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Hampshire-based business broadband and cloud provider Onecom, which is backed by LDC and the Ares Management Corporation (here), has caused some concern among their partners after notifying them of an ongoing dispute with their supplier of eve Services (KM Telecom) that threatens to disrupt some services. Just for context. Eve appears to offer a complete VoIP platform (Hosted VoIP and SIP Trunk provision etc.) and, we understand, was potentially also providing a number of broadband circuits to...

News  No financial details of the deal will be disclosed, Nokia said  Nokia has announced its acquisition of technology assets from Rapid, which includes the world’s largest API hub and a skilled research and development team. This acquisition marks a major step in Nokia’s plan to grow its network API offerings, aiming to support a wider ecosystem of telecom operators, software providers, and cloud giants to unlock the potential of 5G and 4G networks.  Rapid (formerly known as RapidAPI) is a...

News  The deal was first announced in March This week, Vodafone Italia’s sale to Swisscom has been approved by the Italian communication authority AGCOM, Swisscom has confirmed.  “The transaction is still subject to two other regulatory approvals, including that of the Italian Competition Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, AGCM). The latter announced on 11 September 2024 that it had opened an in-depth investigation (Phase II) to assess the acquisition under Italy’s...

A new UK mobile operator called Ymobile (Ycorp) has officially launched today and claims to be the United Kingdom’s “first data-led, eSIM MVNO“, all while claiming to offer users a “simpler, more streamlined and environmentally friendly” alternative to traditional mobile networks. The operator, which is being powered by Three UK’s national 4G and 5G network via a virtual operator (MVNO) agreement, appears to have avoided the usual approach to mobile plans (i.e. bundling data, calls and texts...

Broadband network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with retail ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve extended their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network to cover 9,000 additional homes in the Essex (England) town of Witham. The town is now fairly well covered by Virgin Media and nexfibre’s combined gigabit broadband networks, although there are also smaller patches of FTTP coverage to be found from Openreach, Gigaclear,...

Rural network builder and ISP Fusion Fibre Group (formerly FACTCO), which has built a number of its own FTTP broadband networks for various communities, has today moved to expand their availability across the UK by signing a new wholesale agreement with PlatformX Communications. PXC was formerly known as TalkTalk Wholesale before the demerger (here). At present PXC gives retail ISPs access to create broadband packages across a number of different networks, such as Openreach, CityFibre,...

EY has today published their annual digital home survey of 2,500 UK consumers, which among other things reveals that the cost-of-living crisis has prompted 34% to consider “more economical broadband options” and 5G mobile is increasingly becoming a substitute for traditional home broadband (33% of households are prepared to switch to this, up from 29% in 2023). The ‘Decoding the digital home study 2024‘ study, which also covers various other areas (e.g. TV/video streaming), finds that...

New customers looking to join alternative network provider LightSpeed Broadband, which has built a gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP) network across 250,000 premises in the East of England, may like to know that the ISP are offering 50% off the price of all 24-month packages from 150Mbps up to 2000Mbps (the discount period lasts for 12-months). The provider, which was last year acquired by Kompass Kapital (here), currently claims to have deployments across parts of 32 market towns in South...

Debt-troubled UK broadband ISP TalkTalk recently published their group accounts for the year to 29th February 2024, which reveals that their on-net customer base (fibre FTTP/C and broadband) fell again to 3.6 million (down from 3.94m in 2023). But their Ethernet (leased lines etc.) base grew to 75,000 (up from 69,400). The accounts cover the period BEFORE the group’s recent move to accept a refinancing package worth roughly £400m (here and here), which saved TalkTalk from the immediate risk of...

News The deal is set to boost connectivity in the capital Neos Networks has joined forces with London-based fibre provider Vorboss to offer new high-capacity, last-mile connectivity options in London. The deal will allow Neos Networks’ customers to access Vorboss’s extensive fibre network through the LIVEQUOTE platform, giving businesses a transparent view of prices for services up to 10Gbps. The collaboration comes in response to surging demand for high-bandwidth, affordable connectivity in...