Amdocs Collaborates with Google Cloud for Real-Time Data Insights
Press Release Amdocs now leverages Google Cloud’s unified AI-ready data platform to help service providers evolve with cost effective, scalable, and impactful business insights JERSEY CITY, NJ – June 18, 2024 – Amdocs, a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate successful data transformations for communications service providers (CSPs) and better provide impactful real-time business...
Confusion as SNP Promotes Social Tariff for Broadband and Mobile
The Scottish National Party (Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) yesterday offered a preview of their forthcoming 2024 Manifesto for the UK General Election, which among other things promised to extend their idea of a social tariff for energy providers to also include broadband and mobile services. But the latter already exists. Social tariffs are typically cheaper packages that are usually only available to those on state benefits (sometimes only certain state benefits). The good news is that, in...
Gigabit Wireless Networking Kit Firm Blu Wireless Get Funding Boost
Bristol-based Blu Wireless, which makes mmWave (unlicensed 57-71GHz) radio networking technologies in the UK, has secured an investment boost from Maven Capital Partners (a fund manager for the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund) to help both promote and drive sustainable economic growth and support innovative. Both organisations are said to have been in talks for over six months, and the opportunity to invest at this point in time is said to have “made perfect sense for both...
Ookla Reveals Mobile Broadband and WiFi Speeds at Key UK Airports
New data from broadband connection testing firm Ookla, which operates the popular online Speedtest.net service for internet users, has revealed the mobile data (4G, 5G) and WiFi performance results from some of the world’s busiest airports, including London Gatwick (LGW) and London Heathrow (LHR) in the UK. The study found that the fastest airport for median average download speeds over Wi-Fi was San Francisco International Airport in the USA (173.55Mbps down, 233.29Mbps upload and 7.81ms...
ISP BT Reveals UK Broadband Traffic for First Euro 2024 Matches
Telecoms giant BT has kindly provided ISPreview with some internet traffic statistics from the first UEFA Euro 2024 football match between England and Serbia, which took place at 8pm on Sunday (16th June 2024), as well as the opening match between Germany and Scotland on Friday 14th (8:30pm). Matches that take place outside a traditional holiday period, and during normal working hours, tend to drive a larger increase in usage, as people often attempt to stream such content while at work via...
South Korea revokes Stage X’s mobile license
News The company won spectrum in the 28 GHz band earlier this year The South Korean Science Ministry has announced it will revoke the license of new mobile carrier, Stage X, for failing to meet the legal requirements to run its business. Stage X is the country’s fourth mobile operator (after SK Telecom, LG U+, and KT), and is owned by a consortium led by tech giant Kakao Corp. and other unnamed partners. It has not met set requirements, which include paying the paid-in capital of KRW 205...
Telecom Acquisitions Acquire Gigabit Networks’ UK CityFibre Customers
The Horsham-based Telecom Acquisitions Group (TAL), which is a holding company for several familiar UK residential broadband ISP brands (Home Telecom, Eclipse Broadband etc.), has today announced yet another acquisition after they scooped the CityFibre (FTTP) linked residential customer base of ISP Gigabit Networks. Not unlike the recent deal with Eze Talk (here), it seems as if today’s agreement reflects the fact that Gigabit Networks has decided to focus on the wholesale side of their...
Wildanet See Progress on Cornwall UK’s Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout
Broadband ISP Wildanet, which in January 2023 secured the £36m state aid fuelled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract to cover more than 19,250 hard-to-reach premises across rural parts of Cornwall in South West England (here), has today revealed that they’ve already covered 3,500 premises across 9 FTTP build locations. The Cornwall project actually reflects two local supplier contracts under the government’s Project Gigabit scheme – Central Cornwall (Lot 32.03) and South West Cornwall...
Brsk and Netomnia merge as UK alnet consolidation continues
News Financial details of the merger have not been disclosed UK altnets Brsk and Netomnia have agreed to merge, the companies said over the weekend. The newly established unit will have a combined footprint of 1.5 million premises immediately post-merger, with a target of reaching 3 million premises by the end of next year, according to the press release. This will make it the second largest altnet behind CityFibre, who cover around 3.6 million premises. There have been rumours surrounding...
Mobile UK Publish Familiar Plan to Boost 4G and 5G Coverage
Industry trade body Mobile UK, which represents Three UK, EE (BT), O2 (Virgin Media) and Vodafone, has joined with the Mobile Infrastructure Forum (MIF) to set out a series of recommendations for how the next government can tackle an “underfunded and under resourced planning system” to “unlock growth and get Britain fully connected” to the latest 4G, 5G and future 6G networks. Ofcom recently reported that, as of January 2024 (here), geographic coverage of 4G mobile (mobile broadband) networks...