Strategic Imperatives welcomes Trooli and OFNL to The Fibre Café
Press Release Altnets look to rapidly extend their wholesale offering to new ISPs through streamlined provisioning automation Strategic Imperatives, the UK market leader in SaaS provisioning, connectivity and monetisation solutions for the telecom industry, has today announced that UK Altnets Trooli and OFNL have joined its Fibre Café platform. This move enables both companies to leverage the platform’s unified interface into the UK’s growing FTTx ecosystem, gaining a strategic advantage and...
SECOM Deploys Infinera XTM Series for Middle-mile Network to Bring New Broadband Services to Underserved Rural Colorado
San Jose, Calif. – July 22, 2024 – Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) announced today that SECOM is modernizing its middle-mile and business Ethernet access network using Infinera’s XTM Series optical transport solution to bring new multi-gigabit broadband services to rural southern Colorado communities previously underserved. SECOM’s enhanced network provides connectivity for thousands of customers, including homes, schools, libraries, government entities, telecoms, and businesses. SECOM, the wholly...
Vodafone offloads €1.3bn stake in Vantage Towers
News The proceeds from the 10% stake sale will help reduce the company’s debt pile Today, Vodafone has announced the sale of a further 10% stake in Oak Holdings, the infrastructure joint venture that controls its mobile tower spin-off Vantage Towers. The stake’s buyer is Vodafone’s partner in Oak Holdings, a consortium led by Global Infrastructure Partners ad KKR, who have agreed to pay the operator €1.3 billion. Back in 2022, Vodafone shifted its 81.7% stake in Vantage Tower to the newly...
Cerillion wins multi-country BSS/OSS transformation in Southern Africa
London, 22nd July 2024 – Cerillion (AIM: CER), a leading provider of BSS/OSS-as-a-Service solutions to the telecoms industry, today announced further details of a new five-year contract with a leading provider of connectivity solutions in Southern Africa, first announced in May. Cerillion will implement its pre-integrated BSS/OSS suite to support a wide range of B2B and B2C services including 5G Standalone, fibre and satellite, in one convergent solution. With a network spanning seven...
afina: Unlocking Revenue Growth with AI-Driven Mobile Advertising
IVT Communications FZE LLC’s recent unveiling of afina, a cutting-edge data monetization platform, is truly remarkable and forward-looking. The introduction of afina marks a significant advancement in the telecom industry, poised to revolutionize telecom operators’ revenue streams and address the longstanding challenge of entering the advertising market.afina distinguishes itself through its utilization of sophisticated machine learning algorithms, enabling it to deliver highly targeted...
Data Center Interconnect Market Size Attain ~USD 26 Billion by 2036
Research Nester’s recent market research analysis on “Data Center Interconnect Market: Global Demand Analysis & Opportunity Outlook 2036” delivers a detailed competitors analysis and a detailed overview of the global data center interconnect market in terms of market segmentation by type, application, end-user, and by region. Increased Advancements by Data Center Providers to Promote Global Market Share of Data Center Interconnect Data center providers are improving their cloud and...
Ofcom fined BT £17.5m over 999 call failures
News BT has now put measures in place to prevent a reoccurrence Today, Ofcom has fined BT £17.5 million for technical faults which caused 14,000 emergency calls to be missed over an 11-hour period last summer. BT manages the UK’s emergency services call system. When someone dials 999, the call is routed to one of BT’s emergency call centers, where an operator will then transfer the call to the appropriate emergency services branch. On 25 June last year, the company experienced a network...
Ofcom Propose New Ban to Tackle Abuse of UK Mobile Networks
Market regulator Ofcom has proposed to ban UK telecoms operators from leasing Global Titles – numbers like +44 (for the United Kingdom) that support mobile services – to third parties. This is because such leasing can be misused to try and intercept messages and calls, disrupt the operation of networks and track the location of users of other networks. According to the regulator, a small number of operators have been leasing their Global Title numbers to third parties, which can be done to...
Messaging and billing are key to the bottom line
Insight This article was written by Antony Savvas, a global freelance business technology journalist, for VanillaPlus. The article first appeared here. Customer messaging and billing are key items to get right in the communications ecosystem, but failings still prevail. Business technology journalist, Antony Savvas looks at how both enterprises and telecoms resellers are not coming up to the mark. Research shows that 89% of consumers want to initiate and reply to two-way conversations with...
Brsk UK to Deploy FTTP Broadband to 30,000 Homes in Runcorn
Network operator and ISP Brsk, which now covers 573,050 UK premises (RFS) with their full fibre network and is in the process of being merged into Netomnia (here), has today announced that they’ve added the industrial port town of Runcorn in Cheshire (England) to their roll-out plan. A total of around 30,000 homes and businesses are expected to benefit. The addition of the town to their roll-out will see brsk pass almost 45,000 homes across the whole of Cheshire (i.e. they can also be found in...