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The Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has today awarded the £60m (state aid) regional contract for West Yorkshire, parts of North Yorkshire and East Riding in England to UK ISP Quickline, which will aim to extend their full fibre network to “around” 28,000 additional premises in hard to reach rural areas. The project […]

The UK’s independent public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO), has today published a new report into £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network project (i.e. extending 4G mobile / broadband cover to 95% of the UK by the end of 2025), which finds that it’s “behind schedule” and at risk of cost overruns. The SRN […]

Broadband provider Connexin, which is busy deploying a new 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of Hull, East Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in England, has introduced a new-ish argument into the debate over wood poles by highlighting how using them is “less carbon intensive than digging ducts.” But we suspect it won’t sway the […]

News  Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed  UK full fibre network operator MS3 Networks has added Fusion Fibre Group, known until recently as FACTCO, as a network partner.   As a result, Fusion Fibre Group will now be able to sell services to customers using MS3’s 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which currently covers 174,261 premises in the North of England, as of January 4.  MS3 is backed by investment from Madrid-based Asterion and focuses their...

News The operator has upgraded one of its existing Open RAN masts in Devon with NEC equipment, demonstrating the benefits of interchangeable RAN components Today, Vodafone has announced the deployment of NEC’s Massive MIMO technology to one of their live 5G Open RAN sites in Devon. The deployment is notable for being one of the first examples of Open RAN components being swapped in a live commercial network deployment – a fact which Vodafone says exemplifies the flexibility of Open RAN....

A new type of mobile SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card is being launched today – supported by Deutsche Telekom and Tele2 – called resilient SIM (rSIM), which can effectively upgrade a single SIM device to Dual-SIM by automatically switching between the two in case of any network issues, minimising the impact of a lost connection. […]

News The investment is Microsoft’s largest in its 37-year history in Spain  Microsoft has announced that it will invest $2.1 billion in its Spanish AI and Cloud infrastructure over the next two years.  The company will open a Cloud Region of data centers in Madrid, as well as a data centre campus in Aragon (Northeastern Spain). These deployments, the company says, will provide “Microsoft’s cloud services with the maximum guarantee of security, privacy and data sovereignty, and will make the...

News The move will be effective as of 1 August, with EXA’s executive chair Nick Read continuing to oversee the business until that time Today, EXA Infrastructure have announced that Jim Fagan, currently CEO of Aqua Comms, will be taking over as premanent CEO later this year. Fagan has served as the CEO of Aqua Comms since May 2023, before which he had worked in various telco and data centre-based roles at Global Cloud Exchange, Telstra, Pacnet, and Rackspace. EXAs’s previous CEO, Martijn...

Alternative network operator and UK ISP Connect Fibre, which aims to reach 100,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, has announced the adoption of Deepomatic’s First Time Right Automation platform to help boost their rollout. The new platform aims to benefit the operator by automating the control of […]

Mobile operator Vodafone UK, which last year began work to deploy Open Radio Access Network kit to 2,500 sites across mostly rural parts of Wales and the South West England by 2027 (here), has successfully deployed NEC’s Massive MIMO (mMIMO) technology to one of their live 5G (mobile broadband) capable O-RAN sites. The O-RAN approach […]