BT Sign £9.8m Contract to Deploy Full Fibre Broadband in Swansea Bay City Region | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme has awarded a £9.8m contract to BT under their Better Broadband Infill Project, which will see Openreach being tasked with rolling out a “full fibre broadband” (FTTP) ISP network to nearly 1,800 hard-to-reach sites across the Swansea Bay City Region. Just to recap. The UK and Welsh Governments gave their approval for a £55m digital infrastructure investment under the £1.3bn Swansea Bay City...
MS3 Networks Back Online After Suffering Major Broadband Outage | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Hull-based alternative UK network operator MS3, which has deployed their full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across 234,000 premises (207k RFS) in the North of England and connected 18,000 customers (mostly in the Hull and Humber region), appears to have returned to life after suffering a major service outage yesterday. But some users may need to reboot their routers. The outage, which initially appears to have started a little after midnight...
SpaceX Proposes Starlink Can Deliver Sat Nav to Complement GPS | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More SpaceX has proposed that its Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds to the UK and beyond via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), can offer Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions to complement GPS. This would meet the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) desire for an alternative to GPS. At present Starlink has around 7,500 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (c.3,300 are v2 Mini / GEN 2A) –...
Verizon pledges $5bn to boost US small business | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Verizon has pledged $5 billion over the next five years to support small business suppliers across the US, through the launch of its new Small Business Supplier Accelerator The initiative is designed to lower barriers to entry for small enterprises, seeking to engage with large corporate supply chains. The accelerator will offer practical support such as tailored onboarding, training and more flexible commercial terms. These include adjusted...
Telefonica SA Reportedly Ponders UK Takeover of Virgin Media O2 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report claims that debt-laden Telefonica SA is allegedly drawing up plans that would enable them to take control of the 50/50 UK Joint Venture (JV) that it owns with Liberty Global, which reflects broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2). In addition, they also have another JV with InfraVia Capital Partners to build a new fibre network in the UK (nexfibre). The new Bloomberg (paywall) report follows VMO2’s recent quarterly results...
ITP Approved to Deliver Telecoms Apprenticeship Training, Backed by Industry Support from Vodafone and Cornerstone | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More ITP Approved to Deliver Telecoms Apprenticeship Training, Backed by Industry Support from Vodafone and Cornerstone The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP) has officially been approved as a registered training provider for the Level 4 Cellular Network Field Engineer (CNFE) apprenticeship — a move that directly responds to the UK’s growing need for skilled telecoms engineers. After more than a decade of supporting apprenticeships across...
US rescinds AI chip export controls | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The US Department of Commerce (DOC) under Donald Trump will instead pursue dealmaking on a country-by-country basis This week, the DOC has announced it will cancel the so-called ‘AI Diffusion Rule’, a policy related to the export of AI semiconductor technology, just two days before it was due to come into effect. The policy, drafted during the last month of the Biden administration, would see countries categorised into three tiers based on numerous...
NTT buying up land to support global data centre expansion | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The company says the acquisitions are designed to support long-term demand for digital infrastructure, as AI adoption and cloud growth accelerate NTT DATA has announced an expansion of its global data centre footprint, acquiring land across seven markets in North America, Europe, and Asia, to support nearly one gigawatt of future capacity. The land deals form part of the company’s previously announced $10 billion global investment plan running...
New Project Helps ISPs to Test Customers Real Broadband Experience | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Broadband Forum, which is an industry-driven global standards development organisation, has begun a new project that aims to help broadband ISPs improve their customer satisfaction, both in the UK and around the world, by providing them with the tools to “more accurately assess the end-user experience with the applications they use“. At present, Internet Service Providers can already use a variety of known performance metrics to spot issues, such as...
Openreach Connect UK First Homes Under Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network access provider Openreach (BT) has this morning announced that they’ve connected, as part of their state aid funded contracts via the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme, the first remote rural premises in 38 different locations across the UK to their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. Just to recap. Last year saw Openreach being awarded a new Single Supplier Framework agreement (here), which meant they’d...