Deutsche Telekom targets ‘AI phone’ launch in 2026 | Total Telecom
Read More News “We are becoming an AI company,” said Deutsche Telekom board member Claudia Nemat, speaking on stage at MWC If Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has had a theme this year, it’s been mobile operators trying to cram AI into every facet of their operations. Only Deutsche Telekom, however, seems to be pushing that ethos directly down the value chain into hardware creation, revealing plans for their own ‘AI phone’ in partnership with US AI startup Perplexity. A Silicon Valley GenAI...
Tariffs kick in, Wall Street tumbles as China and Canada retaliate | Total Telecom
Read More News For the second day in a row, Wall Street stocks fell sharply after tariffs and sanctions were announced by governments around the world This article was originally written by our sister publication Broadband Communities Canada and China have announced retaliatory measures after President Donald Trump announced tariffs on both countries, beginning today. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones fell by over 670 points. The plunge follows another dip Monday, when the Dow fell 1.5 percent. Also...
ISP Virgin Media UK Discounts Broadband Prices for March 2025 | ISPreview UK
Read More New customers looking to sign-up with broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) might like to know that the provider has just introduced some bigger discounts across their range of standalone broadband and bundle packages. For example, Virgin’s 1Gbps package is now just £36.99 per month on an 18-month minimum term (price increases to £40.49 from April 2026). The discounted broadband plans, which include a wireless router and free setup, generally start at £23.99 per month for their 132Mbps...
MWC 2025: MasOrange Built Leading Optical Network to Accelerate Digitalisation | Total Telecom
Read More Press Release [Barcelona, Spain, March 3rd, 2025] During MWC 2025, Ms. Pilar Puerta Galvan, Transmission Director of MasOrange, delivered a keynote speech at the Green All-Optical Network Forum on “Leading Optical Network Accelerates Digitalisation.” As one of the largest telecom operators in Spain, MasOrange has built a leading optical network to deliver the premium experience for consumers, enterprises, and home broadband users, while accelerating digital and intelligent...
Gigaclear Complete FTTP Broadband Build to Large Oxfordshire Village | ISPreview UK
Read More Abingdon-based rural UK ISP Gigaclear has confirmed the completion of their gigabit broadband roll-out across the large South Oxfordshire (England) village of Sonning Common. The work to deploy their full fibre network across the village started in 2023 and a total of over 2,000 premises can now access the new service. New customers of the Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network can expect to pay from £19 per month for symmetric speeds of 300Mbps on an 18-month minimum term (£46...
BT Warns One in Five Small UK Firms Still on “Analogue” Lines | ISPreview UK
Read More Telecoms giant BT migrated 300,000 UK business customers away from legacy phone lines and on to digital broadband and phone solutions in 2024. But the provider claims that 22% of small businesses still see themselves as “analogue“, relying on tools like traditional landlines, paper contracts and fax machines, which must change before the old service is switched-off. In case anybody has forgotten, the big switch-off was recently delayed to 31st January 2027 in order to give broadband...
Wavemobile Warn UK 2G Switch-off May Impact Sizeable Number of Devices | ISPreview UK
Read More A number of mobile operators, including O2 and EE, have already set out tentative plans for phasing-out existing 2G mobile services. But new data supplied by rural connectivity provider Wavemobile suggests that quite a few connections are still 2G-only, and thus closing the service will be more complex than the prior 3G switch-off. Just to recap. The government and all major UK mobile operators have already agreed to phase-out existing 2G and 3G signals by 2033 (here), which will...
Garforth Residents Vent Anger Over Giggle Fibre’s FTTP Pole Deployment | ISPreview UK
Read More Residents in part of Garforth, which is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds (England), have vented anger at alternative network operator Giggle Fibre (aka – Giggle, Giggle Broadband, Giggle Holdings) and pledged to “boycott the service” after they complained it had started deploying lots of “unsightly” new poles for their full fibre broadband network. The deployment of wood poles to run overhead fibre is a common practice (over 4 million have already been built)....
Progress Update as New Greenwich Full Fibre Network Expands in London | ISPreview UK
Read More The Digital Greenwich Connect (DGC) project, which is as Joint Venture (JT) between DG Cities, the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Innovation Company, and full fibre broadband provider ITS Technology, has today announced the next phase of their network expansion, which will now cover both Woolwich and Eltham town centre. The original project, which aimed to commercialise a 21km long gigabit-capable full fibre network around the London borough of Greenwich (serving both homes and...
Netomnia Builds 10Gbps Broadband to 50,000 Premises in Swansea | ISPreview UK
Read More Alternative network operator Netomnia (Brsk and ISP YouFibre), which has already expanded their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 2.08 million premises (RFS) across over 90 UK cities and towns, have today confirmed that their roll-out in Swansea (Wales) has reached 50,000 premises. Starting in the community of Morriston during 2022, Netomnia has since expanded its XGS-PON based full fibre network to cover even more areas in Swansea City. The...