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After many years of waiting, it looks as if broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMO2) will finally introduce a new DOCSIS 3.1 powered router for customers, which looks as if it will be based off the Hitron Chita cable gateway and could herald the long-overdue arrival of a new 1Gbps package. At present the fastest […]

Oracle and Telefónica Tech have announced an agreement to jointly offer cloud platform-as-a-service and applications to enterprises and public sector organizations across Telefónica Tech’s customer base. The services will be delivered through a global partnership which will enable Telefónica Tech to offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services as part of its portfolio as well as support clients through professional and managed services. To support the increasing demand for cloud services...

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, facemasks have become a major, though not uncontroversial, aspect of daily life.    Now, a study published in the scientific journal Nature by researchers from the University of Grenada has explored the creation of a smart facemask to help monitor the wearer’s inhalation of CO2.    When wearing a mask, not all the CO2 that we exhale can perfuse through the material before we inhale again, thus increasing the amount of CO2 being rebreathed.    But...

Rural UK ISP Wildanet, which last year started the £50m rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network in Cornwall (here), has appointed Helen Wylde to be its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Virgin Media’s former COO, Paul Buttery, to join as Chair of the Board. The operator has […]

Earlier this week, it was reported that French telco Iliad, owned by billionaire Xavier Niel, had submitted a takeover bid for Vodafone Italy.  The move would constitute a major shakeup for the Italian telecoms landscape, reducing the number of mobile players in Italy from four to three and creating a new entity of scale enough to challenge the dominance of market leader TIM… read more on TotalTele.com...

The MP for Chesham and Amersham, Sarah Green, has challenged the UK Government to make progress on commitments made to local authorities along the Phase One rail route for High Speed 2 (HS2), which among other things included the promise to construct a new “broadband superhighway” to help expand faster internet access. The HS2 project […]

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), which is a trade body for broadband providers, has today partnered up with the Good Things Foundation, a digital inclusion charity, as part of a fresh attempt at helping to fix the digital divide so that more people are willing and able to get online. According to the […]

East Yorkshire-based UK ISP Quickline has just connected homes and businesses in the Lincolnshire village of Lissington to their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which forms part of their £6.1m state aid supported Building Digital UK (BDUK) contract with the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC). Originally, the provider’s primary focus was on deploying superfast Fixed […]

Netcracker Technology announced today that T-Mobile Netherlands, the largest mobile operator in the Netherlands, will upgrade to Netcracker Cloud BSS to accelerate time to market, lower total cost of ownership and provide a differentiated customer experience. Netcracker&rsquo… read more on TotalTele.com »

A partnership between the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme (DAP) and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) is contributing towards digital inclusion in Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. By encouraging ‘a new spectrum mindset’ the DSA and DAP aim to catalyse affordable internet connectivity in underserved regions to support the inclusive growth of the digital ecosystem. “We are delighted to partner with the UK Digital Access Programme to help accelerate digital...