Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which last year began the £50 million rollout of a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across parts of Cornwall (here), has now begun to expand across the border into several towns across Devon in South West England. At present the operator, which is being backed by […]
French MVNO left crippled by ransomware attack
On July 4th, MVNO LPA was hit with a major ransomware attack, severely limiting the company’s administrative and management capabilities.
Today, one week later, the company’s website is still down, instead replaced with an explanation of the cyber-attack.
“As soon as we became aware of this incident, we took the necessary protective measures by immediately suspending the computer systems concerned…
AT&T Mexico partners Nokia for 5G Innovation Lab
Nokia and AT&T Mexico today announced that they are collaborating to bring the benefits of 5G to the country. Nokia was also selected as a strategic partner for AT&T Mexico’s 5G Innovation Lab with the aim of exploring the development of 5G use cases suited for Mexico and the local 5G ecosystem…
Three UK Tops Ookla’s 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds Study – H1 2022
Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net service, has published their latest Q1-Q2 2022 (H1) study of 5G based mobile broadband performance from Three UK, EE (BT), Vodafone and O2 (VMO2), which found that Three once again delivered the fastest average (median) download speed. But Vodafone still wins on uploads. As usual, it’s vital to highlight […]
Comms Council Name 2022 Best UK VoIP Provider Award Finalists
The Comms Council UK, which represents the United Kingdom’s Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today published their 2022 shortlist of finalists for the organisation’s annual Awards event. Eli Katz, Chair of Comms Council UK, said: “The past 12 months have continued to throw more challenges to the industry with the ongoing issues […]
UK govt to delve deeper into Drahi’s BT stake increase
Today, reports from Bloomberg suggest that the government is seeking yet more information about billionaire Patrick Drahi’s increasing stake in BT.
The official deadline for the national security investigation’s conclusion was roughly a week ago, with the government now suggesting it needs more time to reach a conclusion.
French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi first took a stake in BT back in the summer of 2021, specially forming Altice UK in order to buy a 12…
ISP iDNET Joins FullFibre Ltd’s UK Gigabit Broadband Network
Popular UK residential and business ISP iDNET has today confirmed that they’ll soon be selling broadband packages via FullFibre Limited‘s (Fibre Heroes) new network, which looks set to complement the services that they already offer via both Openreach (BT) and CityFibre’s respective national infrastructure. FullFibre, which is being backed by infrastructure fund Basalt, currently aims […]
Ofcom Monitors UK Internet Phone Providers Over 999 Concerns
Ofcom has today opened a new monitoring programme, which will pay special attention to checking whether internet phone providers, such as those offered by dedicated Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and broadband providers (ISP), are ensuring the availability of access to emergency services (999) during power cuts. The United Kingdom is, like much of the rest of Europe, […]
CityFibre UK Pilot uCPE Universal Customer Premises Equipment
Network builder CityFibre has today announced that they’re piloting enhanced “virtualisation capabilities” for business ISPs across their UK full fibre broadband and Ethernet network, which among other things includes the interesting addition of Universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE). At present the operator is investing £4.9bn to cover up to 8 million premises – across around […]
Full Fibre ISP Connexin Acquires Rival Provider Wisper Broadband
Digital infrastructure provider and UK ISP Connexin, which is investing £80m to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Hull and East Yorkshire (here and here), has this morning announced the acquisition of local rival Wisper Broadband for an undisclosed sum. Few of our readers will have heard of Wisper Broadband before, […]