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Press Release Jakarta, September 3, 2024 — Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH) today announced its partnership with PT Zurich Asuransi Indonesia Tbk (Zurich), through a ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) held at Indosat MX Center, Jakarta. With this strategic partnership, Indosat and Zurich have committed to providing comprehensive insurance solutions that are easily accessible to Indosat customers through seamless integration of telecommunications and insurance...

News The altnet has been deploying fibre networks in south Wales since 2021  Wales’ largest altnet Ogi has secured £45 million in funding from the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) to support the next stages of its fibre rollout.   Set up in 2017, the CCR represents 10 local councils from across South East Wales and provides funding for projects aimed at job creation and critical infrastructure development across the region.  For Ogi, the new funding will allow the altnet to expand its full fibre...

Broadband ISP Virgin Media O2 Business (VMO2) last week won the contract to deploy a new Dark Fibre network as part of the Swansea Bay City Region project (Digital Infrastructure Programme). The new network should deliver significantly improved data capacity and speed to 36 public sector sites throughout Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. Just to recap. The UK and Welsh Governments gave their approval for a £55m digital infrastructure investment under the £1.3bn Swansea Bay City Region project...

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has today given their Digital Landline Switchover (DLS) programme (i.e. migrating old analogue landline phones to IP-based services) a boost by signing a “first-of-its-kind partnership” with TSA, the telecare advisory body, to enhance the support provided to telecare users as the UK transitions to Digital Voice. Just to recap. Virgin Media restarted their DLS scheme in April 2024 (here), which came after it was put on pause at the end of 2023 as part of their...

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has made their “Proactive FTTP Upgrades” a standard process from ISPs. This will take effect from 1st October 2024 and should make it easier for UK broadband ISPs that want to migrate existing customers on slower copper-based ADSL, FTTC (VDSL2) and G.fast lines to faster full fibre (FTTP) ones. A spokesperson for Openreach told ISPreview last year (here): “Proactive migrations arise where a Communications Provider proposes an upgrade to FTTP to its own...

The new UK Government has begun informally consulting with the telecoms industry after network operators called on them to make it easier and cheaper to access large residential buildings (MDUs –  blocks of flats or apartments), which could help to upgrade related buildings to gigabit-capable broadband. Easier said than done. The previous government has already done a fair bit of work to improve the situation around access to Multi-Dwelling Units (MDU). One example of this was the...

Broadband ISP Ogi, which is building a multi-gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of South Wales (UK), has today announced that they’ve secured a new £45m financing package from Cardiff Capital Region (CCR), alongside ongoing equity investment from its principal shareholder, Infracapital, to support their future growth. The network operator has so far covered a total of 100,000 premises RFS (4th Jan 2024) with their full fibre network – most of them residential – in...

Broadband, TV and mobile provider VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) is reportedly seeking outside investors to raise a further £1bn in order to help fund the company’s plan (here) for opening up their existing fixed line network to wholesale via a new business (NetCo), which is expected to be introduced during the first half of 2025. Just to recap. Virgin Media’s existing gigabit-capable broadband network covers a shade over 16 million UK premises via a mix of different fixed line technologies –...

News  The company says the deployment is the first of its kind for the ČEZ Group  Vodafone has launched Europe’s first 5G mobile private network (MPN) at the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant in Czechia. The network, created for the energy company ČEZ Group, is part of a pilot project, currently covering outdoor areas and specific sections of the plant.  The new 5G MPN is designed to replace traditional walkie-talkie communications at the plant, and support advanced tools like augmented reality...

Debt plagued UK ISP TalkTalk has this afternoon confirmed that they’ve formally signed a binding agreement on detailed terms of the refinancing package, which was announced on 12th August 2024 (here) and is said to be worth around £400m. This extends the group’s debt maturities to September 2027 and buys them more time to fix the roof. As previously reported, the deal saw TalkTalk’s shareholders – led by founder Sir Charles Dunstone, Toscafund and Ares Management – agree to immediately inject...