Israel’s Cognyte embroiled in Myanmar spyware scandal
News Reports suggest the company won a tender to sell spyware to state-run telecoms operator Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) just one month before the military overthrew the Burmese government Israeli software firm Cognyte is coming under scrutiny this week following media reports that the company’s surveillance technology may have been used to commit human rights abuses in Myanmar. Documents shared by activist group Justice for Myanmar show a January 2021 letter from MPT to the...
Full Fibre ISP YouFibre Revises Broadband Plans and Add Social Tariff
Gigabit broadband ISP YouFibre, which sells plans via Netomnia and Cityfibre’s respective UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks, has introduced a new suite of standard pricing tariffs for all new customers – starting from only £1 a month for the first 3 months of service on their 1Gbps plan. Plus, they recently added a Social Tariff. The […]
Global Broadband Lines Top 1.34bn as UK Full Fibre Take-up Slows
New research from Point Topic has revealed that world fixed broadband lines grew by 1.87% (24.59 million) in Q3 2022 to end the quarter on a total of 1.34 billion connections. But the subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks in the UK appears to have slowed in recent quarters. As usual, the largest […]
Portland General Electric Partners with Expeto to accelerate grid modernisation and renewable energy outcomes
Press release Expeto, Inc., which enables enterprise networking over private and public mobile networks, today announced a partnership with Portland General Electric (PGE) to accelerate grid modernisation and renewable energy outcomes. The fully integrated energy company with operations across Oregon has chosen Expeto’s NeXtworking™ platform for its commercial private wireless network deployment. PGE’s mandated decarbonisation targets include an 80% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions...
Hyperoptic Appoints Ex-Vodafone Leader as Chief Customer Officer
City-focused gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is aiming to deploy their “full fibre” (FTTP/B) UK network to cover 2 million premises by the end of 2023 (including 500,000 customers), has appointed ex-Vodafone Consumer Chief, Lutfu Kitapci, to the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO). At present the operator’s network can already be found in parts […]
Vodafone UK Extends Currys Partnership to include Home Broadband
Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone has announced that they’ve extended their existing partnership with high-street retail chain Currys, which tends to involve supplying mobile products and services to the shop’s customers, to go beyond mobile and include their Home Broadband products too. The multi-year partnership will thus see Vodafone continued to act as the exclusive […]
Tech Mahindra and Microsoft team up for 5G core cloudification offering
Press Release Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, and Microsoft, have announced a strategic collaboration to enable cloud-powered 5G core network modernization for telecom operators globally. The 5G core network transformation will help telecom operators to develop 5G core use cases and meet their customers’ growing technological (Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), IoT (Internet of Things), and...
Virgin Mobile begins migrating customers to O2 packages
Press Release Virgin Media O2 will be giving millions of its customers more data and extra benefits this year as it begins moving all Virgin Mobile customers over to O2’s range of plans From February, the company will start sending communications to the first group of Virgin Mobile customers to let them know that their current service will transfer over to a new O2 plan. As part of this migration, millions of customers will receive unlimited texts and voice calls, and either double the data or...
London staff to take the brunt of Vodafone job cuts
News The operator group will eliminate hundreds of jobs as part of wider efforts to generate €1 billion in cost savings Back in November, Vodafone’s announcement of its most recent financial details was met with concern as the multinational mobile network operator group continues to struggle to turn its fortunes around. The company’s results in highly competitive markets like Germany and Spain were particularly poor, adding further weight to the operator’s long-held beliefs that consolidation...
Street Works UK Recommends Changes to Help Build Full Fibre
Street Works UK (SWUK), which is a Trade Association that represents utilities and their contractors on street works issues, has published a new report that helps to highlight some of the barriers that civil engineers are facing as they attempt to upgrade the nation’s water, sewage, gas, electricity and broadband ISP infrastructure. The report – […]