BT Quotes 15 Premises on Shetland £725k to Get Broadband
The MSP for the Shetland Islands (Scotland), Beatrice Wishart (LibDem), has helped to highlight the challenge of connecting some very remote rural communities after one group of 15 properties was quoted £725,000 to get faster broadband installed under the 10Mbps+ Universal Service Obligation (USO). Sadly, it’s long been expected that the Scottish Government’s £600m Reaching […]
SMARTY Mobile UK Launch New 4G and 5G Data Only SIMs
Mobile operator Smarty has today launched a new range of data-only (mobile broadband) SIMs, which are designed to help you “stay connected on the move” by offering 2GB (GigaBytes) of data for £5, 15GB for £9, 40GB for £13, 100GB for £17 or unlimited data for £20. As ever, the catch with data-only SIMs is […]
ITU’s Partner2Connect project sees $18.5 billion in pledges to connect the unconnected
This week, the ITU has announced the major success of its Partner2Connect programme, finding major support from both the public and private sectors, which pledged over $18.5 billion to improve internet access for the global population. According to the ITU, around 2.9 billion people worldwide remain unconnected to the internet… read more on TotalTele.com...
Winning Operators of the Inaugural UK Fibre Awards 2022 Named
The inaugural UK Fibre Awards event was held last night, which saw various broadband ISPs and full fibre network builders across ten categories pick up awards for their achievements. Some of the winners included Giganet, which was named ‘Overall Fibre Provider of the Year‘, while G.Network scooped ‘Best Urban Fibre Provider‘. The event is a […]
Telefónica Tech and Cisco strengthen collaboration around converged networks and security
Telefónica Tech, Telefónica’s digital business unit, and Cisco® have announced a strategic alliance and an innovative global managed service, which includes SD-WAN, security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures. This new service, designed to address the needs of both large companies and SMBs, will consist of an integrated connectivity and security offer to connect enterprises across data centres… read more on TotalTele.com...
Sampath the disrupter aims to shake things up at Verizon
The empty seat at Verizon Business left by Tami Erwin who announced her departure last month will be filled from 1 July by the promotion of Chief Revenue Officer Sowmyanarayan Sampath to CEO … read more on TotalTele.com »
CommunityFibre Survey Claims 1 in 5 Cannot Afford Broadband Bill
A new study of 1,500 UK based adults, which was commissioned by London-focused ISP CommunityFibre and conducted by Perspectus Global in March 2022, has claimed that 20% of Brits cannot afford to pay their broadband bill and 33% would rather cut back on their fuel use than cut back on internet access to save money. […]
Liberty Global looks to Vodafone to fill senior leadership role
Previously CNO for Germany at Vodafone, Madalina Suceveanu joined Liberty Global in April and has now been announced as Managing Director… read more on TotalTele.com »
CityFibre Begins GBP30m FTTP Broadband Rollout in St Helens
CityFibre has today broken the first ground on their £30m investment to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large town and borough of St Helens in Merseyside (England), which aims to cover most of the local homes and businesses by 2025. The first civil engineering work began in the Peasley […]
Giganet Suffer Hampshire Broadband Outage After Fibre Break
Customers of UK broadband ISP Giganet in Hampshire, particularly those connecting through their Point of Presence (PoP) in the Winchester Exchange, are suffering from a major outage after “significant damage” was caused to one of their main underground fibre spine cables by a “large excavation team” in Basingstoke. The incident appears to have happened at […]