Sitetracker and VETRO Announce Partnership to Accelerate Fiber Deployment
MONTCLAIR, N.J., July 29, 2024 – Sitetracker, the world’s leading provider of deployment operations management software, is expanding its GIS Link tool with the addition of VETRO, the market-leading cloud-native fiber management system provider. Announced at Fiber Connect 2024, the partnership provides Sitetracker’s broadband customers with geospatial design data from VETRO so they can plan and deploy fiber networks with greater speed and efficiency. With the two-way integration between...
London ISP Community Fibre Expand Availability of Free FTTP Broadband
Network operator and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has built a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 1.4 million UK premises – mostly in London, has today announced an expansion of their initiative offering “free access to 100% full fibre broadband to eligible Londoners struggling to get online“. Just to recap. The initiative, which first launched in May 2024 (here) alongside support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Jobcentre Plus, was initially...
SKT’s AI-based veterinary solution rolled out to Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam
News The AI-based diagnosis service ‘X Caliber’ can help vets to analyse pet X-ray images in under 30 seconds SK Telecom (SKT) has this week signed a trio of agreements with veterinary companies in Southeast Asia to supply them with its AI-based diagnostic service, X Caliber. Launched domestically in South Korea by SKT back in 2022, X Caliber uses AI modelling to assess pet X-ray images and provided diagnostic insights in under 30 seconds. At launch, the solution had a disease detection rate...
US telcos could be liable for staff stealing nude images from customers
News A ‘landmark’ ruling against T-Mobile earlier this year could see carriers held responsible for their employees’ breaches of consumer privacy A lawsuit was filed against AT&T on Monday arguing that the telco is liable for the actions of an employee who stole nude photos from a customer’s mobile phone. The case explains that a female customer brought her iPhone to an AT&T store in Los Angeles as part of a routine upgrade. The indicted employee then accessed explicit photos of the...
Wildanet Pick Xantaro to Support Cornwall UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout
Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is building a new full fibre (FTTP) network across South West England, has chosen network solutions provider Xantaro to help support their deployments in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly with Street Cabinet and Exchange Solutions. The provider, which originally started life as a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) broadband provider in the same area, is estimated to have already extended their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover around 30,000 premises...
Altnet UK ISP Grain to Expand Bolton’s FTTP Broadband Network
Alternative network provider Grain (Grain Connect), which has so far grown their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 220k UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and 30k customers, has just announced that they’re going to expand their existing deployment in the Greater Manchester town of Bolton. The operator’s full fibre network can currently be found in parts of 59 UK locations (plus over 150 new build housing developments), which includes a lot of small-to-modest...
bOnline Survey Finds UK Businesses Frustrated by Openreach FTTP Rollout
A new survey of 427 small UK business owners, which was conducted by business focused broadband ISP bOnline in the late June to mid-July 2024 period, has found that 70% of respondents either don’t know if Openreach’s (BT) gigabit-capable FTTP broadband network has reached their area or believe that it is not yet available. At present Openreach are busy investing up to £15bn to ensure that 25 million premises are reached by their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by December 2026 (15...
Cellnex, Vodafone and O2 Extend Existing UK Mast Sharing Partnership
Wireless infrastructure firm Cellnex has today extended their existing partnership with UK mobile providers Vodafone and O2 (Virgin Media), which will ensure that both operators continue to have access to share Cellnex’s national tower infrastructure to help deploy 5G (mobile broadband) and future services. The expected move follows shortly after VMO2 and Vodafone reached a new 10-year network sharing agreement (here), which was necessary in order for Vodafone to satisfy several network and...
Vodafone and VMO2 strike new deal with Cellnex UK
Press Release Cellnex UK, Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 have reached a new long-term agreement for Cellnex UK to provide the two Mobile Network Operators with tower infrastructure and associated services. This new agreement strengthens and grows the existing relationship providing certainty for all parties. Cellnex UK CEO, Gianluca Landonlina underlined how “This agreement exemplifies the strength of Cellnex’s partnerships with its customers. The new agreement, forged through great...
German govt to more than triple state fibre funding
News After approval from the EU, the government aims to increase fibre network funding from €12 billion to €38 billion Last Tuesday, the European Commission gave approval to the German government to amend the exiting state aid scheme aimed at rolling out fibre across the country. These amendments will see the scheme extended until the end of 2028, and the budget increase from 12 billion to €38 billion. The funding is available for local authorities either to deploy and own their own fibre...