Vodafone Claim 63 Percent of Brits Have Put Off Switching Broadband ISP
A new OnePoll survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Vodafone UK, has claimed that 63% of British consumers have put off switching broadband providers for the last 4 years. This is said to be due to the fear of being without internet connectivity (27%) and the switching process being too much of a faff (20%). The same survey states that over half (56%) of respondents feel “stuck” in their current contracts, while 15% admit they’re spooked by the switch, and a quarter (25%)...
VanillaPlus Issue 4: Nokia’s Vishal Singh explains how CSPs will Sense, Think, Act as autonomous networks become reality
Partner Content A bleak dystopian future of automated, autonomous machines has been trailed by sci-fi authors for the last couple of centuries but now autonomy is here, it doesn’t seem such a bad thing – at least in the case of autonomous networks. Register now to read the full VanillaPlus Issue 4 2024 magazine In this issue Comment – George Malim looks ahead to autonomous networks but fears for job insecurity Company news – BICS bolsters Cellusys global roaming partnership, Nokia agrees deal...
Nokia and Lenovo forge partnership to drive AI and automation in data centers
News Financial details of the deal were not disclosed Nokia has announced a strategic partnership with Lenovo to create data centre networking and automation solutions. The deal will address the significant and precise needs for compute, storage, and transit for AI, Machine Learning, and other demanding workloads. These solutions will be jointly marketed to businesses, telcos, digital infrastructure, and cloud service providers. The partnership combines Lenovo’s servers and storage with...
IoT Now Magazine Q3 2024: The relationship between IoT and cellular connectivity is SIMbiotic
Partner Content IoT has always relied on cellular connectivity to provide wire-free, secure, ubiquitous coverage to support IoT use cases. The technology is ideal for the needs of IoT devices but connecting to cellular networks has always been complex, fragmented and inflexible. This puts IoT in a chicken-and-egg situation in which complicated connectivity requirements slow time to market and impede growth. Register now to read the full IoT Now Q3 2024 magazine! In this issue Cover interview –...
Startup Stories: DC Smarter on building data centre digital twins
Startup Story Please introduce us to DC Connect! DC Smarter is an IT infrastructure management company founded by Jörg Hesselink and Ismar Efendic, which uses AI, AR and digital twins to optimise data centre operations. Our company is headquartered in Saarland, the southwestern part of Germany, with a core team of 11 people, supported by a comprehensive network of dedicated subject matter experts. We have developed the software DC Vision® to optimise infrastructure management in data centres....
“We’re on track to close the loop”: Adtran talks data, AI, and network automation at Connected Britain
Interview At this year’s Connected Britain conference, we caught up with Eric Joyce, Director of Technology and Solutions, EMEA at Adtran, to discuss the biggest trends in the telecoms industry, from the UK altnets’ growing interest in 50G PON to the path towards autonomous networks. Joyce explores how telcos’ relationship with data is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with AI and real-time insights allowing for faster and more accurate network management. “We’ve got the data, we’ve got the...
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UK govt announces £22m investment in ‘smart data’ News The investment will benefit university researchers across the country Smart Data Research UK, a national programme for data research and part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has announced a £22 million investment to help UK researchers access new ‘smart data’. Smart data is information that has been processed to provide clear, actionable insights. Unlike raw data, which can be difficult to interpret, smart data is focused,...
CityFibre pledges £150,000 to support STEM education
News The funding will benefit over 80 schools across the UK This week, the UK’s largest altnet CityFibre has pledge £150,000 to support education charity STEM Learning on its mission to improve STEM learning across the UK. The funds, which will be delivered over three years, will help fund STEM Learning modules in 80 schools within the Project Gigabit footprint. These modules include Computer Clusters, I Belong, and ENTHUSE Partnerships, which focus on the delivery of computer science and IT...
Wholesale Provider PXC Partners with UK ISP Association
Network provider PlatformX Communications (PXC), which was formerly known as Talk Talk Wholesale before the demerger (here), has joined the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA UK), a trade body for UK ISPs and associated organisations, as part of its Partnership Programme. PXC sees the move as being part of their bid to strengthen links with the wider telecoms and broadband sector, which reflects their ambition for becoming the UK’s go-to alternative networks aggregator at the...
Disconnections on UK ISP Zen Internet After AVM Router Upgrade UPDATE
Some customers of UK broadband ISP Zen Internet have complained about repeated service disconnections after their bundled FRITZ!box 7530 routers from AVM received a firmware update to the latest FRITZ!OS v8 software, which appears to have introduced an unexpected instability into the device. In fairness, new firmware updates for any device can sometimes result in a tiny number of people experiencing unexpected bugs, although such things are normally extremely rare. But in this case, something...