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Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK has today moved to promote their latest Pay TV Hub by partnering with mural artist Qubek (Russell Meheen) to create a “live street art stunt” (Dish it Out), which turns old satellite TV dishes into art. The aim is to highlight how people are “spending unnecessarily” on “expensive” TV plans (wink.. […]

News Q probably won’t be deploying any exploding umbrellas, but in this case a trenching machine would be much more useful. M Group Services, the UK infrastructure services company, has just added to it’s 10,500 employees through the acquisition of part of Light Source Design. Nottingham based Light Source had employed 220 people but entered administration on the 31 January 2023 with RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP tasked with trying to find a buyer for the business. The company had been...

A collaboration between operators O2 UK (VMO2) and Vodafone, the Scottish Government’s £28.75m 4G Infill Programme (S4GI) and the UK government’s £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project has enabled two rural Scottish communities – Traquair (Peeblesshire) and Balmacara (Ross-shire) – to be covered by a 4G signal. Just to recap. The industry-led SRN programme aims […]

Network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm has today launched a new range of packages and prices on their multi-gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which appears to make gaining access to faster speeds on their service even more affordable than before. The operator, which aims to reach 1 million premises across 85 UK towns by […]

Internet provider Plusnet has today sweetened the offers on their existing range of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) powered home ultrafast broadband packages – provided via Openreach’s national network, which sees the provider shaving another few pounds off each of their plans for new customers. The packages all include unlimited data usage, a new Hub Two wireless router […]

Network builder and ISP Ogi, which is investing £200m to deploy a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across 150,000 premises in rural parts of Wales by 2025, has today made the business decision to “buck the industry trend” by not increasing prices for customers this year. The provider, which already reduced its overall package prices by […]

News The Finnish government has allocated Elisa €3.9 million to roll out the operator’s Distributed Energy Storage (DES) solution across its network One of the major challenges associated with renewable energy sources like wind and solar is their intermittent nature. The sun is not always shining (especially in Finland) and the wind is not always blowing, potentially putting strain on the energy grid at times of high demand. As such, the growing (and undeniably vital) use of renewable energy...

News The fibre operator has entered into exclusive discussions for the infrastructure upgrade contract that could be worth around £1 billion Network Rail’s Project Reach was first announced back in 2021, with the rail network operator seeking £1 billion in private sector investment to upgrade its existing connectivity infrastructure. The company’s connectivity infrastructure currently spans around 16,000km, carrying operation-critical information including CCTV, trackside sensors, signalling,...

Ookla, which operates the popular internet Speedtest.net service, has warned that median 5G performance (mobile broadband download speeds) are declining in many early launch markets like the United Kingdom, where speeds fell by -38.26Mbps (Megabits per second) year-on-year. The fact that download speeds have fallen in many of the countries that were first to adopt […]

Network operator Neos Networks has today been named as the preferred bidder for Network Rail’s Project Reach, which among other things could see them invest in the design and build of a new trackside fibre optic communications network. This could also help to improve UK gigabit broadband and 5G mobile coverage. Just to recap. We […]