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Insight At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Total Telecom’s James had the opportunity to attend a media roundtable hosted by Huawei, titled “leading infrastructure to accelerate electric power intelligence” Here, the audience heard from Rashid Alahmedi, Chief Operating Officer of InfraX, the information, Communication and Technology arm of Digital DEWA. This is a subsidiary owned by Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA). InfraX is a licensed IOT service provider by the...

Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave and train operator c2c have today published the results of a new real-world benchmark, which examined the mobile network (2G to 5G) performance of EE (BT), O2 (Virgin Media), Vodafone and Three UK across the Essex Thameside Railway route. Overall, EE customers get the best experience. c2c operates the Essex […]

Rural broadband ISP Alncom have this morning announced that the Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) has approved a new project, which will see them extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network further into the north of Alnwick area in Northumberland (England). The provider is currently aiming to build their full fibre network to cover 50,000 […]

The Government has today announced that the first of 86 new state aid supported 4G mobile masts in rural parts of Wales have been upgraded and switched-on. The work forms part of the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network project (i.e. extending 4G mobile / broadband cover to 95% of the UK by the end of […]

News  The trial will boost mobile capacity in dense urban areas  British broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced its latest initiative – the Smart Pole Trial, in collaboration with shareholder Liberty Global.   As part of the trial, VMO2 has erected 4G and 5G smart poles on their existing fibre network to help boost mobile network coverage and capacity.  The poles are smaller than normal mobile masts and can be set up quickly and without regulatory hurdles such as...

News The move is the latest step towards Vodafone’s “reshaped European footprint”  Swisscom has announced a binding deal to acquire Vodafone’s Italian business unit for €8 billion (£6.8bn).  After the deal’s completion, Swisscom will merge Vodafone’s Italian unit with Fastweb, Swisscom’s Italian subsidiary to create Italy’s second-largest fixed-line broadband operator behind Telecom Italia (TIM). This, they said, will create around €600 million in savings through increased scale and a more...

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has responded to a call by East Riding Council for them to conduct an “emergency review” of the situation around poles and KCOM’s infrastructure sharing in Hull. But the regulator says its powers to stop such works are limited and that no rival had raised a formal dispute about KCOM, […]

Broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media (O2) have today hailed the results of a new trial – delivered in collaboration with shareholder Liberty Global, which is said to have “successfully” deployed 4G and 5G “smart poles” on top of its existing fibre broadband cabinets in the UK to help boost mobile network coverage and capacity. […]

Good news. Broadband ISP Airband, which previously aimed to cover 400,000 UK premises in rural areas via a mix of fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks by 2026, has today announced that they’ve secured additional investment from abrdn to “accelerate rural broadband expansion” across West of England. The operator, which recently came […]

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today concluded its investigation into Openreach’s Quality of Service (i.e. minimum standards for repairs and new line provision) targets, which found that they “failed to meet, by narrow margins,” 3 out of 35 of the QoS standards in the leased lines (Ethernet) and local wholesale broadband markets. As an […]