CityFibre Begins £3m Full Fibre Broadband Build in Whittlesey
Network operator Cityfibre has announced that they’ve started to deploy their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the Cambridgeshire (England) market town and civil parish of Whittlesey, which is expected to cost the operator around £3m to complete. The overall project in Whittlesey, which is being delivered by civil engineering partner Granemore Group, […]
Rakuten Symphony launches ‘proven at scale’ service assurance
PRESS RELEASE Rakuten Symphony today announced the general availability of its Symops Service Assurance suite of products. The Symops products are a result of four years of investment to fully operationalize the end-to-end fault, configuration and performance management in a fully virtualized, dynamic cloud-based telecom operation. The nature of dynamic deployment of capabilities in 5G, combined with the continuous deployment and re-deployment of cloud native clusters, as well as software...
Private mobile network deployments now in 70 countries
NEWS The latest report by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), the Private-Mobile-Networks August 2022 report, has identified 66 MNO’s and 70 countries/territories where organisations are involved with private mobile network projects. This equates to 889 organisations deploying LTE or 5G Private Mobile Networks (PMN) in one or more locations – up from 794 reported in June 2022. Unsurprisingly manufacturing is the major adopter of PMN’s with 165 identified companies, growth of almost...
Community Fibre Adopt Simple £2 Policy on Out of Contract Price Rises
London focused UK broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has so far covered 500,000 premises in the city with their new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today adopted a new policy that will “implement a £2 out of contract price increase on all its broadband packages for new customers“. The move, which has already been implemented for existing […]
Openreach UK Highlights Mass of Copper Cable Thefts in Rutland
The growing national scourge of copper telecoms cable theft has raised its ugly head again, this time in Rutland (England), after Openreach (BT) highlighted that their local broadband ISP and phone network had – over the past few months – been struck multiple times by the criminal activity. But arrests are being made. The operator […]
Gigaclear Tunnels FTTP Under Railway to Connect Rural Communities
Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has so far deployed their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 300,000 premises across England, is on-track to cover 2,500 homes in the Gloucestershire town of Lydney after it deployed specialist engineering to drill under a historic railway line. But it may go further than that. The town and civil parish, […]
EE Offers Free Independent Debt Advice to UK Customers
Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE has today announced that they’ve teamed up with the Money Adviser Network to offer customers free, independent debt advice through referrals from customer service advisors. Nearly 3,000 customers are said to have so far benefitted from the service since its rollout in June 2022. EE states that they’ve embedded […]
List of 35 Areas to Benefit from Axione UK’s FTTP Broadband Rollout
At the start of this year we reported (here) that Axione UK – a subsidiary of French provider Axione – had started a £300m project to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 4 million premises for ISPs to sell on to homes (open-access). We now have a fuller list of their rollout […]
Sky UK Unveil Broadband Based Stream TV Box Without Satellite
As expected, Sky (Sky Broadband) has today announced the launch of their new standalone ‘Sky Stream‘ product, which uses your home broadband ISP and WiFi connection to stream Sky’s on-demand video content and live TV channels directly to your existing TV set without any satellite dish or installation being required. Most of Sky’s existing TV […]
Full Fibre UK ISP Wessex Internet Get Funding Boost from abrdn
Rural broadband ISP Wessex Internet, which is building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset in England, has today announced that they’ve secured a “major equity investment” from abrdn’s Core Infrastructure team to “accelerate” their rollout. The provider has recently been making good progress on their commercial builds, […]