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Press Release Wednesday 9th October, 2024 – Rural broadband specialist Quickline Communications has teamed up with Tech She Can, a leading tech education and careers charity, to tackle the issue of gender disparity in technology roles across the UK.   The collaboration aims to inspire young girls and women to pursue careers in technology, with a particular focus on schoolchildren in West and South Yorkshire.  Through this new partnership, Quickline will support Tech She Can’s efforts to...

News  Six separate Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) rulings have been published this week regarding British telcos  The ASA has cracked down once again on some of the UK’s biggest telcos for ads containing misleading broadband price information.   The ASA issued rulings on ads from BT, its subsidiaries EE and Plusnet, as well as TalkTalk, Virgin Media, and O2, after finding they did not adequately inform customers about mid-contract price rises.  The crackdown follows new guidance...

Interview Interest in private networks is growing around the world, particularly for the manufacturing sector. But with each industry having such diverse requirements, CSPs must carefully tailor their service offerings – without jeopardising network security. At Connected Britain 2024, we caught up with Quest Global’s Sanjay Krishnaa to discuss the latest trends in the UK’ fixed and mobile markets, and why private networks remain a key growth area for CSPs. Check out our full interview below!...

The Cooperative Network Infrastructure scheme in Tameside, Blackpool, Manchester and Sussex (England), which helps to enable the commercial re-use of existing local authority owned cable ducts and fibre to aid the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband, has made it easier to share related assets (fibre, street furniture etc.) via a new partnership with AssetHUB. Asset reuse specialist AssetHUB states that this means its platform, which acts a bit like an open access “‘shop window’ of digital...

The Communications and Utilities Regulatory Authority (CURA) for the Isle of Man, which is a British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland, has fined dominant broadband and telecoms operator Manx Telecom £100,000 for failing to correctly handle Sure’s request for an interconnection with BT’s subsea fibre cable. The first thing to understand in all this is that the responsibility for ensuring that the related request and interconnection agreement was appropriately...

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has today banned a series of website-based adverts for major broadband ISPs and mobile network operators, including BT, EE, Plusnet, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media, after the way they all presented their annual mid-contract price hikes was found to be “misleading“. The rulings relate to the ASA’s enforcement of their new guidance for how UK telecoms operators should communicate mid-contract prices hikes to consumers (here), which came into force...

News Ninety-nine percent of German railway passengers on ‘main routes’ can now access speeds of at least 200 Mbps Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway company, have made significant improvements to mobile reception on trains in Germany over the past three years, according to a press release published by the companies last week. Back in 2021, the two companies first began cooperating on this deal, with the goal of significantly improving mobile reception along...

Interview At this year’s Connected Britain, we caught up with Nokia’s Head of Cloud Infrastructure Business, Europe, Paul Alexander to discuss how AI is driving investment in the cloud and data centre sectors, how security requirements are evolving, and how regulators are doing their best to keep up! You can watch our full interview from the link below.   Also in the news: Vodafone and Three defend merger amid CMA warnings Verizon offloads mobile towers to Vertical Bridge for $3.3bn Korea...

The Government has announced that their new National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), which is a digital UK map of underground pipes and cables (broadband, water etc.) that is partly designed to help reduce accidental damage, will finally be made available as a public beta service by spring 2025. Both the past and present governments see huge potential for such maps to help improve the way that national infrastructure is planned, built and managed (e.g. future full fibre broadband and 5G...

News A new report from network service provider RETN says the cable cuts impacted up to 70% of Europe–Asia data traffic – far greater than the 25% previously estimated In October last year, the Red Sea became a hotbed of paramilitary activity, with Yemeni Houthis beginning to attack commercial shipping, ostensibly as a result the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. By February this year, the ‘Red Sea crisis’ had escalated to become a major issue for the international telecoms community,...