Rural UK ISP Truespeed Plans Faster Full Fibre Build for 2023
Bath-based alternative network UK ISP Truespeed, which is deploying a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South West England, has today reported that their network now covers 60,000 premises (up from 50k in Sept 2022) and has 13,000 customers (up from 11,500) – 21.67% take-up. The operator, which holds an […]
Vodafone Reports UK Broadband Base of 1.16 Million Customers
Vodafone UK has published their latest quarterly (Q3 FY23) results, which states that their fixed broadband ISP base saw strong growth to total 1.158 million customers (up by 47k in the quarter vs 39k in Q2 FY23), while their mobile base also grew again to total 17.802 million (up by 259k vs 321k in the […]
AltNet Broadband ISP Vfast Celebrates 15,000th UK Customer
Kent-based independent UK ISP Vfast (Orbital Net), which sells packages to consumers based on a mix of fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (CityFibre and OFNL – in London and Medway) broadband networks, has today announced that they’ve signed-up their 15,000th internet access customer. We should point out that Vfast are also building their […]
Gigaclear’s £38m Rural Buckinghamshire FTTP Build Sees Competition
Rural UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that their ongoing £38m investment to expand their UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network into Buckinghamshire (England), which has already covered around 19,000 premises, is being extended to reach 1,700 homes in the village of Great Missenden. But they’re not alone. The first deployment work in Great Missenden is due […]
BT turning legacy mainframes into digital apps with Kyndryl
Press Release BT Group’s Digital Unit today announces it is working with Kyndryl on a cutting-edge program to move a number of the Group’s mainframe applications which service its legacy copper business and consumer broadband products to the cloud. The unique and complex project will see the Digital unit move critical legacy applications that cannot be shut down in the short term to the cloud, allowing it to operate its copper broadband infrastructure in a modern way. The ten-year partnership,...
Samsung bucks trend and doubles down on semiconductors
News The vendor says its continued investments will help it to gain market share when demand begins to rise again next year When the coronavirus pandemic first struck back in 2020, it quickly wreaked havoc for production lines around the world. For the slow-moving juggernauts of the semiconductor industry, the impact was dramatic and immediate, forcing the closure of various fabs and creating a vicious supply crisis, the reverberations of which can still be felt to this day. Now, roughly three...
South African govt urges MTN to find ‘amicable solution’ to Ghana tax woes
News The operator disputes the legitimacy of the $773 million tax bill forced upon it by the Ghana Revenue Authority At the start of this year, the Ghanaian tax regulator announced that it was issuing MTN Ghana a bill of roughly $773 million, including penalties and interest, claiming the operator had underpaid its taxes for multiple years the previous decade. The announcement came following the Ghana Revenue Authority’s audit of the operator’s finances for the years 2014–2018, with the...
Openreach Shallow Build Trial May Expand UK FTTP Coverage
Openreach recently began a new Shallow Build Trial in Great Britain (excluding N.Ireland) for their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which we think could make it possible for the operator to expand their network into areas that might normally be too challenging due to high deployment costs and risk. The trial was actually first announced […]
ISP Lit Fibre Extend FTTP Broadband to Watford and Basildon
Network operator and UK broadband ISP Lit Fibre, which aims to reach 500,000 homes by 2026 with their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today announced that they’ve added the towns of Watford (Hertfordshire) and Basildon (Essex) in England to their rollout plan. The provider, which started their deployment in 2021 and is being backed […]
T-Mobile pledges net-zero emissions by 2040 – including Scope 3
News The operator says it is the first US operator to make such a commitment This week, T-Mobile has announced its latest sustainability goals, aiming to reduce its emissions to net-zero across its entire carbon footprint by 2040. Crucially, this new goal encompasses not only Scope 1 and 2 emissions – those generated directly by the company’s own operations and indirectly by the company’s purchased electricity – but also Scope 3 emissions, those caused by the company’s wider supply chain, its...