MTN turns to crowdsourcing to overcome South African energy crisis
Widespread power outages have been commonplace in South Africa for over a decade, with the national energy supplier Eksom having struggled to meet the national demand for electricity during peak times since 2007. Now, however, this energy crisis is deepening further still due to strike action from Eksom workers, forcing one of the country’s largest mobile networks operators, MTN, to turn to the public for help in keeping their network up and running. This week, MTN has announced that it...
Startup Stories – Go West
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Netomnia Prep Gigabit Broadband for Grantham in Lincolnshire
Network builder Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre – has today announced that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network is being extended to cover homes and businesses in the Lincolnshire (England) town of Grantham. The operator intends to invest up to £7 million in order to reach 24,000 premises across the […]
Mobile Operator O2 UK Updates Pay As You Go Plans
Mobile network operator O2 (VMO2) appears to have refreshed some of their SIM Only contract-free “Pay As You Go” mobile plans (Big Bundles), which has seen the odd plan get a data allowance (mobile broadband) boost and others benefit from the addition of included calling minutes to 42 countries. One of our readers, Mike, spotted […]
BT Secures TV Rights to UEFA Football Leagues as Amazon Takes Slice
Broadband, mobile and broadcasting giant BT has announced that their Sport TV streaming business has secured the rights to the majority of UEFA’s Champions League games, plus all the Europa League and the Europa Conference League exclusively live, for a further 3 seasons. But Amazon’s Prime Video service has also taken a slice. Previously, BT […]
ISP Zzoomm Builds Full Fibre Coverage to 50,000 UK Premises
Network builder and UK ISP Zzoomm has today released their annual results, which among other things reveals that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has now expanded to cover 50,000 premises (up from 10,000 in Dec 2021) with 3,000 customers connected (up from 1,400). Just to recap. The provider, which aims to reach 1 […]
Gigabit Broadband for 3,000 Primary Schools in Rural England
The Government has tonight announced that a joint £82m investment by the Departments for Culture (DCMS) and Education (DfE) will mean that, over the next 3 years, as many as 3,000 primary schools across rural England will now get access to broadband (full fibre) speeds of up to 1000Mbps. The announcement adds a bit more […]
Brief Progress Update on Scotland’s R100 Fibre Broadband Rollout
The Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Kate Forbes, has issued a brief progress update on their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with BT (Openreach), which is busy extending fixed “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) coverage – the vast majority of which is coming via FTTP – across rural parts of the country. Just to recap. […]
Broadband ISP Fibrus Reveal FTTP Rollout Plan for North England
Belfast-based ISP Fibrus, which until now has been focused on building gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across Northern Ireland, has this afternoon revealed its £200m expansion plan for Great Britain – aiming to reach 113,000 premises by 2025 (starting in Cumbria). Curiously, today’s announcement makes no mention of the figure they first put out a […]
BT Staff Vote to Strike Over Pay as Openreach Prep Contingency Plan
The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents c. 40,000 staff at the UK telecoms and broadband ISP giant BT (inc. Openreach), has today – following a dispute over pay – voted to hit the operator with its first national strike in 35 years. Delays to service provision are expected, unless a last minute deal can […]