Openreach has announced that it is proceeding with a major broadband infrastructure upgrade in Bramley, Surrey, after a prolonged period of disruption caused by a fuel leak from a local petrol station. The company originally announced upgrades to the area’s ageing copper network back in 2021, but the fuel leak subsequently contaminated parts of its […]

A new wave of partnerships between telcos and satellite/non-terrestrial network (NTN) players is reshaping the connectivity landscape, but the market remains far from mature, analyst house STL Partners has reported in its satellite tracker report Skywatch. STL Partners’ analysis of 74 announcements since January 2024 reveals a striking trend: only 20 per cent of the […]

Investment bank BNP Paribas has significantly increased its share price target on Eutelsat following the satellite operator’s results on August 5th. The target price jumps from €1 to €2.9, but the bank still advises clients to consider Eutelsat as an ‘Underperform’ stock, despite having the view that its OneWeb division was now “taking off”. The […]

Ofcom has published the latest figures for complaints it has received about the UK’s main mobile, broadband and pay-TV providers. These figures cover the first quarter of 2025, from January to March. During this period, complaints about fixed broadband and pay-TV increased and complaints about landline and mobile stayed the same. Key findings: Virgin Media […]

FCC Commissioner Anna M Gomez has spoken out after the FCC launched a proceeding that she suggests may roll back progress made to close the digital divide as part of the agency’s Section 706 annual reporting. In a statement, she said: “While I have concerns over the potential change of direction this FCC may soon […]

Deutsche Telekom reports that its businesses are “performing well”. Following a solid start to the year, the telco continued to grow steadily in Q2 2025. In organic terms, i.e., excluding the effects of changes in the composition of the Group and in exchange rates, the Group’s revenue was up in the second quarter by 4 […]

Texas-based AST SpaceMobile has struck an agreement with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for global S-band priority transmission rights. Under the deal, AST will acquire Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) spectrum rights in the 1980–2010 MHz and 2170–2200 MHz frequency bands for use in low-earth orbit. The transaction aligns with the company’s 3GPP global spectrum framework […]

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telco security, networks and data centre industries, excess inventory in the channel has been cleared, and WLAN revenue is expected to grow 12 per cent in 2025. Wi-Fi 7 shipments will shoot up in 2025 and will represent over a third […]

The Video Services Forum (VSF) has further enhanced the Reliable Internet Streaming Transport (RIST) protocol by incorporating a new feature, RIST Satellite-Hybrid: In Band Method. This feature can be used to augment satellite distribution, using the Internet as a recovery mechanism for data that is corrupted or lost in the space segment. This is important […]

Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat says it will add another 340 of its OneWeb satellites into orbit by 2029. These 340 will be additional to the 100 craft already on order. OneWeb, which Eutelsat merged with in September 2023 is very much coming into its own. OneWeb’s low Earth orbiting (LEO) fleet of 648 satellites was […]