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Shrewsbury-based ISP SWS Broadband (Rural Broadband Solutions Plc), which covers premises in rural parts of Shropshire (England) and Wales via both wireless and full fibre (FTTP) connectivity, has today added the villages of Minsterley and Pontesbury to their gigabit fibre rollout plan. The company revealed last year that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises network build would […]

The investor behind Upp’s £1bn project to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across 1 million premises in the East of England by 2025 (here), LetterOne, has launched a legal challenge against the UK Government’s order for L1 to sell its entire stake in Upp in order to “prevent, remedy, or mitigate the […]

Most people tend to assume that the problem of slow broadband ISP connectivity is one that predominantly affects rural areas, which is matched by a presumption that commercial operators (Openreach, Virgin Media etc.) will quickly blanket big UK cities and towns with the fastest speeds. But such assumptions are not always correct. During the many […]

We’ve today published our second annual summary of the top broadband network operators with the greatest share of the new build homes market, which specifically reflects those that are catering for such developments by deploying Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology. This update adds a comparison with last year’s data. At present, around 98% of new […]

News The deal with Telkomsel’s parent company Telkom will see the mobile operator merged with Telkom’s wholly owned broadband arm, IndiHome Today, Indonesian wireless operator Telkomsel has announced plans to merge with fixed broadband operator, IndiHome. The deal, worth roughly $3.9 billion, will see Indonesia’s largest mobile operator combined with the country’s largest fixed broadband provider. Both Telkomsel and IndiHome are owned by the same parent company, multinational telecoms...

News Bouygues Telecom and Altice France (SFR) have began legal proceedings with the Administrative Court of Paris, seeking to gain compensation from the state for having to remove and replace Huawei radio equipment At the height of debates surrounding 5G and national security in 2019–2020, France, like many European countries, refused to issue an outright ban on Huawei equipment, as was done by the UK and Sweden. Instead, the country took a more indirect route, with 2019 Constitutional Council...

News Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and UScellular have sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announcing voluntary commitments to meet aviation safety concerns At the start of 2021, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon spent nearly $80 billion on C-band spectrum at the FCC’s 5G auction. This spectrum was pegged to be the focal point of the trio’s respective 5G networks, offering the ideal balance of high speed, low latency, and broad coverage. By the start of 2022, however, a...

News According to reports, the deal could be worth over $4 billion Vodafone has long lamented the highly competitive nature of the Spanish telecoms market, in which they compete fiercely with Movistar, Orange, and MasMovil in an ongoing price war. For some time, the company had hoped that market consolidation would be the solution to their woes, with rumours of a potential merger with MasMovil rising and falling repeatedly in recent years. Indeed, this focus on consolidation in competitive...

Stellium Data Centres and CBRE have released The North of England Data Centres Market Report. The free report, which was commissioned by Stellium Data Centres, can be downloaded here. Focusing on the economic growth and data centre capacity available in the North of England, the report notes the UK’s Northeast as having the lowest carbon intensity of any UK transmission area – a crucial requirement it says for a cloud service provider or hyperscaler – and which will benefit further with the...

Mobile network operator O2 (VMO2) will later this morning be introducing some new offers on their Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, which will see double data across all their ‘Big Bundle’ and selected ‘Rolling Plan’ tariffs for both new and existing customers. But this will only last for up to 3 months. Data allowances […]