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Last year the national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, estimated that 44.6 million UK people may have received scam calls and text messages during just the three months of summer (here), with 2% of recipients being duped by them. In response, the regulator has today proposed changes to tackle the use of fake phone numbers. Most of […]

Back in December last year, South Africa’s telecoms regulator ICASA invited telcos to apply for the right to bid in the upcoming mid-band spectrum auction.  Now, over two months later, the regulator has revealed that all six applications it received were successful, meaning the delayed spectrum will be fought over by MTN, Vodacom, Telkom, Cell C, Rain Networks, and Liquid Telecoms. The auction process is now set to officially begin from the 8th of March… read more on TotalTele.com...

The partnership agreement will see Arc deploy its network in Bezeq’s data centre in Tel Aviv creating the lowest latency route between regional hubs in datamena UAE, Global Zone Bahrain, Smarthub UAE and Israel… read more on TotalTele.com »

This week, Syria has announced that a third mobile player will be entering the market in the form of Wafa Telecom, a domestic company headed up by Ghassan Saba, the country’s ex- Deputy Communications and Technology Minister. The company has been allocated an operating licence by the national regulator… read more on TotalTele.com...

CityFibre has today confirmed that they’re investing £27m to deploy their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to homes and businesses in the West Yorkshire (England) city of Wakefield, which is a location that was quietly removed from their rollout plan back in 2020. Construction of the new full fibre network has already begun […]

This week, Syria has announced that a third mobile player will be entering the market in the form of Wafa Telecom, a domestic company headed up by Ghassan Saba, the country’s ex- Deputy Communications and Technology Minister. The company has been allocated an operating licence by the national regulator… read more on TotalTele.com »

The new year did not start on a positive note for Tonga, with the submerged Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupting with more force than an atomic bomb, according to NASA.   The eruption caused tsunamis throughout the Pacific, leading to at least five fatalities and causing almost $100 million in damage.   Naturally, such an enormous natural disaster had an immediate impact on local submarine cable infrastructure, with a large portion of the 827km Tonga Cable damaged, leaving the...

The state aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme and UK ISP Airband have today issued a new winter 2022 progress update on their project to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the region, which aims to reach tens of thousands of rural premises. The programme actually reflects two ongoing contracts with […]

Gigabit broadband ISP toob, which is currently building a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of Hampshire and Surrey in England, has today become the latest provider to shun the recent inflation busting industry price hikes by reassuring customers that there will be “no in-contract price rises” on their service. The operator, which was originally backed […]

Network builder and UK ISP Hampstead Fibre has today revealed the first details of their new rollout plan for a “premium” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service in parts of North London, which seems to be targeting wealthy homeowners and businesses who can afford something more akin to a leased line. We first spotted the provider last […]