Making payments is no exception, and the demand for methods to align with today’s more digitally enabled world is evident. However, while the world of payments has changed dramatically, many billing processes remain outdated, inefficient and unclear. The way people pay their bills for instance has not kept pace with other types of payments.
This particular problem is being further exposed by the tough financial position many people are in as the cost of living squeeze tightens. More and more customers are struggling to pay their bills. In March 2022, we surveyed leaders from the UK&rsquo…
KDDI network outage hits almost 40m people
This weekend saw Japanese operator KDDI suffer its largest network disruption ever, leaving almost 40 million customers without mobile services.
The disruption seemingly began in the early hours of Saturday morning, with disruption continuing to varying degrees until Monday morning.
KDDI blamed “equipment failure” for the outage, saying staff were replacing a router for its core network as part of regular maintenance when an error prevented the connection of voice calls…
ISP Shell Energy Adds £100 Voucher to UK Full Fibre Plans
Broadband ISP and energy provider Shell Energy has enhanced the existing discount on their top two Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based packages (specifically the 525Mbps and 944Mbps plans) by removing the £50 bill credit for new customers and replacing it with a £100 shopping voucher. Shell’s Openreach-based broadband packages all include a wireless router, an 18-month minimum […]
ISP E-volve Solutions Plan 10Gbps Broadband for UK Rural Areas
Derby-based communications provider E-volve Solutions has today revealed that it’s looking to expand their existing full fibre and fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband networks, which are currently focused on smaller firms in Derbyshire, to serve UK homes and other businesses in “rural areas” with “speeds up to 10Gbps“. The proposed deployment was revealed as part […]
Project to Rollout 4G Mobile in Rural Scotland Reaches Halfway
The Scottish Government’s £28.75m 4G Infill Programme (S4GI), which is supported by WHP Telecoms and aims to improve rural mobile voice and data (broadband) coverage by building new masts (mostly in the Highlands and Islands), has officially reached the halfway point with 28 masts activated and 27 to go by 2023. Mobile operators including EE, […]
150 Businesses Benefit from New Full Fibre Network in Liverpool
Some 150 businesses based on the Sci-Tech Daresbury site in Liverpool have become the first to benefit from a new 212km full fibre broadband and Ethernet network called LCR Connect, which is being built as part of a £30m project backed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, ITS Technology and NGE. Work on the […]
Swish Fibre Add a Few Locations to Home Counties FTTP Build
Swish Fibre, which is building a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 250,000 premises across the Home Counties of England, appears to have quietly added a few additional locations to their build plans – mostly catching some of those that were near to existing deployments. At present, most of the operator’s work is […]
Proximus scraps plans for US subsidiary Telesign's IPO
This decision, which is a result of the high volatility in market trading linked to the external macro-economic environment, implies that the intended public listing of Telesign through a deSPAC transaction with NAAC will not take place. Proximus remains fully committed to further supporting Telesign’s future growth.
Since the announcement of the envisioned business combination in December 2021…
FTTH lessons for the UK market from French and German experience
Between 2021 and 2026, the FFTH Council Europe estimates that fibre homes passed will grow from 7 million in 2021 to 25 million by 2026. This places a major onus on the whole industry, from operators to suppliers.
By 2021, France already had 21 million homes passed with FTTH. Omelcom has been a key stakeholder in France’s FTTH rollout strategy, selling several hundreds of thousand Aerial subscriber nodes, several million FTTH outlets, …
MTN turns to crowdsourcing to overcome South African energy crisis
Widespread power outages have been commonplace in South Africa for over a decade, with the national energy supplier Eksom having struggled to meet the national demand for electricity during peak times since 2007.
Now, however, this energy crisis is deepening further still due to strike action from Eksom workers, forcing one of the country’s largest mobile networks operators, MTN, to turn to the public for help in keeping their network up and running.
This week, MTN has announced that it is seeking new partnerships from businesses throughout the country…