Huawei Launches FTTR OptiXstar F30, the First to Support 2000 Mbps in the Industry
VIEWPOINT During MWC 2023 held in Barcelona, Richard Jin, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, launched the FTTR OptiXstar F30 product in the Huawei 2023 ICT solution and product launch event. It is the first product in the industry to support both GPON and XGS-PON Combo upstream transmission at 2000 Mbps, enabling ultra-gigabit coverage and a premium digital home experience. Richard Jin, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, is launching the FTTR OptiXstar F30...
Kyivstar: Power situation stabilising after difficult winter
News Speaking at MWC 2023, Kyivstar’s CTO Volodymyr Lutchenko explained how Kyivstar turned to crowdsourcing energy to solve its power crisis Late last year, Total Telecom interviewed Kyivstar’s CEO, Oleksandr Komarov, exploring the company’s journey since the onset of the war and the many connectivity challenges still facing the nation’s telecoms sector. At that time of the interview, Ukraine’s power grid was being targeted by Russian missile attacks, leaving millions of people around the...
Half of all homes in Britain now wirelessly connected to the smart meter network
Half of all the homes in Britain are now connected to the national secure smart meter network, which is operated and maintained by the Data Communications Company (DCC). The 15 millionth home was connected to the network at 1:56am on 21st February by British Gas at a property in Kent. The network now supports almost 25 million meters in 15 million homes, and is becoming one of the most far-reaching communications technologies in the country. The milestone gives the DCC platform a greater reach...
CDP and Macquarie presents counteroffer for TIM’s fixed network
News TIM is now asking US private equity firm KKR if they would like to increase their initial bid for the business At the start of February, US-based equity fund KKR approached Italy’s incumbent telecoms operator, TIM, with a non-binding offer for a stake in the company’s network infrastructure unit, NetCo. The details of the offer were not revealed, but sources suggested that the move would see KKR take a majority stake in the business and leave a roughly 30% stake free for a...
IPv6 Forum Signs an IPv6 Talent Development Cooperation Agreement with Huawei, Accelerating Industry Digital Transformation
VIEWPOINT During MWC 2023, the IPv6 Forum signed a memorandum of cooperation on the IPv6 Education Certification Logo Program. In order to promote the deployment of IPv6 technologies and the transformation of future-oriented network architectures, the two parties will work closely together on the establishment of talent standards and development of the talent ecosystem for data communication. Latif Ladid, chairman of the IPv6 Forum, and Qiu Yuefeng, Vice President of Huawei Data Communication...
Do You Have Full Fibre Broadband? A Third of UK Consumers Don’t Know
A recent YouGov survey of 2,033 UK adults, which was commissioned by Point Topic and conducted online during November 2022, has revealed that 35.5% of respondents were still unsure as to whether their home broadband ISP connections were based off “full fibre” (FTTP/B/H) technology or not. In simple terms, a full fibre connection is one […]
Lyca Mobile UK Announce 6 Month Price FREEZE on 4G and 5G Plans
Mobile operator Lyca Mobile, which is powered by an MVNO agreement with O2’s (VMO2) national UK network, has today announced that they’re placing a “freeze on prices” for “at least 6-months” in order to help protect their customers from the cost-of-living crisis and to provide a counter to rivals that are hiking their prices. Most […]
Sky Broadband UK Start Selling 900Mbps Gigafast Plan Again
Good news. UK ISP Sky Broadband has finally returned to selling their top tier 900Mbps (90Mbps upload) “Gigafast” package – based off Openreach’s national FTTP network – to new customers, apparently after carrying out unspecified work to “upgrade and optimise” the service. The package was removed from sale last November 2022. The top tier package, […]
Virgin Media O2 UK Adds Sky Kids HD to its Kids TV Bundle
Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has today informed us that they’ve added the newly launched Sky Kids HD channel (CH 707) to their Kids TV bundle “at no extra cost“. In addition to the channel launch, customers will also gain access to the related On Demand Sky Kids content. As part of this update, new […]
Openreach UK Rebranding All its Logos and Engineering Vans
Network access provider Openreach, which supplies broadband and Ethernet services to ISPs and businesses across the United Kingdom, has begun re-branding their entire fleet of engineering vans and other paraphernalia – seemingly in order to underline their independence from BT and to better reflect their strategy. The re-branding exercise actually started, in a very low-key […]