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Some of Sky Mobile’s customers are continuing to experience connectivity (calls and data) problems today after the operator suffered a large disruption to 3G, 4G and 5G services yesterday afternoon, which Sky initially claimed to have fixed. The remaining issue seems to only be impacting data (mobile broadband) connectivity and not calling. The problems first began at around 4:30pm yesterday, when customers reported a mix of problems with calls failing to connect and unresponsive data...

Welsh internet provider Ogi, which is building a multi-Gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network for homes and businesses across South Wales, has today published an interesting visualisation of their optical backhaul network that shows all the key fibre links and distances between their key locations (Points of Presence). The network operator has so far covered a total of 100,000 premises with their new full fibre network – most of them residential – in Wales up to the end of 2023...

News  The move comes in response to countries like the US, China, and Japan, each of which is investing heavily in their domestic semiconductor industry   The South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced this week that the country will invest 9.4 trillion won ($6.94 billion) in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2027 in an effort to maintain a leading global position in the semiconductor chips industry.  The announcement also included a separate 1.4 trillion won ($1.01 billion) to support...

News Daisy Group is one of the UK’s largest privately-held IT services companies   Matthew Riley, Chairman of business-to-business telecommunications and IT provider Daisy Communications Group has set a £215 million deal to acquire 4Com, a Bournemouth– based communications, IT, and broadband provider.  According to Sky News, who have broken the story, the deal is expected to be signed in the coming days.  Riley was attracted to 4Com because of its cloud communications product HiHi, a business...

Press Release Ericsson and Swisscom today announce the expansion of their longstanding partnership with a new multi-year agreement to boost its innovation ecosystem, and drive the next period of growth and energy efficient performance of the service provider’s 5G network in Switzerland. Swisscom’s mobile network has been top ranked in Switzerland for the past seven years in the connect magazine (and umlaut measuring institute) mobile network test. The results indicate the reliability and...

Viewpoint Article By Raj Radjassamy, Director of 5G and Wireless Segment at OmniOn Power Looking ahead to the deployment of 6G, the lessons learned from the continued rollout of 5G will help to ensure that future networks can live up to their promised potential. While 5G has achieved some of its initial promises, its advanced, higher-frequency applications have yet to materialize. The delay in developing these applications stems, in part, from an incomplete ecosystem at the time of deployment....

News The sale is set to be the biggest follow-on public offering (FPO) in India’s history    Vodafone Idea has announced that it is set to raise up to 180 billion rupees ($2.16 billion) through the country’s biggestFPO, a process by which a company already listed on the stock exchange issues additional shares in order to raise capital.  The FPO will take place from April 18 to April 22, with a share price of 10 rupees ($0.12) per share.  After the share sale announcement, Vodafone Idea’ share...

Over the past few years’ we’ve covered a number of examples where Openreach (BT) have deployed teams of UK drone operators to help deploy their 1.8Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. But in today’s case, ISP Zen Internet has documented a rather unique home installation, where airborne drones came in handy. Openreach first used a drone deployment to help install the fibre optic cable for a new FTTP network near Pontfadog in Mid-Wales in late 2017. A year later, the team...

Following a “productive meeting” with KCOM yesterday, alternative UK broadband ISP Connexin has announced that they will “temporarily pause” the deployment of new telecoms poles in parts of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire (England) as they “explore the viability” of the incumbents recent infrastructure sharing offer. KCOM has already deployed a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the entirety of Hull and also holds Significant Market Power (SMP) in that...

The boss of full fibre broadband operator Netomnia and ISP YouFibre, Jeremy Chelot, has today been voted as the Network Representative for the Board of the One Touch Switching Company, which is responsible for implementing Ofcom’s OTS (One Touch Switch) solution for faster consumer switching between UK ISPs. The TOTSCo board currently comprises nine directors, with six drawn from the industry and elected by its members, and three independent directors, including the Chairman, nominated by the...