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Rural broadband ISP Airband, which has deployed a full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband network that covers parts of Wales and South West England, recently published their latest accounts to the end of 2023 and revealed a sharp fall in employees (from 485 to 235) and the urgent need for new funding by 1st February 2025. The operator recently stated that their broadband network now spans “more than 440,000 premises in over 200 communities across 7 counties“ (here), which we’re told...

News Channels being spun off include MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, and E! According to various news reports today, US telco giant Comcast is set to spin off some of its largest TV channels, including MSNBC, CNBC, and E! The channels, which generated a collective revenue of around $7 billion over the last year, will form a new entity that is currently being referred to as ‘SpinCo’. The news comes following an earnings call last month in which Comcast President Mike Cavanagh said the company was...

Dotlines UK, the latest venture from global tech company Dotlines, has officially launched with a mission to transform business solutions, digital security and connectivity across the UK. Aiming to address key challenges in the UK telecoms industry, Dotlines UK sets out to deliver innovative, user-friendly solutions that empower telecommunication network providers, small businesses and households. Its approach centres on creating technology that makes life and business simpler. Building on its...

News  India’s second largest telco has taken nearly a quarter stake in the company  This week, Bharti Global, the investment arm of Indian billionaire Sunil Mittal’s Bharti Enterprises, has became the largest shareholder of the UK’s BT after completing its 24.5% stake purchase from Altice.  The financial value of the deal was not officially announced, but is reportedly around £4 billion.  The deal for Bharti to acquire the 24.5% stake was struck in August, with BT CEO Allison Kirkby calling...

News  The deal follows rumours last month, with the Indian Economic Times reporting that the two companies were in late-stage talks  Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has announced a 50:50 joint venture with RMZ, an Indian real estate developer, to invest $1.7 billion in the data centre market.  The investment will begin by focusing on Colt’s existing sites in Navi, Mumbai, and Ambattur, Chennai, with a third site will be added in the near future.   Upon completion, the data centres will have a...

Global tech company Dotlines has today launched into the UK (Dotlines UK) with a plan to offer a variety of business and household solutions, from digital security to connectivity. A quick look at the company’s website shows that one of their brands will be a new broadband ISP called Carnival Internet UK. The chances are reasonably good that most of our readers won’t have heard of Dotlines before, which is because they’ve tended to focus more on South and Southeast Asia. The company, which in...

Gigabit broadband ISP YouFibre, which sells packages via Netomnia (inc. Brsk) and Cityfibre’s respective 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks – across different parts of the United Kingdom, has today announced that they’ve more than doubled their customer base in just 10 months to total 150,000. At present Netomnia’s full fibre network currently covers over 1.8 million premises (over 90 cities and towns). But the operator is aiming to reach 2 million UK premises (homes and...

News The governments of Germany and Finland fear the damage is the result of deliberate sabotage A pair of submarine cables in the Baltic sea were severed this week in a move European governments fear is the result of deliberate sabotage by malicious actors. On Sunday morning, the 218km BCS East-West Interlink cable, which connects Gotland, Sweden, and Lithuania, was damaged and taken offline. A spokesperson for Arelion, which owns and operates the BCS East-West Interlink, described the damage...

A new survey conducted by business ISP bOnline, which interviewed 407 small business owners during October 2024, has claimed that 74% of respondents are not sure if an alternative broadband network (altnet) is available in their area, and amongst those that believe there is, the majority (65%) have not yet tried to access them. The top reasons for not giving an altnet a try appear to range from a belief that there will be no real price advantage (35%), to too much hassle to switch (30%), with...

Customers of Virgin Media and O2’s various broadband, mobile, phone and TV packages may like to know that their ‘Priority’ app, which rewards existing subscribers with various special offers and discounts, is now allowing access to AI-powered tool ‘Perplexity Pro‘ at no extra cost for one year (normally £150 per year). The AI-powered research and search assistant is said to enable users to harness technology to make their life and work a little easier. But whereas a normal search will just...