Is T-Mobile’s shutdown of Sprint 3G facing further setbacks?
Two years ago, after years of regulatory manoeuvring, T-Mobile and Sprint finally completed their enormous merger for $26 billion. As part of the conditions for the merger, T-Mobile agreed to sell Sprint’s pre-paid mobile business to satellite operator Dish, a satellite operator who had agreed to build their own 5G mobile network. By October 2020, T… read more on TotalTele.com...
New mobile players within Germany drive investment trends
Can you introduce yourself and your role? I am a Director in ING’s TMT Sector team where I advise and finance companies in the digital infrastructure space… read more on TotalTele.com »
A Quarter of UK Parents Use Content Filters from Broadband ISPs
A new Ofcom report has found that 61% of parents are aware of the existing network-level internet filtering (Parental Control) tools provided by big UK broadband ISPs, yet only 27% have actually chosen to use them. Meanwhile, 6% of children have circumvented parental controls and 5% used a proxy server to avoid them. The results […]
Cuckoo Boss Calls on UK ISPs to Scrap Exit Fees and Price Hikes
The CEO of broadband ISP Cuckoo, Alex Fitzgerald, has today called – perhaps in vain – on all rival UK internet service providers to “abolish shady exit fees and above-inflation price rises” to help alleviate the pressures of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen almost all of the major […]
New mobile palyers within Germany drive investment trends
Can you introduce yourself and your role? I am a Director in ING’s TMT Sector team where I advise and finance companies in the digital infrastructure space… read more on TotalTele.com »
Broadband ISP VISPA UK Faces Compulsory Strike-off Action
Customers of UK ISP VISPA may be concerned to note this week that the broadband provider has suddenly become the subject of a “compulsory strike-off” notice, which usually occurs when Companies House finds reasonable grounds to believe that a limited company is no longer trading. The small Manchester-based ISP recently began to deploy their own […]
Standing out in the crowd: a customer-centric approach to subsea connectivity
Ahead of Submarine Networks EMEA 2022 in May, Total Telecom caught up with Crosslake Fibre’s CEO Mike Cunningham to hear more about their recently completed CrossChannel Fibre project as well as to understand what’s next for the business. Congratulations on the recent completion of the CrossChannel Fibre project. Please can you tell us more about the system? Many thanks, it is always an exciting time when you place a new system into service. The launch of the CrossChannel Fibre...
BDUK Publish Next Batch of Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reviews
The Broadband Delivery UK team has today published another batch of Public Reviews (PR) for Surrey, Lancashire, Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire (inc. Swindon), Derbyshire, East Sussex and Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes under the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout. Just to recap. The project seeks to ensure that a minimum of 85%+ of UK […]
Canada gets 5G standalone courtesy of Rogers
Rogers Communications has announced it has launched the first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network in Canada and one of the first globally, turning on the next-generation service after completing the rollout of Canada’s first national standalone 5G core and the country’s first 5G standalone device certification, continuing its leadership in the rollout of 5G technology… read more on TotalTele.com...
The role of collaboration in delivering seamless global connectivity
With the global growth of the IoT and machine learning, cross-border connectivity has never been more important. In a recent conversation with Total Telecom… read more on TotalTele.com »