London fibre broadband provider to focus on retail and wholesale sectors
News USS Investment Management has demonstrated ongoing confidence in the growth of London full fibre broadband provider, G.Network, by providing access to additional funding of £85 million. CEO, Kevin Murphy reflected that “Our vision to build a better-connected London is coming to fruition and would not have been possible without the ongoing investment and support of USS”. The new funding will be used to facilitate G.Networks ambitions to developing their business in the B2B retail and...
Mobile Operator O2 UK Launches New Ultimate Plan
Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today launched a new top tier ‘Ultimate‘ mobile plan, which combines the usual services with a range of benefits that are said to be worth more than £1,000 across the contract duration. Some of those include Ultimate cover, O2 Switch Up, an Extra from O2, McAfee Mobile Security Plus and inclusive roaming in 123 destinations worldwide. The Ultimate Plan is available to both new and existing customers starting from £50.99 per month, which includes a data...
CityFibre UK Nears Completion of Chichester FTTP Broadband Build
Nearly three years have passed since CityFibre first started rolling out their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Cathedral City of Chichester in South East England (West Sussex). The good news is that they’ve now passed 12,000 premises and are “fast approaching around 85% coverage of the city“. The operator claims to have completed “most of its rollout in the area“, covering the “vast majority” of homes and businesses. CityFibre’s Chichester rollout...
London Full Fibre Broadband ISP G.Network Get £85m Funding Boost
Alternative network and UK ISP G.Network, which is building a Multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of London (here), has today announced that they’ve agreed with USS, their long term equity investor, access to additional funding of £85 million to support their “next phase of growth“. The provider, which is estimated to be live across around 250,000 to 300,000 premises in London, last received a funding boost from USS almost a year ago when the same...
Nexperia to Invest 200 Million USD in Hamburg
Press Release Hamburg, June 27, 2024: Semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia today announced plans to invest USD 200 million (appx. 184 million Euros) to develop the next generation of wide bandgap semiconductors (WBG) such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), and to establish production infrastructure at the Hamburg site. At the same time, wafer fab capacity for silicon (Si) diodes and transistors will be increased. The investments are jointly announced with Hamburg’s Minister for...
CVC Confirms Deal to Acquire UK Street Works Firm M Group
Private equity firm CVC (Fund IX) has this morning confirmed that they’ve acquired UK civil engineering firm M Group Services from PAI Partners. As well as catering for the water, energy and transport sectors, M Group also has a broadband and mobile focused telecoms division via several familiar brands (Avonline Networks, magdalene, Morrison and waldon). M Group’s telecoms division typically provides a full end-to-end service offering to fixed, private and mobile operators that covers...
EE UK Launch 1.6Gbps FTTP Broadband Package for Gamers
Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today launched a second 1.6Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) package on Openreach’s network, which is called the ‘Broadband Made for Gamers‘ bundle and claims to offer online gamers “lower latency, game server geofencing and in-home network prioritisation,” among other things. In case anybody has forgotten, EE already launched a 1.6Gbps (120Mbps upload) package for £69.99 per month last year (here), which came alongside their new Wi-Fi 6...
Broadband ISP File Sanctuary Launch New UK FRITZ!Box Routers
New and existing customers of UK internet provider File Sanctuary, which sells FTTP, G.fast (SOGFast) and FTTC (SOGEA) broadband packages via Openreach, may like to know that the ISP has just expanded their line-up of discounted routers, which now includes the FRITZ!Box 7690, FRITZ!Box 7530 AX routers, the FRITZ!Repeater 3000 AX, and the FRITZ!Fon C6. According to File Sanctuary, these devices are available “significantly below RRP” (recommended retail price) for both new and existing...
Nexfibre Extend FTTP Broadband to 15k Premises in High Wycombe and Marlow
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with UK broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has today announced that they expect to cover 15,000 premises in the neighbouring Buckinghamshire (England) towns of High Wycombe and Marlow via their new wholesale accessible 2Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. The deployments reflect somewhat of an extension for Virgin Media, which already covers a sizeable amount of both locations. In addition, the towns also have some...
Nvdia and Ooredoo launch data centre deal
News The partnership is Nvidia’s first large-scale entry to the Middle Eastern market Nvidia and Ooredoo have partnered in a deal to deploy “thousands” of Nvidia’s GPUs (graphic processing units) in 26 data centres in five countries (Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Maldives). The value of the deal has not been disclosed, but it marks Nvidia’s first large-scale entry into the Middle East. The Qatari operator has become an Nvidia Cloud Partner, meaning that is “developing an...