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Business ISP and Managed Service Provider (MSP) Connectus has extended their gigabit-capable fibre optic network footprint to include two new Cheshire (England) business hubs in Canalside and Northwhich, as well as in the Southside area of Birmingham and at Woodside on the Wirral. The expansion will allow Connectus to work with more than 1,000 companies […]

The CEO of ISP and mobile giant Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2), Lutz Schüler, has today joined growing calls for the UK government to provide more direct support during the cost-of-living crisis by cutting the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) on cheaper social tariffs for home broadband and mobile services from 20% to 5%. […]

A new retail broadband ISP, phone and Pay TV provider has launched in Hull (East Yorkshire) called Octaplus (aka – Octaplus Supercharged), which appears designed to serve UK premises that are being covered by MS3‘s new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. MS3 started rolling out a new open-access (wholesale) full fibre network to homes and businesses […]

Press Release Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the company was selected to provide a diverse selection of its 5G solutions to five government agencies and private institutions in Korea This project is part of the government initiative to advance the country’s private 5G ecosystem, allowing non-telecom operators to build and operate 5G networks using 4.7GHz and 28GHz—which are dedicated frequency bands for private 5G networks in Korea. “Private 5G networks will enable progressive...

News The new virtual bank, GXS, is opening to selected customers in Singapore, allowing them to make deposits and transfer funds At the end of 2019, Singtel announced that it had struck a partnership with local super start-up Grab, seeking to obtain a digital banking licence from the Singaporean government. The joint venture, now called GXS, is owned 60% by Grab and 40% by Singtel. GXS was successful in its quest for a licence around one a year later, with the Singaporean government allocating...

Belfast-based UK ISP Fibrus, which is busy building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland and Northern England, has today announced that their network has gone live in a second town in Cumbria – Kendal (this follows their initial build in Penrith). Until recently Fibrus was predominantly focused on building full fibre […]

News Companies that do not adhere to the rules could be subject to fines of up to 10% of their turnover or £100,000 per day The Telecommunications (Security) Act (TSA) became law back in November 2021, laying the groundwork for the UK government to impose stronger cybersecurity obligations from mobile and fixed broadband operators. Until now, telecoms operators have been broadly left in charge of their own network security, but findings from the government’s Telecoms Supply Chain Review,...

CityFibre has today announced that they’ll invest £14m to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large market and commuter town of Wellingborough in North Northamptonshire (England), which is set to begin in October 2022. The new “town-wide” network deployment, which will aim to reach “almost every home and business” in Wellingborough […]

The Royal Caribbean Group, which operates luxury cruises from various ports around the world (e.g. Southampton in England), has announced that it is to become the first fleet in the cruise industry to adopt Starlink’s (SpaceX) new network of low-latency ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Starlink’s mega constellation currently has around 2,941 […]

New data from mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has looked at the mobile broadband network experience in rural and urban areas of the United Kingdom on 4G and 5G based networks, which naturally finds that rural areas suffer slower speeds. But the performance gap on 5G isn’t as big as we expected. The new report is […]