Future Connections expands its operations in the Americas
Etten-Leur, Netherlands, 11 September ’24 – Future Connections, the independent telco solutions provider and software developer with in-depth experience in network performance assurance, RAN optimisation and automation and in telco managed services, today announced the expansion of its operations with the opening of new offices in Mexico. The company has set up the new operations in the Americas to respond to a specific request from customers and partners alike. Its move to be closer to the...
Catherine Hemingray Appointed as Chief Impact Officer at SmartCIC Group
Cannes, France, 11 September 2024 – SmartCIC Group, the work smarter company, has appointed Catherine Hemingray as its Chief Impact Officer to maintain and scale the group’s business culture as it enters its next phase of growth. Hemingray will lead initiatives at a group level that support its diversity, culture and values across its two businesses, SmartCIC Global Services and xvolv. Hemingray co-founded SmartCIC alongside Group CEO, Toby Forman in 2008. Over the last two years, she has led...
LINX Nairobi Network to be Extended to PAIX Data Centres
LINX Nairobi is a neutral, multi-site interconnection fabric providing peering services and more for networks wanting to improve performance, increase redundancy and lower latency. Launched back in November 2023, the new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) is going from strength to strength with a strong community of local Internet Service Providers (ISPs), global content networks and strategic partners already interconnected, and traffic starting to build. The team at LINX have spent a lot of time...
First cables laid to bring fast, reliable broadband to South Wiltshire under government’s Project Gigabit
Mole ploughs broke the ground in Stapleford last week, as Wessex Internet began its physical work to deliver full fibre internet to 14,500 homes and businesses in South Wiltshire. This work is part of Project Gigabit, a government-funded programme to enable hard-to-reach communities to get fast, reliable broadband. The contract is worth £18.8 million and will see Wessex Internet expanding its existing network in the Wylye Valley, going across the Salisbury Plain, connecting villages...
Connected Britain 2024: The Award Winners
News The Connected Britain Awards took place last night after a busy first day of the event. Hundreds joined us for an evening of networking and highly anticipated winner announcements. We had a record-breaking number of entries this year, reflecting Britain’s ever-growing and rapidly evolving digital economy. Our shortlist this year represented a fantastic array of diverse organisations and individuals, with the traditional big players being joined by many organisations of varying sizes...
Government Classifies UK Data Centres as Critical National Infrastructure
The Government’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has today announced that they’ve classed data centres – the buildings which store much of the networking and data generated in the UK – as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). The move affords such sites greater protections, much like energy supply, water supply, transportation, health and telecoms (e.g. broadband and mobile). Sites or networks designated as CNI are those facilities, systems, sites, information,...
Ofcom Launch Easier UK One Touch Broadband ISP Switching
After over 17 months of delays, Ofcom’s new One Touch Switching (OTS) process for fixed line phone and broadband ISPs, which makes it quicker and easier for consumers to switch between providers on physically separate networks (e.g. Openreach to CityFibre or Virgin Media etc.), is today finally going LIVE. But don’t be surprised if your switch doesn’t use it, yet. Migrating between UK ISPs on Openreach’s (BT) network is currently a fairly easy and largely automated Gaining Provider Led (GPL)...
Housing Provider Sanctuary to Deploy SCCI’s Shared UK Full Fibre Network
SCCI Alphatrack (SCCI Group), which is a specialist in the design, supply, installation and maintenance of Fibre, Media and Fire Life safety systems, has today announced that they’ve secured a wayleave agreement with housing and care provider Sanctuary to deploy their neutral, shared full-fibre network across large residential buildings (MDUs) – serving “thousands of residents“. Sanctuary, which is a trading name of the Sanctuary Housing Association (SHA), is a not-for-profit housing...
UK ISP Ogi Reveal Plan to Trial Nokia’s 50Gbps Broadband Technology
Not content with becoming the first broadband ISP and network builder to deploy Nokia’s 25G PON technology commercially in the UK in 2023 (here), Ogi has now revealed that they’re planning to be “one of the first trialists” to harness the company’s 50G PON technology in 2025 too. Just to recap. The network operator has so far covered a total of 100,000 premises RFS (4th Jan 2024) with their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network – most of them residential – in Wales up to the end of 2023. In...
70 Percent of the UK is Now Covered by Full Fibre Broadband
The latest independent data on national broadband coverage has revealed that 70% of premises across the United Kingdom have now been put within reach of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which is up strongly from 60.54% at the end of last year and 67.68% in July 2024 (these premises are all classed as ‘Ready for Service’). The development, which is based on data from Thinkbroadband, shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise because network operators, such as Openreach...