Telenor’s infra, the Nordic region’s largest mobile tower company, has signed a power purchase agreement with Hydro Energi’s Hydro Rein subsidiary, a specialist in developing greenfield wind projects in Norway and Sweden.
The ten-year deal will see Telenor purchase 330 GWh of power annually from Hydro Rein’s 260 MW Stor-Skälsjö…
Vodafone teams up with Google Cloud for unified performance platform
Today, Vodafone Group has announced a launch of its new UPM platform, which it says will help it to plan, build, and manage its networks throughout Europe.
The UPM platform, built in collaboration with Google Cloud and data analytics specialist Cardinality.io, will serve to pool network performance data from all the markets in which it is deployed, making it easier to monitor and analyse using AI and machine learning…
TIM–Open Fibre merger days away from agreement
After years of heated discussion, it appears that a deal to create a single national fibre in Italy could finally be on the horizon, with TIM CEO Labriola suggesting that a preliminary agreement to merge the company’s fibre assets with those of Open Fiber could be just days away.
“There have been some delays… but stakeholders are interested in carrying out the project, I don’t see problems,” said Labriola at a press briefing on the company&rsquo…
New Full Fibre Network from Stix Internet Goes Live in Yorkshire
Fixed wireless UK ISP Stix Internet has announced that the first rural homes and businesses have just gone live on their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network near to Huddersfield in West Yorkshire (England), which is being supplied to consumers via their Northern Fibre sub-brand. We first spotted the existence of this alternative full fibre […]
ISP Truespeed Freezes All UK FTTP Broadband Prices for 1 Year
Bath-based UK ISP Truespeed, which is busy building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of Somerset (England), has today announced a 12-month price freeze for all of their residential and business customers to help them cope with rapidly rising living costs. The operator, which has so far covered 200 communities around […]
Starlink Adds Portability to LEO Satellite Broadband Service
SpaceX has begun sending out new emails to customers on their Starlink constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband ISP satellites, which announces the availability of their new ‘Portability‘ add-on (i.e. the ability to move the system to a different location and still receive service). But it’s NOT free. At present Starlink has […]
FullFibre Ltd Extend FTTP Broadband Build to 22 New UK Towns
Exeter-based network builder FullFibre Limited has today announced that their UK rollout of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network has been expanded to a fourth region, which will see them spreading across the North Midlands and Yorkshire – starting with 22 new locations. The operator, which deploys its network as a wholesale platform […]
Connecting the Med with the IONIAN subsea system
Recent years have seen an uptick in regional submarine cable projects being developed and launched in the EMEA region. One of those projects is the IONIAN subsea system which is being built by Islalink. Esther Garcés, CEO of Islalink sat down with Total Telecom to share more about the progress of the project and what the system will mean for connectivity in the Mediterranean.
Islalink’s current focus is on delivering the IONIAN submarine system…
Giganet joins Vodafone. Zen, TalkTalk in going nationwide with CityFibre
CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent Full Fibre platform, and Giganet, a rapidly-growing and award-winning Internet Service Provider (ISP), have agreed a major expansion to their strategic partnership. Under the terms of the new deal, Giganet will make their Full Fibre offering available across CityFibre’s entire eight million home nationwide rollout.
The new agreement builds on the initial partnership first announced in 2020…
Telenor, Aker and Cognite form software security company Omny
Given its sensitive nature, it is rare for cybersecurity to be discussed openly during international discussions, but this is exactly what happened earlier this this week when a Norwegian delegation, including the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, travelled to Sweden to strengthen cooperation between the two countries.
The three-day event featured a heavy focus on improving cybersecurity dialogue between the two countries, with participating IT firm Advania suggesting lack of knowledge of the subject in Europe as a whole was a &lsquo…