UK ISP BT has today enhanced their top two fastest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages – 500Mbps and 900Mbps – by adding a “free” Xbox Game Pass Ultimate – running for 6 months on 500Mbps and 12 months on 900Mbps (costing £10 per month thereafter). As usual new customers can expect to receive an […]
End of Contract Letters by UK Broadband ISPs Boost Re-Contracting
Ofcom has today posted some additional analysis on the impact of their End-of-Contract Notifications (ECN) system, which reveals that customer re-contracting on major broadband ISPs has increased as a result of its introduction – varying from a rise of 13% on Plusnet to just 3% on TalkTalk. The regulator’s ECN system – as first introduced […]
eir expands partnership with EasyGo to grow EV charger network
The changing face of street furniture is demonstrated by the partnership in Ireland between eir, the countries largest provider of fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services, and EasyGo, the largest private car charging network in Ireland.
What is really interesting is that this is being seen as a way to support public infrastructure by helping communities meet their changing needs and replaces eir payphone kiosks…
ISP Plusnet’s Missing 24/7 UK Support for Business Customers
Customers of Plusnet’s business broadband packages have recently begun to notice that the ISP has not been delivering on their pledge of offering “dedicated 24/7 UK based customer support“, with some users complaining that their phone lines close down after 8pm – the same time as the weekday cut-off for residential support. The issue first […]
New ISP Brillband Preps Launch of App-Based FTTP Broadband
A new UK ISP called Brillband has today soft-launched itself by proclaiming to be the “world’s first … app-based broadband provider,” which is said to have the “potential to completely change the way broadband is delivered” and is being backed by an initial investment of £660,000 from VC firm Fuel Ventures. The press announcement itself […]
TIP launches Academy to teach Open RAN skills
TIP participants have expressed the need for an industry-led, operator and vendor neutral training service, designed to address a global skills and resource shortage in the telecom industry—creating a workforce which is more digitally fluent and better able to participate in or lead on the solution design, development, testing, and deployment of open and disaggregated network solutions. Moreover, research has found that companies with a digitally fluent workforce lead their peers in revenue growth and better worker satisfaction.
TIP Academy is a B2B learning service developed in response to this demand. It will offer courses that center on the wide range of open disaggregated solutions that are currently in development…
Telenor Infra strikes renewable energy deal with Hydro Energi
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 […]