Today, Singtel has announced that it is increasing its stake in Intouch Holdings, the parent company of Thai mobile operator Advanced Info Service (AIS), acquiring a further 3.78% stake from Temasek.
The purchase, worth a roughly $237 million, will increase the Singaporean operator’s stake from 21.21% to 24.99%.
According to Singtel, the motivation for the stake increase is AIS’s continued strong performance, with the Thai operator capitalising on a surging demand for cloud, data centre and ICT solutions in the enterprise space…
The potential of ‘small’ wind for the telecoms industry
Telecoms and its Journey to Net Zero
Industry leaders are working hard to expand mobile coverage to reach 95 percent of the UK by 2025, while at the same time attempting to respond to the increasing pressure to reach ambitious Net Zero targets. As a result, decision makers are having to think creatively about how to overcome these challenges.
Wind power is one avenue with genuine potential to achieve great things within the industry. Historically, traditional wind turbines have not been widely adopted in the telecoms sector due to historical reliability and maintenance issues…
Changing customer service for a virtual world
The top reported business challenge in the last year, according to a study on CEOs’ most important business challenges in 2022 by Forbes, Covid-19 continues to concern business leaders, alongside other worries such as rising inflation, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and changing consumer behaviours.
More specifically, companies are struggling to provide a?consistent and holistic omnichannel experience?for their customers while blending remote and in-person work.
For many organisations, improving the management of customer data is their top customer experience (CX) priority over the next 12 months. This is because they recognise that creating the immersive, personalised, and compelling experiences customers expect comes from integrated customer data systems, improved uses of customer data to generate insights…
Pine Media Brings FTTP Broadband to 7,600 Flats in Sheffield
ISP Pine Media, which is slowly building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of South Yorkshire, Kent and rural Derbyshire (they also sell products via Openreach‘s rival network), has revealed that their full fibre network now covers over 7,600 flats/apartments in Sheffield. “Alongside our rollout to houses all across Sheffield, we have […]
VX FIBER’s Stoke FTTP Rollout Hit with £2460 of Fines in 1 Week
Network developer VXFIBER (inc. subsidiary LilaConnect) has once again faced criticism over their work to build a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Staffordshire (England) city of Stoke-on-Trent, which recently saw them being hit with £2,460 of roadworks fines in just one week. The “citywide” rollout, which reflects their project to construct […]
Telford and Wrekin to Deploy Full Fibre via Virgin Media O2 Business
The Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire (England) and broadband ISP Virgin Media O2 Business have agreed a new “multimillion-pound” partnership to connect 200 public sector sites (schools, council, libraries etc.) to the operator’s “multi-gigabit … full fibre” network, which could also help to extend residential services. At present Virgin Media’s fixed broadband network already […]
DISH launches 5G services
As of June 14, DISH is offering 5G broadband service to over 20 percent of the U.S. population. This marks a major milestone in building the world’s most advanced cloud-native 5G Open RAN network, as DISH continues to change the way the world communicates.
“This is a big moment for DISH as we connect customers across the country with America’s first and only cloud-native Open RAN network,” said Dave Mayo…
Court quashes Qualcomm’s €1bn antitrust fine
Back in 2018, the EU issued Qualcomm a fine of €997 million in a move that was widely viewed as flagship victory for the regulators over ‘big tech’.
Now, however, Europe’s second-highest court, the General Court, has overturned this decision, saying that "…
Indian 5G spectrum auction approved, will allow private network bidders
Indian operators have been waiting to be allocated 5G spectrum for a long time, with the necessary spectrum auction facing numerous delays over the past two years, from the onset of the coronavirus to clashes between telcos and regulators over pricing.
Now, it seems that the wait may finally be over, with the Indian Union Cabinet approving the terms of the auction and announcing it will begin on July 26.
The auction is set to make 72GHz of spectrum available in the 600 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz…
AltNets Trial Ability to Replace Openreach Copper with Fibre Lines on Poles
Alternative broadband providers are about to begin a new trial that will, for the first time, grant their engineers the ability to replace an existing copper dropwire on an existing Openreach pole (telegraph pole) with a new optical fibre one for gigabit-capable broadband, albeit only under certain circumstances. In the past, we’ve talked quite a […]