When it comes to wireless technologies, it should come a no surprise that environments like mines have presented major challenges for many years. However, as these technologies improve, we are beginning to see mining operations around the world upgrading their infrastructure, thereby enabling the IoT, industrial automation…
CityFibre Prep £2m FTTP Broadband Build for Village of Yaxley
The village and civil parish of Yaxley in Cambridgeshire (England), which is home to a population of over 9,000, has just become one of CityFibre’s smallest builds after they confirmed their plan to invest £2m as part of their ongoing deployment of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology. The announcement states that CityFibre has […]
Openreach CEO Appears to Blame Brexit for Pace of Broadband Build
The CEO of network access provider Openreach (BT), Clive Selley, appears to have risked a spat with the UK Government after he complained that the rollout of faster broadband services (e.g. gigabit-capable FTTP) had been slowed by the “tortuous” post-Brexit process of recruiting workers from the EU. These days, even the mere mention of the […]
Openreach Give FTTP on Demand Broadband a Stay of Execution
A couple of months ago we revealed that Openreach had launched a review of their FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD or FoD) product for UK broadband ISPs (here), which proposed to stop selling it later this year. The conclusion of that review has just been published and FoD has been given a reprieve, at least for […]
Broadband ISP Pine Media Launch Mesh WiFi Solution for Homes
UK ISP Pine Media, which is rolling out its own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in South Yorkshire (Sheffield) and rural Derbyshire (they also sell products over Openreach’s rival network), has launched a new Mesh WiFi solution for customers via a partnership with Plume. Sadly, we haven’t had a solid update on Pine Media’s full […]
Alternative Full Fibre ISPs Cover 5.46 Million UK Premises in 2022
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association and Point Topic have published their 2022 report into the impact of alternative “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks, which reveals that such providers grew their UK cover by 111% in 2021 (up from 110% last year) to cover 5.46 million premises and could hit 11.6m this year. As usual, the […]
Gigaclear Extend Rural FTTP Broadband to 300,000 UK Premises
Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Gigaclear has this afternoon claimed that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which tends to target rural parts of England, has now covered 300,000 premises (up from 250,000 in December 2021). The operator’s network is already present in rural communities and market towns across various parts of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, […]
Brazil selects Hengtong for second section of Amazon River fibre cable
Back in February 2021, cable specialist Prysmian announced that it had won a contract from the Brazilian government to supply 770km of fibre cable as first stage of the Norte Conectado project, a plan to deploy fibre infrastructure beneath the Amazon River in order to serve rural northern communities…
Orange and DabaDoc launch e-health platform for Ivory Coast
It provides access to several services such as online appointment booking, payment for remote consultations by the diaspora, digitized medical records and teleconsultations.
The Orange Santé platform is developed in partnership with DabaDoc, the Moroccan start-up in which Orange has invested…
GSMA move to standardise ESG reporting metrics
According to the GSMA, there are currently around 600 different ESG reporting standards currently in use throughout the mobile industry. This fragmentation not only makes measuring progress on an industrial scale very difficult, but also places a heavy burden on the operators, who often commit significant time and effort in the data collection and reporting progress to produce a report of limited value.
Now, the GSMA has announced the release of a new whitepaper…