Altnet ISP Pulse Fibre Expands UK Broadband Reach via DW Utilities
Alternative broadband provider Pulse Fibre, which is currently aiming to complete over 250,000 unique “full fibre” (FTTP) connections into new build dwellings and MDUs (here), has signed a new partnership with multi-utility provider DW Utilities that should help to spread their service across more of the UK. The new collaboration will enable DW Utilities to offer a full range of utility services to some of the sites they serve, by integrating Pulse Fibre’s lightning-fast full fibre broadband...
EE UK Makes New Wi-Fi 7 Smart Hub Pro Broadband Router Available
Mobile network operator and UK ISP EE (BT) has today made their new Qualcomm powered WiFi 7 router (Smart Hub Pro) and wireless booster (Smart Wi-Fi Pro), which were soft launched earlier this month (here), available to both new and existing customers of their fixed line home FTTP broadband packages. In case anybody has forgotten, WiFi 7 introduces a number of new features, such as using the extra 6GHz channel with 320MHz of channel bandwidth for much broader capacity (Wi-Fi 6E is 160MHz), as...
IOH and Accenture partner to boost AI development in Indonesia
News The deal comes just a month after IOH partnered with Huawei to launch Southeast Asia’s largest digital intelligence operations centre Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has teamed up with Accenture to accelerate the development of a sovereign AI cloud platform, with the aim of advancing Indonesia’s digital transformation. Through its subsidiary Lintasarta, IOH will use Accenture’s AI Refinery platform to help businesses adopt AI-driven solutions, while ensuring data remains secure within...
Nineteen mobile operators sign up to GSMA’s new ethical AI roadmap
News The Responsible AI (RAI) Maturity Roadmap will help ensure mobile operators are using the emerging technology ethically and responsibly Today, the GSMA have released their new Responsible AI (RAI) Maturity Roadmap, aimed at providing mobile network operators (MNOs) with tools and guidance surrounding their ethical implementation of AI. The roadmap explores a company’s use of RAI across five aspects of their business: Vision, Operating Model, Technical Controls, Third-party Ecosystem, and...
Broadway Residents Get Date for Judicial Review of Broadband Poles Rollout
The Lifford Gardens and the Sands Residents Association, which represents part of Broadway in Worcestershire (England), has been informed by the Birmingham High Court that their Judicial Review hearing into the local council’s decision to allow deployment of a new FTTP broadband network using wood poles is to take place on 22nd October 2024 at 10:30am. ISPreview wrote about the situation in June 2024 (here), which gives the full context. But to cut a long story short, the review focuses upon...
Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night
Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has revealed that 18% of respondents to one of their consumer surveys still “break the golden rule” by switching their Hub (router) off overnight. This might save a tiny bit of electricity, but it may also “prevent overnight software updates” (e.g. router firmware or other devices) from being applied – that could have unintended consequences. Generally speaking, network operators and other software distributors often time important software updates to be...
Introducing Elemendar
Viewpoint Elemendar is a startup that exhibited at this year’s Connected Britain, in our bigger than ever startup village! Find out more about them below 1. Tell us about your startup Elemendar is a cybersecurity startup based in the UK, co-founded by Lior Arbel and Giorgos Georgopoulos. We use advanced AI technology to help organisations stay protected from cyber threats. Our mission is to enable security leadership to make informed security decisions effortlessly. Our key products, READ and...
New Ofcom Rule on Misleading “Fibre” Terminology Puts Spotlight on Ads Watchdog
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has told ISPreview that they’re “keeping a watching brief” on how Ofcom’s recent move to clampdown on confusing uses of “fibre” terminology (here) may impact their own guidance on advertising claims. But at present, the ASA and Ofcom’s position still appear to be in some conflict. In case anybody overlooked Monday’s developments, Ofcom began enforcing new rules that only allowed broadband ISPs to use terms like “fibre” and “full-fibre” on their...
Frustration in Rural Wales as Village Suffers Poor Voneus Connectivity
Residents of the tiny Monmouthshire (Wales) village of Llangwm, which is covered by Voneus’ full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network, have complained about the dire state of local internet connectivity and missed medical appointments because the local service is often said to be “sporadic” and “slow“. The community, which is home to just over 400 people, sits in a very remote and rural area some 3 miles (4.8km) east of Usk. As a result of this, the village can suffer from poor mobile signals...
Wildanet Enhances UK FTTP Broadband Network Testing and Monitoring
Rural broadband ISP Wildanet has moved to improve their network testing and monitoring by adopting a solution from VIAVI, which will enable the operator to “detect and resolve any network issues quickly” on their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure in Cornwall and Devon (England). By the sounds of it, Wildanet intend to adopt VIAVI’s remote fibre test system, ONMSi, which will enable them to first verify the quality of its network as it is being built and then to monitor the fibre...