Sparkle Activates a New Point of Presence in Rome at Aruba’s Hyper Cloud Data Centre
Rome, 10 July 2024 Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, and Aruba S.p.A, Italy’s leading provider of cloud, data centre, hosting, e-mail, domain registration and PEC (certified email) services, announce the activation of the new Sparkle’s Point of Presence (PoP) at the Hyper Cloud Data Centre of Aruba, the largest data centre campus in Rome, to be inaugurated soon. The agreement between Aruba and Sparkle reinforces Rome as a global...
Chinese researchers launch 6G field test network
News According to reports, the network has demonstrated a ten-fold improvement in key communication metrics, including capacity, coverage, and efficiency This week, a team of Chinese researchers from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications have revealed the ‘world’s first’ 6G field test network. According to Chinese government news agency Xinhua, ‘the experimental network has demonstrated that semantic communication can reach the transmission capabilities of 6G on existing 4G...
Deutsche Telekom CTO Abdurazak Mudesir takes over as chair of O-RAN Alliance
Press Release O-RAN ALLIANCE announces that Dr. Abdurazak Mudesir, Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom, was elected as Chair of the Board, effective on June 25, 2024. Under Abdu’s chairmanship, O-RAN ALLIANCE stays fully committed to its mission to transform Radio Access Networks to be open, intelligent, virtualized and fully interoperable. Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, with his departure from Deutsche Telekom, has stepped down from the O-RAN ALLIANCE Board Chair. Alex was one of the founding directors of...
London Full Fibre Broadband ISP G.Network Hunting for a Buyer
Alternative network operator G.Network, which has spent the past few years building a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across parts of central London (here), has reportedly engaged investment bankers at Nomura and Jefferies as advisers to help it explore the potential of a future sale. The news follows shortly after the operator secured an additional investment of £85m from long term equity investor USS to support their “next phase of growth“ (here), which...
Aussie 3G switch off threatens over 200,000 devices
News Both Telstra and Optus are set to retire the older network technology in the next two months Hundreds of thousands of people may be at risk of being cut off from emergency voice services in Australia as Optus and Telstra prepare to sunset their 3G networks. According to new government figures released this week, around 205,000 active mobile devices in the country are unable to connect to 4G and will therefore become obsolete following the 3G shutdown. As explained by Australian...
Virgin Media and Nexfibre Add 20,000 Homes to FTTP in Milton Keynes
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with UK broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has announced that they’ve added 20,000 additional homes in the Buckinghamshire (England) town of Milton Keynes to the coverage of their new 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network. Until recently Virgin Media didn’t have much of any presence in Milton Keynes, which has been dominated by gigabit-capable rivals like Cityfibre and Openreach (not to mention...
Broadband ISP JabbaTalk to Launch EE Based UK Mobile Plans
Carnforth-based broadband ISP and communications provider JabbaTalk has today signed a new partnership with BTWholesale, which will enable them to launch a wider range of mobile connectivity plans and services based off EE’s (BT) national 4G and 5G network. As well as offering services using the EE mobile network, the new partnership also allows JabbaTalk to access BTWholesale’s portfolio of products and services, including advanced broadband and Ethernet solutions, voice services, and modern...
Brsk’s FTTP Broadband Cover of the West Midlands Tops 100k Premises
Network operator and UK ISP Brsk, which now covers 600,000 premises passed across England via their full fibre network and is in the process of being merged into Netomnia (here), has today revealed that they’ve also extended their coverage to 100,000 premises across the West Midlands (i.e. South Birmingham and The Black Country). From the Borough of Dudley to Earlswood in South Birmingham, brsk is still expanding their FTTP coverage at pace across the West Midlands. For example, the altnet...
CityFibre Boosts Speed of UK Full Fibre Network Testing with Automation
Network operator CityFibre, which has already expanded their full fibre broadband ISP network to cover 3.6 million UK premises, claims to have made the testing of new products, network technology changes and software upgrades “up to” 100x faster – while also increasing test capacity by 300% – through the adoption of a fully automated test environment. Just to recap. CityFibre currently aspires to cover up to 8 million UK premises with their new FTTP network (funded by c.£2.4bn in equity,...
University of Sheffield Opens First UK 6G Mobile Research Centre
The University of Sheffield in South Yorkshire has officially launched the UK’s first national 6G research facility – the imaginatively titled ‘National 6G Radio Systems Facility‘ (N6GRSF) – to help test and develop the next generation of mobile (mobile broadband) network technologies. The facility will bring together academics and industry in order to enable research into many aspects of 6G radio systems, including candidate waveforms, baseband and RF signal processing, digital acquisition,...