Job Cut Fears Strike Rural England Full Fibre Builder County Broadband
Rural network builder and UK ISP County Broadband (CB), which holds an aspiration to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network by the end of 2027, appears as if it may soon become the latest network operator to make redundancies. Just to recap. The full fibre provider, […]
Yahsat wins $5.1 billion satellite services contract with UAE govt
News The new mandate replaces two current agreements that are set to expire in late 2026 UAE-based satellite company Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) has announced that its Government Solutions arm, Yahsat Government Solutions, will provide the UAE government with satellite capacity and managed services for the next 17 years, in a deal worth AED 18.7 billion ($5.1 billion). Yahsat is a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment company and offers satellite services to...
Ericsson and Google Cloud deepen Cloud RAN partnership
News The collaboration is an extension of the 2021 5G and edge cloud solutions partnership between the two firms Ericsson and Google have announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud to develop an Ericsson Cloud RAN solution on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). According to a statement from Ericsson, the partnership to develop an Ericsson Cloud RAN on GDC aims to “offer integrated automation and orchestration and leverage AI [artificial intelligence] /ML [machine learning] for...
Sweden raises $380m in latest spectrum auction
News The auction saw all available spectrum in the 900 MHz, 2.1 GHz, and 2.6 GHz bands purchased by the nation’s operators The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) has announced the results of its latest spectrum auction, with all three of the country’s major operators not only participating, but purchasing all available spectrum. The auction has been in the works for a long time, with PTS explaining that the allocations should help bolster the nation’s wireless services for years to come,...
Digital infrastructure, more than the sum of its parts
Insight Andy Bell, Head of Public Sector at ITS Digitalisation has long been on the local government agenda. The ambition to utilise modern technologies to improve how we live and work is a priority. While technology has advanced, the biggest obstacle to adoption has often been a lack of long-term strategy and access to the infrastructure to support it. Andy Bell, Head of Public Sector at wholesale full fibre provider specialist ITS Technology Group gave us this exclusive interview on how this...
TM Forum and Industry Partners Jointly Release the Fifth Autonomous Networks Whitepaper
PRESS RELEASE At the Autonomous Networks Summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 20, 2023, the fifth edition of the Autonomous Networks (AN) whitepaper — Autonomous Networks: Empowering digital transformation – Evolving from Level 2/3 towards Level 4, jointly written by TM Forum and 66 industry partners, was officially released. Many industry partners, including China Mobile, Vodafone, Telefonica, Zain, AIS, MTN, EANTC, and Huawei, attended the release conference. The past four years...
Huawei Launches the Industry’s First Large Network Model, Accelerating Industry Intelligence
PRESS RELEASE — Xinghe Network Large Model, Powering the Network Digital Map [Shanghai, China, September 21, 2023] At HUAWEI CONNECT 2023, Huawei released the industry’s first large network model — Xinghe Network large model. This future-oriented model empowers the iMaster NCE network digital map, and accelerates network digitalization and industry intelligence. Huawei Xinghe Network large model is a communication network model trained based on Huawei PanGu models. The large model aggregates...
Utility Warehouse Joins CityFibre’s UK FTTP Broadband Network
Communications, insurance and energy provider Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus) has today become the latest broadband ISP to join CityFibre’s growing national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to help reach more homes, which is being handled via their existing relationships with TalkTalk’s Wholesale division. UW previously only sold fixed broadband and phone packages via Openreach’s (BT) national network, […]
Ofcom UK to Take Back Phone Numbers from Defunct Providers
The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to “take back” a sizeable amount of phone numbers from a long list of broadband and communication providers that are no longer trading (i.e. those that have been dissolved, gone into liquidation or closed). At present the regulator allocates phone numbers to telecoms companies in […]
Netomnia Broadband ISP YouFibre Tops 50,000 UK Customers
Gigabit broadband ISP YouFibre, which sells packages via Netomnia and Cityfibre’s respective 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks – across different parts of the United Kingdom, has today reported that they now have a total customer base of 50,000 (up from 22,000 at the start of 2023 and 45,000 in August 2023). At present YouFibre’s main […]