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News The new CEO is taking over the company during a major decline in its stock price, with Telefónica’s market value falling by more than half under Álvarez-Pallete’s leadership  After a board meeting in which shareholders expressed the desire for new company leadership, Telefónica’s board has accepted the resignation of CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete.   Marc Murtra, the former president of IT and defence solutions company Indra, has been appointed to succeed Álvarez-Pallete, assuming...

News The breach, which took place last year, reportedly saw hackers steal months of the agents’ text and call logs According to a report from Bloomberg, FBI agents are being warned that their data may have been compromised in a data breach at AT&T. AT&T announced having been attacked in July last year, revealing that six months of customer mobile data from 2022 had been stolen. The hackers responsible subsequently attempted to extort AT&T, threatening to sell the data on the dark...

News  Freshwave will deploy a portable 5G private network at the Edinburgh facility to help support robots and AI applications   The collaboration, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), is designed to improve robotics testing and drive innovation in the agritech sector.  The first use case for the portable 5G network features Spot, a four-legged wireless robot.. Using the 5G network, Spot streams live video, generates 3D maps, and conducts infrared scans in real time to...

News  The infrastructure is designed to operate for at least a decade  Vantage Towers, TOTEM, Orange, O2 Telefónica, and Saarland University of Applied Sciences have joined forces to deploy a 5G highway corridor connecting Metz in France to Saarbrücken in Germany.  The “5G Autobahn to Autoroute” (5G A2A) project spans 60km, with construction beginning in early 2025, aiming to complete in late 2027.  The corridor will include a 55km section in France and a 5km stretch in Germany. In France,...

Press Release Telehouse launches educational initiative featuring character ‘DC’ to enhance public understanding of data centres and their impact on digital lives Half of UK consumers (51%) have never heard of the term ‘data centre,’ highlighting a significant lack of awareness about their critical role in powering daily digital life. New research from Telehouse reveals how, despite the increasing reliance on digital services and their recent categorisation by the government as Critical...

Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss has this morning announced that they’ve launched an additional range of broadband packages based off FullFibre Limited‘s (Fibre Heroes) network, which has so far deployed an open access Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 380,000 UK premises ‘ready for service’ (23rd Aug 2024). The provider, which already supplies services via Openreach and CityFibre’s growing national FTTP networks, appears to be offering a range of packages via FullFibre Ltd that...

Network operator CityFibre has today announced that they’ve begun the roll-out phase of their £112 million state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract for Kent (Lot 29) in England. This will extend their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband ISP network to an additional 50,000+ premises in hard-to-reach rural areas. The announcement means that CityFibre has now begun construction work in all 9 of their Project Gigabit contract areas (here). The projects reflect over £782m in government subsidies to...

The wholesale division of UK broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) has today announced that they’ve started offering their high-bandwidth products, such as National Ethernet (NE) and Direct Internet Access (DIA), over their new “next generation” Converged Interconnect Network (CIN). Just to recap. Virgin’s new CIN brings their fixed line (FTTP, DOCSIS etc.) and mobile networks (4G, 5G etc.) together in a way that they say will make them more efficient, resilient, scalable and flexible....

Mobile operator Three UK has this morning announced that they’ve selected Ericsson to build their new cloud-native core network, which it claims will be the “largest in Europe” and one that will end up “more than tripling its core capacity” to 9Tbps (Terabits per second). Data (mobile broadband) usage on Three UK’s network has grown significant in recent years, surpassing 2Tbps in December 2024 due to Premier League streaming on Amazon Prime and gaming updates. Customers of the service...

Ofcom has today launched a new consultation that proposes to exempt lots of additional devices (equipment) from needing a wireless telegraphy licence, such as 5G handsets and dongles on an aircraft or ship and 5.8 GHz (5725-5850 MHz) Fixed Wireless Access kit – used by many wireless broadband ISPs to offer rural connectivity. Under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006, the regulator can grant licences for the use of radio frequencies. This is to “ensure spectrum is used efficiently and to prevent...