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Press Release The decision comes after a Phase 2 review revealed Viasat and Inmarsat will likely face significant competition from both emerging and established players as the sector expands Satellite communications firms Viasat and Inmarsat – which agreed to merge in November 2021 – supply businesses globally with satellite connectivity that enables services such as internet, email, and video calling, including for use in aircraft. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) referred the deal...

News Changes include CFO Matt Ellis will stepping down for his role, as well as new CEO appointments for Verizon Consumer Group (VCG) and Verizon Business Group (VBG) Verizon’s latest financial results, reported in January, were something of a disappointment, with the company suggesting that strong competition coupled with a tough global economy had forced it to lower its forecasted profit for the financial year. Perhaps this is why today we are seeing a wave of executive changes across the...

News The penalty comes as a result of having breached their Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the Department of Justice (DoJ) from back in 2019 This week, Swedish mobile network equipment vendor Ericsson has announced that it will pay the US DoJ the sum of $206.7 million, settling a legal battle related to a highly publicised bribery scandal. Back in 2019, following an investigation, the DoJ and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Ericsson of having bribed officials in...

VIEWPOINT Over the last few years, the 5G ecosystem has moved from strength to strength, with the technology emerging as the fastest-growing communications technology ever. “5G is developing three times faster than 4G and reached the milestone of crossing one billion subscribers by the end of 2022. There are now around 243 5G networks and more than 3.85 million 5G sites globally,” said Yang Chaobin, Senior Vice President and President of ICT Products and solutions at Huawei. He was speaking at...

Customers of Sky’s sibling NOW Broadband (NOW TV) sub-brand are starting to receive notifications of this year’s price increases, but unlike their parent operator, they appear to be keeping their broadband and phone line rental prices frozen in 2023. Instead, only call charges are being increased. Sky Broadband recently told their customers to brace for […]

Mobile network operator SMARTY, which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on Three UK’s platform, has introduced a new SIM Only deal that gives new customers 60GB of mobile broadband data for just £10 per month “with the guarantee of NO price rises.” The plan, which normally only comes with 30GB of data for […]

VIEWPOINT The service providers have already started harvesting the fruits of 5G investments across the world and this has created a `certainty effect’, said Peter Song, President of Huawei’s ICT Strategy and Marketing, Huawei, at the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 recently. “There are more than 240 5G networks commercially launched, almost twice the number of 4G networks in the first three years. There were one billion 5G subscribers by the end of 2022. To compare, it took 4G more...

Press Release Adtran, the leading provider of next-generation open and disaggregated networking solutions, today announced that it successfully completed a field trial of 800Gbit/s single-carrier transport, achieving error-free transmission over a record distance of 2,220km in NYSERNet’s production network. The test route passed through 14 route-and-select flexgrid ROADMs comprising a total of 28 wavelength-selective switches. Leveraging 140GBd digital signal processing (DSP) technology from...

News Announcements today from ISP Grain, Bath based Truespeed, and B Corp Zen reinforces the sense that there is still plenty going on with the UK’s ambitious smaller telco’s. Rochdale based broadband provider, Zen, continued to show commitment to its B Corporation certification and Carbon Neutral status, announcing installation of 675 solar panels to the roof of its headquarters office building. This is only stage one, with another 500 panels to follow which should see solar power generate...

Bath-based broadband ISP Truespeed, which is building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South West England, has appointed a former BT Director – Robert Purdy – to be their new Chief Information Officer (CIO) and support the rapid scale-up of their build. The operator, which already covers 60,000 premises […]