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Openreach (BT) has today announced the next batch of 119 UK exchanges under ‘Tranche 12‘ of their project to move away from copper-based analogue phone (PSTN / WLR etc.) services and on to a new all-IP network, which will also occur once over 75% of premises in each area are able to get FTTP broadband. […]

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today updated their Network and Information Systems (NIS) guidance by lowering their thresholds, which will require UK Operators of Essential Services (OES) – such as top-level domain name registries, DNS providers and internet exchanges (IXP) – to inform them of less severe outages. Operators are already required to notify Ofcom […]

Broadband ISP Fibrus has today announced that the first homes to be reached via their £108m Project Gigabit broadband rollout contract in Cumbria (here) have just been connected, which occurs only six months after the formal announcement. A total of 60,000 hard-to-reach premises are expected to benefit by completion. The Cumbria (Lot 28) project was […]

Press Release Liquid Dataport, a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) (https://www.Liquid.Tech), a pan-African technology group, has launched its newest fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya, to Muanda on the west coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). This is the shortest route connecting East to West Africa, reducing data transmission latency by 20 milliseconds. The much anticipated 3,800km route marks a new era in East-West connectivity on the continent,...

NEWS More than 8.3 million U.S. homes and businesses lack access to high-speed broadband internet, the FCC said Tuesday in unveiling its revised national broadband access map As part of the unveiling, the FCC announced that it had increased its estimates of homes and businesses without access to high-speed broadband by nearly 330,000 locations, with the data forming a crucial part of funding decisions. In 2021, the US Congress approved $42.5bn in funding grants for states and territories to...

Contributed Interview In this interview, a trio of specialists from Eversheds Sutherland talk some of the key themes in the submarine cable regulator space, including the increasing impact of geopolitics and the rise of the MENA region In 2023, the regulatory landscape in the submarine cable industry is changing rapidly. Fuelled by geopolitical tensions and an increasing appreciation for submarine networks as critical infrastructure, governments are becoming increasingly active and...

Press Release Ericsson and MediaTek have set a new 5G upload speed record of 440 Mbps in low-band and mid-band spectrum using Uplink Carrier Aggregation. The zippy uplink speed brings better, smoother experiences for the likes of video conference users, streamers, and their audience with more frames per second and higher image resolution. The record uplink speed was achieved in an interoperability development test at an Ericsson lab. The test was performed with RAN Compute Baseband 6648 and a...

Colchester-based alternative network ISP County Broadband, which aims to reach 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today announced the appointment of Chris Davies as Chief Information Officer (CIO). Chris is known to have over 10 years’ experience across the IT […]

Broadband ISP BT will this week expand the rollout of their Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) based Digital Voice product, which was only recently restarted with a smaller group of customers after a long pause (here), to include “all full fibre and a smaller group of broadband customers yet to switch to Digital Voice.” In case anybody has […]

Broadband giant BT has today announced that they’re making the 2023 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League finals available to everyone in the United Kingdom to watch for free, whether on TV, online or on mobile. All three European finals will be available for free at www.btsport.com/final, on the BT […]