Quickline Win £44m South Yorkshire Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract
The UK government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has today awarded the £44m (state aid) regional contract for South Yorkshire (Lot 20) in England to ISP Quickline, which will aim to extend their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network to as many as 32,100 additional premises in hard to reach rural areas. The wider project aims to help extend 1Gbps (download) capable networks to reach at least 85% of UK premises by the end of 2025, before aiming to achieve “nationwide”...
Gov Awards Six New UK Project Gigabit Broadband Build Contracts
The Government has this morning announced a mass of additional contract awards under their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout programme, which includes builds for West Herefordshire and the Forest of Dean, the Peak District, Dorset and South Somerset, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and finally, Mid West Shropshire. The above announcements are in addition to Quickline’s success in securing the £44m Project Gigabit contract to deploy a full fibre network across 32,100 additional premises...
Trusted Connectivity Alliance Reports Interoperability Push for Consumer eSIM Devices
Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA) has published new guidance to enable Java Card applet developers to maximise interoperability and security across eSIM deployments. ‘Stepping Stones for Java Card Applet Developers’is the latest release in TCA’s acclaimed ‘Stepping Stones’ series, which provides recommendations and guidelines to support the development and deployment of SIM-based technologies. TCA’s new guidance addresses emerging interoperability considerations presented by the growing...
LilaConnect switches on its GIGABIT FULL FIBRE, Lightning-fast broadband across even more areas in Leek and Stoke-on-Trent
Specialist broadband company LilaConnect is switching on its gigabit full fibre networks making it accessible to even more properties in Leek and across Stoke-on-Trent. Over the next twelve weeks more than 6,900 homes and businesses across Leek, as well as Etruria, Cliffe Vale and Shelton in Stoke-on-Trent, will be able to connect to LilaConnect’s gigabit full–fibre broadband. This is further proof of LilaConnect’s commitment to ensuring those residing and living in Staffordshire have access...
eSIM Go expands global coverage and joins GSMA
LONDON, UK – 9 April, 2024 – eSIM Go today announced it has significantly expanded its Digital Mobile Ecosystem to include Tier 1 MNO connectivity products from over 1,000 networks in 190+ countries worldwide, including 250 5G networks and new unlimited data bundles across eSIM Go’s global footprint. The expansion coincides with eSIM Go becoming an Industry Member of the GSMA, further solidifying its position as a prominent player in global mobile connectivity. Zacc Couldrick, CEO of eSIM Go,...
nPerf Launch New Broadband Speed Testing App for PC and MAC
Internet connection speed benchmarking firm nPerf has today announced the launch of a new app for PC and MAC users, which is said to be capable of testing broadband speeds of up to 10Gbps, with streaming (using the VLC enginer) and browsing tests (using Chromium) now also included. The latter is somewhat unique for web-based speed testers. “Powered by advanced technology developed by the nPerf team and supported by a global network of servers (+3,000), the nPerf desktop application guarantees...
How can the rural connectivity gap be tackled?
Interview We recently sat down with Raf Meersman, General Manager for EMEA at IQGeo to discuss the rural digital divide in both the UK and abroad, and how the issue can best be tackled. Could you tell us a little about IQGEO? IQGeo provides award-winning geospatial network management software to telecommunication, fiber, and utility operators globally, enabling them to build better networks. We are headquartered in Cambridge, UK with regional offices in Germany, Belgium, North America,...
“Democracy and social order could collapse”: NTT issues warning over GenAI
News In a joint statement alongside national newspaper the Yomiuri Shimbun, NTT said that the current lack of regulation surrounding Generative AI (GenAI) could be catastrophic for society The rapid evolution of AI – particularly GenAI – over the last two years has been nothing short of remarkable. From the meteoric rise of Open AI and ChatGPT to the historic valuation of NVIDIA at $1.72 trillion earlier this year, rarely a tech news headline goes by without mentioning the disruptive...
Freedom Fibre Begin Project Gigabit UK Broadband Build in Shropshire
Network builder Freedom Fibre has announced that they’ve begun the build phase of their £24m state aid supported Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract, which aims to upgrade connectivity for “around” 12,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across rural parts of North Shropshire (Lot 25.02) in England to their full fibre (FTTP) network. The contract award was officially announced in May 2023 (here) and, since then, the operator has been busy conducting the usual pre-build engineering...
AllPoints Fibre Pick Ronan Kelly to be CTO of UK FTTP Broadband Network
Network operator AllPoints Fibre (APFN / Fern Trading), which is the UK wholesale division of Fern Trading’s recently consolidate alternative FTTP broadband ISP networks (Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, and Swish Fibre), has appointed a new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the form of industry veteran Ronan Kelly. Firstly, we don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that, in his former roles at network technology firm Adtran (most recently as EMEA CTO), Ronan Kelly – over a period of 14 long years –...