Today, Spanish reports suggest that Másmóvil has sold a 51% stake in Euskaltel’s newly separated fibre access network unit, EKT Cable, to a Spanish consortium.
The consortium, known as Bidasoa Aggregator, includes various Spanish investment funds…
Altice USA seemingly selling Suddenlink
Today, reports from Bloomberg suggest that Altice USA has began looking for buyers for its cable operator subsidiary, Suddenlink.
Altice USA acquired Suddenlink back in 2015, with the deal being valued at around $9 billion. Today, the unit Suddenlink operates fixed TV and broadband internet services in 17 states in the Midwest…
Connexin Create InfraCo to Support Full Fibre Build in Northern England
A new alternative network (altnet) operator called Connect InfraCo, which has close links to UK ISP Connexin, has cropped up with a plan to rollout a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband platform to homes and businesses in the North of England, albeit “primarily” in a wholesale capacity. The details came to light after the […]
Competition Authority Clears BT Sport TV and Eurosport UK Joint Venture
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today cleared BT Group’s agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, which is intended to result in a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) company between BT Sport and Eurosport UK that will create a new TV sports offering for the UK and Ireland. At present BT is busy focusing their efforts […]
Devon and Somerset UK Scrap Truespeed FTTP Broadband Contracts
The state aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has been hit by yet another controversy after it “terminated” two contracts with Bath-based broadband ISP Truespeed, which had suffered delays in its £6.7m (public investment) deal to deploy a full fibre network to cover 15,172 premises. The Phase 2 contracts, which were signed at […]
Vodafone’s DreamLab app set to tackle Long Covid
Working in collaboration with Imperial College London, Vodafone Foundation first released its DreamLab app back in April 2020.
Initially designed to assist in cancer research, the app works by harnessing the processing power of the downloader’s mobile device while it is being charged overnight. Using AI, this network of idle phones can then form a virtual supercomputer with enormous processing power, capable of performing calculations far more quickly than conventional computers…
US inches closer to passing $52bn CHIPS bill
This week, the US Senate has voted 64 to 34 in favour of advancing the long-awaited semiconductor bill, meaning it could be just weeks away from being signed into law.
Now that this major procedural step has been cleared, the next steps will see the Senate hold a final vote to pass the bill later this week or early next week, before sending it for another vote in the House of Representatives. If they too pass the bill, then it will be finally sent to the desk of President Joe Biden…
Freedom Fibre Add 10 Cheshire Locations to FTTP Broadband Build
Fibre optic network builder Freedom Fibre, which is being supported by UK ISP TalkTalk and is currently rolling out a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across semi-rural parts of North England, has today added 10 new towns and villages in Cheshire to their rollout plan. The operator already had some deployments in Cheshire […]
Eutelsat Set to Launch New 500Gbps VHTS Broadband Satellite
European satellite operator Eutelsat, which is also the parent of UK ISP Konnect (We Konnect), has announced that their next generation Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) is finally on its way to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana), ready to be launched via an Ariane 5 rocket on 6th September 2022. The new platform, which […]
Starlink Expand UK Availability of Ultrafast LEO Satellite Broadband
Consumers in the north of Scotland who have been waiting to adopt SpaceX’s popular Starlink service, which offers ultrafast latency and internet speeds via a mega constellation of broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), may be pleased to learn that ISP has just expanded its availability to cover the highlands and Orkney. The Starlink […]