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News The move will begin on 1st April this year  Belgian cable operator Telenet, which is wholly owned by Liberty Global, has announced that it will enter into the energy market in April as it launches its new service “Blossom”, which will be used for the installation and running of at home charging stations for electric cars.  Blossom will be spun out as separate company under the Telenet group, which will initially focus on focus on installing and activating smart charging stations for the...

Network operator and UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across London and some surrounding areas, has this afternoon confirmed to ISPreview that its making another round of redundancies and is outsourcing customer support to South Africa. Just to recap. The operator, which also owns Box Broadband – a […]

News The project would see T-Mobile US building its own fibre network, starting in Virginia  According to a report from German new source Handelsblatt, T-Mobile, the US’s second largest wireless carrier, is in discussions to enter a joint venture (JV) with US-based fibre network operator Lumos Networks to build fibre networks in the US. The T-Mobile fibre website states that the company currently ongoing fibre sales in thirteen US states, which does not currently include Virginia.  Lumos...

Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is a virtual network operator (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone, has today introduced new payment terms alongside PayPal to support customers who are looking for more options to help spread the cost of their mobile handset (i.e. applicable when mobile plans are taken with an included handset). The changes mean that […]

The Digital Connectivity Forum, which is an industry think-tank for the UK Government, has published a new “advanced connectivity” report that analyses “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband and 5G mobile deployments, take-up and use cases to understand the key barriers and drivers of adoption, as well as what we might need in the future. Since the […]

A partnership between BTWholesale and broadband ISP Barclay Communications has resulted in the launch of a new £6 million scheme, which will see the internet and telecoms provider offering a “Free Ultra-Fast Fibre” (FTTP) connection to businesses in Northern Ireland. The collaboration hopes to connect 50,000 of those businesses by the end of 2024 and […]

Insight  Teragence, with its Signal Checker product, delivers geo-located, quantitative mobile network coverage data to anyone who depends on mobile connectivity for the success of their business So what does that mean? Christian Rouffaert, Teragence’s founder and CEO, breaks down Teragence’s target market in five  segments:  MVNO’s: MVNO’s (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) depend on licensed operators to deliver their underlying mobile network services. And till date, they had to take their...

A new study from Global Wireless Solutions (GWS) claims to have found that the UK’s major mobile operators are currently delivering mobile broadband (4G and 5G) speeds that “satisfy the majority of mobile users” and, apparently, the “sweet spot” for most Apps is said to be between just 1-5Mbps. But this does require some context. […]

Broadband ISP Connexin has today responded angrily to KCOM’s move last week to send them a feasibility study on infrastructure sharing (PIA / cable duct and pole access) in the Hull area of East Yorkshire (here), which it was hoped might have reduced the level of new pole deployments for full fibre networks. But instead […]

The UK telecoms regulator has today launched an own-initiative investigation into Vonage‘s internet phone (VoIP / Cloud) service, which follows an incident resulting in disruption for its business customers to emergency call (999) services during October and November 2023. The regulator’s existing General Conditions rules (e.g. General Condition A3.2 and sections 105A, 105C and 105K […]