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News A new solution from pureLiFi is preparing to deliver 5G connectivity inside the home, without degrading the signal quality The concept of using visible light to deliver data between devices has been around for many years now, through paths to commercialisation have been slow to materialise. However, at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), Scotland-based LiFi specialist pureLiFi had a number of new solutions on show demonstrating the technology’s rapidly growing maturity. These...

News The initiative now is now supported by 47 operators worldwide, many of which vaunted their API success stories at this year’s MWC The GSMA launched their Open Gateway initiative – which seeks to create a unified Application Programming Interface (API) development platform for telcos and app developers – at last year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC). At the time, GSMA director general Mats Granryd hailed the project as a turning point for the industry’s ability to deliver digital services,...

Internet video streaming firm Disney+ has, following last year’s price hikes, today attempted to entice both new and returning customers to the service by launching a special, limited-time, offer that sells their “Standard with Ads” plan for just £1.99 a month for three months (£4.99 thereafter). The Standard with Ads plan supports Full HD (1080p) […]

Network operator CityFibre UK has issued a progress update on their £65m project to deploy a 10Gbps capable full fibre broadband network across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) in Dorset (England), which has now reached 100,000 “homes” (although they confusingly interchange this with “residents” in the same PR). The work, which began with an effort […]

City-focused ISP and network operator Hyperoptic, which has already extended their full fibre (FTTP / B) broadband network to cover “more than” 1.4 million UK homes in parts of 64 UK towns and cities, is reportedly attempting to raise up to £500m of additional capital in order to continue their network expansion. The operator previously […]

A new study by Broadband Genie, which harnesses data from actual consumer migrations, has claimed that there was a decrease of 38% in broadband ISP switches during the period of 15th December 2023 to 12th February 2024 and as a result UK bill payers are estimated to be £53m worse off in lost savings. The […]

Broadband provider and network builder Brsk, which is deploying a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Midlands and beyond (rollout plan), has today introduced further price discounts across their range of packages – shaving a few pounds extra off monthly rentals for new customers. The change means that customers subscribing to their 100Mbps (symmetric) package […]

The recent dispute between residents in the seaside town of Southport (Merseyside) and Openreach reached UK parliament yesterday, with the local Conservative MP, Damien Moore, claiming that an alleged “whistleblower” had revealed that the broadband builder was sidestepping its own rules on pole deployments. In case anybody missed the previous developments (here). Openreach’s efforts to […]

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2), specifically those who take Pay TV services via one of the operator’s TV 360, STREAM or v6 box platforms, may like to know that they’ve just become the first UK Pay TV platform to offer DAZN’s FAST channel dedicated to women’s football. The channel – ‘DAZN Women’s Football‘ […]

Digital infrastructure firm Boldyn Networks (formerly BAI Comms), which is perhaps best known in the UK for helping to build a number of open access mobile and fibre networks, has officially closed its acquisition of Cellnex’s private networks business unit. The deal largely includes Edzcom, a Finnish pioneer and European market leader that designs, builds, […]