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Insight At MWC this year, Eric Zhao, the Vice President and CMO of Huawei Wireless Solution led a media discussion on 5.5G, sharing his insights on Huawei’s 5.5G development and innovation competitiveness There is a general consensus, says Zhao that the 5.5G will begin commercial deployment in 2024. This is based on the progress in standard, spectrum, terminals and key technologies. 5.5G standard will be frozen, the spectrum is available, the terminals are mature, and the key technologies have...

Customers of mobile operator Lyca Mobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on EE’s platform in the UK, have spotted that the company has finally introduced support for two popular service features – Wi-Fi Calling and 4G Calling (VoLTE) – as part of the recent 3G switch-off. In short, 4G Calling is a […]

In an expected development, broadband ISP Zen Internet has confirmed that they’re “working towards” launching packages based off Openreach’s latest 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) products in the “coming months“, with some customers being told by the provider’s support teams to expect this in “April/May“. Openreach recently confirmed that their two new multi-Gigabit […]

Network builder and broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect), which has been gradually deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of the UK, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve had to make a small number of further redundancies as part of adopting a more regional build focus. In case anybody has forgotten, Grain first […]

According to our sources, the Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has this afternoon informed UK network operators that their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS), which was originally due to end in March 2025, has been extended up to financial year 2027 to 2028, and “possibly beyond if needed“. The GBVS generally offers grants worth […]

Mobile and broadband ISP Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve promoted their existing Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Max Taylor, to take on the top job of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from 2nd April 2024. The company’s current UK CEO, Ahmed Essam, will instead become CEO of European Markets and Germany Executive Chair. Max has […]

News  The announcement comes “in light of increasing public concern” of telegraph pole deployment  This week, Julia Lopez MP, Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure, penned an recent open letter directed to all fixed-line operators, cracking down on the installation of new telegraph poles in the UK, suggesting that the infrastructure should be shared.  According to the letter, many MPs have highlighted the issue, as constituents have grown frustrated the duplication of overhead fibre...

Network builder and broadband ISP G.Network, which recently resumed rolling out their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in London (here), has announced that they’ve signed a “strategic partnership” with digital infrastructure firm Boldyn Networks to help boost the city’s 4G and 5G small cell and fibre coverage. Boldyn Networks is perhaps best known in the […]

UK ISP Quickline, which is rolling out a full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across more rural and semi-rural parts of North East England, has today announced the appointment of Darryl Petch to become their new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Darryl succeeds Ian Smith who served as CTO for two years. The new CTO is known […]

Network builder and UK ISP Connect Fibre, which aims to cover 100,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network, has today announced that around 5,000 premises in the two Essex locations of Rayleigh and Thundersley can now put in pre-orders ahead of the new service going live. The […]