Beyond coverage: What digital inclusion really requires | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Contributed Article By Jabbor Kayumov, Chief Executive Officer, Beeline Kazakhstan Kazakhstan’s geography has always shaped its economics. It is the ninth-largest country in the world, with communities spread across vast steppe, desert and mountain terrain. For generations, distance has influenced the cost of connecting a clinic, a school, a farmer or a small business to markets and essential services. Digital infrastructure is beginning to change the...
AT&T Mexico sold to Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 billion | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News AT&T’s says its retreat from Mexico will allow it to better focus on its US operations AT&T has reached an agreement to sell AT&T Mexico to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 billion in cash at closing, subject to certain adjustments, plus additional contractual and contingent benefits. Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings will each holding 50% stake in AT&T Mexico following the deal. In a press release, AT&T explained...
Hyperoptic launch 3 months free 1Gbps gamers UK broadband deal for GTA VI launch | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More City-focused full fibre (FTTP/B) provider Hyperoptic, which claims to have built their gigabit broadband network to reach 2 million UK homes (mostly across blocks of flats / MDUs), has launched a new promotion ahead of the Grand Theft Auto 6 video game release that offers 3 months of free service to new customers taking their 1Gbps (symmetric) package. According to the dedicated Hyperoptic Gamers (affiliate link) page, their standard 1Gbps package gives...
Altnet ISP Lightning Fibre launch UK Black Friday broadband sale | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Eastbourne-based broadband provider Lightning Fibre, which is building a full fibre (FTTP) network across Sussex and Kent in England (they also hold a partnership to use CityFibre’s UK network – here), appears to have become one of the first ISPs to kick off their early Black Friday sale today. The headline discounts reduce the price of both their 1Gbps and 2.5Gbps (symmetric speed) tiers to £19 per month for the first 6 months of service, rising to £32...
BT International adds security service edge to its Global Fabric | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release BT International today announced the expansion of its Global Fabric network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform with a choice of security service edge (SSE) solutions to support multinational customers’ rapid deployment and scaling of AI agents, cloud applications and autonomous digital workflows. As organisations adopt AI at scale, traffic patterns across the network are dramatically changing. A growing number of users, AI agents, applications...
Confusion as Trooli switch off FTTC broadband network in Kent UK village | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Confusion appears to have gripped residents in the rural Kent (England) village of Hunton after Trooli, an alternative network operator and broadband ISP, informed local customers that they had been unable to extend their new full fibre (FTTP) network into the area, and now planned to switch-off their existing copper line infrastructure too. The original article on this situation, which has been covered by the BBC News, is lacking some necessary context...
Amazon Leo speed test reaches 400Mbps+ on Pro satellite broadband dish | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Amazon Leo service, which busy deploying thousands of ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally to compete with Starlink, has successfully tested their Leo Pro dish (terminal) to slightly beyond its top rated download speed of 400Mbps (Megabits per second) in a beta test of the service. The service, which has already launched 392 Kuiper satellites into orbit and is presently in its commercial beta phase (they...
Ciena upgrades Space Norway’s Arctic Cables | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The deal is expected to boost the lifespan of the company’s aging submarine cables around Svalbard Space Norway has announced a new deal with Ciena to modernise the Svalbard Undersea Cable System and its upcoming Arctic Way cable system with the latest optical technolgy. The deal will see Space Norway’s existing infrastructure upgraded with Ciena’s latest optical technology, including the Ciena 6500 Optical Platform, WaveLogic 6 Extreme, Spectrum...
Sky UK’s NOW TV introduces new membership options for Sky Sports | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Sky has today announced that their sibling NOW (NOW TV) video streaming platform and broadband service has introduced a new membership structure for customers seeking to add Sky Sports content – adding two new Sky Sports plans. Fans can also continue to get the full line-up via NOW’s existing All Sky Sports plan if they want (from £27.99 a month). In terms of the two new plan options for Sky Sports content. The new Multi-Sport Membership, starting at...
Travel eSIM providers Holafly and Roamless launch new unlimited data plans | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A couple of interesting developments have occurred this week after two global travel eSIM providers, Holafly and Roamless, both separately launched new 4G and 5G capable “unlimited data” mobile (mobile broadband) plans with some very different features and also caveats. Firstly, Holafly. Regular readers will already know from our own summary of travel eSIMs that Holfafly has long offered the option of an unlimited plan for data across their various...