High Court denies BT’s attempts to sue Virgin Mobile
News The result brings nearly a year’s worth of legal action to a close The High Court has rejected EE’s legal challenge against Virgin Media – now Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) – which accused Virgin Media of terminating their network access agreement before its expiry. Virgin Mobile first signed a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) deal with EE back in 2013, offering consumers mobile services powered by the latter’s 3G and 4G network infrastructure. In 2019, at the dawn of the 5G era,...
Startup Story: Disrupting the business model to create your own branded eSIM products and services
Startup Stories Tell us about your startup eSIM Go was established in 2020 to provide businesses, including those within the travel sector, with the technology to become an eSIM MVNO in a matter of days. Our vision is to become the world’s leading B2B2C provider of mobile plans. We work with bedroom developers and blue chips, enabling enterprises of any size, anywhere, to sell, bundle or upsell mobile plans on a white-label or ancillary basis. Our mission is to enable companies to deliver...
e& looks to Europe with €2.15bn stake in PPF Telecom Group
News The deal will see the UAE-based operator group continue to expand its global portfolio, just months after CEO Hatem Dowidar said the company had the “capacity and wallet” for international expansion This week, Emirati telecoms group e& has announced that it has agreed to buy 50% plus one share in PPF Telecom Group’s telecoms assets in Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia for €2.15 billion. The assets in question include the operator units of Yettel in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary,...
Vodafone UK to Upgrade Energy Smart Meters with 4G Mobile
Broadband and mobile operator Vodafone has today signed a new agreement – lasting for up to 15 years – with the Data Communications Company (DCC), which manages Britain’s national Smart Meter network. Under the deal, the operator will work to upgrade the Smart Meter network to harness 4G infrastructure. Smart Meters in the UK (i.e. […]
Vocus offers TPG Telecom $4.2bn for fixed infrastructure assets
News The share price of TPG Telecom has risen by 12% since the news Vocus has made a non-binding offer of AU$6.3 billion ($4.2 billion) to buy rival TPG Telecom’s enterprise, government, and wholesale assets. “Discussions between the parties remain incomplete and transaction terms are subject to ongoing negotiation,” said TPG in a statement. “Securityholders should be aware that the Board of TPG has not made any decision to accept any offer, and there is no certainty an agreed transaction...
Court Rejects BT Attempt to Sue Virgin Mobile Over Migrations
The High Court has thrown out a “fanciful” legal challenge by EE (BT) against Virgin Media (VMO2), which last year (here) accused the UK operator of having migrated customers away from their then EE powered Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform – Virgin Mobile – before the agreement had been concluded. Just to recap. At […]
Neos Networks Bring National 400Gbps Services to UK Businesses
Network operator Neos Networks, which operates one of the fastest growing and highest capacity business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 34,000km, 550 exchanges and 676 Points of Presence (PoPs), has today launched its new national 400Gbps Optical Wavelength services across 26 data centres (they have a total of 90 on-net). Previously the highest […]
Virgin Media O2 Business Launch UK Portable 5G Private Network
Broadband and mobile giant Virgin Media O2 Business (VMO2) has today announced somewhat of a UK first by becoming the first telecoms operator to launch a commercially-available portable 5G private network (PN), which is currently under trial at a number of UK businesses and harnesses Nokia’s 5G Standalone (SA) tech. Once plugged in, the new […]
Cable Hungry Rats Knock Out Openreach Broadband in Tring
Homes and businesses in the Hertfordshire (England) market town of Tring have faced several days of disruption to their broadband ISP connectivity, which occurred after rodents with a taste for optical fibre chewed through one of Openreach’s (BT) main high capacity fibre trunking cables in the area. Over the years we’ve seen plenty of animal […]
Local vs Roaming – UK and EU Mobile Broadband Speeds Compared
Ookla, which operates the popular internet Speedtest.net benchmarking service, has published the results of an interesting new study that examines how mobile broadband (4G and 5G) performance (i.e. downloads and latency) differs between local vs roaming connectivity across the United Kingdom and European Union. Interestingly, residents from 17 countries showed faster local download speeds than […]