Samsung and Amdocs teams up for private 4G/5G network solutions
Samsung Electronics America and Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced the companies will collaborate to deliver end-to-end 4G and 5G private network solutions to U.S. enterprises to help businesses across key industries leverage next-generation communications applications and services… read more on TotalTele.com...
Is ‘Buy American’ too tall an order for US telcos?
In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), commonly referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, into law, pledging to spend $1.2 trillion to improve national infrastructure, including broadband access, clean water, electric grid renewal, public transport, and roads. For the US telecoms industry, this Bill has been a significant boon, with around $65 billion earmarked for broadband infrastructure projects across the country. However,...
BT scraps DAZN talks as it lines up sports streaming JV with Discovery
Today, BT has announced its intention to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with Discovery, a move that would see BT Sport merged with Discovery’s Eurosport. The venture would bring together various sports broadcasting assets, including the rights to show Premier League, Champions League, Europa League football, cycling Grand Tours, tennis Grand Slams… read more on TotalTele.com...
BT Results – FTTP Hits 6.4 Million UK Premises as TV Joint Venture Agreed
The BT Group has published their Q3 2021/22 results, which saw Openreach expand the coverage of gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband to 6.44 million UK premises (up by +662K vs +615K in Q2) and BT enter into “exclusive discussions” with Discovery to create a 50:50 joint venture with BTSport and Eurosport UK. The big news today, […]
Fibre Broadband UK ISP Giganet Freezes Prices for 2022
UK ISP Giganet (M12 Solutions), which is investing £250m to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 300,000 premises across South England (here), has moved to buck the wider industry trend of huge annual price hikes by committing not to increase their prices in 2022. The move means that Giganet will join FibreNest […]
Nominet teams up with Barnardo's for Project Backpack
Barnardo’s, the UK’s largest children’s charity, is to create a new digital service that will give professionals supporting children instant access to relevant knowledge and advice, to help them respond with confidence to the continuously evolving challenges young people face online. Funded by Nominet, and working with Parent Zone, Barnardo’s Project Backpack will combine expert knowledge and data with children’s views and feedback, to transform how young people are supported in their digital...
Will they, won’t they: MasMovil and Vodafone Spain back at negotiating table
The Spanish telecoms market is one of the most competitive in the world, with five major mobile players and a myriad of fixed broadband players. Profit margins are slim, with many analysts suggesting that industry consolidation is quickly becoming inevitable. Now, according to reports by Spanish media, such consolidation could finally be underway, with MasMovil approaching Vodafone with an offer to acquire the company&rsquo… read more on TotalTele.com...
Will they, won’t they: MasMavil and Vodafone Spain back at negotiating table
The Spanish telecoms market is one of the most competitive in the world, with five major mobile players and a myriad of fixed broadband players. Profit margins are slim, with many analysts suggesting that industry consolidation is quickly becoming inevitable. Now, according to reports by Spanish media, such consolidation could finally be underway, with MasMovil approaching Vodafone with an offer to acquire the company&rsquo… read more on TotalTele.com...
Telefonica and Zara billionaire to buy KKR’s stake in Telxius
Telefonica spun off its infrastructure unit, Telxius, back in 2016, giving the unit control of what then amounted to around 16,000 telecoms towers in five countries and roughly 31,000km of submarine fibre optic cables. With investors keen to take advantage of these valuable infrastructure asserts, Telefonica quickly announced that it would launch an initial public offering (IPO) for Telxius… read more on TotalTele.com...
SMARTY Mobile Takes Stand Against Mid Contract UK Price Hikes
Mobile operator Smarty has today taken a stand against the current trend of communications providers imposing huge annual price hikes, which it has done by pledging to new and existing customers that it will “not … introduce annual mid contract price rises” or RPI (inflation) linked annual price rises. Smarty, which is a Mobile Virtual […]