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Interview For the past two years, Freedom Fibre has been working tirelessly to bring a full-fibre network to both rural and urban areas of the North West. Through this time, they’ve seen the Alt-Net Sector shift the focus from increasing build numbers to the importance of increasing connection rates. In a recent interview with Total Telecom at the 2023 Connected North Conference, Freedom Fibre’s CFO, Darren Woods, highlighted this change and argued that a customer-centric approach to the...

A new survey of over 6,000 adults in the UK, which was conducted by consumer charity Citizen’s Advice, claims to have uncovered that “up to” 1 million broadband customers “disconnected” their broadband ISP connection over the past year because the cost-of-living crisis left them unable to afford it. The survey itself included 1,215 respondents known […]

BT Group has today published their latest Q4 FY23 (quarterly) results to March 2023, which saw Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network grow to cover 10.274 million premises (up by 702k in the quarter vs 810k last quarter) and EE increase their 5G Ready customer base to 9.12 million (up from 8.5m). Firstly, BT’s consumer division […]

Hammersmith-based F&W Networks has this afternoon announced that their new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband network has grown to cover 335,000 UK premises (up from 250,000 in late Feb 2023), which puts them on course to reach their goal of 1 million premises by 2025. At present, F&W Networks is busy deploying their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) […]

Broadband ISP Ogi has today announced that their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network is to be extended across more of Bridgend county, which will form part of their £200m Infracapital-backed project to cover 150,000 premises in rural parts of South Wales by 2025. The provider, which by March 2023 had covered around 47,500 premises (up […]

Contributed Article By David Wilson, global offering director for solar and telecom energy solutions at Vertiv It’s no surprise that telecoms operators around the world are prioritising sustainability initiatives. The GSMA estimates that they account for up to 3% of the total global energy demand, and estimates that this number will increase further despite the savings in energy consumption that the new 5G radio standard brings. Multiple new mobile stations will be needed to meet the expected...

News The drones will support emergency services across the country, supported by Citymesh’s 5G network Today, Nokia and Citymesh have announced their latest partnership, which will see the operator use 70 Drone-in-a-Box units from Nokia to help bolster Belgium’s emergency services. Strategically deployed to 35 emergency zones across the country and managed by five centralised operations centres, these 70 drones will be able to quickly gather information about emergency incidents taking place...

The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), which is working alongside the Connecting Cambridgeshire broadband rollout project, has today announced the next set of three locations to benefit from their ongoing rollout of free public access WiFi (“CambWifi“). The service is currently being provided at over 200 public buildings, as well as open spaces (i.e. […]

Mobile network operator Lyca Mobile has today announced that they’ve become one of the first Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) – based off O2’s (VMO2) national platform – to launch an e-SIM service for customers in the United Kingdom. The eSIM standard is an alternative to physical SIM cards, which essentially embeds an electronic SIM […]

Colchester-based alternative network ISP County Broadband, which has an ambition to cover 500,000 premises across the East of England with their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2027, has today signed a new partnership with civil engineering firm AB Installs to accelerate their rollout. The full fibre provider, which is being supported […]