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The Scottish Government has today launched a new Open Market Review (OMR), which forms part of the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout and aims to identify which areas will need state aid support to help spread the availability of gigabit speed networks “nationwide” by 2030. Just to recap. Project Gigabit seeks to extend […]

UK ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) has announced that they’re preparing to bring the latest model of their core Firebrick routers into service (FireBrick FB9000), which include better hardware and as a result they’ll be able to trial faster broadband speeds on their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based packages. The provider is somewhat of a rarity in […]

The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents UK alternative full fibre and fixed wireless broadband ISP networks, has appointed Rosalind Singleton, CEO of new ISP Spring Fibre, and Tim Stranack, Founder and Director of CommunityFibre, to their board. Rosalind Singleton is also Chair of the UK5G Advisory Board, a member of the UK Government’s […]

A new report claims that broadband ISP Trooli, which holds an ambition to reach a “minimum” of 1 million UK premises with their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2024, is close to launching an equity sale process that could raise £200m and significantly accelerate their rollout target. The alternative network provider, […]

Telstra and TPG Telecom Limited today announced a ground-breaking ten-year regional MOCN commercial agreement, which will provide significant value to Telstra’s wholesale mobile revenues, while providing TPG Telecom group’s subscribers with 4G and 5G services within a defined coverage zone across regional and urban fringe areas.   Under the innovative deal TPG Telecom will gain access to around 3,700 of Telstra’s mobile network assets, increasing TPG Telecom’s current...

Following the in footsteps of its smaller predecessors in the SEA-ME-WE series, today has seen the SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium announced that work has begun on the project. SEA-ME-WE 6 system will span roughly 19,200km between Singapore and France, landing at 12 locations across South East Asia… read more on TotalTele.com »

Huawei first announced its new Digital Power business unit last summer, aimed at developing low-carbon systems for various market segments, including data centres and electric vehicles.  At the time, the Chinese vendor noted that reaching carbon neutrality had become a shared target for more than 140 markets worldwide, with many countries beginning to launch legislation to force businesses to adopt a greener future. The company also noted that electricity and transportation represented around...

Mobile operator Three UK has today become the latest provider to join the Good Things Foundation’s charitable National Databank scheme, which aims to provide free mobile broadband data to community groups and the people they support to aid internet connectivity – either via SIM cards or vouchers. As reported earlier this year, Vodafone has already […]

There is no question that the submarine fiber optics industry is enjoying an unprecedented period of strong demand for new cable systems.  The end of 2021 marked an extraordinary eight years of solid and sometimes spectacular growth for the market.  For an industry that traditionally saw a boom and bust cycle ever three-to-four years, the strength of the market during this period is something that has never been seen before. In fact, the global submarine cable network is literally being...

After just two months since it was first announced (here), broadband ISP Lit Fibre has today confirmed that the first homes are now starting to go live on their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the Essex (South East England) seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea. The provider, which holds an aspiration to cover 500,000 […]