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Interview At this year’s Submarine Networks EMEA conference, Total Telecom caught up with Infinera’s Director of Technology and Solutions, Geoff Bennett, to discuss some of the hottest trends in the submarine cable industry Despite the widespread public misconception that satellites beam down the internet from the sky, over 99% of the world’s international network traffic in fact flows over submarine cables. As such, this sector continues to experience unprecedented growth in line with the...

Telecoms and civil engineering firm Obelisk (Constructel Visabeira), which is involved in the construction of some UK full fibre broadband networks, has today announced their acquisition of the telecoms division of international infrastructure group, Balfour Beatty. The move, which follows Obelisk’s own acquisition by Constructel Visabeira last year (here), is said to underpin the company’s […]

The parent company of UK retail energy and broadband provider Shell Energy has announced their intention to sell the company, which follows a major “strategic review” of the business that was launched in January 2023 due to “tough market conditions“. Reports claim that Ovo and Octopus Energy may have already placed bids. Firstly, it should […]

News The operator has signed an agreement with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite player Lynk Global aiming to trial direct-to-device satellite mobile services by the end of the year This week, Spark has announced a new partnership with LEO satellite operator Lynk, becoming the last of New Zealand’s mobile operators to see their connectivity take to the stars. The partnership will see Spark trial Lynk’s direct-to-consumer mobile connectivity by the end of the year, with some of their customers...

RWG Mobile, which describes itself as being the nation’s only “dedicated, all-Wales mobile network provider”, has today announced that they’ve finally made 5G based mobile broadband connectivity available to all of their consumer and business customers, “at no extra cost“. Most other operators did this a while ago. The Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), which […]

VIEWPOINT The subscriber dynamic has shifted tremendously over the last few years, and savvy altnets in the U.K. are seizing the moment to compete on more than just speed and price. It’s all about the subscriber experience you provide through the Wi-Fi services that you offer, as David Green of Calix shares at Connected North 2023. The cloud platform from Calix, Revenue EDGE, delivers an exceptional subscriber experience along with critical insights for altnets to make informed decisions. Even...

Exeter-based broadband ISP and network builder Jurassic Fibre, which is deploying a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset in England, appears to have recently cut an unspecified number of jobs – mostly impacting those in their civil engineering division. The operator, which is being supported by an investment of £250m […]

The Building Digital UK agency and Department for the Economy (DfE) have published a new Public Review (PR) consultation for Northern Ireland, which reveals that some 85,504 premises might need state aid help under the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme in order to access 1Gbps speeds. The project, which is targeted at upgrading areas […]

Some customers of SpaceX’s popular Starlink broadband ISP in the UK have started reporting that their download speeds are being throttled, often to around 50Mbps, when they hit a certain threshold. So it’s perhaps no coincidence that they’ve also launched a ‘PRIORITY – 1TB‘ plan for £180. Customers in the UK typically pay from £75 […]

The UK Government will today launch a new £7 million fund as one part of their wider Unleashing Rural Opportunity strategy, which will be used to “test out new ways” of bringing together satellite, wireless (FWA and mobile) and fixed line broadband ISP solutions to help “support farmers and tourism businesses” in rural areas. The […]