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CityFibre has today secured another five of the UK government’s Project Gigabit broadband rollout contracts, totalling over £394m. The deals will spread their full fibre (FTTP) ISP network to over 202,000 hard to reach premises across parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Sussex, Kent, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire & Milton Keynes. Project Gigabit aims to extend […]

Community broadband ISP B4RN, which typically works with volunteers inside rural villages to deploy their new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of England, has today celebrated the effective completion of their resilient 400Gbps ring network across the North of England by uploading a new video of their work. Firstly, the usual recap. B4RN […]

The CEO of Vodafone Group, Margherita Della Valle, has revealed that their proposed mega-merger with Three UK (CK Hutchison) is being reviewed by the Government under the National Security and Investment Act 2021, which reports suggest is linked to CKH’s perceived ties to China and any potential risks of access to sensitive national infrastructure. The […]

News Yemeni telecoms operators say they fear Houthis may destroy submarine cable infrastructure as part of the ongoing conflict Vague threats from Houthi rebels have Yemeni telecoms operators fearing that local submarine cable infrastructure could be in jeopardy. Late last year, a Houthi-linked Telegram channel published a map showing submarine network infrastructure in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf alongside a message that appeared to imply these...

News  The funding is part of the UK’s national quantum strategy, which was published in March last year and commits £2.5 billion to the development of quantum technologies over the next decade  Today, the UK government has announced that it will invest £45 million in the country’s quantum sector as part of its ongoing commitment to become a quantum-enabled economy by 2033.  The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Technology Missions Fund and the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) will...

Broadband ISP Exascale, which is building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to around 2,000 premises – mostly around Telford and Wrekin, has joined with the Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust (SNCT) to extend their network to the poorly served Wappenshall Junction redevelopment project in Shropshire (England). Due to its historic importance, Telford and Wrekin […]

News  According to 4iG, the deal will capture a large share of the rapidly growing data traffic market between Asia, East Africa, and Europe  Telecom Egypt and Hungary-based telecoms group 4iG have signed the terms of cooperation on a joint venture to build a subsea cable between Albania and Egypt. The deal, which was first announced last October through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, will see the creation of to the first every subsea cable linking the two countries.  The cable...

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  SpaceX begins launching next-gen satellites for direct-to-mobile services: With US mobile giant T-Mobile already signed on as a major partner, Elon Musk’s latest upgrade to the Starlink satellite constellation will see the company deliver connectivity directly to unmodified smartphones – a move he says could eliminate ‘not-spots’...

Leicester-based broadband ISP Gigabit Networks has today announced that they’ve extended the availability of their full fibre (FTTP and Ethernet) services and packages, via CityFibre’s national UK network, to include the Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Renfrewshire for the first time. The internet provider’s platform can also cater for homes and businesses, as well […]

News Telenor’s Thai unit, Total Access Communication (Dtac), was merged with rival True Corp early last year This week, Norwegian telco group Telenor has announced it will book an 8.04 billion Norwegian kroner ($760.3 million) impairment in Q4 2023 for its investment in True Corp. The company’s shares had fallen from 8.15 Thai Baht ($0.23) at the start of 2023 to 5.05 Baht ($0.14) at the end of the year, hence the necessity of recognising the impairment. But despite the share price dropping by...