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…
Startup Stories – Go West
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RunFibre is an internet service provider in the West of UK that is rolling out fibre infrastructure and partnering with other fibre operators to reduce the digital divide.
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Netomnia Prep Gigabit Broadband for Grantham in Lincolnshire
Network builder Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre – has today announced that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network is being extended to cover homes and businesses in the Lincolnshire (England) town of Grantham. The operator intends to invest up to £7 million in order to reach 24,000 premises across the […]
Mobile Operator O2 UK Updates Pay As You Go Plans
Mobile network operator O2 (VMO2) appears to have refreshed some of their SIM Only contract-free “Pay As You Go” mobile plans (Big Bundles), which has seen the odd plan get a data allowance (mobile broadband) boost and others benefit from the addition of included calling minutes to 42 countries. One of our readers, Mike, spotted […]
BT Secures TV Rights to UEFA Football Leagues as Amazon Takes Slice
Broadband, mobile and broadcasting giant BT has announced that their Sport TV streaming business has secured the rights to the majority of UEFA’s Champions League games, plus all the Europa League and the Europa Conference League exclusively live, for a further 3 seasons. But Amazon’s Prime Video service has also taken a slice. Previously, BT […]
ISP Zzoomm Builds Full Fibre Coverage to 50,000 UK Premises
Network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm has today released their annual results, which among other things reveals that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has now expanded to cover 50,000 premises (up from 10,000 in Dec 2021) with 3,000 customers connected (up from 1,400). Just to recap. The provider, which aims to reach 1 […]
Gigabit Broadband for 3,000 Primary Schools in Rural England
The Government has tonight announced that a joint £82m investment by the Departments for Culture (DCMS) and Education (DfE) will mean that, over the next 3 years, as many as 3,000 primary schools across rural England will now get access to broadband (full fibre) speeds of up to 1000Mbps. The announcement adds a bit more […]