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Infracapital-backed network builder and ISP Ogi, which is investing £200m on the deployment of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across 150,000 premises in Wales by 2025 (47,500 premises covered by March 2023), has revealed that they’ve awarded £36,750 to community groups within their patch. The news follows last year’s development, which saw the provider […]

Interview We spoke to Ciena’s VP Global Submarine Solutions, Thomas Soerensen, at this year’s Submarine Networks EMEA event to discuss how the company is navigating the challenging global market, from geopolitics to supply chain issues At this year’s Submarine Networks EMEA conference, there was undoubtedly an elephant in the room: geopolitics. With political tensions rising in numerous theatres around the world, governments are becoming increasingly interventionist in the submarine cable...

Press Release The Un-carrier has earned its wings! Valmont Industries Inc. and T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) today announced the completion of an industry-first long-distance BVLOS drone inspection flight enabled by 5G. Traditional methods for infrastructure monitoring typically require extensive manpower, manned aircraft operations or ground-based inspections, which involve significant safety risks, more time and more money. But not anymore ― especially now that the Federal Aviation Administration...

News Germany’s competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office), will explore whether Vodafone has directly or indirectly hindered 1&1’s rollout of 5G radio equipment The Bundeskartellamt has announced that it will launch an investigation into Vodafone and its infrastructure subsidiary Vantage Towers, seeking to ascertain whether they have illegally impeded rival 1&1’s rollout of mobile services. 1&1 signed an agreement to piggyback on Vantage Towers’ mobile site...

Network operator Digital Infrastructure – supported by ISP BeFibre – has today announced that their gigabit-capable broadband infrastructure is now “well on its way to rolling out to a fully designed base of 400,000 premises, with over 100,000 now ready for connection.” On top of that, they’ve appointed a new CEO, Paul Doyle. Just to […]

A new broadband ISP called Earth Broadband (earth.) has launched that claims to be doing things differently by “putting customers and the planet first, and with fast speeds and fair pricing.” In particular, some of the money from subscriptions will be used to help remove plastic from the ocean and plant 5 extra trees every […]

Openreach (BT) and Crimestoppers have begun offering a reward of £20,000 to help catch the criminals who were responsible for several thefts of their copper broadband and phone cables around the Thamesmead area of South-East London, which caused significant service disruption for locals. The perpetrators of such crimes never have any regard for the harm […]

Internet retail and streaming giant Amazon is reportedly in the very early stages of exploring whether or not to add a Mobile phone service as an extra feature of their paid Prime membership, which already offers limited music streaming, cheaper deliveries, video streaming, Kindle books and various other benefits. At this stage all the rumours […]

Customers of broadband ISP Plusnet, which is part of the wider BT Group, may like to know that the low-cost focused internet provider has just “re-launched” their “Perks” loyalty reward programme, which reflects an ever-changing selection of “exclusive deals, discounts and free trials on a huge range of products“. Existing customers can see what perks […]

Openreach has announced that they will finally introduce their new ‘Advanced Managed Install’ option for standalone UK broadband products (i.e. SOGEA – FTTC and SOGfast – G.fast) on 1st July 2023, which will give UK ISPs another option that can be offered to those with more complex installation requirements. Just to recap. Single Order Generic […]