Ericsson bolsters Tallin supply site with private 5G network
News Working alongside Swedish operator Telia, Ericsson’s says its private 5G network tech will enable numerous advanced use cases, from real-time video analytics to digital twins This week, Ericsson has announced a new partnership with Telia to deploy the Baltics’ first enterprise 5G network at Ericsson’s own Estonian supply factory, located in the capital city, Tallinn. According to Ericsson, this deployment will not only drive “productivity, agility, and sustainability” for the factory’s...
London Full Fibre ISP G.Network Plans Hundreds of Job Losses
Instability in the UK market for alternative broadband networks has continued to rise today after ISP and network builder G.Network, which had been investing around £1bn to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network across London, notified staff of future redundancies (sources indicate over 200 jobs could go). The operator, which last year claimed […]
Plain sailing for Islalink’s new IONIAN cable
Interview It’s been a busy few months for the Islalink team with the completion of the IONIAN cable taking place earlier this year. Esther Garcès, CEO of Islalink will be speaking about the launch at Submarine Networks EMEA 2023 later this month. Total Telecom caught up with Esther this week to find out more about the project. The IONIAN cable has been in operation since March 2023; how did the launch go? Indeed, IONIAN reached RFS (‘ready for service’) at the end of March 2023. We already...
CRTC ruling paves the way for Canadian MVNOs
News The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved the terms of mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access agreements, potentially offering Canadian customers a broader choice of mobile providers This week, the CRTC has ruled that Canada’s four national mobile network operators – Bell, Rogers, Sasktel, and Telus – will be mandated to allow regional competitors access to their mobile networks on an MVNO basis. This will allow smaller players to offer...
Aqua Comms announces its first live Trans-Atlantic commercial 400GE service for Energy Sciences Network
Press release Aqua Comms, a leading provider of global subsea connectivity services, today announced its first live commercial 400 Gbps Ethernet (GE) Trans-Atlantic service from London to New York for Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network built to support scientific research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science and managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). ESnet’s “data circulatory system” provides services to...
Freedom Fibre Win Rural Shropshire Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract
The eighth contract to be awarded under the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme – worth £24 million – has today been awarded to network builder Freedom Fibre, which will upgrade connectivity for “around” 12,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across rural parts of Shropshire (England). The provider, which is supported by UK ISP […]
Broadband ISP ZYBRE Shift UK CityFibre Customers to Octaplus
Customers of troubled broadband ISP ZYBRE (Air Broadband), specifically those served by CityFibre’s UK full fibre (FTTP) network, have this week been informed that the provider has reached an agreement with rival internet provider Octaplus Networks to “support migrating of our existing broadband subscribers“. Just to recap. ZYBRE seems to have suffered from a variety […]
Customers of Giganet Broadband Suffer Mass UK Service Outage
Fern Trading-backed UK ISP Giganet (Cuckoo) appears to have been suffering from a “mass service outage” over the past 12-24 hours which, judging by feedback from customers across the UK, has resulted in a variety of sporadic connectivity problems since around 3pm yesterday afternoon. Firstly, credit where credit is due, because Giganet – unlike the […]
Virgin Media O2 Sees UK Broadband Growth as Nexfibre Expands
Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has published their latest Q1 2023 results, which saw broadband customers grow to total 5,653,800 (up by 28.8k vs 22.7k in Q4 2022) and 5G mobile expand its coverage to 2,100 towns and cities. The operator also added 107,800 premises to their new full fibre (FTTP) network (primarily for nexfibre). […]
UK Ranks 22 out of 132 Countries for Broadband Affordability
Comparison site Broadband Genie has today published a new 2023 Global Broadband Affordability Index, which explores the affordability of “high-speed broadband across the globe“. Overall, the United Kingdom was found to rank 22nd out of a total database of 132 countries. Naturally, there are a few caveats to consider with this study. Firstly, some countries […]