Journey to a more connected North: UK connectivity roundup January 2024
News A selection of the most important connectivity stories relating to the North of the UK, with expert guest commentary provided by Iqbal Bedi, Founder & Consulting Director at Intelligens Consulting Manchester named the UK’s most digitally inclusive city: A study from Bionic found Manchester to have more digital inclusive initiatives per person than any other city in the UK. “Manchester’s recognition as the UK’s most digitally inclusive city is a notable achievement, particularly in...
GlobalNet and Herza Cloud Unite in Strategic Partnership
In a recent development, two telecommunications companies have formalized a partnership agreement, enabling them to resell the service of connecting to the international Internet Exchange network to customers across almost all of the Asia Pacific Region. The cloud operator’s connection to the distributed peering network has been established at the Equinix SG1 site, situated at 20 Ayer Rajah Crescent. As a result, peering in DATAIX now provides connectivity to valuable hosting providers and...
B4RN launches a short film to celebrate HALO partnership with Kubus and Juniper Networks
“B4RN strives to deliver the best internet service in the country to the areas that are hardest to reach. With a 400G-ready network, we can bring the benefits of digital connectivity to rural communities for generations to come.” Tom Rigg, COO, B4RNAs B4RN is a Community Benefit Society, they work with local communities to design, plan, and install full-fibre networks that deliver gigabit-speed broadband services. Community contributions are integral – B4RN works alongside communities,...
Top 16 Full Fibre Broadband Networks by Estimated UK Coverage
The latest data from Thinkbroadband has provided an informative independent assessment of how big – in terms of network coverage (premises passed) – the top 16 largest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks in the UK have become by January 2024. In this article, we compare that data against official coverage claims. One of the […]
Gigabit Broadband Still Top Digital Priority for UK Councils
Technical UK consultancy firm FarrPoint has today published their second annual (2024) survey of digital leaders at councils across England, Scotland and Wales. The results reveal that getting more areas covered by gigabit broadband is still the top priority for the second year running, while 5G divides opinion. The report – FarrPoint Digital Connectivity Survey […]
UK Struggles in 2024 Country Ranking of Mobile Broadband Speeds
Crowdsourced benchmarking firm Opensignal, which collects data from consumer speedtests, has today published a new summary of mobile broadband (4G and 5G) speeds across Europe – based on data from Q4 2023. But if you want to find the UK, you’ll need to look toward the bottom of the tables. In terms of the UK, […]
Germany Telecoms Roundup: January 2024
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 EU launches Nostradamus – prepares Europe for a quantum world: A Deutsche Telekom-led consortium has been given a mandate by the European Commission to create testing infrastructure for quantum key distribution. Nokia doubles down in Germany with €360 million investment The Finnish vendor says the...
GSMA and IBM partner to provide telecoms industry AI training
News The move aims to build skills and foster AI innovation within the industry The GSMA and IBM have joined forces to announce the launch of GSMA Advances’ AI Training programme and the GSMA Foundry using Watsonx, IBM’s AI and data platform with AI assistants. The training is aimed at telecoms leaders and executives to prepare them for the AI era, and will take place at IBM offices in Dubai, London, Mexico, New York, and Seoul throughout the year. The training experience will span a wide...
Stage X wins mmWave spectrum to become South Korea’s fourth 5G player
News The company’s winning bid of $322.1 million comfortably exceeded analyst expectations This week, South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has announced the results of its latest spectrum auction process, revealing Stage X as the winner poised to become the country’s fourth national mobile network operator. Stage X, owned by a consortium led by tech giant Kakao Corp., placed the winning bid of $322.1 million for a licence in the 28 GHz (‘mmWave’) band. As part of the licencing terms,...
Ofcom and UK Phone Providers to Further Tackle Spoofed Calls
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today moved to strengthen their existing rules against the use of “fake phone numbers” and “spoofed calls“, which involves a proposal for phone providers (fixed line and mobile) to introduce stricter measures against “Presentation Numbers” that are used to identify who is making a call. Most of the major […]