BT Consults on Closure of its Londonderry Office by End of 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Telecoms and broadband giant BT has confirmed that, as part of their ongoing UK programme to modernise and consolidate the number of offices they have – shrinking them from around 300 to just 30 locations, they’ve begun a consultation on the closure of their Londonderry office. The move, which could be implemented by the end of 2025, puts around 140 jobs at risk. The operator is instead proposing to relocate most of those impacted by the change to their...
Broadband ISP Aquiss Cuts Price of CityFibre Plans in Half for 6 Months | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss, which is celebrating 20 years of service this year, has announced that they’re “slashing” the price of their CityFibre based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband packages in half for the first 6 months of service. Symmetric speeds of up to 2.5Gbps (2200Mbps average) are available. The special offer, which runs from 1st to 31st May 2025, means that their prices will now start at £19 a month (first 6 months, then £38) for...
Openreach Win £157m Project Gigabit Broadband Build Contract for Scotland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK Government today confirmed that Openreach (BT) have been formally awarded the £157 million state aid supported Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Scotland (Call off 6). The deal will see the operator extending their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover an additional 65,000 of the hardest to reach rural premises. The latest development forms part of Openreach’s earlier Single Supplier Framework agreement (here), which saw them being...
Huawei and Singtel on building a sustainable network | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview The telecom industry is at the forefront of digital transformation, but with growing concerns about energy consumption and environmental impact, operators and vendors are prioritising sustainability In the WinWin Live Studio, Emanuel Kolta, Lead Analyst at GSMA Intelligence, sat down with Lim Yu Leong, Vice President, Group Strategy, Engineering and innovation at Singtel, and Singleton Zhou, President of Network Consulting and Integration...
NO! Your Broadband Almost Certainly Won’t “grind to a halt” Today | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Over the past few days’, we’ve seen a succession of scaremongering newspaper articles, which appear to warn UK consumers that their wireless routers or broadband may “grind to a halt” during this week’s heatwave. The articles appear to have been triggered by some advice that Virgin Media issued, but the reality is that this week’s weather won’t cause any major broadband issues. Some of the articles that we’re talking about can be found here, here and...
Revolut to Expand from Travel eSIMs into Cheap UK Mobile Operator | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Customers of banking and money management app Revolut, which last year launched a limited eSIM based mobile service for roaming travellers (here), has today revealed that they intend to go further by launching a full domestic mobile service for UK consumers with unlimited calls, texts, and data (mobile broadband) at home. According to a new post on X today (here), which was spotted by members of ISPreview’s forum (here), the new service will shortly be...
Google completes U-turn on cookies as antitrust pressure looms | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Google will retain third-party cookies and not introduce new opt-out prompts, despite almost five years working to remove the problematic customer tracking tech Back in 2019, Google said it would work towards removing tracking cookies, instead replacing them with a ‘Privacy Sandbox’ that focussed on user privacy while still supporting digital advertisers. By 2021, the internet giant was beginning to test this Privacy Sandbox solution, promising...
Safaricom on the 5G network evolution in Kenya | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview At the WinWin studio, Total Telecom was joined by James Maitai, Chief Technology and Information Officer from Safaricom GROUP, and David Li, Vice President of Huawei Wireless Network Product Line to discuss the development of 4G and 5G network evolution. In Kenya currently, the 4G penetration rate is 60%. And, according to external forecasts, the 5G penetration rate will jump to about 30% by 2027. At the same time, the 4G and 5G user...
Storm clouds on the horizon: why people are rethinking the cloud | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article By Rick Byers, Chief Risk Officer at Freedom Fibre With regards to the 21st century’s business organisational data security needs, prudence has never been more important – particularly with the prevalence of cloud computing. The big cloud computing services used by UK public and private organisations such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Oracle all have one thing in common – they are all US-based tech firms. The...
UK government’s data centre strategy drives discussion at Connected North | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Feature Week At this year’s inaugural Data Centre Summit, co-hosted alongside the Connected North conference in Manchester, discussions focussed heavily on the government’s emerging strategy around digital infrastructure and AI. In September last year, the UK government announced that it would officially class data centres as critical national infrastructure, ensuring they receive heightened levels of protection against cyber threats and IT...