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News The tower company is currently conducting a strategic review of its operations across its portfolio According to anonymous sources speaking to Bloomberg, IHS Holdings Ltd. is mulling the potential sale of its businesses in Rwanda and Zambia. Sources say the company is currently seeking interest from potential buyers, suggesting that any proceeds from the sales would be used to reduce the company’s debt. IHS currently owns and operates over 40,000 sites across 11 countries in Africa, Latin...

Viewpoint On August 14, 2024, 200 industry leaders and experts from around the world attended the Asia-Pacific F5.5G All-Optical Summit themed “F5.5G All-Optical Access, Premium Transmission for Intelligence” at the QSNCC conference center in Bangkok, Thailand. In the Asia-Pacific region, the optical industry is booming, which promotes the popularization and quality improvement of broadband. With policy support and industry collaboration, China has accumulated rich experience from early fiber...

Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave has revealed that only EE (BT) and Vodafone UK were able to provide “Good Coverage” across more than 50% of Ceredigion’s road network in Wales. The data reflects the next batch of results from their work with Growing Mid Wales (GMW), which uses bin lorries to map local network (4G, 5G etc.) coverage and broadband speeds. The use of bin collections to map mobile coverage and data performance recently become quite popular (here, here, here and here). In...

The latest H1 2024 data from caller ID verification firm Hiya, which also works with broadband ISPs BT (EE) and Virgin Media (O2) to help detect and block SPAM and fraud calls, has revealed that residents of the UK received only 3 spam calls per person each month (down from 4 at the same time last year) – one of the lowest rates in Europe. Overall, the latest report found that 3% of all UK calls were classified as “fraud calls” (down from 9.3% in H1 2023), while 25% were “nuisance calls” (up...

Alternative network operator and UK ISP RunFibre, which had been building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South Gloucestershire and North Wiltshire in England, has now been fully acquired by the Fibreray Group for an undisclosed sum. The operator is now looking toward an expansion of their gigabit broadband network. The network operator, which in 2020/21 started building in the Hawkesbury Upton, Inglestone Common and surrounding areas – often with support from...

Customers of Sky’s (Sky Broadband) older Standard Definition (SD) TV service and devices (i.e. Digibox and Sky+ set-top-boxes) have been given a final warning to upgrade their service before October 2024 or face automatic cancellation. The warning appears to represent a slight delay on the original August 2024 deadline. Just to recap. The upgrade drive, which has been running for a while (here), reflects the fact that Sky is currently “changing how we deliver our TV services“ (i.e. they’re...

News SpaceX says it will gradually replace its first-generation satellites with larger, more advanced alternatives This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has confirmed that it will allow SpaceX to gradually replace its existing first-generation Starlink satellites with second-generation satellites. SpaceX has roughly 6,281 Starlink satellites in orbit around the Earth, which are used to provide global coverage for communication services. The company currently has permission...

News  The deal will support SK Telecom’s ambition to launch a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings across South Korea  SK Telecom has this week announced a partnership with AI developer Lambda to expand cloud services in South Korea.  In December, the two companies deploy NVIDIA GPU clusters in SK Telecom’s Gasan data center in Seoul, aiming to support AI cloud business opportunities around South Korea  “SKT shares in our vision to make GPU compute as ubiquitous as electricity,” said Lambda CEO...

News The funds will be used by the newly formed European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) to set up a new facility in Dresden This week, the European Commission has given the greenlight to a German plan aiming to use €5 billion to build a new semiconductor plant in Dresden. The plant will be built and run by ESMC, a joint venture being set up by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Bosch, Infineon, and NXP. TSMC, based in Taiwan, is the largest semiconductor company in...

Crowdfunded mobile network operator Honest Mobile, which harnesses Three UK’s network via a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement, has today announced the launch of a new ‘Family Plan’ that is “designed to make managing multiple SIMs easier, saving 20% compared to standard individual plans“. The new plan, which is available to families or groups of up to 10, can also be combined with Honest Mobile’s loyalty discount for further savings (i.e. rewarding customers by reducing bills...