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News A Canadian court this week rejected efforts by the competition bureau to block to deal, describing the appeal as being ‘without merit’ Back in 2021, two of Canada’s largest telecoms companies, Shaw Communications and Rogers Communications, announced their intention to merger in a deal worth roughly $15 billion. Since then, the controversial deal has been plagued by regulatory bottlenecks, with critics complaining that the deal will reduce competition and drive up costs for customers....

Consumer broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that their ultrafast 5G based (mobile broadband) network now covers 60% of the UK’s population (up from 50% in May 2022) and, on top of that, they’ve named 19 new “rural locations” where the network has just gone live. At present EE’s 5G network […]

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is responsible for examining the value for money of Government projects, has today criticised various flaws in the “rushed” UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) that has so far only been used to provide financing to deliver gigabit broadband and build solar farms. In case anybody has forgotten. The UK Infrastructure […]

Mobile testing firm RootMetrics (Ookla) has today published their latest biannual H2 2022 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United Kingdom, which once again sees EE (BT) come top of every single ranking category. But Three UK is still delivering the goods in terms of 5G speed. As usual, […]

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2), specifically those who take their pay TV service, may like to know that the operator will be giving them a High Definition (HD) video quality boost on a range of popular channels (e.g. Sky Comedy HD etc.), and all “at no extra cost.” This upgrade, which will be […]

A new Opinium surveyed of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch and conducted during December 2022, has claimed that 51% of mobile users are unaware that operators are planning to switch-off 3G based data (mobile broadband) services – starting next month – and 25% say they still use it regularly. The 3G service, […]

Rural-focused UK ISP Gigaclear has announced that they’re planning to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across a further 7,000 premises (homes and businesses) in Surrey, England. The first location to benefit from this expansion will be the large village of Chilworth. The announcement itself suggests that the deployment into Chilworth, which is being […]

Cumbria-based broadband ISP and network builder Grain (Grain Connect), which is busy deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service across various parts of the UK, has today become the latest provider to launch a cheaper Social Tariff package – ‘Grain Social’ and ‘Grain Social Plus’ – for those on benefits. Customers of the regular service, […]

News Projects will have the opportunity to bid for the funds, which will be allocated later this year As part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Services (ARTES) programme, the UK Space Agency has today announced £50 million in funding for new satellite communications projects in the UK. According to the government, this funding may be used for everything from developing new satellite constellations to innovating with teleports and developing new...

News According to Spanish media, American Tower and Brookfield Asset Management are reportedly considering acquiring Cellnex, Europe’s largest mobile tower operator Mobile towers have always been an attractive prospect for investors, with their low operational costs and steady long-term returns denoting them as relatively low risk. In recent years, however, investor appetite for infrastructure has reached unprecedented heights, prompting enormous consolidation worldwide, particularly in Europe...