Quality Above All Else
Contributed Article High quality, robust products are the key to a sustainable fibre optic network. They will minimise the cost of installation and, with time, significantly reduce the operational expenditure as well as the carbon emissions of the network operator argues Philippe Vanhille, Executive Vice President Telecom Division at Prysmian Group Quality is key when it comes to fibre optics and fibre optic networks. We should know: Prysmian is Europe’s leading fibre and optic cable...
Ooredoo bails out of Myanmar in $576m unit sale
NEWS The Qatari telecoms company follows in the footsteps of rival Telenor, which left Myanmar earlier this year after the military coup made continued existence untenable Ever since a military junta overthrew the civilian government in Myanmar back in February 2021, the country’s telecoms industry has been in turmoil. With civil unrest rife throughout the nation, the military quickly turned to the nation’s operators to help suppress dissent, pressuring them to impose various curfews and...
Lumen CEO retires, replaced by Microsoft veteran Kate Johnson
Press Release Lumen Technologies has today announced Kate Johnson’s appointment as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the company’s Board of Directors, with the transition date expected to be November 7, 2022 Johnson succeeds Jeff Storey, who has announced his retirement after a distinguished 40-year career within the telecommunication and technology industries, including Lumen and its predecessors. Storey will remain with the company through December 31, 2022, to ensure a...
Funding Runs Dry for Hampshire’s Gigabit Broadband Top-Up Scheme
The Hampshire County Council in England has notified suppliers that their Top-Up funding for the UK Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) has run out. The vouchers help hard-to-reach rural homes and businesses get a gigabit-capable internet connection installed. The GBVS scheme – as managed by the Building Digital UK (BDUK) programme – normally offers […]
Deutsche Telekom and Mavenir deploy new cloud-native 5G core
Press Release Deutsche Telekom and Mavenir have announced the successful delivery and deployment of cloud-native 5G Core to Deutsche Telekom in Germany Deutsche Telekom selected Mavenir as the supplier for software applications to run on its defined hardware and the existing Kubernetes-based platform of its German business, ensuring an open architecture approach. As part of the deployment process, the Converged Packet Core was integrated with Telekom’s existing multi-vendor access network and...
ISP Brsk Secure £178m Funding Boost for UK Full Fibre Rollout
Network builder and UK ISP Brsk has today secured a huge funding boost of “up to” £178m to help fuel the ongoing rollout of their new open access and gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which has so far focused upon parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands. Brsk first began their […]
ZYBRE to Help Zoopla Show UK Broadband Details on Property Listings
Cloud gaming ISP ZYBRE has signed a deal with popular online real estate website Zoopla, which will enable them to add more details of home broadband availability to all of their property listings across the United Kingdom. Some of Zoopla’s rivals (e.g. RightMove) already have similar features. The announcement follows neatly after last month’s report […]
TalkTalk draws up new Business and Consumer wholesale arms
News The ISP says the move stems from “material growth in both areas” as well as the desire to better integrate their newly acquired subsidiary Virtual1 Today, UK ISP TalkTalk has announced the creation of two new wholesale divisions, one focussing on business-to-business wholesale services and the other on the consumer market segment. The new Business Wholesale Services division will offer premium and high bandwidth services to resellers, aggregators, and system integrators, with TalkTalk...
FCC proposes ‘five-year rule’ to clean up dead satellites
News As communications satellites begin to fill up the night sky, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to introduce new rules to combat the resulting space debris In 2022, the prospect of large low Earth orbit (LEO) communication satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink Currently, around 4,800 satellites are in orbit around the Earth and this number is growing rapidly. Estimates suggest that there will be roughly 18,000 new satellites in orbit by 2025, with SpaceX alone...
Lit Fibre UK Name 5 New Towns for Full Fibre Broadband Build
Broadband ISP and UK network builder Lit Fibre, which is working to deploy a new gigabit-speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 homes by 2026, has today added 5 new towns across parts of the West Midlands, Essex and Hertfordshire in England to their ongoing rollout plan. The provider, which started building last year and […]