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Network operator CityFibre, which has so far extended their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 3.6 million UK premises (3.3m RFS), have today confirmed the completion of their “primary” £14m build in the large market and commuter town of Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire (England). The original “town-wide” network deployment, which aimed to reach “almost every home and business” in the area, first entered the construction phase toward the end of 2022...

LetterOne, the investment firm behind alternative network provider Upp’s £1bn project to deploy a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across 1 million premises in the East of England (here), has asked the High Court of Justice in London to rule it was unlawfully ordered to sell the network by the UK Government. Just to recap. Upp’s efforts to roll out the new network were dealt a significant blow in December 2022, after the UK Government ordered LetterOne – an investment firm that...

VIEWPOINT At the Digital Transformation World (DTW) 2024 event by TM Forum, Huawei SmartCare has won two awards: the “Data-to-NPS: Boosting NPS using Decision Intelligence” project, jointly submitted by Huawei and leading global operators, won with the Catalyst “Attendees’ Choice” Award. Meanwhile, the “AI for customer perception network optimization” project received the “Rising Star” Award. The event was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from June 18-20 and witnessed participation from telecom...

Press Release Fastweb accelerates Italy’s path towards innovation presenting NeXXt AI Factory, the first NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputer operating in Italy The inauguration ceremony  in the presence of Walter Renna, CEO of Fastweb, Augusto Di Genova, Chief Enterprise Officer of Fastweb, Andrea Santagata, CEO of Mondadori Media S.p.A., Alessandro Fermi, Councilor for University, Research and Innovation of the Lombardy Region, Massimiliano Capitanio, Commissioner of the Communications...

News The company says the new funding from the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) will help them to “accelerate” their ongoing full fibre rollout Today, altnet Hyperoptic has announced a new £150 million investment from the UKIB to continue rolling out fibre-to-the-home across the country. This additional funding increases the company’s total raised this year to £255 million, and total overall to £1.1 billion. The funding follows a report in February in which Hyperoptic said they were seeking to...

VIEWPOINT During the Digital Transformation World (DTW) summit, Huawei partnered with the TM Forum to host the Green Development Forum. Representatives from leading telecom operators such as South Africa’s Openserve, Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) and GSMAi (GSMA Intelligence), gathered to discuss the green transformation and enable sustainable development across the industry. Discussions at the Green Development Forum As society rapidly enters the AI era, global network operators not only need to...

A new critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the popular RADIUS network authentication protocol, which is used by networks across the world to help users connect with their services (i.e. everything from broadband ISPs to VPNs, mobile operators and more) and thus could leave them exposed to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) style attacks. The vulnerability, which has been dubbed BlastRADIUS by InkBridge Networks (FreeRadius), appears difficult to exploit. But its impact could still be...

Mobile operator Vodafone UK conducted another trial of Network Slicing technology on their latest 5G Standalone (SA) powered mobile broadband network at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, which despite heavy network load was able to dedicate a “slice” of capacity to help drink vendors speed up card transactions. Most existing 5G networks in the UK still have some dependencies on 4G, which slow them down and are known as Non-Standalone (NSA). By comparison, 5G Standalone (5GSA) reflects a pure...

Broadband ISP and mobile network operator EE (BT) has today launched a new technology service for Pay Monthly mobile customers called ‘Scam Guard’, which is a network-level security defence that harness AI to better protect users from “nuisance calls, dark web hackers and phishing scams“. But it’s not free. At present EE already uses a degree of AI based filtering in order to identify and block scams and spams. In fact, each month sees EE block around 15 million suspicious calls and texts...

News The newly optimised video delivery is already operational in 11 of Vodafone’s European markets This week, Vodafone and Meta have announced new measures to optimise the delivery of video content and increase capacity on mobile networks. These optimisation measures – which have not been detailed – have reportedly been active in 11 of Vodafone’s European markets since the start of June, delivering a ‘meaningful’ reduction in network traffic without impacting video experience quality for...