VMO2 commits £700m to improve 4G and 5G networks | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The investment will average £2 million per day for a year Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced plans to invest £700 million in its mobile network for 2025 as part of its ongoing Mobile Transformation Plan. The programme aims to improve network reliability, speed, and coverage in response to demand “reaching an all-time high,” with mobile data usage more than doubling over the past five years. The investment is part of VMO2’s broader £2 billion...
IMDEA Networks participates in a European project to create 6G networks that interact intelligently with reality | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More IMDEA Networks is part of MultiX, a European scientific project involving 17 research centers and technology companies from 7 countries coordinated by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), which aims to revolutionize future 6G communication networks by transforming their design and operation. By means of an innovative system that integrates multisensory perception, MultiX aims to make networks capable of intelligently observing the environment and...
UK govt invests £23m in telecoms R&D | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said that the investment would “cement the UK’s leadership in advanced connectivity and support projects delivering real, tangible change for people and businesses across Britain” This week, the UK government has announced a £23 million investment in telecoms research and development, covering a wide range of topics including 5G, quantum computing, and drone technologies. The new funding will impact seven...
BDUK Reveal Benefits and Impacts of UK Superfast Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has posted a final evaluation of the previous ‘Superfast Broadband Programme’ (UK National Broadband Scheme), which reveals the various “economic, social, and environmental benefits” from the previous project to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) coverage – run between 2016 and 2022. The SFBB programme – managed by BDUK – was first setup back in 2010 to help extend superfast broadband connectivity to areas...
EE UK Sees Positive Result from Trial of New Content Delivery Tech for TV Services | ISPreview UK
Read More Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE has today revealed the results from last year’s trial delivery of TV content via a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) technology, which reflects BT’s effort to integrate their “world’s first” MAUD (Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery) solution into Edgio’s CDN. Most telecoms operators use sophisticated CDNs and related systems to help manage network load, which caches popular internet content closer in the network to end-users (i.e. improves...
18,000 companies affected as NTT stung by data breach | Total Telecom
Read More News Hackers potentially had access to sensitive data for over 10 days This week, Japanese telco NTT has revealed it has been the subject to a major data breach, potentially compromising the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers. The breach was first discovered on February 5, with NTT confirming the following day that some customer information may have been exfiltrated. Initial action was taken on February 6 to restrict access to the compromised device and, following an internal...
Vodafone UK and Ericsson Trial AI Tech to Improve 5G Energy Efficiency | ISPreview UK
Read More Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve successfully conducted trials with Ericsson of three new Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) powered software solutions. This showed that they were able to reduce the daily power consumption of their 5G radio units by 33%. The trials, which took place at select London sites, harnessed Ericsson’s latest Service Continuity AI App suite with Intelligent Energy Efficiency, which claims to...
Hope for Broadband and Mobile Boost as UK Gov to Publish Planning Bill | ISPreview UK
Read More The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has called on the government to be “bold and brave” when they publish their new Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) tomorrow, which it’s hoped may contain some measures that will benefit the roll-out of gigabit broadband and 4G / 5G mobile networks. In case anybody has forgotten, the Labour Party’s 2024 General Election Manifesto (here) previously made clear that they would be making a “renewed push to fulfil the ambition of...
CityFibre Target 850k UK Homes Covered by Full Fibre Altnets for Consolidation | ISPreview UK
Read More A new research note from James Ratzer at New Street Research has claimed that CityFibre, which have already deployed their full fibre broadband (FTTP) ISP network to cover 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m RFS), is making progress on their plans for future consolidation and already has “up to” 850,000 homes served by other alternative networks “under M&A exclusivity“. Just to recap. CityFibre currently still aspires to cover up to 8 million UK premises with their new full fibre...
Virgin Media O2 Invest £700m into UK 4G and 5G Mobile Upgrades for 2025 | ISPreview UK
Read More Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ll invest the equivalent to approximately £700m this year into their ongoing Mobile Transformation Plan (MTP). This is aimed at enhancing network coverage and performance via new masts, small cells, 4G and 5G upgrades, additional spectrum deployment and increased automation via AI. The programme is primarily focused on expanding 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) coverage to historic ‘not-spots’ in rural and coastal areas, as...