A new study of 1,500 UK based adults, which was commissioned by London-focused ISP CommunityFibre and conducted by Perspectus Global in March 2022, has claimed that 20% of Brits cannot afford to pay their broadband bill and 33% would rather cut back on their fuel use than cut back on internet access to save money. […]
Liberty Global looks to Vodafone to fill senior leadership role
Previously CNO for Germany at Vodafone, Madalina Suceveanu joined Liberty Global in April and has now been announced as Managing Director…
CityFibre Begins GBP30m FTTP Broadband Rollout in St Helens
CityFibre has today broken the first ground on their £30m investment to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large town and borough of St Helens in Merseyside (England), which aims to cover most of the local homes and businesses by 2025. The first civil engineering work began in the Peasley […]
Giganet Suffer Hampshire Broadband Outage After Fibre Break
Customers of UK broadband ISP Giganet in Hampshire, particularly those connecting through their Point of Presence (PoP) in the Winchester Exchange, are suffering from a major outage after “significant damage” was caused to one of their main underground fibre spine cables by a “large excavation team” in Basingstoke. The incident appears to have happened at […]
Virgin Media O2 Business UK Launch Faster Broadband Plans
Broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) has today replaced their old “Voom” packages for small business customers with a new range of service speeds, which includes the long-awaited introduction of a new 1Gbps (Voom Fibre) tier at the top of their line-up. Customers on Virgin Media’s residential packages have had access to the 1Gbps (1130Mbps […]
NGOs oppose European telcos’ calls for tech giants to share infrastructure costs
Telecoms companies have long complained about the perceived imbalance of their relationship with major tech companies like Meta, Google, and Netflix, viewing these so-called ‘over-the-top’ (OTT) companies as reaping the financial rewards of their expensive connectivity infrastructure rollouts.
Since at least 2012, European operators have been periodically calling on regulators to step in and force these tech giants to contribute financially to the networks they so rely on, but so far these calls have fallen upon deaf ears.
That is, however, until last month, when European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announced the EU would investigate whether these tech companies should pay up to ease the burden on operator capex…
Netomnia Add 3 New Towns and Villages to UK Full Fibre Rollout
Network builder Netomnia, which is being supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre, has today confirmed that their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network is being extended to cover homes and businesses in the three towns and villages of Oldham, Dalton in Furness and Doddington. The operator, which has so far secured £418 million […]
TIM’s voluntary retirement scheme set to cut 1,200 jobs
Around the end of 2021, Italian incumbent operator TIM was under enormous pressure from stakeholders to make major changes to the organisation, having failed to achieve notable improvements to its financial performance for numerous years. Couple this with a divisive €10.8 billion takeover offer from US private equity firm KKR and it was clear that the company was at a significant crossroads…
Ofcom outlines the future of UK phone boxes
It goes without saying that in the UK – and indeed most developed countries – that mobile connectivity is largely taken for granted. The UK’s 4G networks cover more than 99% of the country, with mobile internet used daily by over 90% of the population.
Nonetheless, thousands, perhaps millions, of UK citizens remain reliant on older technologies like landlines and payphones for their connectivity needs, making retiring these legacy services very difficult for operators.
BT, for example, announced in November last year that they planned to switch off their existing landline services (PSTN and ISDN) in 2025…
Ofcom outlines the future of UK payphones
It goes without saying that in the UK – and indeed most developed countries – that mobile connectivity is largely taken for granted. The UK’s 4G networks cover more than 99% of the country, with mobile internet used daily by over 90% of the population.
Nonetheless, thousands, perhaps millions, of UK citizens remain reliant on older technologies like landlines and payphones for their connectivity needs, making retiring these legacy services very difficult for operators.
BT, for example, announced in November last year that they planned to switch off their existing landline services (PSTN and ISDN) in 2025…