A new survey of over 4,000 businesses in England, which was conducted by the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE), has claimed that sub-standard infrastructure in rural areas – particularly the lack of quality broadband in many parts – is making it harder for businesses to be “resilient and bounce back from adversity“. According […]
MS3 Expands FTTP Broadband Build to 3 Lincolnshire Towns
Hessle-based network provider MS3, which is backed by infrastructure fund Asterion and is working to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the North of England (here), has added the three Lincolnshire towns of Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Cleethorpes to their build plan. So far much of MS3’s early XGS-PON fibre build, […]
Samsung Sets Out Plan for 6G Mobile Broadband at 1Tbps Speeds
South Korean tech giant Samsung, which has historically played a major role in the development of new mobile network technologies, has this week published some of its early research findings into the future 6th Generation (6G) of mobile broadband technology and set out what sort of technologies it may incorporate. At present much of the […]
Commsworld Highlight Rural Northumberland Fibre Progress with Alncom
Last year saw rural ISP Alncom enter into a new partnership with business provider Commsworld (here) to help support the rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Northumberland and Durham in England. The fruits of this agreement are now starting to show. The original announcement didn’t contain much in the […]
CityFibre Invest GBP15m to Build FTTP Broadband in Great Yarmouth
CityFibre has announced that they will invest £15m to rollout their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across “nearly every” home and business in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth. Construction work on the new full fibre network is planned to “begin this winter“. The new deployment will form part of the operator’s […]
Smart places: Why getting the governance right is vital to project success
Without clear, specific objectives, it can be difficult to get buy-in from the people who need to implement the solutions and those it impacts, making it harder to demonstrate the value or benefits of solutions, risking wasting money on the wrong things.
Often ‘smart’ solutions are aimed at improving existing services like waste management or public parking; however, without the necessary support of those responsible for delivering these services, it can be hard to persuade them to consider how ‘smart’ solutions would enhance their ‘tried and tested’ practices.
Understanding the challenge(s)
Every place is unique and to stand the greatest chance of success…
Capturing new opportunities in the subsea market
EXA Infrastructure, previously the infrastructure unit of GTT Communications, was acquired by I Squared Capital in September 2021, bringing with it all of GTT’s inter-route terrestrial footprint in Europe, three Hibernia transatlantic cables, and its network in the northeast US and Canada.
Now, less than one year on, large-scale investment is beginning to be poured into the business, with numerous projects underway in Europe and beyond.
“We’re seven months into EXA now and it’s been an exciting journey. We’ve achieved quite a lot in the past six months, with a lot more planned for the next few years,” explained Roberts.
Watch the full interview from the link above
Tapping new opportunities with TAP
Last week, EXA announced a new deal with Trans…
BT Results See FTTP Broadband Surge to 7.2Million UK Premises
The BT Group has published their Q4 2021/22 results to March 2022, which saw the coverage of Openreach’s gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network grow by a record 752,000 premises in the quarter (up from +662K last quarter) to total 7.2 million. The operator also signed an FTTP co-provisioning deal with Sky Broadband. The main […]
ASA UK Bans Tesco Mobile Adverts Over Offensive Content
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has banned several adverts for Tesco Mobile – most of which were intended to highlight how big mobile operators were hiking their prices again – after 52 people complained that they contained offensive content (i.e. words that alluded to an expletive) and some could also be seen by children. The […]
48m American households could get subsidised broadband – but for how long?
Twenty US internet companies, including AT&T, Frontier, Cox and Verizon have committed to provision of high-speed internet services to qualifying low-income households for no more than $30 per month. Combined with existing federal Internet subsidies means that for many the government will cover the full cost of connectivity…