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Openreach (BT) recently issued a short update on the progress they’ve been making in upgrading all of their 30,000+ strong fleet of UK diesel powered vans and cars to electric (EV) by March 2031, which reveals that they’ve just welcomed their 4,000th Electric Vehicle (up from 3,000 in January 2024). In order to support its drive for cleaner and greener journeys, it was revealed earlier last year that Openreach had also teamed up with ‘Ground Control’ to install an initial 8,500 charging points...

News  The funding will allow the USA to produce 20% of the world’s leading semiconductors by 2030  The US government has announced that it has signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms to award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) a subsidy of $6.6 billion for semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona.  The funding, which has been made possible through The CHIPS and Science Act, will see TSMC build its third fabrication plant in Arizona, taking TSMC’s total investment in...

Interview At Connected America this year, we caught up with Jeff Harsh, Director of Strategic Accounts at UCL Swift North America, to discuss the company’s all-in-one fusion splicing platform and the company’s plans for the future With a historic level of government funding being delivered to help fund broadband access for all Americans, the US fibre market has never been more exciting. At Connected America this year, we spoke to UCL Swift’s Jeff Harsh to learn more about the company’s fusion...

News  Mexican broadcaster Televisa will purchase AT&T’s stake in Sky Mexico and take full ownership of the business  In a press release this week, Televista have confirmed that they are purchasing AT&T’s 41.3% stake in satellite TV provider Sky Mexico. Having already held the remaining 58.7% stake in the business, the deal will give the media group full control over Sky Mexico.  The deal’s exact cost has not been revealed, but the statement confirmed that the transaction price would be...

News  The news comes as the UK moves to become a worldwide AI powerhouse  Microsoft has this week announced plans to establish Microsoft AI London, a new hub aimed at advancing AI research and development in the UK. This initiative follows the recent formation of Microsoft AI, a new company dedicated to improving consumer AI products and research, including Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot.  Led by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scientist and engineer, Microsoft AI London will focus on developing...

News The South Korean mobile giant says it envisions its ‘Ifland’ platform as the first step in creating a “global AI metaverse” SK Telecom (SKT) first introduced their metaverse platform Iflad in South Korea back in 2021, saying that it would serve as a new social media platform through which customers to could interact with each other and access unique content. Since then, the company has struck numerous deals with numerous telcos and other related companies around the world, including the...

The new generation of alternative gigabit-capable broadband ISP networks (AltNets) has helped to bring a huge amount of additional competition into the wider UK market. But one area where some of them fall down is in their use of technologies like CGNAT (IP address sharing) and the lack of IPv6 support. Now, it’s fair to say that many ordinary consumers probably won’t care too much about things like this. But for IT people, as well as online gamers and those with particular security...

The rural south Shropshire (England) village of Ditton Priors, which is home to over 800 people, can now access a gigabit-capable broadband network after a combination of Project Gigabit vouchers, council support and work by ISP Kloud9 enabled the roll-out of a new full fibre (FTTP) network to take place. Residents in the local community could previously only access Openreach’s ageing Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) network, often at speeds of greater than 24Mbps, but the new...

In a victory for some full fibre ISPs. The government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency appears to have reversed an earlier decision, which removed gigabit broadband voucher eligibility for some properties (UPRNs) that had previously received public subsidy through the earlier Superfast (24-30Mbps+) scheme, when delivering fixed wireless access (FWA) networks. The related Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) previously allowed those building newer 1000Mbps+ capable networks to deploy,...

NEWS  Onivia was established in 2019 as Spain’s first independent wholesale fibre network operator  Digi Spain has announced that is has sold 6 million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) accesses to wholesale fibre provider Onivia for €750 million.  This acquisition marks a significant expansion for Onivia, which is owned by a consortium comprised of Macquarie Capital, Abrdn, and Arjun Infrastructure Partners, increasing the network operator’s FTTH coverage to approximately 10 million Spanish...