Turkcell Deploys Europe’s Largest Super C+L ASON Mesh Network in Partnership with Huawei | Total Telecom
Read More Press Release Turkcell, Türkiye’s leading telecommunications and technology company, has been deploying Europe’s largest Super C+L ASON (Automatic Switched Optical Network) mesh metro and backbone network, in collaboration with global technology leader Huawei. This cutting-edge infrastructure sets a new benchmark in the evolution of high-capacity, flexible, and reliable optical networks. This state-of-the-art network provides bandwidth capacity of up to 400 Gbps and 800 Gbps,...
Huawei ICT Services & Software Enable Digital Intelligence Acceleration | Total Telecom
Read More Press Release [Barcelona, Spain, March 3] Bruce Xun, President of Huawei Global Technical Service, unveiled five innovative ICT Services and Software solutions and best practices at the Huawei product and solution launch event held during MWC Barcelona 2025. These solutions include fast equipment Centre Offices (COs) modernisation solution, intelligent operations solution for MBB cross-domain service keepalive, mobile network NPS improvement solution, differentiated service...
SMBs’ cybersecurity woes could be opportunity for telcos | Total Telecom
Read More Feature Week A new report from STL Partners suggests that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) consider cybersecurity a priority, but lack the expertise to manage it themselves SMBs’ cybersecurity spend on the rise With the rise of AI over the past two years, the cybersecurity landscape for SMBs is rapidly growing more complex, with bad actors able to conduct more frequent and more personalised attacks on smaller enterprises. The scale of the threat this presents to SMBs should...
AllPoints Fibre Networks and Daisy Communications announce fibre deal | Total Telecom
Read More News AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN) and Daisy Communications have announced a long-term strategic partnership to improve national full fibre services through APFN’s wholesale platform, aquila Under the agreement, Daisy Communications will use the aquila platform, gaining access to a nationwide, full-fibre-only network. This will enable Daisy to deliver high-speed connectivity to millions of premises via a single API-first platform, streamlining operations and expanding its reach...
Honest Mobile Launches New UK eSIM Based Smart SIM Plan | ISPreview UK
Read More Crowdfunded mobile operator Honest Mobile, which harnesses Three UK’s network via a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement, has today announced the launch of a “first-of-its-kind SIM” plan – Smart SIM – that is multi-network and designed to tackle expensive global roaming, as well as poor UK phone signals. The supposedly “industry-first” eSIM solution works alongside your main SIM to provide 200+ essential apps with “unlimited data” (broadband) on mobile operators including...
Streetwave to Map 4G and 5G Mobile Coverage Across East Midlands
Network analyst firm Streetwave has revealed that they’ve won another contract, this time via the Derbyshire County Council (DCC) in England, to map 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage across another 10,000km of the UK’s road network in the East Midlands of England, using bin lorries. Streetwave have spent the past 1-2 years harnessing waste (bin / refuse) collection trucks to map mobile network coverage and speeds in various parts of the UK (e.g. here, here, here, here and here). In this...
Firefighters Called to Blaze at BT’s Adastral Park Research Site UPDATE
Multiple Suffolk Fire and Rescue crews were called in late yesterday morning to tackle a blaze at the first floor of an office block on BT’s research and development focused Adastral Park site near Ipswich. The business park is home to around 150 other ICT companies that contribute toward both BT and their own development. At this stage, little is known about the event, except that Firefighters with seven appliances attended the site just after 10:30am on Saturday (1st March 2025). The fire is...
Study Claims 40 Percent of UK 5G Mobile Connections are Really 4G
New research from SignalTracker, which runs a popular Android mobile app (but not iOS) for monitoring and examining mobile phone reception, appears to show that although your handset may say 5G, it frequently only has a 4G connection. In UK samples, when the 5G icon was displaying, 38% of tests were in fact found to be a 4G connection. “This is because most phones show 5G when the base station to which they are connected has 5G equipment potentially available. The actual connection may be 4G...
Vodafone UK Tests IBM Quantum Safe Tech for Internet Security
Customers of Vodafone UK’s mobile and broadband services, specifically those that also use their internet anti-malware ‘Secure Net‘ service (included with their ‘Pro II Broadband’ packages), may in the near future be able to benefit from quantum-safe cryptography after the operator collaborated with IBM on a new Proof of Concept (PoC) test. At present, Quantum Computers are still very much in the early R&D stages of their development. But it is anticipated that, someday, future...
New Survey Reveals Best and Worst UK Cities and ISPs for Broadband Reliability
New research from Broadband Genie, which surveyed 3,200 people across the UK, claims to have identified the best and worst cities, as well as internet providers, for broadband reliability. Overall, Gloucester was named as the best UK city for reliability (only 8% experienced outages last year), while Belfast (51%) was the worst. The somewhat anecdotal survey asked participants how many outages they’ve experienced in the last year, where they live and who their broadband provider is. Using...