The Government has unveiled a new agreement with the four primary mobile network operators, including Vodafone, EE (BT), O2 (VMO2) and Three UK, which among other things will see existing 2G and 3G signals being “phased out” by 2033 (benefitting 4G / 5G services and mobile broadband) and a new target for OpenRAN adoption. The […]
Business UK ISP Onecom Acquires Rival Russell Telecom
Hampshire-based business broadband and cloud provider Onecom, which is backed by a £100m funding package from LDC and Ares Management Corporation (here), has today made their fourth acquisition of the year (after Olive Communications, 9 Group and IP Office) by gobbling Russell Telecom for an undisclosed sum. The CEO of Onecom Group, Martin Flick, said: […]
Mission complete for VMO2 as it finishes national network upgrade
Today, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced that they have completed upgrading their existing network to DOCSIS 3.1 technology, four years ahead of schedule.
The upgrade process has been underway for the last two years, accelerating at an incredible pace. VMO2 announced that they had reached the halfway point (around 7.75 million homes) in their upgrade plans only back in August…
Nokia Demo First UK Trial of 25G PON for 5G Backhaul with CityFibre
Nokia and CityFibre have teamed up in Glasgow (Scotland) to conduct the UK’s first successful demonstration of a trial that used their full fibre 25G PON kit to fuel backhaul capacity for a 5G mobile (mobile broadband) network, which was used for a holographic call between buildings, teleoperation of a robotic arm and 8K video […]
Crosslake goes CrossChannel with new system launch
CrossChannel is a next generation, high-capacity system with 96 fibre pairs supporting over 2,400 Tbps of capacity. The network spans 550km, 149km of which is submarine. The system is the first to be installed between the UK and France in over 20 years…
Meet the Asian telecom superstars! #ACA21
Launched by Total Telecom in 2012 the Asia Communication Awards are the region’s leading platform for recognising innovation and excellence amongst communication service providers, suppliers and other participants based in the Asia region or with product offerings specifically serving the region.
For 2021 we totally reimagined the categories and enhanced the judging panel to ensure these are the only awards you want to win in Asia. This resulted in a record number of entries from more than 50 organisations spread across countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam as well as from South Asia and Oceania…
Rural Broadband ISP Truespeed Appoints James Lowther as CEO
Alternative network UK ISP Truespeed, which is supported by £75m from Aviva Investors and has been busy building their own 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Somerset, have today replaced their long serving CEO, Evan Wienburg, with James Lowther. The provider has already extended their FTTP network to 200 rural communities (mostly in Somerset) […]
Samsung reshuffle sees consumer and mobile units merge
Samsung has not been shy when it comes to organisational restructure over the past decade.
Back back in 2017, then CEO Kwon Oh-hyun resigned, citing an “unprecedented crisis” facing the company. At the time, the company was performing fairly well financially, hence the crisis Kwon is referring to is almost certainly the imprisonment of Samsung chairman Lee Jae…
Survey Claims 834k UK Homes Switched ISP for the First Time in 2021
A new Censuswide survey of 2,163 UK adults, which was commissioned by broadband ISP Zen Internet, has found that the proportion of households that have never switched ISP is down to just 18% from 21% year-on-year. This, they claim, reveals that 834k households (3%) switched for the first time in the last 12-months. However, despite […]
Glide Bring 10Gbps Fibre to Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Birmingham
Business and residential ISP Glide Group, which is currently extending their full fibre broadband network across more of the UK (leased lines and FTTP etc.), has today announced that they’ll upgrade their existing “fibre infrastructure” in Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Birmingham to support symmetric 10Gbps speeds with low latency. By the sounds of it, this […]