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News A selection of the most important connectivity stories relating to the North of the UK, with expert guest commentary provided by Dominic Beresford-Webb, Senior Conference Producer for Connected North at Total Telecom. “In a series of transformative developments, the UK’s digital landscape is witnessing significant progress in connectivity initiatives. Rural communities are getting the service they deserve with B4RN’s 400Gbps and strong progress being made by EE with the Shared Rural...

News A selection of the month’s most important stories from the US telecoms market, with commentary from Maddie Hicks, lead conference producer for Connected America AT&T apologises for huge system failure but rules out cyberattack: A network outage at AT&T left thousands of customers without access to mobile services, including, in some cases, access to emergency services. Connected America 2024 returns to Dallas, Texas: The US’s leading telecoms conference will take place 12–13 March...

A new BBC News report states that BT UK quoted one homeowner in the tiny Lincolnshire community of Wingland a hefty £101,874.60 to run a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to his property, which formed part of an offer under the 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO). But this shouldn’t come as a surprise. The […]

Messages of confusion and anger have made their way into our inbox this afternoon after internet provider Cuckoo began informing some customers – seemingly those on Openreach’s network – that they were “sorry“, but they’re “no longer able to be your broadband provider” and are switching them to a different ISP. The development comes after […]

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Manx Telecom, which serves homes and businesses on the Isle of Man (a British Crown Dependency) in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland, has confirmed that many of their customers will be hit by annual “inflationary” price hikes of 5.5% from 1st April 2024 (down from 12.5% last year). […]

Network operator and broadband provider G.Network, which recently resumed the roll-out of their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in London (here), has today announced that Cerberus Networks has become the latest ISP to gain access to harness their network at wholesale. The latest agreement follows G.Network’s inaugural wholesale partnership with Spitfire, announced in October last […]

News  On day one of MWC this year, we sat in on a fireside chat with Jeff Giard, VP of Business Development Partnerships at T-Mobile, Jason Fritch, VP of Starlink Enterprise Sales, and Hiromichi Matsuda, Executive Officer and Director at Japanese telco KDDI, to discuss their vision to provide Direct to Cell services by the end of 2024 In August 2023, KDDI and SpaceX announced an agreement to provide satellite-to-cellular service leveraging SpaceX’s Starlink low earth orbit satellites and KDDI...

Viewpoint On the first day of MWC Barcelona this year, Yang Chaobin, Huawei’s Board Member and President of ICT Products & Solutions launched the telecoms industry’s first Telecom Foundation Model, an artificial intelligence model for operators    The model’s objective is to offer vital artificial intelligence technologies for service innovation which will improve the efficiency of operators, enhance network productivity and help commercialise 5.5G.    Huge innovation in the telecoms...

News Vodafone has today confirmed that the deal has been agreed, with the companies waiting to sign the relevant paperwork While the majority of the telecoms world has its eyes set on Mobile World Congress this week, in the world beyond the Fira the wheels of M&A continue to turn. Today, Vodafone has confirmed that it has agreed to sell its Italian unit to Switzerland’s Swisscom for €8 billion. “Vodafone has engaged extensively with several parties to explore market consolidation in Italy...

News A selection of the month’s biggest news stories from the German telecoms market, with guest commentary provided by Rowan Thomson, Senior Conference Producer of Connected Germany, Total Telecom Vodafone Germany to power 5G infrastructure with renewable energy: Vodafone Germany has signed a renewable energy supply deal with RWE and will, in turn, supply the energy company’s offshore windfarm with 5G connectivity Deutsche Telekom joins Fetch.ai Foundation to pursue AI and blockchain...