CWP Offers Free Common Switching Platform Until OTS Launch
The Common Wholesale Platform (CWP), which is a non-profit member-owned organisation that helps alternative broadband networks to provide wholesale services to the UK ISP market, has announced that they’re offering retail ISPs free access to their Common Switching Platform (CSP) until the One Touch Switching (OTS) regulation launch on 12th September 2024. In case anybody has forgotten. Ofcom’s much delayed One Touch Switch (OTS) system aims to make it quicker and easier for consumers to switch...
Quickline UK Expand FTTP Broadband to 3 New North Yorkshire Villages
Broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (5G FWA) network across rural and semi-rural parts of the North East and Midlands of England, has confirmed that a further three villages across North Yorkshire have now been connected to their network. The latest additions include Brearton, Scotton, and Riccall in North Yorkshire. The new fibre across this area is understood to have reached some 1,600 premises (homes and businesses)....
brsk full fibre rollout passes 100,000 premises in the West Midlands
Brsk, who recently announced their merger with Netomnia, to form the second largest UKalternative network, is celebrating a new milestone in the West Midlands; now providing over100,000 homes with access to full fibre broadband. Across the Black Country and South Birmingham, homes and businesses can now enjoy rapidspeeds and seamless connectivity thanks to brsk’s full fibre. This is a huge milestone not just for brsk, but also for the West Midlands, an area where gigabit connectivity has...
Approaching Shannon’s Limit: KDPOF Evolves to KD
KDPOF (leading supplier for high-speed connectivity over fiberoptics in harsh environments) proudly announces its business upgrade and brand-new corporate identity, evolving from ‘KDPOF – Knowledge Development for Plastic Optical Fiber’ to ‘KD – Approaching Shannon’s Limit’. As the company keeps striving for technical innovation and new products, the new image perfectly fits with the ambitious designs, challenges, and future projects. “Since our founding in 2010, we’ve mastered the path of...
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...