Gigaloch’s Full Fibre Network Goes Live in More of West Cheshire
The Fibre for Ashton Hayes, Horton cum Peel, Mouldsworth & Manley (F4AMM) campaign group in rural West Cheshire (England) has revealed that UK ISP Gigaloch, which has been building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the area since last year, has finally started to go live. We haven’t had any solid updates on Gigaloch’s builds […]
European Commission to ask telcos for proof that US tech giants should pay for traffic
NEWS The Commission says more data is needed before any landmark decision to force Big Tech to help subsidise teclo networks The European Commission, according to a document seen by Bloomberg, wants telecom companies to provide evidence that streaming sites such as Netflix and YouTube should pay for additional traffic sent over their networks. Telcos will reportedly be asked to provide details of how much traffic has increased in the past three years, where the increased traffic is coming...
Full Fibre UK ISP Giganet Acquires Rival Provider Cuckoo
Network operator and ISP Giganet, which offers gigabit broadband to UK homes and businesses via its own full fibre infrastructure (as well as via third-parties including Openreach and CityFibre), has today announced the acquisition of upcoming internet provider Cuckoo as part of efforts to grow its reach into the wider market. Giganet is currently best-known […]
UK Mobile Operators Gift Free Calls to Pakistan After Floods
Mobile operators and some broadband ISPs including Vodafone, BT, EE, Plusnet, iD Mobile, O2 and Virgin Media have in the last week responded, separately, to the massive floods in Pakistan by giving their UK customers free calls to the country and roaming. The gestures and timeframes tend to vary, but it appears to have started […]
Pure Broadband No Longer Supports MS3’s Full Fibre Network
Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which in March 2022 announced that their broadband packages had been made available via MS3’s new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the North of England (here), has suddenly stopped offering related services since being taken over by Connexin in July (here). Until now Pure Broadband has tended to deliver […]
Meta increases partnership with Qualcomm to make metaverse a reality
News The partners say they will work together to develop premium metaverse experiences, with Meta’s Meta Quest platform leveraging Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip’s extended reality (XR) capabilities This week, Meta and Qualcomm have announced a new multi-year partnership focussing on the creating customer chipsets for Meta’s Quest virtual reality (VR) platform. The partners say they will work together to create new chips using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platforms, specifically optimised for XR devices....
China Mobile and Ericsson devise 5G disaster relief solution
Press Release Ericsson is teaming-up with China Mobile Zhejiang and other partners to deploy 5G technology in public-safety-focused natural disaster management in China The move follows successful testing of a 5G mission-critical partnership solution – called the 5G Full-Closed-Loop system for Integrated Natural Disaster Management – in ten cities across the Lishui region of China. Spanning early-warning analysis, natural disaster monitoring, command and dispatch, and post-disaster assessment,...
US 5G spectrum auction sees T-Mobile win largely uncontested
News T-Mobile proved the runaway winner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s latest 5G spectrum auction, facing less competition than feared This week, the FCC has announced the winners in its latest 5G spectrum auction, with T-Mobile taking home the lion’s share of available airwaves. The auction, Auction 108, saw additional 2.5 GHz spectrum made available for the US operators in the form of 8,017 county-based licences. T-Mobile was the runaway winner, taking home 7,156 of the...
Connected Britain 2022 Reveals Broadband Award Shortlist
The annual Connected Britain Awards 2022 (Total Telecom) event is just around the corner and they’ve today published their short list of potential winners for this year, which sees various UK full fibre network builders and broadband ISPs being named across multiple categories (e.g. “Broadband Provider of the Year“). Last year’s event saw UK ISP […]
Virgin Media O2 UK Extend Broadband to Older OFNL Sites
ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that their partnership with Open Fibre Networks Limited (OFNL / GTC / BUUK) is being extended, which will enable them to expand their rival gigabit broadband, TV and phone network to cover UK homes on some of the operator’s existing (older) sites. Back in the Spring (here) […]