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Internet provider Yayzi Broadband are preparing to make some big changes over the coming months, firstly by launching a Mobile (SIM) service and, secondly, by expanding the availability of their MultiGig (up to 2.3Gbps) broadband packages on CityFibre’s network to also work across alternative networks from MS3 and Freedom Fibre. In terms of Yayzi’s plans for a SIM Only mobile service, the front page of their website merely states “Yayzi Mobile Launching 2024!” and doesn’t add anything further....

News  The purchase was originally decided in December  The Spanish government’s investment fund SEPI has reached its target of acquiring a 10% stake in Telefonica, after being instructed to do so by Spanish government.  According to a stock market filing (in Spanish), SEPI has purchased 567,016,155 shares at an average price of €4.03 per share, meaning that just under €2.3 billion was spent on the acquisition.  The stake has been acquired in order to counter Saudi telco STC’s  9.9% stake in...

News Movistar, MasOrange, and Vodafone Spain will share frequencies in the 700MHz band in order to meet the requirements of government’s UNICO programme According to a report from Expansion, Spain’s three largest mobile network operators (MNOs) have agreed to share spectrum in the 700MHz band. The deal would give each operator access to a full 100MHz of spectrum at locations where it is the sole 5G operator, dramatically improving capacity. The deal has yet to be officially confirmed by...

Alternative network builder and UK ISP Grain (Grain Connect) has today revealed their they’ve now signed up 30,000 customers to their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network, which is up from 28k a month ago. On top of that, their coverage has grown from 207,000 premises passed (Ready for Service) to 220,000 over the same period. The operator’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FFTP) network can now be found in 58 UK locations (plus 151 new build housing developments), which includes a lot of...

A new survey of 104 Ministers of Parliament, which was conducted by consultancy firm Cluttons and YouGov, has revealed that both Government (Conservative) and opposition (Labour) MPs are extremely pessimistic about the country hitting any of the current coverage targets for 5G (SA) based mobile and fixed gigabit broadband networks. The relevant targets relate, firstly, to the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out, which aims to help extend related fixed line network coverage to...

News   The partnership is a continuation of an AI collaboration signed last year  Telefonica Tech, the digital services arm of the Spanish telco, has announced a new partnership with Microsoft to provide next-generation cybersecurity services to companies around the world.  The collaboration involve the integration of Microsoft’s AI solutions with Telefonica tech’s existing cybersecurity operations. This will then be managed 24/7 by specialised Telefónica tech teams from its Digital Operations...

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published a new paper that sets out its options and vision for how the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425 to 7125MHz) could potentially be released and then shared between both 5G mobile (mobile broadband) and Wi-Fi networks (e.g. home WiFi). So far the regulator has already made the Lower part (5925 to 6425MHz) of the 6GHz band available for WiFi under the new WiFi 6E, WiFi 7 and future standards (here), yet the Upper part has remained the subject...

Internet provider Cuckoo, which is in the process of becoming the main retail broadband outlet for Fern Trading‘s (Octopus Investments) consolidated full fibre networks (Jurassic Fibre, Swish Fibre, Giganet and AllPoints Fibre), has renewed its relationship with GoCardless to provide future payment services. Under the new 3-year deal, Cuckoo will continue to use GoCardless’ Direct Debit capabilities to collect monthly bills from customers, continuing a relationship which first started in 2020....

The founder of TalkTalk, Sir Charles Dunstone, and fellow shareholders are reportedly preparing to inject around £180m of new equity into the financially troubled UK internet provider. The move would help to tackle the threat of two large debt repayments, which are due over the coming months and said to total up to over £1bn. The provider has already spent much of the past year or two wrestling with the pressure from its existing c.£1bn debt pile, which in 2023 culminated in a plan to demerge...

Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave has today published a new study that attempts to rank 20 of London’s Boroughs based on the level of “Good Mobile Coverage” they receive from the UK’s mobile network operators. Overall, Southwark had the highest average levels of Good Coverage (76.3%), while Barnet had the lowest (48%). Streetwave typically adopts a scientific approach to their studies (i.e. they don’t use crowdsourcing), which collects data on an address-by-address basis and is designed...