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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, […]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and DISH Network Corporation have announced that Samsung Electronics was selected for the deployment of 5G Open Radio Access Network solutions across DISH Wireless’ SMART 5G™ network. Per the multi-year agreement, the companies will collaborate to deploy Samsung’s 5G O-RAN-compliant virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions and radio units in markets across the U.S., supporting DISH’s 5G commercial services. “Samsung’s 5G solutions will play an integral role in our network...

Today, Jurassic Fibre has announced that it has slashed the price of all of its broadband packages by 50% until the 30th June this year, aiming to reduce the burden on customers affected by the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.    “People across the Southwest have been particularly hit by the national increase in living costs… read more on TotalTele.com...

Yet another unicorn has emerged from the Swedish battery industry, with lithium-ion power storage start-up Polarium today being valued at over $1 billion following a minority stake sale.   The battery firm announced today that it had received a $100.75 million investment from Swedish pensions company AMF in return for a 10% stake in the business, thus putting the company’s valuation at above $1 billion for the first time.   Polarium… read more on TotalTele.com...

To date digital ICT has focused largely on non-physical industry with only 30% of investment going into areas such as manufacturing, transport… read more on TotalTele.com »

UK ISP Lightning Fibre, which is busy building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover over 100,000 premises across parts of East Sussex in England, has today announced that they’ve begun to extend their deployment into the seaside town of Bexhill (Bexhill-on-Sea). The operator, which is being backed by private equity firm […]

Exeter-based broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre, which is constructing a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England (Devon, Somerset and Dorset), has announced that their network has now started to go live in the towns of Crediton and Dorchester. The operator is currently being supported by an investment of £250 million […]

As data becomes more “cloudified” and distributed, getting key components such as connectivity, orchestration, and governance right, is crucial. According to Dean Bubley, Founder of Disruptive Analysis: “There is a growing overlap between network ownership and data… read more on TotalTele.com »