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News Satellite connectivity takes a big step forward into the mainstream as Apple announce satellite-to-smartphone applications as part of new iPhone 14’s key features.   In Apple’s press release they describe how the new Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via Satellite will be available across the entire iPhone 14 line-up introducing “groundbreaking safety capabilities that can provide emergency assistance when it matters most”.   The Crash Detection system utilises the iPhone 14’s dual-core...

Broadband ISP Truespeed, which is building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England, has today issued a progress update and confirmed that their infrastructure now covers 50,000 premises (with 11,500 live customers). The operator, which last year confirmed that they held an “ambitious target to reach 500,000 properties within […]

CityFibre has announced that they’ve finally started the £21m rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large port town of Hartlepool in County Durham, which was originally due to get underway in “early 2022” (here), but that seems to have been delayed a bit – until now. The operator has […]

Alternative network ISP Lightning Fibre, which initially aimed to cover 100,000 premises across parts of East Sussex with their gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband infrastructure, has today announced a multi-million pound expansion of their network into West Sussex and Kent in England. The operator, which is being backed by private equity firm Foresight (here), first […]

European satellite operator Eutelsat, which is also the parent of UK ISP Konnect (We Konnect), are celebrating this morning after confirming the successful launch of their next gen ‘Very High Throughput Satellite’ (VHTS) into Geostationary Transfer Orbit by Arianespace using an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The new satellite, which was built by Thales […]

British-registered satellite broadband operator OneWeb has joined with the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey (5GIC) and CGI to launch a new 5G-Pilot Test project, which will trial the ability to harness the firm’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network to communicate with terrestrial 5G mobile devices (phones etc.). Over the past few years, […]

PRESS RELEASE Cinturion and Grid Telecom proudly announce their collaboration to create the first carrier neutral open-access interconnectivity node in the Balkan – Mediterranean Region. Cinturion Corp Ltd., and its Landing Partner in Greece, Grid Telecom, met on Wednesday, September 7th 2022 in the context of “Submarine Networks World 2022” conference, held in Singapore, advancing their ongoing cooperation for the landing of TEAS – Trans Europe Asia System in Greece.  Cinturion is building...

Press release Cinturion and Lightstorm sign final landing party agreement to bring the first carrier-neutral open access cable landing station to India. HAMILTON, Bermuda, September 7, 2022 — Cinturion Corp Ltd. a global provider of scalable, subsea and terrestrial capacity-based network solutions, signs final landing party agreement to partner with Lightstorm to bring the first carrier-neutral open access cable landing station to India.  This collaboration supports a strategic long-term...

Network builder and UK ISP Vorboss, which is part of the Fern Trading Group, has today hailed the progress they’ve made on their £250m project to build “London’s only full-coverage fibre network dedicated to business“, which has installed over 500km of fibre optic cable in the UK’s capital city since 2020. We first reported on […]

The Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP and BCAP) – sister body to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) – has launched a consultation on new guidance that would require information about mid-contract prices hikes to be more prominently stated in ads by broadband ISPs and mobile operators to “avoid misleading consumers“. In an ideal world, all […]