According to sources speaking to the Economic Times, Reliance Jio could be looking to buy into BT –potentially even seizing a controlling stake of the business.
If Reliance were to take control of BT, it would be one of the largest M&A projects ever undertaken by an Indian company.
An alternative strategy, reportedly also in discussion…
MS3 Plan 10Gb Broadband for 500,000 Premises in North England
Hull-based alternative network ISP MS3, backed by European infrastructure fund Asterion, has today revealed a major expansion of their existing service, which will see them deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to serve over 500,000 homes and businesses across the North of England. At present MS3 runs more of an independent Dark […]
Fake Virgin Media UK Broadband Engineers Charged Over Thefts
The Leicester Crown Court has sent one man to prison, with another facing an arrest warrant, after the pair were found to have posed as fake broadband ISP engineers in order to steal telecoms equipment from several storage containers, which belonged to Virgin Media (VMO2). During the hearing Kevin Craig Mills, aged 40 from Coalville, […]
Nokia’s latest private 5G network will be a Finnish goldmine
Today, Nokia, Telia and Digita have announced that they will jointly deploy a private 5G SA network for Agnico Eagle Finland Oy, the Finnish company that owns the Kittilä goldmine.
The Kittilä mine, which is situated around 900km north of Helsinki, constitutes an extensive tunnel system that, at some points…
Mobile money coming to Vietnam
This month has seen two mobile operators in Vietnam launch trials of mobile money services for the first time, having been awarded licences to do so from the State Bank.
The pilot programme will allow Vinaphone (VNPT) and MobiFone mobile customers to use their mobile subscription as a bank account, capable of paying for goods and services as well as depositing…
Bharti Airtel and Vi hike mobile prices by up to 25%
For years now, Indian telco Bharti Airtel has opined that mobile tariffs in India are unsustainable, with average revenues per user (ARPU) far too low to support the expensive network rollout costs.
At the start of this week, Bharti Airtel announced that it would finally raise its prepaid mobile prices, increasing them by up to 25% in some cases…
Zen Internet Boost Refer a Friend Scheme with GBP40 Voucher
Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK has today enhanced their Refer-a-Friend scheme by making it so customers and their referee will both receive a £40 shopping voucher, the highest value since the initiative launched in 2019. The vouchers themselves are available for a range of retailers including Amazon, Argos, John Lewis, and M&S. However, the small […]
Govt gives NTT Docomo slap on the wrist for ‘serious’ network outage
On October 14, NTT Docomo’s network suffered a system failure that left at least 12.9 million customers without voice and data services at various times. Now, the government has responded to what it categorised as a “serious incident” with an administrative order telling the operator to ensure that that a disturbance of this scale does not happen again…
Lit Fibre Extend FTTP Broadband Rollout to Sudbury and Evesham
UK ISP Lit Fibre, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to reach 500,000 homes by 2026, has announced that the next two towns to benefit from their rollout will be Sudbury (Suffolk) and Evesham (Worcestershire). But aggressive competition will soon follow. The provider, which is partly supported by an unspecified […]
ISP YouFibre Discounts UK Full Fibre Packages Down to GBP11
Customers in towns covered by UK ISP YouFibre, which is harnessing the new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network being built by Netomnia, may be interested to know that the provider has dramatically discounted their prices for those who sign-up over the Black Friday weekend. At present the network has already covered 75,000 UK premises […]