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The state-aid backed Superfast North Yorkshire (SFNY) project has announced that Openreach (BT) have officially completed their fibre-based (FTTC and FTTP) deployment contract under the scheme, which has so far enabled more than 190,000 extra premises to access faster broadband speeds since 2021 (take-up is at 80%). The SFNY project is managed by NYnet (i.e. […]

NEWS The operator says that initial 5G services will be launched in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai in October Today, disruptive Indian telco giant Reliance Jio has announced that it will invest $25 billion to rollout a nationwide standalone 5G network by the end of 2023. Speaking at the company’s Annual General Meeting, Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani said that the company would seek to capitalise on the $11 billion-worth of 5G spectrum it acquired at last week’s auction by rolling out...

News Working alongside NEC and Rakuten Symphony, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has deployed Open RAN technology in their live commercial network for the first time This week, VMO2 has announced that they have activated an unspecified number of Open RAN macro-sites in Northamptonshire, handling commercial data traffic for customers. The deployments are reportedly centred around NEC’s fully open end-to-end solution, paired with Rakuten Symphony’s Open RAN software, edge cloud, and radio management and...

Broadband ISP WightFibre, which operates a network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire in England, today claims to have become the first telecommunications operator in the UK to switch off their old copper network – beating KCOM, Virgin Media and Openreach (BT) to the punch. The operator is […]

The UK Government has announced that network providers (e.g. broadband ISPs and mobile operators) will become subject to new regulations – under the Telecommunications (Security) Act – from 1st Oct 2022, which aside from restricting the use of Huawei, will also impose changes to make networks safer from cyberattack. Just to recap. The TSA became […]

Ambitious superfast broadband provider, Upp, has appointed a new Director of Information and Cyber Security as part of the rollout of services across the East of England. Upp which was founded as FibreMe in 2020 connected their first customer under the new brand of Upp in September 2021. Since then they have started connecting customers in the East of England, and plan to expand further across Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk. The latest appointment is Ian Hill who joins as Director...

Broadband and mobile giant O2 (VMO2) has today announced that their early tests of Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN or O-RAN) technology – supported by NEC and Rakuten Symphony – are now being extended to the field phase, which will see the activation of the first live sites in VMO2’s commercial mobile network. The O-RAN […]

Network provider Netomnia (supported by UK ISP YouFibre) has today revealed more details about their planned rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in Middleton, Newbury, Folkestone and Dover – these form part of their recently announced build plan to 2023. The operator, which aims to cover 1 million premises – homes and […]

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) programme has today published the latest quarterly Summer 2022 update for their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which reveals that they’ve launched new procurements in Hampshire and Shropshire, but are struggling in Staffordshire and Hertfordshire. Project Gigabit seeks to extend networks capable of delivering download speeds of 1000Mbps […]

Up to 38,000 of BT and Openreach’s unionised workers will today be heading back to hundreds of picket lines across the UK as they begin a second major national strike, which is part of an ongoing pay dispute. The strike, which will run through today and tomorrow, is expected to cause more delays to service […]