ISP Lothian Broadband Adds Pay TV and VoIP Home Phone
Scottish ISP Lothian Broadband, which is building a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 70,000 premises across rural parts of the Highlands and East to Mid Lothian, has become the latest provider to introduce a Netgem powered Pay TV service and they’ve also launched a VoIP based home phone solution from Netsapiens. Netgem has […]
Vitruvi Software announces game changing roll-out feature for UK altnets: A55 Management
INTERVIEW At #ConnectedBritain 2022, Vitruvi Software, an industry leader for end-to-end Build Management Software announced their newest game changing Roll-Out Feature for UK Altnets: A55 Management. Vitruvi’s award winning build management solution is empowering Altnets to rollout fibre at record speeds – enabling them to build smarter & faster. With GIS at the core, altnets can manage a variety of OpenReach PIA and design data, while maintaining full project controls for production...
The metaverse – the next frontier for virtual work
VIEWPOINT By Jürgen Hatheier, Chief Technology Officer for EMEA and APAC at Ciena Since the mainstream introduction of the metaverse as a concept, people have been ideating on what its uses could be. So far, entertainment has won out as the most explored virtual sector with a number of use cases springing to life. The Foo Fighters, David Guetta, Justin Bieber and more have all held concerts in the metaverse, some of which have been attended by nearly 28 million people. According to Ciena’s...
GSMA bangs the drum for the circular economy
NEWS With COP27 just days away, the GSMA is taking a stand on a sustainable future for mobile devices, with a vision that requires a ‘zero waste’ supply chain and longer-lasting smartphones. The trade body that represents mobile operators and organisations across the mobile ecosystem have published the Strategy Paper for Circular Economy: Mobile devices, in conjunction with Ethos, a Swedish management consultancy specialising in sustainability, and Tele2, who lead a GSMA member project group...
CMC Networks announces 51 country African growth
PRESS RELEASE CMC Networks, a global Tier 1 service provider, has launched IP Premier, a high-performance dedicated internet access (DIA) solution designed to accelerate the adoption of SD-WAN across Africa. IP Premier provides strict service level agreements (SLAs) related to jitter, packet loss and round-trip delay (RTD), in addition to the standard availability. It provides a trusted foundation for rolling out SD-WAN services and delivering optimised user experience in some of the most...
Quickline’s UK Fibre and Wireless Covers 2,000 Rural Communities
Alternative broadband ISP Quickline, which has deployed a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has today announced that they’ve covered 2,000 rural communities in just the past 12-months. Some of the locations that are known to have benefitted from this […]
Zzoomm Adds Upton in West Yorkshire to their Full Fibre Rollout
Alternative broadband ISP Zzoomm has announced that their UK rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network is being expanded to include nearly 3,000 properties in the small West Yorkshire town of Upton, which is anticipated to cost the operator £1.7 million to complete. So far the provider, which launched in 2020 and aims to […]
RETN continues investing in the Baltic Region
PRESS RELEASE International network service provider RETN continues to invest in the Baltic Region with a new long-haul DWDM route in Latvia, Riga – Daugavpils, and the opening of a new office in Vilnius. The Lithuanian capital is RETN’s newest office location in the Baltics & Nordics and follows the opening of an office in Finland at the end of last year. Maxim Lukoshius, Regional Director Baltics & Nordics: “The new entity allows us to be even closer to our Lithuanian customers. The...
ISP Onestream Sign Vodafone Deal to Launch UK FTTP Broadband
Hampshire-based home and business broadband ISP Onestream has signed a new “strategic agreement” with Vodafone – said to be worth £40m over 2-years – that will enable them to extend beyond superfast broadband (FTTC) packages to launch a new range of SOGEA and gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based plans. The details of this agreement are a […]
Lumen pursues portfolio optimisation through EMEA sale to Colt
NEWS Lumen Technologies have agreed to sell their EMEA business to Colt Technology Services for $1.8B, a figure equating to an 11x multiple of the EMEA business’s estimated 2021 adjusted EBITDA. The agreement will encompass Lumen’s terrestrial and subsea networks, data centres and other network equipment in the EMEA region. The aim for Lumen is to maintain a strong balance sheet whilst enabling them to investment more in enterprise growth, primarily enterprise and Quantum Fiber initiatives,...