AT&T tries to reconcile with customers following massive network outage
News AT&T has offered account credits for customers most impacted by their Feb. 22 outage, which left three quarters of AT&T customers unable to access services on Thursday morning of last week An initial review of AT&T’s massive outage on Feb. 22 has revealed the apparent cause, according to AT&T CEO John Stankey, who addressed the outage in a letter to employees over the weekend. Stankey wrote that the outage “was due to the application and execution of an incorrect process...
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Huawei Join Forces for AI-Driven Innovation and Talent Empowerment
Press Release [Barcelona, February 26, 2024] — Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Huawei signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on digital development with the aim to provide support towards AI development, industry applications, ecosystem building, and talent cultivation during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona. The MoU was signed by Vikram Sinha, President and CEO, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service. The...
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Huawei Join Forces for AI-Driven Innovation and Talent Empowerment
Press Release [Barcelona, February 26, 2024] — Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Huawei signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on digital development with the aim to provide support towards AI development, industry applications, ecosystem building, and talent cultivation during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona. The MoU was signed by Vikram Sinha, President and CEO, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service. The...
Kyivstar looks to Rakuten’s Open RAN tech to rebuild its network
News A letter of intent from Kyivstar suggests that Open RAN could play a significant role in replacing the country’s damaged digital infrastructure This week, Ukrainian operator Kyivstar has signed a letter of intent confirming that it will procure Open RAN technology from Japan’s Rakuten Symphony. The letter says the deployment will involve both 4G and 5G technology, with initial steps towards deployment expected to take place later this year. “Rakuten is extremely proud to continue its...
Navigating ISP Growth: Transformative effects of FSM on P&L [Part 1]
VIEWPOINT This article is contributed by Praxedo who are a Silver Sponsor at Connected America in Dallas, March 12-13, 2024 Over the past several years, the telecommunications industry in the US has been focused on closing the digital divide and making sure every household has access to broadband services. Federal and local funding have been used to support several technologies, but it is fair to say that a strong focus has been put on fiber, as many argue this is the future-proof technology....
Navigating ISP Growth: Transformative effects of FSM on P&L [Part 2]
VIEWPOINT This article is contributed by Praxedo who are a Silver Sponsor at Connected America in Dallas, March 12-13, 2024 Building on our exploration of the transformative effects of field service management on P&L in Part I of this series where we highlighted its impact on customer experience and installation efficiency, Part II focuses on another critical aspect of navigating ISP growth: routing and scheduling optimization capabilities. With a growing subscriber base, telecom operators...
Virgin Media O2 CEO Raise Vodafone and Three UK Merger Concerns
The CEO of broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), Lutz Schüler, has – perhaps predictably – raised competition concerns over the proposed mobile merger between Vodafone and Three UK, not least because he believes the pair will end up controlling too much radio spectrum. Network sharing is another issue. The merger (here), […]
EE Switches Off Final 3G Mobile Network Site in the UK
Mobile network operator EE (BT) has today published a short progress update on their national work to switch-off the old 3G data (mobile broadband) network, which reveals that the last of 18,000 sites to be shut-down – in Belfast – was finally taken off the air last week. The United Kingdom’s mobile operators (EE, O2, […]
G.Network to Buy New Broadband Users Out of Existing UK ISP Contracts
Network builder and broadband ISP G.Network, which after a long pause recently resumed the deployment of their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in London (here), has today become the latest internet provider to announce that they will buy new customers out of their existing contracts. One of the difficulties that consumers often face, when a […]
Broadband ISP iDNET UK Boost Resilience with New Dark Fibre Ring
Reputable internet provider iDNET, which has been around since 1996 and offers a variety of fibre broadband and Ethernet services to UK homes and businesses, has moved to boost their wider network resilience against “rogue JCB digging” by partnering with Zayo to install their own Dark Fibre Ring for 360Gbps of extra capacity. The new […]