NetIX, a Neterra Group Company, Expands to Telehouse London Docklands
To enable its rapid worldwide expansion, NetIX, one of the fastest-growing Internet Exchanges in the world, has partnered with global colocation provider, Telehouse creating a primary point-of-presence (PoP) in the Telehouse North data centre, at the Telehouse London Docklands campus. After more than six years of using a partner to connect into Telehouse North, NetIX has brought the data centre fully on-net as one of its primary PoPs. This enhancement has reduced service turn-up times in this...
HS2 Signs £99.6m Passenger Telecoms Deal for New UK Rail Network
High Speed 2 Ltd, which is a non-departmental public body that is wholly funded by the UK Government’s Department for Transport (DfT) and oversees the HS2 rail project, has signed a £99.6m deal with Hitachi and Telent to design and deploy telecommunications services across the new rail network, including passenger voice and broadband connectivity. The contract itself, which is expected to run for thirteen and a half years, will see Hitachi and Telent (Joint Venture) become “responsible for the...
Brsk to Extend UK Full Fibre Broadband Network into Barnsley
Alternative fibre optic ISP Brsk, which is currently in the final stages of being merged into Netomnia’s network (here), has reportedly confirmed that approximately 50,000 homes and businesses across the South Yorkshire (England) market town of Barnsley will be the next to benefit from their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband. The town is already well covered by Virgin Media’s (inc. nexfibre) gigabit-broadband network, while Openreach also has a significant level of FTTP...
China Telecom announces early completion of Asia Direct Cable project
News The Asia Direct Cable (ADC) system is now fully operational, two months ahead of schedule The ADC, developed by a consortium of companies including China Telecom, China Unicom, Singtel, SoftBank, Tata Communications, and Viettel, is the first new submarine cable introduced in the Asia-Pacific in over eight years. The cable spans approximately 10,000km, connecting China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, and has a capacity of over 160 Tbps. The submarine cable...
Bridging AI and global connectivity: The rise of hybrid cable landing stations and the shift beyond hyperscalers
Contributed Article by Tim Parker, Chief Growth Officer of Assured Comms The rapid evolution of AI is reshaping data center infrastructure, changing the approach to compute deployment by enterprises and cloud providers. Driven by traditional hyperscalers with large-scale training clusters, emerging efficiency gains are shifting demand toward smaller, more distributed inference deployments. Meanwhile, demands for connectivity continue to rise globally, demanding infrastructure that best...
Gigaclear Advisors to Hunt Fresh Funding for Rural UK Broadband Build
Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 580,000 premises (RFS) in rural parts of England (inc. over 130,000 customers), is reportedly hiring advisors to help it find new funding in order to continue their network deployments across the UK. According to Bloomberg‘s (paywall) sources, advisor firm Teneo is working with Gigaclear on the funding effort. Lenders are understood to have heard pitches from financial advisers this...
LightSpeed Broadband Finally Puts FTTP Live in Cromer and Sheringham
Alternative network provider and UK ISP LightSpeed Broadband, which has so far built their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 250,000 premises across the East of England and West Midlands, has finally started to put their new network live in the neighbouring coastal Norfolk towns of Cromer and Sheringham. The provider, which in 2023 was acquired by Kompass Kapital (here) after suffering some job cuts and a build slowdown in the East of England (here), is currently busy...
Full Fibre UK Broadband ISP Youfibre Launch New Loyalty Promise
Broadband ISP Youfibre, which is available to those covered by Netomnia’s (Brsk) 10Gbps capable FTTP network, has today launched a new “Loyalty Promise” for its renewing customers. The move is part of an effort to help set them apart from the market’s largest ISPs, which often hit existing customers with price hikes at the end of their term. Under the promise, customers coming to the end of their contracts at YouFibre “will be able to choose from the same packages available for new customers“....
London Broadband ISP Community Fibre Launch Cheap 100Mbps Tier
Broadband ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has deployed their 3Gbps speed FTTP network to cover 1.32 million UK premises (mostly in Greater London), has this week introduced a new entry-level tier that offers symmetric speeds of 100Mbps from just £19 per month on a 24-month minimum term. The new package is slower than the old entry-level tier of 150Mbps, but at £19 per month it’s also a few pounds cheaper. The residential package includes free setup, a wireless router and a 60-day satisfaction...
Share and share alike: Ofcom consults on the future of 6GHz
News The regulator is proposing sharing the upper 6GHz band between both mobile and Wi-Fi networks Today, Ofcom has launched a consultation on the future of the upper 6GHz spectrum band, potentially allowing both mobile and Wi-Fi networks to share the valuable airwaves. Back in 2020, 500MHz of spectrum in the lower portion of the band were allocated to Wi-Fi as part of the Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 standards. The future of the upper portion of the band, on the other hand, remained up for debate....