GNM Expands Network with First PoP in Budapest
Boosting Wavelength and Interconnection Services in the Region GNM’s Budapest Point of Presence takes advantage of its own DWDM-system. It provides valuable options for network redundancy improvement, traffic flow optimization, and reduction of points of failure. The GNM’s interconnection services such as GNM-IX and IP Transit allow direct connections with a wider range of networks, as well as access to Tier-1 connectivity providers. Flexible port options from 10G to 400G provide customized...
ISP KCOM Upgrades Customers to Symmetric FTTP Broadband Speeds
Hull-based broadband ISP KCOM, which has spent the past few years building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has begun upgrading their packages to support symmetric speeds. But only up to a maximum upload speed of 500Mbps. The change, which started to be deployed from 20th January 2025 (credits to Phil for the news tip), means that all KCOM packages up to 500Mbps will now offer fully symmetrical upload and download speeds....
UK space race heats up as Amazon wins UK MoD satellite contract
News Amazon’s satellite arm, Project Kuiper, has secured a deal with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) worth £670,000 The consultancy deal will see Amazon study the potential use of “translator” satellites to facilitate communications between military, government, and private satellites as well as between allied nations. This technology, which is also being explored by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), aims to improve communication between military, government, and...
Navigating the depths: Strategies for delivering successful subsea cable projects
Contributed Article By James McKenzie, international arbitration and cross-border litigation partner at Eversheds Sutherland The difficulties inherent in delivering subsea cable projects are well known, but a confluence of geopolitical events is making delivering them now, in the current climate, particularly acute. The critical security role performed by subsea cables makes them an obvious target. Recent events have highlighted the physical challenges of policing and patrolling large cables,...
Broadband Altnet Freedom Fibre Appoints New UK COO
Alternative network operator Freedom Fibre, which has built a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network that it wholesales out to UK ISPs across the North West and West Midlands of England, have today appointed Lindsey Sutherland to be their new Chief Operations Officer (COO). This will become effective from 4th March 2025. Lindsey is a former military veteran with 30 years of experience, most of which has been spent in engineering and IT roles. He originally founded a data systems...
Freshwave Claims Better Indoor Mobile Signals Can Grow UK Economy by £70bn
Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave, which is backed by investment firm DigitalBridge and naturally has its own vested interests in this field, have published a new study that claims a focus on improving indoor mobile (4G, 5G etc.) signals and “eliminating mobile dead zones” could help to grow the UK economy by £70bn a year. According to Freshwave’s somewhat high-level Mobile Connectivity ROI Index, just 5 minutes of poor current connectivity a day reduces annual productive time by 1%...
Ofcom Propose to Share Upper 6GHz Band for UK Mobile and WiFi
After conducting more research, the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today formally begun to consult on a proposal that will allow low power indoor WiFi and mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.) networks to “share” access to the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425 to 7125MHz). But full implementation could take years. The regulator has already made the lower part (5925 to 6425MHz) of the 6GHz band available for WiFi under the new WiFi 6E, WiFi 7 and future standards (here), yet the Upper part has...
Vodafone–Three reveals leadership team
Press Release Following CMA clearance of the Vodafone UK Three UK merger in December 2024 (subject to legally binding commitments), and in anticipation of final deal completion in the coming months, Vodafone-Three has announced the company’s General Management Team Max Taylor, CEO Vodafone UK, and CEO of the future merged entity, has appointed the following people to lead the new company: Darren Purkis, CFO Kelly Barlow, Strategy and Portfolio Clare Corkish, HR Andrea Dona, Networks Nick...
Ofcom Shames TalkTalk and O2 for UK Telecoms Complaints – Q3 2024
Ofcom have today published their Q3 2024 study of UK consumer telecoms complaints, which names and shames TalkTalk for attracting the most complaints about broadband, while O2 took the most flak mobile and Virgin Media was put on the naughty step for Pay TV. Take note that the regulator’s report only covers complaints that Ofcom itself has received and not those sent directly to an ISP, the ISPA or an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) complaints handler (i.e. Communications Ombudsman or...
EU launches ‘InvestAI initiative’ to bring €200 bn of investment to AI development
News “This large AI infrastructure is needed to allow open, collaborative development of the most complex AI models and to make Europe an AI continent,” the European Commission said The European Commission has launched InvestAI, a €200 billion initiative aimed at accelerating AI investment and innovation across Europe. Central to the plan is a €20 billion investment in AI gigafactories, designed to provide the computing power needed for AI development. The InvestAI fund will support the...