New customers of Three UK‘s 5G powered unlimited Home Broadband service, which claims to offer “average download speeds” of 100Mbps (this will vary.. a lot), can now take the service from just £21 per month for 24-months of service (dropping to £14 on their 4G package). Various other discount options also exist. The new promotion […]
Mobile Operator Smarty Finally Launches 5G Service for the UK
Mobile operator Smarty will today finally switch-on their new ultrafast 5G mobile (mobile broadband) service, which will be available at “no extra cost” for both new and existing customers who want to take advantage of the improved data speeds. Smarty, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s platform, has made no […]
Orange and Engie team up to shift African data centre to solar power
Built back in 2016 and situated in Grand Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire, the GOS (Groupement Orange Services) data centre is a major component in Orange’s broader data centre network throughout Africa. The site covers 16,600 square metres and hosts IT and telecoms equipment to support all 18 of Orange’s Middle East and Africa subsidiaries…
IP Telecom strikes deal with Nokia to defend against quantum cyber attacks
Today, Nokia has announced it has struck a deal with IP Telecom to expand the latter’s data centre cloud connectivity infrastructure to metro areas in Portugal.
The deal will see Nokia build an encrypted optical data centre interconnect (DCI) solution, including upgrades to multiple 100Gbps and 200Gbps wavelengths. In future, the solution will be able to deliver 400GE services.
IP Telecom currently operates three major data centres in Portugal &ndash…
Project Stratum’s N.Ireland FTTP Rollout Adds Another 8500 Premises
The £165m state aid supported Project Stratum scheme in Northern Ireland, which is working with UK ISP Fibrus to spread a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network into rural areas, has just announced a second network expansion that will add another 8,500 premises to the coverage. The original contract aimed to cover a little over 76,000 […]
$22.5bn 5G auction sees AT&T win big
Back in November, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) completed its latest mid-band 5G spectrum auction, raising $22.5 billion. Now, the winners of the auction have been announced, with AT&T and Dish the top spenders.
The auction, which began in October last year, offered a further 100MHz of midband spectrum in the 3.45GHz and 3.55GHz bands to the operators. Following this auction, US operators will have a total of 530MHz of mid…
LilaConnect Start Gigabit FTTP Broadband Rollout in Leek
Network provider LilaConnect, which is a subsidiary of Swedish operator VXFIBER, has just announced that they’ve started to deploy their new “open access” and gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the Staffordshire (England) market town of Leek. The operator is currently building their full fibre networks across several areas of the UK, including […]
End of BBC TV Licence Fee Raises Prospect of Broadband Tax Again
Reports over the weekend appear to have all but confirmed that the UK Government will end the existing BBC TV licence fee from 2027 and replace it with a new funding model, which could include a Netflix style subscription model, government grants, more advertising or possibly a levy or tax on consumer broadband ISP bills […]
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Italy kicks off ‘Italia a 1Giga’ plan with €3.7bn tender
On Saturday, Italian state-owned infrastructure company Infratel announced the launch of a tender process aiming to bring gigabit-capable broadband infrastructure to almost 7 million homes by 2026.
The process will primarily target homes situated in grey areas across the country, which are locations where commercial operators currently have no plans to deploy next generation access infrastructure…