Broadband ISP Ogi has just issued a brief progress update to celebrate the first year of their £200m effort to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across South Wales (here and here), which initially aims to cover 150,000 premises by the end of 2025 (they’ve almost completed 23,000). At present Ogi, which was formerly […]
Oak Hill Capital investing $300m in New York fibre player Greenlight Networks
Greenlight Networks (“Greenlight”), a leading fiber-to-the home provider in upstate New York, announced today that New York-based middle-market private equity firm Oak Hill Capital (“Oak Hill”) has become its majority investor. The transaction announced in March of this year provides the financial backing to accelerate Greenlight’s growth in building and connecting fiber…
Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr strike six deals worth $912.5m
Today, Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr have announced a number of new partnerships cumulatively worth EGP17 billion ($912.5 million).
The agreements largely focus on allowing Etisalat to offer customers commercial services using Telecom Egypt’s network, with the largest deal, valued at around $670 million…
DOCOMO and NTT announce raft of partnerships for 6G trials
Today, NTT and NTT DOCOMO have announced their plans to collaborate on the development of 6G technology with numerous partners, planning trials with Fujitsu, NEC, and Nokia.
While 6G technology is largely undefined, with most industry bodies aiming for commercialisation around 2030, it is already clear that the technology will be required to offer faster speeds, lower latencies, and a larger capacity than its predecessor wireless technology, 5G.
To achieve this, higher frequencies than those currently used for mobile services will be required…
CityFibre secure almost £5bn in debt financing
CityFibre celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in their own special way at the end of last week, announcing that they had raised an additional £4.9 billion to fund their FTTP rollout across the nation.
The move is one of the largest single financings for full fibre deployment in Europe, with CityFibre suggesting that the funds will fully enable their deployment target of 8 million homes by 2025, as well as their increasing their contribution towards the UK government&rsquo…
Rural UK ISP Alncom Target 25000 Premises for FTTP Broadband
Alnwick-based ISP Alncom has today announced that they plan to extend the deployment of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover a further 25,000 rural premises across parts of Northumberland, County Durham and the Scottish Borders. At present, the provider already has a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network in Northumberland, which connects […]
Birmingham Scientists Create New 5G Beam Steering Antenna
A team from the University of Birmingham‘s School of Engineering in England has developed a new beam-steering antenna for future 5G and 6G mobile (mobile broadband) networks, which claims to have achieved “vast improvements in data transmission efficiency” via a range of frequencies that are “inaccessible” to existing technologies. The new device can apparently provide […]
New Brsk FTTP Broadband Network Live in Portwood, Stockport
Fibre optic builder and UK ISP Brsk has today announced that their new gigabit-capable and “open access” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has just started to go live in the Portwood (Stockport) area of Greater Manchester, which follows a similar development in Accrington last month. The operator, which is currently targeting parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire […]
Openreach and the Case of a Tricky FTTP Transition Problem
Imagine if your FTTC (VDSL2) broadband line was cancelled and couldn’t be re-provisioned by your ISP because “full fibre” FTTP was now the only option available. Fine. But now imagine if you tried to order FTTP and found that UK ISPs were quoting you up to £12k for installation. This could become more common. As […]
CityFibre Sign GBP4.9bn Debt Raise to Boost UK Full Fibre Rollout
CityFibre has announced “one of Europe’s largest ever Full Fibre financings” by completing a debt raise worth a staggering £4.9bn. The deal enables them to complete their plan to cover 8 million UK premises with gigaibt-capable FTTP broadband and to bid on contract’s under the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme for rural areas. The operator […]