“European competitiveness has one foot in the morgue,” warns Nokia CEO
News In a summit today, the CEOs of both Nokia and Ericsson called for greater investments into network technology to support European innovation In a rare display of unity, today the CEOs of telecoms tech rivals Nokia and Ericsson both took to the stage at the New Industrial Ambition for Europe summit in Brussels, arguing that Europe needed major reform to ensure competitiveness on the global stage. The event saw Pekka Lundmark, President and CEO of Nokia, and Börje Ekholm, President and CEO...
Megaport adds Point of Presence (PoP) at two nLighten edge data centres
Following a strategic partnership with Megaport, nLighten’s customers will be able to easily migrate their workloads to and from a wide choice of public and private cloud services, enabling efficient and cost-effective hybrid IT environments. This will add to the the colocation, connectivity and onsite services already provided. As a vendor-neutral digital infrastructure platform, nLighten is committed to providing customers with diverse cloud on-ramp options and is actively pursuing new...
Ericsson and IBM to modernise UK Emergency Services Network
News Ericsson has announced a partnership with IBM UK to deliver a new communications network for emergency services in the UK The Emergency Services Network (ESN) aims to enhance the technology and data accessibility available to over 300,000 frontline responders, including police, fire, and ambulance services. The ESN will replace the current Airwave system, providing faster and more secure communication for voice, video, and data. Emergency responders will be able to share real-time...
LightSpeed and Neos Networks Partner to Expand High-Speed Connectivity Across the Midlands and East of England.
16 JANUARY 2025 – High-speed broadband provider LightSpeed has joined forces with Neos Networks, one of the UK’s foremost business connectivity providers, to expand its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and wholesale services. This collaboration highlights LightSpeed’s commitment to delivering Gigabit broadband to underserved communities while bolstering its network infrastructure. LightSpeed sets high standards for Ethernet performance with its existing 10Gbps XGS-PON technology, ensuring high...
Cellnex mulls Swiss tower sale
News Cellnex acquired a 72% stake in the company in 2017 for €430 million Spanish TowerCo Cellnex is considering the sale of its Swiss subsidiary, according to a report from Spanish newspaper Expansion, which cited unnamed sources. The report says US investment bank JP Morgan has been selected as an advisor for the potential sale of its stake. According to the unnamed sources, the company’s Swiss tower business could be worth up to €1.5 billion, with Cellnex’s 72% stake worth approximately...
Millions of VPN Servers and Routers Exposed to New Tunnelling Protocol Vulnerabilities
Security and VPN researchers Simon Migliano and Mathy Vanhoef have published a new report today that warns “over 4 million internet hosts“, including VPN servers and private home broadband routers, were found to be vulnerable to being hijacked to perform anonymous attacks and provide access to their private networks – thanks to “new vulnerabilities in multiple tunneling protocols“. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-7595, CVE-2025-23018/23019 and CVE-2024-7596), which relates to how internet hosts...
Sparkle signs deal to recycle 22,000km of submarine cable
News The new partnership with Oceanic Environmental Cables (OEC) save more than 35,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO₂e) from reusing the cable materials The new deal will see OEC acquire and recover over 22,000km of Sparkle’s unused submarine cables from the Mediterranean seabed. From there, the cables will be delivered to OEC’s partners where they will be dismantled and analysed, with recovered materials repurposed or remanufactured. Recovered materials include optical fibre, copper,...
Altnet ISP Lightning Fibre Refreshes UK Broadband Plans and Prices
Eastbourne-based alternative network operator and UK ISP Lightning Fibre, which is building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has today announced a package refresh for the New Year that delivers some speed boosts and pricing changes. In terms of what’s changing. The entry level package has been doubled from 150Mbps (symmetric) to 300Mbps for £28 per month to pitch the company head-to-head with its mainstream competitors (i.e. Sky...
Ofcom to Improve Handling of UK Broadband and Phone Complaints
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to make it quicker for people to access Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) providers, which are third-party ombudsman schemes that help consumers to resolve complaints with their phone providers, broadband ISPs and mobile operators. The regulator currently requires that all telecoms service providers – those offering services to consumers and small businesses – must be members of an approved ADR scheme (there are two of these – CISAS...
Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK to Upgrade Community Forum
Broadband, phone and pay TV provider Virgin Media (O2) has notified its customers that their Community Forum platform will tomorrow – starting at around 10am – go through a “major upgrade“, which will see the ISP switch from using the older Khoros ‘Classic’ platform over to the modern ‘Aurora’ one. The community, which will be offline for the duration of the upgrade process (it’s expected to return by the afternoon or late evening), should then return with a “different look and feel“. For...