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The Comms Council UK, which represents the United Kingdom’s national Unified Communications and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today released their shortlist of finalists for the organisation’s 16th annual 2024 industry awards event. Eli Katz, Chair of Comms Council UK, said: “I am delighted to announce CCUK’s 16th annual Awards finalists. It’s a great opportunity to highlight and celebrate the amazing talent and innovation in our sector – as the shortlist so clearly...

UK ISP Quantum Broadband (formerly Quantum Air Fibre) appear to be gearing up for an expansion of their ongoing efforts to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network “throughout Lincolnshire and the adjoining counties” in England, which provides ultrafast broadband to residential, business, and wholesale customers. The provider, which originally started life as a fixed wireless ISP, began branching out into FTTP a few short years back. In 2020 they set themselves a...

Viewpoint [Shanghai, China, June 27, 2024] At MWC Shanghai 2024, the World Broadband Association (WBBA) released the Net5.5G network construction standard during a WBBA Summit themed “AI Empowering Cloud & Broadband Excellence: Opportunities vs Challenges”. The standard defines for the first time the objectives and evolution timeline for network construction in the intelligent era, setting the direction for efficiently unleashing computing power and accelerating the development of...

The BT Wholesale Broadband Availability Checker, which is really intended for network operators and ISPs but has always been used by savvy consumers to check the status of BTW and Openreach based services, appears to have recently made a change that seems to stop displaying ADSL results in areas where VDSL or FTTP (or both) are present. Just to recap. Pure copper line based ADSL (SOADSL / SOTAP) broadband services offered highly variable speeds of up to c.20Mbps and were fed directly from the...

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...