EU gives €127m funding boost to 6G research
News The funding will focus on 6G innovation and sustainable network development At the 5G-Techritory event this week, Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) has announced the recipients of €127 million in funding set aside for 6G research in Europe. The SNS JU was set up in 2021 with the aim of developing industrial leadership in 5G and 6G networks and services. Sixteen projects have been chosen to drive forward Europe’s 6G development, with a focus on sustainable,...
Thai Airways deploys Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform
Press Release Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, today announced that Thai Airways has modernized the network infrastructure of its headquarters in Thailand, by deploying Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform to deliver the right data, the right real-time response and the right infrastructure for reliable, measurable and secure wired and wireless services. With the upgrades, Thai Airways can now achieve better simplicity, productivity and consistent performance at...
Devon and Somerset UK Broadband Project Scales Back Airband Rollout
The state-aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has suffered yet another problem with one of their rural broadband contracts, which occurred today after they announced that their full fibre roll-out deal with Worcestershire-based Airband was being “scaled back” following its underperformance. In case anybody has forgotten, CDS is a local government-led partnership that has spent many years helping to deliver faster internet infrastructure to areas where the market had...
Australian regulator takes Optus to court over sales misconduct
News The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says the operator’s sales staff had acted “unconscionably” towards hundreds of vulnerable customers This week, Australia consumer watchdog the ACCC has launched a legal suit against telco giant Optus, alleging that 429 customers had been affected by ‘misconduct’ from Optus’ sales staff over a two-year period up to June 2023. The suit alleges that sales staff used aggressive tactics to pressure customers to buy expensive and...
Lightpath Miami Expansion Includes New On-Net Data Centers and RapidPath Dark Fiber Service
10/29/24 Adding Eight On-Net Data Centers, RapidPath Quick Dark Fiber Deployment Between Data Centers in Five Days, and 15-Miles of Fiber Network Expansion New York and Miami, October 29, 2024 – Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, announced it is continuing its aggressive expansion in the Greater Miami region by adding connectivity to eight new data centers, adding 15-miles of new...
nPerf Finds Top EU Countries Beat UK for Mobile Broadband Speeds
Internet benchmarking firm nPerf has today released the results of a new study into mobile broadband (3G, 4G and 5G) performance across several EU countries, which analysed 61,696 internet speed tests via their app (crowdsourced) to reveal that the average UK download is 80Mbps – this makes the country slower than Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, France and Portugal. The study, which is based on thousands of tests carried out between 1st January 2024 and 30th September 2024, reveals that Italy...
O2 UK Offers Pay As You Go Mobile Customers a Free DATA Boost
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has announced that, until 5th February 2025, both new and existing Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile customers will get the chance to boost their data (mobile broadband) by up to three times the amount for no extra cost (e.g. those with a 10GB plan can boost it to 30GB – GigaBytes). The offer is available to both new and existing PAYG customers who take one of O2’s ‘Big Bundles’ or ‘Rolling Plans’ tariffs. New customers will get this by default, but existing...
Nexfibre Publish Q3 2024 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with ISP partner Virgin Media (VMO2), has published their latest quarterly (Q3 2024) progress update on the roll-out of their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network. This includes details on build locations for 2025 and 2026. We’ll start with the usual recap. Back in 2022 Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia Capital Partners setup nexfibre as a new £4.5bn joint venture (here), which aims to...
Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Add 18k Homes to Horsham UK Fibre Network
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve extended their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network to cover 18,000 additional homes in the West Sussex (England) town of Horsham. The town itself is now well covered by both Virgin Media and nexfibre’s combined gigabit broadband networks, although it’s worth noting that Horsham is also home to several other full fibre networks with...
AllPoints Fibre Networks Acquires UK Broadband ISP Brillband
Alternative network operator AllPoints Fibre Networks, which is the UK wholesale division of Fern Trading’s recently consolidate alternative FTTP broadband ISP networks (Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, and Swish Fibre), has today announced that they’ve acquired Glasgow-based full fibre ISP Brillband for an undisclosed sum. In case anybody has forgotten, Brillband was only founded in 2022 and tended to focus their CityFibre based broadband services toward customers in Scotland. The ISP also once...