Virgin Media O2 and Good Things Foundation launch apprenticeship scheme
Press Release Virgin Media O2 and Good Things Foundation have partnered to launch a new apprenticeship programme where successful candidates will gain professional qualifications alongside undertaking critical work to increase digital inclusion across the UK. The telecommunications firm has gifted around £200,000 to fund the ‘Good Things Foundation Future Skills Academy’ which will be delivered by EdTech provider Multiverse with the schemes ranging from Level 3 (the equivalent of A Level)...
Airtel and Dialog’s Sri Lankan merger to create mobile market powerhouse
News The combined entity would control around two-thirds of the Sri Lankan mobile market This week, Dialog Axiata and Bharti Airtel have announced their intention to merge their respective Sri Lankan units. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the announcement notes that Airtel will receive new shares in Dialog as part of the deal. Dialog is already the current mobile market leader in Sri Lanka, with its roughly 18 million customers representing around 60% of the total...
Gigaloch Target Full Fibre Rollout for 200,000 UK Premises
Fife-based broadband ISP Gigaloch, which in 2020 began building their own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across a few remote rural communities in Cheshire (England) and Perthshire (Scotland), has secured their first institutional financing round and are now aiming to cover up to 200,000 premises (mostly in Scotland). The operator originally started their build in Mollington (West […]
Openreach: The full fibre take-up challenge and building networks of the future
Interview At this year’s Connected North conference, we caught up with Matt Hemmings, Managing Director Fibre & Network Delivery at Openreach, to talk about the company’s ongoing fibre rollout and take-up of full fibre services Fibre is being rolled out across the UK at a blistering speed and, while there is still much work to be done to make this state-of-the-art technology available to all of the country’s citizens, discussions are already beginning to shift towards take-up. “Building...
Evolving Wireless Backhaul Industry and Impact of New KPIs from ETSI ISG mWT
VIEWPOINT The recently-released European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI’s) report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in the millimeter-wave and microwave backhaul promise to bring significant benefits to the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in managing the ever-growing need for more capacity as the number of subscribers with new services demanding high bandwidth continues to increase. “A major benefit for the operator is the possibility of lowering the Total Cost of Ownership...
Survey Claims UK 5G Mobile Users are Satisfied with Performance
A new OnePoll survey of 1,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Green Smartphones and focused on those who reported using 5G to get online via their mobile phones, has claimed that 80% of people are satisfied with the broadband speeds and coverage offered by their 5G service (9% were dissatisfied, while 12% were undecided). […]
ISP Sky Broadband UK Preparing New Home Router for H2 2023
Sources have informed ISPreview that UK ISP Sky Broadband (Sky), which sells FTTC and FTTP packages via Openreach’s national network, are aiming to introduce a new WiFi 6 capable router for their residential customers sometime around the end of Q3 and early Q4 2023. Sky have so far done a fair job of keeping a […]
Deutsche Telekom and Orange head up consortium in bid for EU satellite constellation
News The consortium, including both telecoms and satellite specialists, will bid to jointly operate the European Commission (EC)’s burgeoning IRIS² low-earth orbit satellite constellation Satellite communication networks have seen a meteoric rise in recent years, buoyed by the steady growth of Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation, which now comprises almost 4,000 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Soon, the expansion of similar constellations, such as the UK government-backed OneWeb and...
Continuous Innovation in IP Domain a Must to Boost Carrier Growth in B2B
VIEWPOINT Future-oriented IP target network architecture is key to helping Mobile Network Operators and enterprises build converged IP networks, to enhance efficiency and introduce digital managed network solutions and architecture, enabling them to drive new growth in business-to-business (B2B) services. “At Huawei, we are aiming to provide a future-oriented intelligent IP network. We hope to help operators to accelerate the development of new scenarios, new services and new business models...
Survey Finds Confusion Over UK Broadband and Mobile Contracts
A new Opinium survey of 2,003 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch.com, has found that average monthly bills for broadband ISP bundles and mobile phones have increased by £18.50 and £9.50 (per month) respectively this year. Despite that, 27% of broadband and 22% of mobile users still do not know when their contracts end. […]