Telecoms and UK broadband giant BT has today announced that it plans to grow its “in-house Digital talent” resource to 6,300 people (up from 3,500 at 1st April 2022). The majority will be brought on board by April 2024, but only around 1,000 of the new colleagues will come from the UK and the rest […]
Broadband ISP Glide Acquires Full Fibre Provider Velocity1
Business and residential ISP Glide Group, which is currently working to extend their UK full fibre broadband network (leased lines and FTTP etc.), has today announced that they’ve acquired 100% of the shares of London-focused full fibre and smart city provider Velocity1 Ltd from Quintain. Velocity1 currently operates fibre optic broadband networks across Wembley Park […]
North Yorkshire UK Gets More Funding for Rural Broadband
The North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) has been allocated £16.89 million over three years – April 2022 to March 2025 – from the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF), which they say will be spent on everything from “a lack of broadband coverage to poor rural transport links“. The SPF was established in the wake […]
Virtual1 and ITS Technology to Combine UK Full Fibre Networks
The ITS Technology Group (its.), which operates 35 wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks across urban areas of the UK, has today announced a significant new partnership with high bandwidth wholesaler Virtual1 (TalkTalk) that appears set to combine their respective network reach. The move is significant for a number of reasons, not least of […]
Cellnex drops bid for Deutsche Telekom towers
This week, Cellnex has announced that it will no longer bid for a stake in Deutsche Funkturm, leaving KKR the last remaining suitor for the German towers unit, valued at around €18 billion.
Deutsche Telekom first began hinting at its desire to sell off a stake in its tower unit late last year, aiming to follow in the footstep of numerous mobile operators worldwide, including European rivals Vodafone and Orange…
Sparkle and Italian Navy partner for protect subsea cables
This week, the Italian Navy have announced a new partnership with Telecom Italia’s submarine cable subsidiary, Sparkle, pledging to jointly improve the protection of national subsea infrastructure.
As part of the partnership, the duo plans to work together on shared operating procedures and potentially joint reconnaissance and monitoring activities in the areas surrounding Sparkle&rsquo…
NTT forms Seren Juno Network to launch new transatlantic cable
NTT Ltd. Japan Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., PC Landing Corp, and JA Mitsui Leasing, Ltd. today announced the launch of a new company, Seren Juno Network Co., Ltd. (“Seren”) which has been founded to construct and operate “JUNO”, the new and largest trans-Pacific submarine cable system (providing the maximum capacity of 350Tbps) that will run between Japan and the US.
According to leading telecommunications industry analyst firm…
Three UK Introduce 1-Month Term on 5G Home Broadband Plans
Last week we reported that Three UK had cut the standard charge on their 5G unlimited Three Home Broadband packages and also introduced the more expensive ‘option‘ of a 1-month minimum contract term. But it seems they were a bit premature, since the new monthly term has only now gone live. As previously mentioned, the […]
Devon and Somerset UK Issue July 2022 Airband FTTP Build Update
The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) project and UK ISP Airband have today issued a new July 2022 update on their Phase 2 contract to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the region, which has so far covered 2,500 premises in hard to reach rural areas. The work largely reflects Airband’s ongoing contract […]
Orange and MásMóvil nearing €6.5bn funding for merger
Back in March, Orange Spain and MásMóvil announced their intention to merge, forming a 50:50 joint venture with an enterprise value of roughly €20 billion.
The deal would create a converged operator with around 7.1 million fixed line customers and 20.2 mobile customers, as well as 1.5 million TV customers.
Orange’s tower company, TOTEM, would notably be excluded from the merger…