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Broadband network builder and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which runs a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across around 1.4 million UK premises – mostly in London (inc. parts of Surrey and West Sussex), has launched a new offer that discounts their 500Mbps (symmetric speed) package to just £20 per month on a 24-month term (£33 thereafter). The package includes free setup, a WiFi 6 capable Linksys broadband router and a notice that their prices will increase every April by the prior...

News The project began in September 2021    Chinese giant Huawei has completed the construction of its new research and development (R&D) centre in Shanghai, China.  Officially named the Lianqiu Lake R&D Center, the campus includes offices, R&D, incubation and production services. It is the “largest and most heavily invested R&D base globally,” the company said. In the future, the site will designed to become a core node in Huawei’s global R&D network.  According to South...

Altnets embarking on network expansion programmes quickly run into trouble when confronted with high rise flats and mixed-use residential and commercial buildings in Britain. Gaps in data around the classification and characteristics of these types of buildings prevents the smooth running of operational rollouts, or targeted sales and marketing strategies from reaching the different occupiers inside. Problems such as not knowing how much cable or pipework is required for a job, not knowing...

The latest data from UK-leading fraud prevention service, Cifas, shows a sharp rise in criminals targeting the telecoms sector to carry out facility takeover fraud. More than 374,000 cases were filed to the National Fraud Database (NFD) in 2023, and of this, cases of facility takeover fraud – where a criminal utilises compromised personal data to hijack an existing account or product – increased by 13%. This was primarily attributed to a 59% rise in filings from the telecoms sector, which now...

MADRID, Spain, July 18 2024 – Telxius, a leading global connectivity provider, is scaling its core and edge network infrastructure to 400G with a Converged Optical Routing Architecture (CORA) provided by Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), a leader in secure AI-Native Networks. This will enable a simplified network capacity expansion and efficient delivery of enhanced connectivity to metro networks and data center interconnects (DCI). It provides connectivity across distances of around 100 km to...

News Sources suggest the US wireless giant is looking to offload between 5,000 and 6,000 mobile towers This week, reports from Bloomberg suggest that Verizon is exploring the potential sale of up to 6,000 of its telecoms towers situated across the US. While discussions are still in the early stages and potential suits have not been named, the anonymous sources suggest that the deal could be worth up to $3 billion. The divestment should not come as a huge surprise. This decade has seen many of...

News  The speech is the first delivered under the new Labour government   At the state opening of parliament yesterday, the new government set out its agenda for its tenure ahead. At the centre of the event was a speech from the King, written by the new government, which outlines the government’s agenda and proposed policies for the coming parliamentary session.   Of the 40 bills mentioned in the speech, there were three of relevance to the telco sector:  The ‘Cyber Security and Resilience...

Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published the results of a new study that explored the differences in broadband reliability between urban and rural areas across 18 countries. The study reveals that, among other things, the Nordics, the United Kingdom and Canada all score highly for connection reliability. Opensignal typically leverages crowdsourced data collected via end-users on their benchmarking app and services. In this case they also harnessed their new Broadband...

London-focused UK business internet provider Vorboss, which has rolled out a 100Gbps capable full fibre network across the city centre, has today announced that they’ve appointed two new chiefs to their top leadership team – Jason O’Malley as Chief of Commercial Operations (CCO) and Malcolm Puddefoot joins as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Just to recap. Vorboss has spent the past few years deploying 500km of their own dedicated point-to-point fibre optic cables across Central London (covering...

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has launched a new consultation that will update and extend their information gathering policy, which largely reflects the fact that they’ve gained new powers to extract information from companies and broadband providers etc. to support their work. Ofcom’s existing policy on information gathering was published in March 2005, although they last consulted on changes in 2015, which led to significant adjustments in their practical processes including...