Phoenix Tower International to acquire Cellnex Ireland for nearly €1 bn
News Cellnex revealed late last year that its Irish unit was likely to be sold Florida-based wireless infrastructure company Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has announced a deal with Cellnex to acquire 100% of the latter’s Irish business for €971 million. Cellnex has been operating in Ireland since 2019, when it when it acquired tower operator Cignal as part of an agreement with CK Hutchinson to acquire its infrastructure portfolio in six European countries (which included Ireland). Since...
CTG Bemoans Lack of Broadband Support in UK Budget 2024
The CCO of the Complete Technology Group (CTG), Kevin Monaghan, has criticised today’s Spring Budget 2024 announcement for both failing to “crackdown” on broadband ISPs “inflicting substantial mid-contract price hikes” on consumers and not announcing any new provisions to help upgrade digital infrastructure. The Government currently has two headline investment programmes for improving broadband and […]
London ISP Community Fibre Notifies UK Customers of Price Rise
Network operator and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which has deployed a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across a big chunk of London, has sadly just begun informing existing customers about a new round of annual price increases. The only good news is that their packages are still fairly competitive. The operator, which also owns Box […]
Netomnia Secures £147.5m Boost to Fuel UK Full Fibre Rollout
Broadband operator Netomnia, which is supported by ISP YouFibre and had been aiming to cover 1 million UK premises with their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by early 2024, has announced that they’ve covered 850,000 premises (up from 730k in Nov 2023) and raised a further £147.5m to fuel their rollout. The group, which now […]
Revolutionising connectivity at MWC24 – Huawei’s F5.5G breakthroughs
Viewpoint On day one of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, Huawei’s Bob Chen, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, launched the company’s latest Innovative All-Optical Products Huawei estimate that 2024 will be the year that F5.5G will be used commercially, and within this, 10Gigabit connections are the foundation of intelligent applications. The products launched by Huawei will support the global operators to build F5.5G all-optical target networks and accelerate the development...
Viavi Solutions to take over Spirent for £1bn
News If the deal gets the go-ahead, it will mean the removal of UK listed Spirent from the London Stock Exchange This week, US technology company Viavi Solutions has made a £1 billion takeover bid for UK-based telecoms testing group Spirent Communications. Viavi offered 175 pence per share for Spirent, with Chief Executive Oleg Khaykin saying in a press release that the deal would “deliver enhanced product solutions and applications, accelerate growth in new markets and strengthen...
Colt research shows optimism in tech investment among global businesses
News Colt Technology Services released findings from a comprehensive study involving 1,114 IT leaders across 12 countries. The research highlights a surge in optimism around technology budgets, with almost 8 in 10 (79%) businesses planning to increase their tech budgets over the next one to three years. Security (40%) and the integration of AI and machine learning capabilities (31%) emerged as the top priorities for IT leaders. Notably, one in four businesses is leveraging digital...
Gov MP Calls on Julia Lopez to Tighten Rules on Broadband Poles
The Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has followed up his previous calls for the UK government to clampdown on the use of “ugly and unnecessary” poles – used to deploy some gigabit broadband networks – by sending a letter to the Digital Infrastructure Minister, Julia Lopez, which makes five key “demands“. Poles […]
Utility Warehouse Target 2 Million UK Customers for Future Growth
Energy and telecoms provider UW (Utility Warehouse), which is also known as Telecom Plus, has today announced that the company has passed the “one million customer milestone” and are now setting their sights on “doubling in size to two million customers” (no timescale for this was given). Since 2021, UW has organically signed up more […]
Huawei’s Li Peng on the possibilities that the intelligent era will bring the telco industry Insight
Viewpoint On day 2 of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona this year, Li Peng, Huawei’s Corporate Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service, shared his views about the advancing intelligent world in a keynote speech – outlining what the intelligent world means for carriers, and what networks need to do to prepare for the advancement in our increasingly intelligent society. AI has been a huge overarching theme of this year’s MWC, and Li Peng’s sentiment is no...