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VIEWPOINT High quality, robust products are the key to a reliable and sustainable fibre optic networks because they will minimise the cost of installation and carbon emissions says Carlos Lopez, Telecoms business director, Prysmian Group Cables are not sexy. It is hard to comprehend, I know, but most households and businesses really don’t care what cable is used to deliver their internet service; alongside price, all they care about is reliability, speed and latency of the service. The key to...

News  The joint venture is the largest fibre optic alliance in Germany, and is equally owned by the two firms, each taking a 50% stake  Vodafone Germany and Altice have begun fibre deployment in Germany, through their joint venture OXG Galsfaser.   The joint venture, which was announced in October last year and given the green light by the European Commission in March, aims to deploy fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to 7 million homes within a 6 year period, an investment which could reach €7 billion....

Budget UK ISP TalkTalk, which is currently already in the process of trying to deal with pressure from its existing debts by selling off parts of their business (here and here), managed to secure some vital support at the end of last week after global investment firm KKR agreed to provide them with a £75m […]

Contributed Article Serkan Akcan, Chief Executive Officer, SecHard SecHard is a cybersecurity software company founded by a constellation of stars and tech gurus. Its story highlights the power of collaboration. It all began with our CTO, Kadir, a seasoned IT and cybersecurity manager, returning to the academic world for his master’s degree. During his education, he compared his experience with literature reviews and saw the potential for a product that could centralize cybersecurity hardening...

A new report has claimed that UK ISP Sky Broadband could be providing, as part of wider anti-piracy measures, more private customer and related financial data to rights-holders and / or related third-party groups than many consumers may be either aware of or comfortable with. Most internet access providers will conduct some monitoring and / […]

Rural focused broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already built a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 450,000 UK premises passed across 24 counties, has added the large village of Kingsclere in Hampshire to their current rollout plan – adding another 1,500 premises upon completion. But they’re not the only locations. According to the Basingstoke Gazette, the […]

The Government’s Building Digital UK agency has published the outcome of last year’s reviews into several key urban areas under their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout, which looked to identify which parts of Greater London, Merseyside and Greater Manchester, Newcastle and Birmingham might be left unserved. Firstly, the usual recap. Project Gigabit aims to extend […]

Back in 2022 we reported that budget UK broadband ISP TalkTalk was running a new trial (here), which gave “some” existing customers a free automatic upgrade to full fibre (FTTP) broadband – provided they were covered by the network and didn’t already have such a package. But fast-forward 13 months and this is no longer […]

News  UK Regulator Ofcom has released its Summer 2023 Study, based on mobile coverage and fixed broadband availability in the UK, as of April and May this year  According to the ‘Connected Nations’ report, “Full fibre” (FTTP) now reaches 52% of the UK, equalling 15.4 million households. This is up from 48% in January this year. The report notes that this growth has been predominately driven by deployments from larger fibre operators, but has been supported by a number of smaller altnets,...

News  In its study, Which? analysed the data collection operations of the brands who produce popular smart devices including doorbell cameras, smart speakers and smart washing machines  New Research from Which? has shown that the makers of smart home devices are collecting more data than is required from their users. This data is then in danger of being shared with third party firms such as social media platforms, without consumers being explicitly aware.  After analysis of the data collection...