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News The Indian billionaire made the sale following the company’s positive quarterly results This week, Sunil Mittal has sold a 0.84% stake (51 million shares) in India’s second largest telco, Bharti Airtel, raising roughly $976 million. The sale was made through the Mittal family’s investment company, Indian Continental Investment. Roughly a quarter of these shares were sold to group firm Bharti Telecom, with the remaining three quarters sold to ‘key marquee long-only names, both global and...

The CEO of Liberty Global, Mike Fries, has said they’ve made “significant progress” on their plan for opening up Virgin Media’s existing UK fixed line broadband network to wholesale (rival ISPs) via a new business (NetCo) during the first half of 2025 (here). Fries also confirmed they had received “proposals from a handful of the strongest infrastructure investors” for a stake in the biz. Just to recap. The merged business of Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), which is backed by parents Telefónica...

The CEO of Fern Networks Limited (Fern Trading) backed alternative broadband network operator AllPointsFibre (APFN), Jarlath Finnegan, has this week spoken of his “excitement” ahead of officially launching their new Aquila wholesale platform into the wider UK market, which is expected to take place on 14th May 2025. Just to recap. APFN was originally formed through the consolidation of three alternative broadband networks and ISPs (here and here), including Giganet, Swish Fibre and Jurassic...

Telecoms giant BT has revealed that they’ve now deployed their Global Fabric Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform to “over” 30 Equinix data-centres across the UK and world, which will grow to over 40 in the next year – spanning the world’s top 30 business locations and covering 95% of the world’s cloud interconnection traffic. Global Fabric is designed to simplify multi-cloud connectivity, security, and infrastructure for multinational organisations – providing visibility and control of both...

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone has revealed that they’ve begun “piloting” (no pun intended, we think) a new type of done that is designed to help restore connectivity to mobile masts, such as when their underground data capacity cables are cut or damaged. The drones employ a special optical wireless link. The drones, which could also be deployed as part of disaster recovery situations, are currently being tested in Seville (Spain) and use a “wireless optical connectivity” link that...

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today begun their annual hunt for the best ISPs and internet companies ahead of their forthcoming 2025 awards event (the 27th one they’ve held), which this time adds several new and refreshed categories (total of 20) to help reflect the trends and successes of the industry. The winners of the previous 2024 awards event were unveiled back in November 2024 (here), which among other things saw several ISPs taking home two awards each across...

Press Release The North East’s pioneering role in advanced wireless innovation took centre stage at the 5G Innovation Regions (5GIR) Showcase.   Bringing together industry leaders, government representatives and technology innovators, the event celebrated the progress, impact and future potential of advanced wireless infrastructure use cases across key sectors, including smart port operations, agritech, connected transport and creative industries. Spearheaded by Sunderland City Council in...

Press Release Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company, today announced an expansion to its technology portfolio with Managed LEO+, a new managed service which integrates Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity with cellular 4G/5G.  Managed LEO+, now available to Colt customers across 65 countries, brings a greater choice of networking technologies to businesses with operations – such as production facilities, manufacturing sites and retail locations – in...

Digital entertainment platform Netgem TV has today announced that their IPTV box and service, which is typically bundled by broadband ISPs like Brsk, TalkTalk, Connect Fibre, CommunityFibre and others, will benefit from a new collaboration with the FIFA+ streaming platform that will bring “unparalleled access to free, high-quality football content” to users of the service. The agreement will see FIFA+ support being added to their platform, starting with the UK and Ireland “this month“,...

Contributed Article This is part 1 of a two-part series exploring how Vitrifi leverages NATS in building its Workflow Automation Platform. Building on concepts discussed in its Synadia Guest Blog which explores the technical underpinnings of NATS, this blog examines how Vitrifi’s platform transforms telecoms workflows, highlighting how advanced automation enables agility, resilience, and scalability in an increasingly complex industry landscape. The future of workflow automation in telecoms...