Huawei Network Summit 2023 (Asia Pacific): Innovations Never Stop, Unleashing Digital Productivity
PRESS RELEASE The Asia Pacific stop of Huawei Network Summit (HNS) 2023 was held successfully in Jakarta, Indonesia. With the theme of “Innovations Never Stop”, HNS attracted more than 800 customers and partners from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and many other Asia Pacific countries. At HNS, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, delivered a keynote speech titled “Innovations Never Stop”, shedding light on how Huawei’s Intelligent Cloud-Network...
Broadband ISP EE Quietly Launch UK Digital Home Phone Service
Mobile operator and broadband ISP EE appears to have finally and quietly launched their IP-based Digital Home Phone service this month, which will ultimately replace their old analogue phone service and, perhaps unsurprisingly, is largely just a re-branded variant of BT’s existing Digital Voice product. Just as a reminder. Openreach’s old analogue phone solutions will […]
Battle for Ethiopia’s mobile money market begins as Safaricom’s M-Pesa takes on TeleBirr
News The mobile money platform, the largest in Africa, will take on incumbent operator Ethio Telecom’s own fintech service, Telebirr This week. Kenyan operator giant Safaricom has launched their M-Pesa mobile money platform in Ethiopia. The move marks a key part of newcomer Safaricom’s Ethiopian strategy, seeking to replicate the success that their M-Pesa already enjoys in numerous markets across the African continent. M-Pesa was first introduced by Safaricom in Kenya in 2007. Since then, the...
Thousands of Orbit’s Homes to Gain Access to Lightning Fibre FTTP Network
Blocks of flats across the South East of England, specifically those from UK housing group Orbit, look set to benefit from a “new” plug-and-play solution to full fibre (FTTP) broadband deployment, which is to be delivered by fibre installations specialist Complete Fibre – supported by broadband ISP Lightning Fibre. Network builder and ISP Lightning Fibre […]
Full Fibre Broadband ISP GoFibre Sign Emtelle Supply Deal for Scottish Borders
Rural focused UK broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the North of England and Scottish Borders area, has today signed a new supply deal with Emtelle UK, which is a global manufacturer of blown fibre and ducted network solutions. Under the new deal, Emtelle will manufacture and […]
CityFibre Begin FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wath Upon Dearne
Network operator CityFibre has today announced that they’ve begun a £31.2m project to deploy their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband ISP network across the South Yorkshire town of Wath Upon Dearne, which is home to a local population of around 12,000. But it’ll go further than that. The level of committed investment seems […]
Netomnia UK Start FTTP Broadband Rollout in Hitchin
Some 85,000 homes and businesses across the Hertfordshire (England) town of Hitchin will soon benefit after Netomnia, supported by UK ISP YouFibre, started a significant £25.5 million project to deploy their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network across the area. The operator has once again contracted civil engineering firm GNS Communications to […]
What’s in a name? 6G Internet falls foul of advertising regulator over consumer confusion
News After receiving complaints, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) told the ISP that its adverts were “misleadingly implying that a sixth-generation mobile network existed and was able to be used by consumers” This week, the ASA has announced that it has banned a number of adverts from UK ISP 6G Internet, after receiving a complaint that the company’s name could lead consumers to believe the company was offering non-existent 6G mobile services. After an assessment, the ASA ruled that...
Protecting the crown jewels of wholesale roaming with Syniverse
Interview We caught up with William Oliver, Senior Director of Product Management at Syniverse, to discuss the evolution of the wholesale roaming market and how operators can better manage their cashflow Today, mobile operators are handling more roaming traffic than ever before, necessitating wholesale roaming agreements with hundreds of partners all over the world. These agreements carry varying degrees of complexity and regularly require massive manual calculations, particularly when it...
BT Reveals 1,000 of its Old UK Payphone Kiosks Up for Grabs
Telecoms giant BT has announced that, ahead of its iconic red phone box turning 100 years of age next year, around 1,000 of its 20,000 remaining kiosks (payphone boxes) are currently up for grabs across the United Kingdom (down from a historic peak of 92,000). Some 7,200 have already been adopted by communities across the […]