The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a website advert for BT’s broadband ISP packages – seen during December 2020 – after they “misleadingly” presented their “Stay Fast Guarantee” on packages as a guaranteed minimum speed for the package, when that was not actually the case. The issue here reflects the packages that BT […]
Telecoms Providers JT and Sure Broke Competition Rules on Guernsey
The Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority (GCRA) has ruled that two of the English Channel island’s broadband, phone and mobile providers, JT and Sure, broke competition law by “attempting to illegally control” the provision of mobile networks in Guernsey, including the future introduction of 5G services. Telecoms operators often have legitimate reasons for communicating and […]
Toob Gets GBP87.5m Funding to Boost UK FTTP Broadband Rollout
New ISP toob, which is busy building a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of England, has today secured “up to” £87.5m of new funding from the Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund and accelerated their target to reach 1 million UK premises by 2027 (previously it was 2031). At present the operator, which was originally […]
Virgin Media O2 Reveals UK Connectivity Habits During 2021
Network operator Virgin Media (VMO2) has today published a summary of the United Kingdom’s 2021 connectivity habits across their national mobile, fixed broadband ISP and TV networks, which stems from having analysed the data of tens of millions of customers between 1st January and 10th December 2021. Overall, VMO2’s fixed broadband and mobile customers downloaded […]
Telecoms Network Builder Telent Acquires the Harlequin Group
Technology, telecoms and civil engineering firm Telent, which among other things is helping to build various full fibre (FTTP) broadband and 5G mobile networks across the United Kingdom, has today acquired one of their rivals in the same space – the Harlequin Group – for an undisclosed sum. Telent anticipates that today’s acquisition will “significantly […]
Broadband for Rural Kent to Launch Openreach FTTP Packages
Fixed wireless and full fibre ISP Broadband for Rural Kent (B4RK), which models itself on B4RN’s community build strategy and has been deploying its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, looks set to complement that effort in 2022 by launching a new range of full fibre packages on Openreach’s national network. The new service was set up […]
India–China relations strained by new OPPO deal
Tensions between India and China have run high in 2021, following on from border clashes in the summer of 2020 that left numerous soldiers dead. By January 2021, India had permanently banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, and introduced various measures to safeguard the country’s national infrastructure from Chinese investments.
But now, despite these tensions, it appears that the ISRO has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese smartphone maker OPPO&rsquo…
China Mobile seeks $8.8bn as it migrates to Shanghai Stock Exchange
Back in November 2020, in one of then-President Trump’s numerous final blows to China, the US government ordered that Americans would be banned from investing in Chinese companies deemed to have links to the Chinese military, a measure that included all three of China’s major mobile operators: China Telecom…
New UK Home Building Rules Set to Mandate Gigabit Broadband
After a long wait, the UK Government has today finally tabled a consultation on changes to the existing Building Regulations (2010), which will effectively make it mandatory for property developers to ensure that almost every new home is built with support for “gigabit” speed broadband ISP connections. At present around 93% of new build homes […]
Three and EE first to sign up to London Underground 4G network
In June this year, BAI Communications announced that it had won a contract to build a neutral host mobile network for the London Underground following a competitive tender process. The project is set to deploy a 4G-ready and 5G-capable mobile system by 2024, with BAI pledging to invest £1 billion in investment over the next 20 years…