Openreach has today revealed the pilot pricing for the new Advanced Install option on their stand-alone broadband products for UK ISPs, which are more technically known as Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SOGEA) products on FTTC (VDSL2) lines or SOGfast on G.fast lines. But it’s not intended for homes. Just to recap. SOGEA enables ISPs […]
Virgin Media O2 UK Extend FTTP to 6,100 Tyne and Wear Homes
Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that another 6,100 homes across Tyne and Wear, including in Bruton Park, Newcastle and Longbenton, North Tyneside, have now gained access to their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. The operator has so far invested more than £84 million in the North East to connect […]
ISP Voneus Brings Faster Wireless Broadband to Dalton Piercy
Residents in the rural Hartlepool borough village of Dalton Piercy (County Durham), which is home to almost 300 people, can now access faster broadband speeds of up to 45Mbps after UK ISP Voneus deployed a new Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network. Previously, some locals often struggled to get fixed line speeds of above 1Mbps. The […]
Orange CEO Stephane Richard steps down following conviction
Yesterday, long-serving Orange CEO and chairman Stephane Richard handed in his resignation at a board meeting following his conviction in the misuse of public funds.
The court case itself related to a 2008 settlement, back when Richard was chief of staff to then French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. At the time, French businessman Bernard Tapie was in a dispute with the government following his sale of a stake in Adidas to a government…
Green 5G networks and the future of sustainable telecoms
From the telecoms industry to politics, sustainability and climate change are among the defining issues of the modern age, but exactly how to tackle these crucial issues remains controversial.
The recent COP26 conference in Glasgow, which brought together the United Nations to develop a cohesive strategy to combat climate change, has broadly been denounced as a failure, demonstrating that the world is not on track to reach the targets set by the Paris Agreement. In fact, even if all the pledges made at or before COP26 were to be kept, statistics from the International Energy Agency show that the global temperatures are expected to rise by 1.8 degrees Celsius, exceeding 1.5-degree limit set out in the Agreement.
Clearly, there is work to be done – and on an international scale – if we are to prevent a climate catastrophe in the coming years.
But exactly what role can the technology and telecoms sectors play in this journey?
This was the question that the ITU sought to answer in an online panel session entitled ‘Greening our own house: Addressing the environmental footprint of digital technologies’, which took place on the 24th of November…
Town of South Shields Next to Get Grain’s Gigabit Broadband
The town of South Shields, which sits at the mouth of the River Tyne just outside of Newcastle in North East England, has today been named as the next location to benefit from UK ISP Grain‘s rollout of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. At present Grain, which was recently supported by a […]
Vodafone combining solar and wind for self-powered mobile masts
Energy consumption has long been something of a bugbear for operators. As data traffic increases steadily year on year, so too does energy consumption, despite new technologies helping make networks themselves more efficient. The cost of network energy consumption represents a huge, growing financial burden for the operators, not to mention the increased carbon emissions associated with this energy production…
Vodafone to Begin Building Self Powered UK Mobile Masts
Anybody who thought mobile phone masts were ugly before could be in for a shock. Vodafone has announced that they’ve teamed up with Crossflow Energy and Cornerstone to start building a new range of “Eco-Towers” to support their 4G and 5G services across the UK, which are self-powered masts that use renewable energy. As the […]
ISP Telcom Group Launch Fibre Engineer Training Programme
Manchester-based ISP Telcom Group (ClearFibre, WeFibre etc.), which is building a gigabit-capable “full fibre” broadband and Ethernet network across the North West of England and Midlands, has today – via its social initiative (Recode) – launched the new ‘Telecoms Engineer Bootcamp‘ to help train up and recruit new fibre engineers. The operator, which recently secured […]
OneWeb May Test Removal Service on Failed Broadband Satellite
British-registered satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK government and aims to build a new global network of low latency ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), is considering the possibility of testing a new debris-removal service to deorbit one of their failed spacecraft (SL41). At present OneWeb has launched a […]