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CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent Full Fibre platform, and Giganet, a rapidly-growing and award-winning Internet Service Provider (ISP), have agreed a major expansion to their strategic partnership. Under the terms of the new deal, Giganet will make their Full Fibre offering available across CityFibre’s entire eight million home nationwide rollout. The new agreement builds on the initial partnership first announced in 2020… read more on TotalTele.com...

Given its sensitive nature, it is rare for cybersecurity to be discussed openly during international discussions, but this is exactly what happened earlier this this week when a Norwegian delegation, including the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, travelled to Sweden to strengthen cooperation between the two countries. The three-day event featured a heavy focus on improving cybersecurity dialogue between the two countries, with participating IT firm Advania suggesting lack of knowledge of the...

The inaugural UK Fibre Awards event has recently announced its first shortlist of potential winners for 2022, which lists various broadband ISPs and network builders across ten categories (e.g. Best Rural Fibre Provider, Best Urban Fibre Provider etc.). Some providers, such as Giganet, managed to be shortlisted across multiple categories. If you’re only just hearing […]

Today, BT’s Digital unit has announced a new deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will see the cloud giant help shift BT’s internal applications to the cloud.  As BT’s ‘preferred cloud provider’, the five-year partnership will see AWS update BT&rsquo… read more on TotalTele.com »

This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has agreed to allow AST SpaceMobile to test its direct-to-smartphone satellite technology in the US. The tests will see AST’s soon-to-launch BlueWalker 3 satellite connect to customers unmodified smartphones, with the tests reportedly using “lowband cellular frequencies and Q/V-band frequencies”. Based on the company&rsquo… read more on TotalTele.com...

A new survey of 2,019 UK residents with broadband connections, which was conducted by National Broadband, has claimed that almost two thirds (63%) of broadband users in the UK do not know they are entitled to demand access to download speeds of 10Mbps+ (Universal Service Obligation). But this conclusion might not be correct. The survey […]

Last month we revealed that UK broadband ISP Zen Internet had put their headline grabbing “Lifetime Price Guarantee” pledge (i.e. no price rises for as long as a contracted customer stays with them) under review for new customer contracts (here). As expected, Zen has now confirmed that new customers will no longer be able to […]

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has responded to a BT complaint by banning a UK website and TV advert for Virgin Media’s Gig1 Fibre broadband package, which saw the operator promote itself as the “UK’s fastest major broadband provider“, after they failed to include sufficient information to verify their comparisons. BT’s complaint related to two […]

Back in January the Government’s Building Digital UK team “soft launched” a new National Rolling Open Market Review (NROMR) process for their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout with a limited number of suppliers (here). Today they’ve launched another NROMR and are opening it up to more suppliers. In case anybody has forgotten. Project Gigabit aims […]

Infracapital-backed UK broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that the next location to benefit from the rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network will be the small rural town of Wincanton in South Somerset (England) – home to a local population of around 5,300. At present, the operator’s network, which currently covers over 250,000 premises, […]