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ISPs toob and Aquiss Separately Hit 10,000 Full Fibre Customers

Two UK home broadband ISPs – toob and Aquiss – have today separately announced that they’ve each managed to pass the milestone of 10,000 customers on their respective Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages and networks. First up, we have Shropshire-based internet provider Aquiss, which is a more traditional ISP that sells FTTP packages via Openreach’s national network. […]

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New Survey Finds Frustration with UK Broadband ISP Speeds

A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch, has found that 25% of respondents “regularly fail” to receive the broadband internet speeds they pay for and 7% claim to never get the promised performance. But 42% also admit to not knowing what speed their package is supposed to deliver. Confusion […]

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Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei headline GSA’s new private networks group

NEWS The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA)’s Private Mobile Networks Special Interest Group (SIG) will see its members collaborate to both track and accelerate the growth of the burgeoning private network ecosystem The concept of private mobile networks is one of the hottest topics in the telecoms industry today, potentially presenting operators and vendors alike an attractive new revenue stream in the enterprise segment. Indeed, for the past few years the deployment of these private...

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techUK Finds Room for Improvement in UK 5G and Full Fibre Delivery

techUK, an industry group for many of the UK’s key technology companies, has today published the outcome of their review into the progress that the Government have been making on rolling out both ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband and full fibre networks across the country. Needless to say, a few areas need improvement. The new […]

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Welsh Full Fibre ISP Ogi Awards Funding to Local Communities

Infracapital-backed broadband ISP and network builder Ogi, which is investing £200m on their project to deploy a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 150,000 premises in Wales by 2025, has started giving out small cash injections to help community groups across Pembrokeshire, Monmouthshire and the Vale of Glamorgan. The provider has already connected premises across a […]

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Commsworld and Netomnia Bring FTTP to 90k North Lanarkshire Homes

Scotland-based business ISP Commsworld has entered into a new partnership with UK network operator Netomnia (ISP YouFibre), which aims to provide full fibre broadband connectivity to around 90,000 homes across North Lanarkshire over the next few years. The move seems intended to complement Commsworld’s existing agreement with the North Lanarkshire Council in Scotland, which in […]

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Netomnia Starts Full Fibre Rollout Across 5 New UK Locations

Alternative network provider Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP YouFibre – has today announced the start of their full fibre rollout across five new locations including Tunbridge Wells (Kent), Burntwood (Staffordshire), Morriston and Neath (South Wales), and Livingston (West Lothian, Scotland). The operator, which has already covered 265,000 premises with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network […]

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Understanding the telco’s role in the IoT market

Interview Ahead of Total Telecom Congress 2022, we spoke to Matt Hatton – Founding Partner at Transforma Insights to hear his take on the changing enterprise connectivity market. From your perspective, how do telcos need to evolve to remain competitive in the modern connectivity ecosystem? The key thing for telcos is knowing where they have the right to play themselves, where they need to harness third parties, and which bits of the market they should leave well alone. At Transforma Insights...

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