LCR Connect takes Eurovision 2023 to a global audience
Press release The Liverpool City Region’s new full fibre network, built as part of LCR Connect, a 50% publicly owned joint venture, has played a leading role in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Utilising the 212km full fibre network that is being built across the six local authorities of the city region, LCR Connect provided the digital highway that enabled the successful delivery of the week-long celebration and Saturday’s final. The grand final was broadcast live from Liverpool’s M&S...
Startup Stories: The power of learning
Startup Stories Utrecht based startup, Komensky, empowers telecom companies to ensure their workforces stay competitive and innovative. They will be joining us at Total Telecom Congress this November. About Komensky & Our Founder, Fedor Hagenaar: Founded by Fedor Hagenaar, a specialist with almost 20 years of experience in enterprise learning strategy, Komensky is an innovative startup designed to future-proof workforces. Fedor’s expertise spans across a multitude of areas including...
Starlink Discounts Broadband Kit to £99 for UK Rural areas
SpaceX’s popular Starlink ISP, which harnesses thousands of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver ultrafast broadband speeds and fast latency times to homes, has launched a new promotion for people in UK rural areas that slashes the one-off hardware cost by 75% from £460 to just £99. Customers in the UK would […]
Ookla Study Finds UK Home WiFi Speeds Lag Wired Ethernet
A new study from Ookla, which operates the popular broadband connection testing service Speedtest.net, has surprised absolutely nobody today by revealing that home WiFi performance continues to lag behind wired Ethernet (LAN) performance in many advanced markets (e.g. Wi-Fi speeds in the UK were just 29.8% of Ethernet in Q1 2023). The fact that Wireless […]
Wildanet Name 9 New Devon UK Areas for FTTP Broadband Build UPDATE
Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which is rolling out a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of South West England (mostly Cornwall), has today revealed the next 4 locations in Devon that will benefit from their ongoing infrastructure build. The provider, which is being supported by an investment of £50m from the Gresham House […]
Netflix Warns UK Broadband ISPs of Password Sharing Crackdown
Internet video streaming giant Netflix has reportedly contacted several major UK broadband ISPs that bundle their service with Pay TV products, including Sky Broadband, BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, to discuss the potential impact on customers of their imminent crackdown on password / account sharing. At present Netflix’s terms merely state that access to your […]
ICO Fines UK ISP Ice Comms £80k for Making Illegal SPAM Calls
Crewe-based broadband and phone provider Ice Telecommunications Ltd (Ice Comms) has been fined £80,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after they were found to have made 72,682 unsolicited marketing (SPAM) calls to businesses registered with the CTPS or TPS between 13th Sept 2021 and 31st Jan 2022. The ICO said they received 30 complaints […]
Alternative Full Fibre ISPs Cover 8.2 Million UK Premises as Build Slows
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) and Point Topic just published their 2023 report into the impact of alternative “full fibre” (FTTP/B) gigabit broadband networks, which reveals that AltNets grew their UK cover by 50.18% in 2022 to top 8.22 million premises (up from 5.46m in 2021). But the rollout slowed. The figures above are […]
ETSI report hints at the potential of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
News From improved coverage to beam forming and energy savings, the emergent technology is one that could come to define the future of wireless network deployment As we look towards the future and the 6G era, one of the most anticipated emerging technologies is surely Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). A RIS is a surface comprising arrangement of scattering elements called unit-cells, which can be controlled to change its electromagnetic behaviour. This allows the RIS to dynamically...
CDP to bow out of bidding war over TIM’s NetCo
News State-lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA (CDP) will reportedly withdraw its bid for ownership of TIM’s network infrastructure unit, leaving the path unopposed for private equity fund KKR This week, anonymous sources speaking to Bloomberg suggest that CDP is preparing to drop its multi-billion euro bid for TIM’s fibre network. According to the sources, CDP is unwilling to increase its offer to exceed that of rival bidder KKR, but still remains interested in taking a minority stake in the...