Broadband ISP Connexin, which recently began work on their £80m project to build a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to unseat KCOM’s “broadband monopoly” in Hull and East Yorkshire (here and here), has today launched a new 2000Mbps (2Gbps) trial package for local homes. The operator has recently been busy deploying their new fibre optic network […]
Q4 2021 Progress Update on BT FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales
The Welsh Government has provided a Q4 2021 progress update on their £52.5 million Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contract with BT (Openreach), which confirms that 25,855 premises (up from 24,515 in Q3) have now gained access to the operator’s gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. Just to recap. The contract consists of two stages, the original […]
ISP Pure Broadband Joins New MS3 North England FTTP Network
Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which currently delivers internet connectivity services to homes and businesses covered by the full fibre networks from KCOM, CityFibre and OFNL, has today added a fourth network provider in the shape of MS3. The latter is busy building across the North of England. At present MS3 runs an independent Dark […]
CityFibre Build 100th Fibre Exchange for UK FTTP Broadband Rollout
Network builder CityFibre has today announced the deployment of their 100th Fibre Exchange (FEX), which in theory should enable enough capacity to serve the first 4.8 million premises under their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband rollout across the UK (so far they’ve completed the build to 1 million premises). Such exchanges (data centres) form a key part […]
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Two Huawei UK directors step down as firm stays quiet on Ukraine
According to a Sky News report, Huawei UK non-executive directors Sir Andrew Cahn and Sir Ken Olisa are set to step down from their positions in protest against Huawei’s silence regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Sources suggest that the two directors had pressed the company to release a statement to condemn the Russian invasion, which began on the 24th of February, but were turned down.
The news comes as wave after wave of companies have announced that they would cease exporting to Russia in previous weeks due to the war…
5G services launch in Montenegro for the first time
Back in January, Montenegrin regulator EKIP (Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services) announced the conclusion of the country’s latest spectrum auction. The auction sold 220MHz of spectrum in the 900MHz, 1.8GHz, 2GHz and 2.6GHz bands, raising around $8 million.
Now, less than two months later, Crnogorski Telekom is already putting that spectrum to good use…
Better late than never: South Africa begins spectrum auction
After copious delays spanning years, the first stage of South Africa’s long-awaited spectrum auction is now complete.
South African mobile operators have long been crying out for additional spectrum from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), having not been allocated new spectrum licences for around 17 years.
This all changed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic…
Government Extends UK Online Safety Bill to Tackle Scam Adverts
The UK Government has today announced that their controversial new Online Safety Bill (OSB) will be extended to add a new duty, which aims to bring fraudulent paid-for adverts on social media and internet search engines into scope, whether they are controlled by the platform itself or an advertising intermediary. At present the existing OSB […]
Orange and MasMovil talk €20bn tie-up in Spain
Today, Orange and MasMovil have today announced that they have entered into discussions to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) in Spain.
The deal values Orange’s Spanish unit at €8.1 billion and MasMovil’s at €11.5 billion, for a combined enterprise value of €19.6 billion.
The combined, converged operator would have roughly 7.1 million fixed line customers and 20.2 million mobile subscribers. Its combined FTTH network would reach over 16 million homes…