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British multinational corporation and mobile network operator Lyca Mobile, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) based off O2’s (VMO2) national platform, has today announced the appointment of Richard Schäfer to be their new CEO (Mobile and Group) – having previously served as Lyca Group CFO since May 2021. Schäfer has a strong track […]

A new piece of research, from a distinguished group of engineers and astronomers, has indicated that Starlink’s latest “V2 Mini” (Bus F9-2) ultrafast broadband satellites, which sit in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and began to be launched earlier this year (here), are over ten times fainter than SpaceX’s first generation (GEN1) spacecraft. Just to […]

The latest H2 2022 study into the broadband coverage of UK new build homes reveals that 98.3% of houses constructed by the end of 2022 were covered by a fixed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (unchanged from H1 2022), which falls slightly to 98.1% when only looking at the latest early data for 2023. The data, which […]

Rural UK ISP Wildanet, which is building a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, has this week become the latest provider to sign the Armed Forces Covenant (AFC) – witnessed by several of the many ex-service personnel already working for the company. The AFC broadly reflects […]

Alternative network provider Airband, which aims to cover 600,000 UK premises in rural areas via a mix of their wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks by the end of 2025, has reportedly appointed restructuring firms AlixPartners and Houlihan Lokey to help find additional funding amid difficult conditions. The operator, which is supported by […]

The Liberal Democrat MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron, has once again gone to bat for UK broadband ISP B4RN after the Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency unexpectedly pulled the rug out from under one of their rural gigabit voucher based full fibre builds in Cumbria (i.e. the project for Warcop, Sandford, Coupland Beck, […]

Press Release The newly formed company will launch a trio of data centres in the capital region, helping to ensure sensitive data is stored and delivered safely on Norwegian soil The criteria for security and sustainability are tightening at the same time as Norway is digitising at a historic rate. Together with partners, Telenor and Hafslund are establishing a company that will build secure and energy-efficient data centres in the Oslo area. “Data centres are, in many ways, the digital heart...

News Reports suggest the European Commission is likely to object to the $19 billion merger unless certain conditions are met In March last year, Orange and Masmovil signed a binding agreement to merge their Spanish businesses, with the combined entity expected to have a market value of roughly $19 billion. The new business, set to be equally owned by both Orange and Masmovil, would have roughly 7.2 million fixed broadband customers and over 20.2 million subscribers, making it a new market...

Broadband ISP BT has this morning confirmed that they’ve begun the expected region-by-region roll out of their Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) based home phone service, Digital Voice, in the East Midlands of England. Once completed, the deployment will next be extended to Yorkshire & Humberside, and then Northern Ireland. Customers will be contacted at least four weeks […]

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), which is known to employ around 16,000 people across the United Kingdom, has confirmed to ISPreview UK that an unspecified number of their workers were notified this week that they were likely to be made redundant in the near future. The event was noticed after […]