Four Arrested Over Theft of Batteries from Broadband Cabinets in Kent UK
The Kent Police’s Rural Task Force arrested four suspects on Monday – three men aged between 37 – 57 and a 14-year-old boy, in connection with the theft of batteries from “telecoms boxes” (i.e. street cabinets using by broadband providers) and a large number of cables from across the South East of England. A number of network operators put batteries in street cabinets, such as those used to house copper based broadband services (e.g. Openreach’s hybrid fibre FTTC service), which can cost...
Rural Wales Broadband ISP Ogi Opens 8th Round of Community Fund
Infracapital-backed network builder and UK ISP Ogi, which is investing £245m into the deployment of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across South Wales, has confirmed that they’ve opened up their “Cefnogi” local community support fund for an 8th round of projects. The operator has so far covered a total of 100,000 premises RFS (4th Jan 2024) with their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network – most of them residential – in Wales up to the end of 2023. In addition, they’re home...
London Hosts the Most Nuisance Callers by Percentage of All UK Reports
A rather basic new study, which was conducted by tech refurbishment firm Back Market, has analysed the number of nuisance call reports coming from 752 area codes across the UK – as reported on who-called.co.uk – to see which ones receive the highest percentage of reports nationally. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given its size, London was found to be the area most exploited by cold callers. The researchers also analysed the most recent comments left while making these reports to determine what...
RACSA takes 5G standalone leap with Nokia in Costa Rica
News The new 5G standalone network is the first of its kind in the country, and covers key urban centres Today, Nokia have announced the launch of the first 5G standalone (SA) network in Costa Rica in partnership with Radiografica Costarricense (RACSA). RACSA, the mobile unit of Costa Rica’s state-owned utilities/telecoms group ICE, says they have already rolled out the new technology in of 30 sites in major cities, including San Jose, Cartago, and Limon, with 170 additional sites due later...
Sky UK Extends Satellite TV Partnership with SES Until 2029
Global satellite provider SES, which operates a network of nearly 70 satellites that can deliver video and data services to 99% of the world’s population, has today announced an extension of their existing partnership with Sky that will see them continuing to provide capacity to support the Sky Q TV service in the UK and Ireland until the end of 2029. Sky UK has spent the past couple of years putting a lot more effort into pushing their new internet-based streaming platforms, Sky Glass (Sky...
Tackling the take-up challenge: A focus on tailored solutions
Interview Is the UK fibre market beginning to gain pace once again? At Connected Britain 2024, we caught up with Telenco UK’s managing director Clement Lesur about the health of the UK’s broadband market and how operators are looking for increasingly tailored solutions to connect their end customers. Check out our full interview here Keep up to date with the latest international telecoms news by subscribing to the Total Telecom daily newsletter Also in the news: “We’re the best kept secret...
Approval for California’s Initial BEAD Proposal Sets the Stage for Broadband Communities Summit West
Press Release SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 7, 2024 — Updates from federal, state, and county officials at Broadband Communities Summit West, planned for Oct. 30-31 at the San Diego Convention Center, have taken on an increased significance following the approval of California’s initial proposal for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Broadband Communities Summit West, the newest addition to Total Telecom’s events portfolio, will now be occurring as state leaders shift their...
Ukraine’s newest telco to receive $435m investment from EBRD, IFC
News The move is the largest direct foreign investment in Ukraine since the war began This week, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have confirmed they will jointly invest $435 million into Ukraine’s newest converged telco. Back in April, a consortium led by telecoms mogul Xavier Niel’s NJJ Holding announced plans to purchase both Ukrainian TV and fixed broadband provider Datagroup-Volia and mobile operator Lifecell, with...
Onestream Claims to be First UK Broadband ISP to Encourage Router Reuse
Hampshire-based broadband ISP Onestream, which sells internet access packages using Openreach’s national network, today claims to have become “the first” internet provider to offer all its customers the “game-changing” option to reuse their existing router when they switch – “saving money and preventing devices becoming electronic waste.” The provider’s announcement, which comes ahead of National Recycle Week (October 14th – 20th), states that it has “decoupled” its service from its routers,...
80 Percent of Stoke Covered by Freedom Fibre’s FTTP Broadband
ISP LilaConnect, which following the VX FIBER UK acquisition is now part of Freedom Fibre‘s gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network (here), has today revealed that their fibre coverage in the Staffordshire (England) city of Stoke-on-Trent has now expanded to pass 80% of local premises (103,784). The was made possible by the completion of a related 113km long full-fibre network under the Silicon Stoke project, which has been laid right across Stoke-on-Trent. The infrastructure...