CityFibre Win Rural Cambridgeshire Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract UPDATE
The sixth contract awarded under the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme – worth £122 million – has today been awarded to CityFibre, which will upgrade connectivity for “around” 45,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses across rural parts of Cambridgeshire in England. At present CityFibre is best known for deploying across urban areas and […]
WhiteHaul Tech Can Push 1Gbps Wireless Broadband Over 10km+
A spinout from a team at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, called WhiteHaul, has secured £275k from Scottish Enterprise (SE) to develop a novel spectrum aggregation technology that claims to enable “high speed long-distance” backhaul links that “cannot currently be commercially achieved by existing fibre or wireless technologies.” The problem with transmitting gigabit class […]
Better infrastructure, same problem: why upgrading broadband infrastructure isn’t the only answer
Viewpoint Article written and supplied by Veego AT&T recently disclosed its investment of between $10 and $15 billion in fiber cable infrastructure. Nokia and Eurofiber Group signed an agreement at the end of the year to expand on the current 60,000 km of Eurofiber fiber infrastructure. More global CSPs are expected to follow. But is the investment in this new broadband infrastructure worth it? The Main Types of Broadband Infrastructure The answer is: It depends. But to explain how we...
RunFibre Put Full Fibre Live in Tiny Gloucestershire Village of Over
Broadband ISP RunFibre, which is deploying a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural areas of South Gloucestershire (England), has announced that they’ve completed their gigabit voucher-supported build to 119 rural properties in the village of Over and its surroundings. The move complements their existing builds in the communities of Hawkesbury Upton, Inglestone Common, Easter Compton, Bradley […]
Mobile Operators to Test UK Wide Emergency Alerts on 23rd April
The government and mobile operators have officially started activating the new UK-wide Emergency Alerts service, which has been designed to warn mobile users if there’s a “danger to life nearby” (e.g. severe flooding, fires and extreme weather). But it will only work on modern 4G and 5G Smartphones. The Emergency Alerts system is similar to […]
A Look at the Impact of Project Lightning on Virgin Media in West Yorkshire
Analysts at global telecoms market intelligence firm ThinkCX have published a new report that examines the extent to which Virgin Media’s (VMO2) “Project Lightning” broadband expansion in West Yorkshire (England) “arrested a decline in its local market share and led to net growth“. In case anybody has forgotten, Project Lightning added 3.2 million premises to […]
T-Mobile agrees to buy Mint Mobile in $1.35bn deal
News The magenta giant has pledged to ‘supercharge’ the Mint Mobile brand while retaining the marketing bite of celebrity owner Ryan Reynolds T-Mobile is set to purchase Ka’ena Corporation, the parent company of prepaid mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile. The Uncarrier will pay up to $1.35 billion for the company, with final amount varying based on Ka’ena’s performance during certain periods both before and after the deal closes. The sum will be paid in a combination of cash and...
BT taps AWS Wavelength for 5G edge computing needs
Press Release New long-term, multi-million-pound investment gives BT’s UK business customers access to edge computing services – with the first site now live for customer trials in Manchester, before general availability targeted for later this year BT today announced a multi-million-pound investment to bring 5G and 4G mobile edge computing services to its UK business customers in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The work combines AWS’s cloud expertise with BT’s market-leading 5G...
VMO2 and CityFibre bosses discuss potential takeover
News Reports suggest that Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has entered talks to purchase CItyFibre, the UK’s largest altnet, in a deal that could be valued at over £3 billion This weekend, a report from The Telegraph suggests that VMO2 could be interested in purchasing its fibre rival, CityFibre. According to the report, Mike Fries, CEO of VMO2’s parent company Liberty Global, and Greg Mesch, CEO of CityFibre, have entered into “initial talks” over the possibility of VMO2 presenting CityFIbre with a...
Netomnia and YouFibre secure £230m in additional funding
Press Release Netomnia, one of the fastest growing altnets in the UK, along with ISP sister company YouFibre, has raised £230 million in committed debt financing Netomnia has successfully completed its latest fundraise of £230 million in committed debt financing from a group of six bank lenders, comprised of HSBC UK, ING, NIBC, RBC, Standard Chartered, and UKIB. The financing package also includes an accordion to be raised in the future to support the continued growth of the business. The...