Rural Broadband ISP Voneus Appoint Ex-BT Director as its CCO
Macquarie Capital-backed UK ISP Voneus, which holds a “near term” plan to cover 100,000 homes in rural areas with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network (here), has today appointed the ex-commercial director at BT Enterprise, Francesca Lee, to be their new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). The new appointment is part of Voneus’ plan to more than […]
Telecoms could benefit from changes to shortage occupations list
NEWS There’s not much positive press for Liz Truss at the moment, but one change from the UK Prime Minister which is likely to be better received is a review of Britain’s visa system which could benefit the telecom sector. The government is set to review the “shortage occupation list” which will enable certain industries more freedom to employ staff from overseas – including, as widely reported, broadband engineers. The changes would mean a relaxation of requirements around speaking English...
Ooredoo prepares to offload tower portfolio
News Ooredoo Group becomes the latest telco to announce its plans to sell its tower portfolio. Ooredoo Group has confirmed that it is preparing to sell approximately 20,000 of its towers. In a statement released on Monday, the Qatar-based company announced the move as part of its shift to an “asset-light model”. The company’s strategy seeks to maximise value from its infrastructure and generate more value for customers and shareholders alike. Ooredoo Group’s portfolio consists of 20,000 towers...
abrdn invests in Dorset-based Wessex Internet
Press release abrdn’s Core Infrastructure team has agreed to make a major equity investment in Wessex Internet. The investment will help to accelerate the deployment of Wessex Internet’s full fibre-to-the-home network across rural parts of the South West of England. In establishing the agreement, abrdn will work together with Wessex Internet’s founders to support their vision for the future growth of the business. Wessex Internet is a full fibre operator in the South West of England, having...
Startup Stories: prioritising the vulnerabilities that will hurt you most
STARTUP STORIES Tell us about your start up AppSec Phoenix is a next-gen ASOC correlating Application Security and Cloud Security with a product risk and impact view. We help CISOs and Executives set risk-based targets that translate to task for engineers. With our ARCTIQ technology and graph, we help teams correlate and visualize the next vulnerability that will hurt them. We serve mid-size and enterprise customers across the world, but currently focus primarily in Europe and the Americas....
Grants Boost Biz Broadband in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
A new business grant scheme, which has injected just under £1.4 million into the local Cambridgeshire and Peterborough economy in England, has already helped local firms to create 42 new-to-the-firm products and enabled 32 businesses to access faster broadband speeds in excess of 30Mbps. The scheme itself (‘Digital Technology Grants for Business‘), which has now […]
The two Fs you want on your report card: Fibre and 5G
VIEWPOINT Everyone seems to know about 5G, no matter how technology unsavvy they are. It’s clear that 5G is not just another generation of mobile technology – it has captured the public’s imagination because of its potential to change industries, businesses and the very way we interact with digital content. However, 5G comes with a few strings attached, and they are mostly of the fibre kind. The 5G experience — whether in the home, office or on the go — can only be achieved through fibre...
Neos Networks connects Viking Energy Wind Farm to SSE Renewables HQ
PRESS RELEASE Neos Networks, one of the UK’s leading business connectivity providers, is to provide vital communications links between the Viking Energy Wind Farm, being constructed in Mainland Shetland, and the headquarters of SSE Renewables, in Perth in the Scottish mainland, more than 300 miles away. Starting its construction in 2020, the Viking Energy Wind Farm is one of the largest projects of its type in the UK. When fully operational, it will also be one of the UK’s most productive wind...
Starlink Expand UK Coverage to Include Part of Shetland Islands
SpaceX’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based mega constellation of Starlink ultrafast broadband satellites has made a small but significant improvement to its coverage of the UK, which for the first time has now started to encompass the southern part of the remote Shetland Islands in Scotland. Back in late July 2022 we reported that Starlink’s […]
BT and Vodafone UK Reiterate Desire to Make Netflix etc. Pay
The Net Neutrality debate (i.e. protecting the open internet from abuse by UK broadband ISPs and mobile operators) reared its head again today after BT and Vodafone both put their names to a new statement by the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ENTO), which was signed by 16 telcos’ CEOs. In case anybody has forgotten, […]