Starlink? | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, is trying to change the government’s broadband playbook, a new leaked document reportedly reveals. By Brad Randall, Broadband Communities States are being sent riders from Starlink that list caveats to the service the company will eventually give to broadband serviceable locations (BSLs) under government’s massive broadband push, known as the BEAD program. The revelation comes after several “concerned states”...
Sparkle and Valencia Digital Port Connect: Agreement to Land Barracuda Subsea Cable at Genoa Landing Platform | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Rome/Valencia, 30 January 2026 Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, and Valencia Digital Port Connect (VDPC), the Spanish telecommunications infrastructure company developing the Barracuda submarine cable project in collaboration with private equity firm Teset Capital, announce a strategic agreement to land the Barracuda submarine cable at Sparkle’s Genoa Landing Platform. The Barracuda project...
Gigaclear Makes Progress on Cotswolds Project Gigabit Broadband Build | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has so far deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 612,000 UK premises (inc. 160,000 customers), has just put their new network live in the Cotswolds village of Kemble. The deployment forms part of Project Gigabit’s £10.81m East Gloucestershire (Lot 18) contract to upgrade 3,547 premises in hard-to-reach areas. The original contract was first awarded all the way back in February 2024 (here) and was initially...
Virgin Media and O2 Set to Merge UK Customer Communities Together | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP Virgin Media and mobile operator O2 are about to begin an impactful change as part of their previous merger, which will bring their once entirely separate community discussion forums together for the first time. The operators also plan to move to a “new platform” during the process as their “agreement with the current provider is ending“. Most of the major broadband and mobile operators run customer communities, which are often a useful...