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Infracapital-backed Network builder and broadband ISP Ogi, which is investing £200m to roll-out a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 150,000 premises in rural parts of Wales by 2025, has this morning announced a list of the next 23 towns and villages to benefit from their deployment. The provider, which has so far covered 42,000 premises […]

UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) will later this morning discount the price of their standalone “Gig1 Fibre Broadband” package (average speeds of 1130Mbps down and 52Mbps up) again, this time reducing it from the previous offer price of £45 to £39.99 per month for the first 18 months of service (£62 thereafter). As usual, new […]

Alas, as the editor of ISPreview.co.uk, I don’t have a magic wand for making full fibre networks appear outside my door. Just like everybody else, I was forced to wait.. and wait. But the day did finally come and from an operator that, like so many other alternative networks these days, didn’t even exist for […]

News According to the operator, the data of 37 million customers has been compromised Today, US mobile giant T-Mobile has announced it has been hit by another cyberattack, resulting in the data of 37 million customers being accessed by a malicious actor. The breach was reportedly identified on January 5, with the operator saying they had removed the attacker’s access to the data within 24 hours. “Our investigation is still ongoing, but the malicious activity appears to be fully contained at...

Press Release The companies combine technology expertise to deliver the first demonstration of network slicing using RIC on a live 5G SA network Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and KDDI announced the successful demonstration of Service Level Agreements (SLA) assurance network slicing in a field trial conducted in Tokyo, Japan. For the first time in the industry, the companies proved their capabilities to generate multiple network slices using a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) on a live...

News The operator will work with Japanese start-up Gryllus to help automate the cricket production cycle To many of us, the concept of eating insects strange and, it must be said, unappetising. However, with the global population set to reach almost 10 billion by 2050 and the food poverty already a major issue worldwide, many experts believed that this attitude towards edible insects must change – if not by choice, then by necessity. In fact, there are many benefits to farming insects for...

Infracapital-backed UK ISP Fibrus, which is building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks across Northern Ireland and the North of England, has today pledged to retain their existing policy against mid-contract price rises and their buyout promotion to help new customers leaving their old provider. In short, the ISP has “guaranteed that it will not […]

Broadband ISP Quickline, which is currently rolling out a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has responded to this week’s price hikes (up to 14.4%) at the biggest providers (here) by reaffirming its own two-year price freeze. The provider, which […]

Mobile operator Vodafone has confirmed that the first “trial” customers are now able to connect to one of the UK’s first deployments of an ultrafast cloud-based 5G Standalone (SA) network, which has been built across parts of several cities including London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Bath, Glasgow and Birmingham. At present, existing 5G deployments in the […]

News As fibre and 5G networks continue to be rolled out at pace, the South African telecoms operators are preparing for further severe disruptions to their power supply For South Africans, the rolling blackouts resulting from ‘load-shedding’ by state-run energy company Eksom have been a simple fact of life for over a decade now. Years of underfunding and mismanagement by Eksom has resulted in an energy grid that simply cannot cope with demand, with the nation routinely plunged into darkness...