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Interview At Connected Britain 2024, we sat down with Matt Hunter, managing director at HellermannTyton, to discuss why an intimate understanding of customer needs should be at the heart of a company’s R&D process. From supply chain and sustainability, to sharing learnings from diverse markets around the world, Matt explores how best to meet the unique requirements of the UK fibre market. You can watch our full interview from the link below Also in the news: Singtel becomes latest telco to...

News The operator says around 70% of the site’s energy needs are expected to be generate by on-site wind turbines and solar panels Today, BT has announced the activation of a new mobile site powered by on-site renewable energy generation. The 4G/5G site, located in the Shropshire Hills, is supported by a bank of solar panels and a miniaturised wind turbine, which combine to provide up to 70% of the site’s power. Energy generated from these renewable sources is stored in the on-site batteries,...

News  Oracle will modernise the platforms in four different government departments  Four major UK government departments have chosen Oracle Cloud to modernise their corporate services in a decade-long deal worth £1 billion.   The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and the Home Office will all use Oracle’s platform to streamline their finance, HR, and supply chain operations, affecting nearly...

Ofcom has published the results from a new survey that is intended to help monitor how well the UK mobile market is functioning and whether it continues to deliver good outcomes. For example, the work reveals that unlimited data (broadband) tariffs accounted for 13% of mobile plans in 2023 (up from 5% in 2019), but plans with smaller allowances are now less common. The survey – ‘Monitoring Consumer Outcomes in the Mobile Sector‘ – similarly noted that consumers typically used only a small...

Customers looking to take one of Virgin Media UK’s (VMO2) top broadband, pay TV, phone and or O2 SIM bundles – specifically ‘Mega Volt‘ and their ‘Biggest Combo‘ – should note that the ISP has quietly downgraded the Netflix plan they include in these packages with a much cheaper option. Several of ISPreview’s readers (credits to Brad and Luke) have recently pointed out that the aforementioned bundles previously included Netflix’s Standard plan, which normally costs £10.99 a month when taken...

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced the results of two recent 5G trials using a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmWave) radio spectrum, which managed to deliver home broadband (FWA) connectivity peak speeds of up to 4Gbps (dropping to 2.8Gbps in a more traditional mobile environment). The challenge with using mmWave (mmW) bands for low power wireless communications stems from the fact that such signals are extremely weak and don’t tend to travel very far. As a...

Broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which has so far deployed their full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million homes in parts of 64 UK towns and cities, has today announced that they’ve appointed Geoff Heddle to be their new Director of Product. Geoff is understood to have 15 years of experience in the realm of Product Management and Digital Transformation. The new position will see him being tasked with enhancing the end-to-end customer experience and shaping the provider’s product...

Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today become the latest network operator to switch-on a self-powered 4G and 5G (broadband) mobile site, which uses a mix of solar power and a wind turbine to help support its operation in a remote rural area of the Shropshire Hills (England). The deployment represents a trial, but more could follow. The idea of using on-site renewable energy sources to power mobile masts is nothing new and, indeed, we still haven’t forgotten Vodafone’s upside down...

Abrdn-backed rural broadband ISP Airband, which has a network that covers rural parts of Wales and South West England via a mix of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and Full Fibre (FTTP) tech, has today become the “first operator in Europe” to deploy Tarana’s next-gen wireless (ngFWA) platform – offering “fibre-class speeds” of up to 400Mbps. The ngFWA solution from California-based Tarana is a new network technology, which in the UK will be able to harness the 5GHz radio spectrum band (C) and...

Wireless infrastructure firm Cellnex has today announced that they’re partnering with network operator Netmore to enhance the UK coverage of their low power Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) network across as many as 200 streetwork sites. Fixed wireless LoRa networks typically harness only a small slice of lower frequency radio spectrum (usually in one of the sub-1GHz bands) in order to support relatively slow, but extremely low power, data connections. Such networks tend to run at well...