AT&T signs up to use Frontier’s fibre to connect mobile towers
Press Release Frontier’s fiber infrastructure will allow AT&T to add fiber connectivity to its wireless infrastructure in areas where AT&T doesn’t currently own fiber Frontier and AT&T today announced a deal that will enable AT&T to deploy wireless infrastructure in Frontier central offices and connect to Frontier’s blazing-fast fiber network. This will improve the resiliency, reliability and speed of the wireless service that AT&T offers to its customers. AT&T is the...
UScellular urges customers to put down their phones in latest initative
Press Release UScellular, the fourth-largest full service wireless carrier in the country, this week announced “Let’s Find US,” its goal is to inspire people, who on average spend more than five hours a day staring at their phone screen, to reset their relationship with technology. “Let’s Find US” is focused on being a leading voice in addressing the problem of over-connection. It all kicked off last night with “Missing the Big Game,” a first-of-its-kind AI application that shared real-time...
VMO2 and Vodafone give rural Scotland a 4G boost
Press Release Traquair in Peeblesshire and Balmacara in Ross-shire have benefited from a partnership between Vodafone, Virgin Media O2, the Shared Rural Network and the Scottish Government Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone have expanded their 4G networks to two rural Scottish communities, Traquair (Peeblesshire) and Balmacara (Ross-shire), as part of a collaboration between the Scottish Government’s Scottish 4G Infill Programme (S4GI) and UK Government’s Shared Rural Network (SRN). Upgrade works...
Giganet Extend CityFibre FTTP Broadband Availability to Scotland
UK ISP Giganet has today announced that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service, specifically the part that is served via CityFibre’s network, has been extended again and is now also available to 360,000 premises across Scotland (Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Renfrewshire, Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh). Just to recap. Giganet is currently investing £250m with Fern Trading […]
Shropshire UK Council Boost Gigabit Broadband Vouchers to £7k
The Shropshire County Council in England has allocated another £500,000 (total so far of £2.5m) to help boost the value of gigabit broadband vouchers for rural areas, which means that local homes and businesses will now be able to apply for vouchers worth up to £7,000 to help them get a faster connection installed. The […]
BT launches nationwide IoT roaming
Press Release BT today switched on its IoT National Roaming SIMs for businesses across the UK, allowing them to keep smart devices connected wherever they are IoT national roaming SIMs allow smart devices to connect to mobile networks ensuring they stay connected while on the move or in remote locations. BT’s IoT national roaming SIMs will connect devices to the UK’s best and largest network, EE, meaning data is quickly and reliably relayed where it’s needed most. As well as a primary...
Point Broadband announces significant investment from Berkshire Partners
Press Release Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC, a provider of high speed fiber-to-the-premise internet services to residential and business customers in select small town and rural markets in the United States, today announced it will receive a significant growth investment from funds affiliated with Berkshire Partners, a leading private investment firm with deep experience in digital infrastructure. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in...
LINX and UK Broadband ISPs See Huge 15th Feb Traffic Surge
Internet traffic across UK broadband ISPs surged to a new peak on Wednesday night (15th Feb 2023), with customers of TalkTalk setting a new record of 10.25Tbps (Terabits per second) and the London Internet Exchange (LINX) reaching a peak of around 7.87Tbps. In both cases, the records were set at between 8pm and 10pm. All […]
BT Launch National UK Roaming SIMs for Business IoT Smart Devices
Broadband and mobile giant BT (EE) has today launched their new IoT National Roaming SIMs for businesses across the UK, which are designed to help firms keep their smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected “wherever they are” by harnessing several different wireless and mobile network technologies. The IoT National Roaming SIM is designed to […]
Gigaclear Detail Full Fibre Build for 10,000 Cambridgeshire UK Premises
Rural UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that, as part of their ongoing £39 million project to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Cambridgeshire in England, the provider intends to cover another 10,000 premises across four neighbouring villages. The four villages include Warboys, Sawtry, Ramsey and Stilton. The first of 1,400 homes in Stilton […]