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...
Virgin Media Find Tuesdays are the Biggest for UK Broadband Usage | ISPreview UK
Read More Network data from broadband ISP Virgin Media has revealed that Tuesday is the UK’s new “big night in“, with evening peak (between 8-10pm) internet traffic pushing higher than on any other day of the week – usually driven by online video gaming (mostly big update/patch downloads) and TV sports events (streaming). When asked, some 34% of British survey respondents separately admitted that their weekday social plans depend on sporting fixtures, with major Tuesday matches – like Man City...
VEON looks to local language LLM creation for revenue growth | Total Telecom
Read More News The operator already has a Kazakh language LLM and is developing additional capabilities in Uzbek, Begali, Ukrainian, and Urdu Speaking at Mobile World Congress this year, VEON’s chief digital officer Lasha Tabidze was adamant that telcos’ primary AI focus should be on service creation, not cost efficiencies. “Gaining efficiency is important, of course, and shame on us if we don’t pursue that,” he said. “But AI is not a cost-cutting machine. For us, AI is for growth.” Perhaps...
BT urges SMEs to go digital | Total Telecom
Read More News BT is encouraging small businesses across the UK to move from analogue technology to digital networks before the end of 2025, as the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is set to be retired New research indicates that one in five SMEs (22%) still use traditional landlines, fax machines, and paper-based systems, which could lead to service disruptions as the network is phased out. Ofcom’s latest Connected Nations report highlights an increase in network incidents on the...