Reforms to planning laws will mean fewer phone masts will be needed overall to level up the country with improved 4G and 5G mobile coverage as telecoms firms will be able to upgrade existing infrastructure over building new masts.
Mobile network operators will get more freedom to make new and existing phone masts up to five metres taller and two metres wider than current rules permit. This will boost the range of masts, create room for the extra equipment needed for faster networks and make it easier for operators to share infrastructure.
The government will put tough new legal duties on operators to minimise the visual impact of network equipment, particularly in protected areas such as national parks, conservation areas…
ISP Gigaclear Extend Rural FTTP Broadband Rollout into Suffolk
The Infracapital-backed UK ISP Gigaclear has today announced that their rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks is being extended into rural parts of Suffolk (England), which will initially include thousands of homes and businesses across six large and medium-sized villages. So far the operator’s network, which already covers over 250,000 premises, is […]
How we’re bringing connectivity to more of Britain for our emergency services
To support this crucial work, our police, fire and rescue, ambulance services and other first responders, need ultra-reliable connectivity to provide secure and mission-critical communications that they can also trust to keep them safe too. Whether it’s ambulances sending vital patient data to hospitals so staff can prepare for a patient’s arrival; police officers controlling a volatile crowd calling for urgent back-up; or fire and rescue crews assessing burning buildings, based on digital blueprints on tablets and live helicopter camera footage…
What’s in a name? Telecom industry’s leading brands in 2022
Since 2010, Brand Finance has been compiling an annual report on the most valuable and strongest telecoms brands. The company has assessed 5,000 of the world’s biggest telecom brands, including the leading 150 in their dedicated report, the Brand Finance Telecoms 150 2022.
Brand value is understood as the net economic benefit that a brand owner would achieve by licensing the brand in the open market. Brand strength is the efficacy of a brand’s performance on intangible measures relative to its competitors.
Let’s take a look at some of the most notable results…
Business UK ISP Plan.com Signs TalkTalk Wholesale Deal
Business communications provider Plan.com has today signed a new partnership deal with TalkTalk’s Wholesale Services division, which will enable them to broaden their existing product options with more choice of broadband services on their my.plan platform. Established in 2014 and headquartered in the Isle of Man, plan.com specialise in the provision of connectivity and productivity […]
ISP Adds 21 Cambridgeshire UK Villages to FTTP Broadband Build
Rural focused UK ISP County Broadband (CB) has today added 21 villages in Cambridgeshire (England) to their multi-million-pound rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. All of the new villages are located within the St Neots and Huntingdon areas. The provider, which tends to focus on the East of England area and is being […]
Gigabit FTTP Broadband in Wingrave Finally Going Live via Ecom
After a long wait, UK ISP Ecom has finally started to connect the first properties in the rural Buckinghamshire (England) village of Wingrave – home to a local population of around 1,500 – to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. The provider, which was previously aiming to cover 2,500 premises with their new […]
Pure Broadband Becomes First Live CityFibre ISP in Sheffield
Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which serves consumers covered by new full fibre networks from KCOM, CityFibre and OFNL, has announced that they’ve just become the first internet provider to make services available via CityFibre’s new network in the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield. CityFibre started their £115 million rollout of a new 1Gbps […]
Rakuten Symphony starts harmonising with MTN for African Open RAN
MTN Group and Rakuten Symphony have announced that they will work together on three new proof of concept trials in South Africa, Nigeria and Liberia.
The trials, which are set to start later this year, will make use of Open RAN technology from the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP)…
Vodafone NZ latest to pursue tower sale
Vodafone NZ has reportedly engaged financial services firms Barrenjoey and UBS to explore the sale of its New Zealand towers.
The operator has the largest tower portfolio in the country, with its roughly 1,500 towers providing mobile coverage to around 98% of the population. The company says it remains committed to building additional sites to “maintain its relative coverage and capacity position in the future&rdquo…