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News  US-based Keysight Technologies has out bid rival Viavi Solutions on the purchase of Spirent Communications, offering £1.16 billion for the company this week  Earlier this month, US technology company Viavi Solutions made a £1 billion takeover bid for UK-based telecoms testing group Spirent Communications.   At the time, Viavi CEO Oleg Khaykin said that the deal would “deliver enhanced product solutions and applications, accelerate growth in new markets and strengthen innovation through...

News  Founded in 2021 by former Open AI executives, Anthropic is now one of the most well-funded AI firms in the world  Amazon has announced an investment of $2.75 billion in San Francisco-based AI startup Anthropic, as it looks to compete with AI rivals such as Google and Microsoft through its AI chatbot Claude.  The move is Amazon’s largest external investment since it was founded in 1994.  As part of the deal, Anthropic will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider, as...

News A US judge ruled this week that T-Mobile can appeal a pending class action lawsuit that is seeking damages related to T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint This week, Illinois U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin has ruled that T-Mobile can proceed with an appeal of a class action lawsuit that could cost the company billions of dollars in compensation. The class action lawsuit, which is being brough by seven subscribers of AT&T or Verizon, argues that the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile reduced...

Network access provider Openreach (BT Group) is preparing to launch a new service for broadband ISPs, which will optionally allow their customers to choose a Multiport Optical Network Terminal (ONT) device instead of the normal single port unit that is deployed during home installs. But some installs will get it by default. The ONT or optical modem device is usually installed inside your home or office (wall hung), near to where the fibre optic cable physically enters your property, and its...

Alternative network provider and broadband ISP Lit Fibre, which is currently in the process of being acquired by CityFibre for an undisclosed sum (here), has informed ISPreview that customers on their FTTP network in several Western and South Western towns will be able to benefit from a special price discount. The provider, which has rolled out their gigabit broadband network to cover numerous towns across several of England’s counties (e.g. Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire,...

Interview At MWC this year, we spoke to Georgiann Reigle, founder and CEO of Kingfisher to discuss sustainability in the mobile market  Georgiann notes that what is so interesting at Mobile World Congress this year is all the innovation, which is fantastic and is exciting is going to push us forward as a society as communities. However, there’s a side effect of this innovation. Every time we want to upgrade our devices and access into the latest best technology, the old technology is still...

CityFibre has today provided a progress update on their £21m project to roll-out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Lincolnshire (England) city of Lincoln, which began in March 2022 (here) and has now largely completed its build across the wards of Abbey, Glebe, Minster, Castle, Carholme and Birchwood. The deployment, which […]

Rural UK ISP Wessex Internet has today announced that the first customers have been connected as part of their £14m state aid supported Project Gigabit broadband contract in the New Forest area (Lot 27.01) of Hampshire (England), which is extending their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover “around” 10,500 hard-to-reach premises. The operator’s civil engineers started […]

Insight The latest global report from Salesforce sheds light on customer’s shifting priorities and why communication service providers (CSPs) must adapt to improve customer retention  In 2024, it is easier than ever for customers to jump from service provider to service provider in search of the best deal and the best experience. In fact, the latest report from Salesforce suggests that constantly being on the lookout for a better offer is deeply ingrained in the CSP customer mindset, with 76%...

Insight By Rob Pocock, Technology Director, Red Helix The initial deadline for the Telecommunications (Security) Act (TSA) 2021 is fast approaching. Drafted in response to our growing reliance on communications technology, and to help protect our networks from an expanding threat landscape, the Act is set to have a major impact on the UK’s approach to security and resilience in the telecoms industry. The first of the deadlines requires all network operators in the tier 1 category (those with...