Bouygues Telecom in talks to buy La Poste MVNO for €950 million
News The deal is expected to begin around 2026 Bouygues Telecom, the telecoms unit of French conglomerate Bouygues, has announced that it has signed an exclusivity agreement with La Poste Group, to purchase La Poste Telecom for €950 million. This total is set to be adjusted according to the timing of the transaction itself, with current estimates sitting at approximately €963.4 million. Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) La Poste Telecom is currently 51% owned by La Poste Group, with...
Verizon to deploy private 5G network at Audi test track
Press Release Verizon Business and Audi AG today announced a partnership to build a state-of-the-art private wireless network and tech-testing environment at Audi’s automotive test track in Neustadt, Germany. The dynamic, multi-core wireless network is designed to duplicate network conditions in key markets around the world, with custom-built replicas of Verizon’s U.S. public network, local European networks, and the roaming network of Audi’s MVNO partner in Asia-Pacific. Audi and other brands...
Dish’s 5G voice coverage passes 200m people but company’s future remains uncertain
News The growth of Dish’s 5G coverage masks the company’s ongoing struggles, including customer acquisition, leadership stability, and $26 billion in debt This week, Dish Network has confirmed that 5G voice services are now available to over 200 million American’s nationwide, with the company hailing the achievement as another step towards becoming the bona fide fourth national mobile operator. Dish has so far spent around $6 billion on expanding its 5G network across the US since 2019,...
O2 Launch Faster 5G Standalone UK Mobile Network in 14 Cities
O2 (Virgin Media / VMO2) has today become the second major UK mobile operator, after Vodafone, to switch-on a commercial 5G Standalone (SA) network in the UK, which will deliver faster mobile broadband speeds (inc. latency) and more service flexibility. The service has initially gone live in parts of 14 cities and comes at “no […]
First Pictures of EE’s New WiFi 7 UK Broadband Router Emerge
Mobile operator and UK ISP EE (BT) has today given a first sneak peek of their next generation Qualcomm-powered and Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be – Extremely High Throughput) capable home broadband router, which was first hinted at in 2023 (here) and is set to launch sometime this year (possibly by around mid-2024). In case anybody has […]
New LCR Connect Full Fibre Network Goes Live Across Liverpool
The LCR Connect network, which is a £32m joint venture that has rolled out a new 214km long full-fibre (broadband and Ethernet) network across much of the Liverpool City Region, has today become fully operational and made multi-gigabit speed internet connections available to more than 28,000 businesses. Construction of the new “resilient fibre backhaul” network, […]
New UK ISP Brighton Fibre Make Progress on Full Fibre Rollout
A new internet provider and alternative network builder called Brighton Fibre, which spent most of 2023 operating at a small scale in stealth mode, has finally decided to go public with more information about the new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network that they’re deploying in East Sussex. Much as the name might suggest, Brighton Fibre […]
Nexfibre Publish Q1 2024 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update
Network operator nexfibre, which shares the same parentage as Virgin Media (VMO2), has this morning published a new quarterly (Q1 2024) progress update on their work to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband ISP network across up to 7 million UK premises. Just to recap. Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia Capital […]
BT launches new NB-IoT network in smart cities push
News The rollout will allow for widescale efficiency and cost-savings in a variety of industries This week, BT has announced the launch of its new Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network to aid its development of UK smart cities. The network, which according to BT covers 97% of the population, is underpinned by EE’s mobile network and will allow for widescale IoT use across various industries, such as agriculture and manufacturing. A NB-IoT network is a type of low power wide area...
Versa Networks Releases Industry’s First SASE Solution Designed for Mobile Operators – Versa SASE on SIM
Versa Networks, the global leader in AI/ML-powered Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), today announced its release of Versa SASE on SIM™ for Mobile Operators. The patented solution leverages SIM-based identity for authentication and access control – enabling Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) to seamlessly deploy SASE services and enforce advanced security policies at the mobile network edge. The Need for SASE in Mobile Networks MNOs and...