Some homes in the remote rural hamlet of Cartel Fell, which sits in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria (England), have been left without access to a working fixed line broadband ISP or phone service for six long weeks. The problems began after Openreach’s local telecoms infrastructure was significantly damaged by Storm Arwen. Exact details […]
Ericsson and HERE partner for custom mine mapping tech
It should be no surprise that providing quality connectivity for mining operations can be a major challenge. The mine’s complex and frequently shifting geography makes providing coverage problematic, especially when it comes to connectivity of high enough quality to enable real-time analytics and automation.
Now, Ericsson has announced it is seeming up with location data specialist HERE…
BDUK Start National Rolling Open Market Review for Project Gigabit
The UK Government’s Building Digital UK team has today “soft launched” a new “Rolling National Open Market Review” (RN-OMR) process for their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband scheme, which aims to do a better job of identifying areas that will benefit from a commercial rollout so that they can more effectively target public money towards those […]
Truespeed secures further £100 million in second round of funding
Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva PLC. The £100 million investment will help Truespeed accelerate the roll-out of its ultrafast, gigabit-capable full fibre network to more homes and businesses across urban, semi-rural and ultra-rural areas of South West England. It follows an initial £75 million investment made by Aviva Investors in 2017…
Truespeed secures £175 million in second round of funding
Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva PLC. The £100 million investment will help Truespeed accelerate the roll-out of its ultrafast, gigabit-capable full fibre network to more homes and businesses across urban, semi-rural and ultra-rural areas of South West England. It follows an initial £75 million investment made by Aviva Investors in 2017…
Will Ethiopia find a third telecoms operator in 2022?
Motivated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, in 2020 Ethiopia’s telecoms regulator, the Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA), announced that it would introduce two new players to the Ethiopian telecoms market, breaking up one of the last telecoms monopolies in the world.
With a large, young population with rapidly increasingly digitalisation, Ethiopia was viewed as a goldmine for telecoms operators…
New Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 Standard to Boost Upload Speed and Efficiency
The Wi-Fi Alliance has just taken the wraps off yet another update to the still fairly young 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) wireless networking standard which, for marketing purposes, is simply to be called ‘Wi-Fi 6 Release 2‘ and brings with it a couple of key improvements – mostly focused upon boosting upload speeds and power management. […]
Truespeed increases its investment from Aviva Investors to £175 million to accelerate delivery of full fibre broadband
Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva PLC. The £100 million investment will help Truespeed accelerate the roll-out of its ultrafast, gigabit-capable full fibre network to more homes and businesses across urban, semi-rural and ultra-rural areas of South West England. It follows an initial £75 million investment made by Aviva Investors in 2017…
Rakuten spins off Symphony unit to better promote Open RAN globally
To further this goal, the company launched the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) in October 2020, allowing both greenfield and brownfield operators access to Rakuten Mobile’s Open RAN network design, including tech that encompasses virtualisation, automation, containerisation, and microservices.
Following initial successes of its RCP model, Rakuten took the decision in August last year to create Symphony…
ISP TalkTalk UK Reveals the Top 5 XMas Gaming Gifts by Traffic
Broadband ISP TalkTalk has taken a closer look at the internet traffic from over 1 million of their customers on Christmas Day and managed to identify the top five video gaming console gifts. The data reveals that Nintendo’s Switch console was by far the most popular gaming gift for 2021, with 22,995 new devices being […]