Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has today introduced a range of “price drops” across their Full Fibre (FTTP) broadband packages, as well as their SOGEA (FTTC), EveryRoom and Digital Voice offerings. The new prices are available to both new customers and existing users who have reached the end of their contract. Zen typically sells packages […]

INTERVIEW

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty and much speculation about future market consolidation, Greg Mesch, Chief Executive Officer, shares his views at #ConnectedBritain on the company’s recent £4.9bn financing, what this means for customers and what’s next for CityFibre as it accelerates towards its next milestone.

To find out more about CityFibre’s rollout to a third of the UK market by 2025, visit www.cityfibre.com

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BAI Communications UK CEO, Billy D’Arcy, spoke with Total Telecom about the work they are doing in both London and Sunderland to provide the backbone of mobile and digital connectivity.

Through their 20-year partnership with Transport for London (TfL), they will deliver high-speed mobile connectivity across the capital – in what will be the most advanced and largest infrastructure project of its type in the world.

Sunderland City Council and BAI have formed a world-first, 20-year strategic partnership, to create the UK’s most advanced smart city. BAI is building a 5G-powered smart city infrastructure to deliver a broad range of socio-economic benefits, that will deliver a broad range of digital solutions across the city that transform outcomes for people and places.

Using a neutral host model provides a game changer for addressing hard to reach and under-served communities across the country, improving coverage in difficult locations, be that highly congested areas or remote, hard-to-reach environments, contributing towards levelling up connectivity across the UK.

Watch Billy D’Arcy’s interview here:

BAI Communications is a world leader in shared communications infrastructure, pioneering the future of advanced connectivity, and delivering the ubiquitous coverage that can transform lives, power business ambitions and shape the future of our cities. To find out more, head over to https://www.baicommunications.com/

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Budget broadband ISP TalkTalk has today launched a new Android TV powered ‘TV Hub‘ box for UK customers seeking to take a Pay TV product alongside their “Full Fibre” (FTTP) internet connectivity packages, which will cost from just £5 a month to add to your package (plus a £25 one-off fee). At this point some […]

Alternative network provider Quickline, which operates a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, has announced that their partnership with Cellnex UK has enabled them to reach 53,000 extra homes and businesses in the first year of operation. Quickline is currently being supported by […]

Neos Networks, which operates a 34,000km long fibre network with 676 Points of Presence across the UK, has today launched a Managed variant of its Dedicated Internet Access (Managed DIA) service. The service will provide businesses with fully managed, enterprise-grade fibre optic internet connectivity. The service has the ability to scale bandwidth as required, with […]

Network operator F&W Networks – supported by UK retail ISP Hey!Broadband – has today announced that they’ve secured “significant” new funding from Foresight Group and have now covered 185,000 premises (up from 150k in July 2022) across the South of England with their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure. The Altrincham-based operator, which holds an aspiration […]

New and existing customers on some of Virgin Media’s (VMO2) home broadband packages look set to see a small speed boost (both downloads and uploads) from 1st November 2022 at no extra charge. The full details have not yet been officially confirmed, but those on the operator’s M100 and M200 packages will see the main […]

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet, which is certified as a B Corporation, has officially commitment to the new Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) with an ambition to achieve Net-Zero by 2040 (i.e. removing as many carbon emissions as they produce). At this point it’s worth noting that Zen previously set their Net Zero target for 2028 […]

News

The regulator’s latest announcement brings the number of private 5G licences allocated in France to 13

Back in March, French telecoms regulator Arcep announced a number of new measures to help manufacturers and other vertical industries to improve their access to 5G, including setting aside a block of spectrum in the 3.8–4.0 GHz band to be used directly for experimental industrial 5G use cases.

Since this announcement, Arcep has already allocated 10 localised spectrum licences to interested companies. Orange has the largest allocation, with three separate licences located in Charbonnières-les-Bains, Balma, and Paris

Additional licences are held by Bouygues Telecom, NTT, Transatel, Schneider Electric, Alsatis, EDF, and French research group CEA.

Each of these localised licences authorise the companies to use up to 100 MHz of spectrum in the dedicated band for a period of up to three years.

Now, French regulator Arcep has announced the new trio of companies to receive a licence following a successful applications process: the University Hospital Institute of Strasbourg, SNCF Réseau, and Capgemini.

The University Hospital Institute of Strasbourg is set to explore 5G’s ability to deliver “a new generation of smart operating rooms”, using private 5G to facilitate AI-assisted personalised and secure minimally-invasive operations.

The project is part of the wider “5G-OR” project, one of the four winners of the ‘Technical developments and application ecosystems for 5G private networks’ competition supported by the French and German governments.

SNCF Réseau’s application, meanwhile, relates to the ‘5G Living Labs” project, providing three separate locations within the city of Rennes for developers to develop 5G use cases.

Finally, Capgemini intends to enhance its existing 5G Lab in Issy-les-Moulineaux, using the additional spectrum bolster its current operations.

Arcep will continue to collect submissions for further allocations until the end of 2022.

Private mobile networks are one of the hottest topics in the telecoms industry right now. To find out more about this fascinating topic, join the experts in discussion at this year’s live Total Telecom Congress

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