Ofcom has today introduced new rules that aim to protect public phone boxes (payphones) – specifically those built by BT and KCOM – when they exist in areas with “poor mobile signals or high accident rates“. In addition, payphones will now require battery backup so that they can keep working after the switch to digital […]
Orange Poland signs 10-year network expansion deal with Nokia
Nokia today announced that it has won a ten-year extension to its contract with Orange Polska (Orange). The move will support Orange’s strategy of delivering best-in-class services to its customers.
Under the contract, Nokia will upgrade all existing networks including equipment supporting phasing out Orange&rsquo…
Helios Towers & Rakiza to purchase Omantel towers
Today, London-based independent tower company Helios Towers has announced that it has found a partner with which it intends to purchase Omantel’s mobile tower business.
Helios Towers is now set to purchase a 70% stake in the Omantel-owned holding company, while Rakiza Telecommunication Infrastructure, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oman Infrastructure Fund…
Ex-Openreach MD to become G.Network CEO
Last month, G.Network announced that its CEO and co-founder, Sasho Veselinski, would be stepping down from the business for “personal reasons” with immediate effect.
The company’s COO and fellow co-founder, David Sangster, has since been acting as interim CEO while the company searched for a full…
Three UK in Huge Hike to Standard Charges on PAYG Mobile Plans
Customers of mobile network operator Three UK, specifically those who still take their Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, have begun to receive a new notification that informs them of another significant price hike to their standard rates for calls, text messages (SMS) and data usage (mobile broadband). At present Three UK charges PAYG customers […]
ASA Ban Sky Mobile UK Ads for Misleading Perfect Network Claim
A complaint raised by broadband ISP and mobile giant BT looks set to result in the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning a TV and poster advert for Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband), which was found to have “misleadingly” claimed to have offered “the perfect network“. The complaint related to two Sky Mobile adverts – seen […]
e& partners with DataRobot to launch AIaaS
Earlier this year, United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based operator Etisalat underwent a major rebrand, renaming itself ‘e&’ and restructuring numerous divisions in an attempt to transform itself from a traditional telco to a world-leading tech company.
One such new division was ‘e& enterprise’, aiming to focus on providing digital technologies and expertise to businesses around the world and assisting them with their digital transformation…
CityFibre Start Halifax FTTP Broadband Build with New Contractor
After a long delay due to the failure of their previous local contractor, CityFibre has today announced the start (or restart) of their £23m project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large West Yorkshire (England) town of Halifax. The local deployment – due to cover “nearly every home and […]
Full Fibre ISP G.Network Appoint Former Openreach MD as CEO
London-focused gigabit-broadband builder and UK ISP G.Network, which unexpectedly saw its founder and former CEO – Sasho Veselinski – exit last month due to “personal reasons” (here), has managed to grab the former Managing Director of Openreach’s Fibre and Network Delivery team, Kevin Murphy, to be its new CEO. The operator has made rapid progress […]
New Record Fibre Optic Speed of 1.02Pbps Hit Over 51.7km
A team of network researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan has done it again after they achieved the “world’s first” successful data transmission of 1.02 Petabits per second (Pbs) in a standard cladding diameter (0.125 mm) multi-core fibre cable over a distance of 51.7km. The eagle-eyed among you […]