Business focused UK ISP and Managed Service Provider (MSP) Connectus has announced that they’ll freeze prices to their clients for the next 12 months in order to help support small businesses during the current financial crisis, which is raising costs as the price of goods, energy supplies and materials continues to soar. Explaining the reasons […]
H1 2022 Take-up in the UK Superfast Broadband Programme
The Government’s £2.53bn Superfast Broadband Programme (SFBB) has so far helped to extend 24-30Mbps+ capable UK ISP networks to 5,440,086 extra premises since 2012 and the latest take-up data to March 2022 shows strong demand, with adoption in most of the original build areas now exceeding 80%. We haven’t done one of these updates in […]
Australian businesses connected in days not weeks
Telstra Wholesale’s communication service provider (CSP) customers are now able to provision ethernet connectivity in just days, and whilst fibre is still be provisioned, thanks to new capabilities offered by ADVA&rsquo…
Softbank’s new partnership aims to enable autonomous driving in Japan
Softbank has entered a partnership with May Mobility, a US-based autonomous vehicle technology specialist. The agreement will see the two organisations collaborate to deliver an autonomous vehicle driving service in Japan using Softbank&rsquo…
Toob’s 900Mb Broadband Package for UK Businesses Goes Live
Alternative UK network ISP toob, which is building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Hampshire and Surrey in England (e.g. Southampton), has today announced that their 900Mbps plan for small and medium-sized businesses has exited its trial phase. The operator, which was originally backed by an investment of £75m from funds […]
ISP Connect Fibre Launch Strong Wi-Fi Guarantee and LinkSys Router
Network builder and UK ISP Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd.), which aims to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service to cover 100,000 premises across the East of England, has partnered up with Linksys and Axiros to offer a new Wi-Fi 6 capable router and the “UK’s best home Wi-Fi guarantee“. The operator, which […]
BT doubles down on AIOps with Dynatrace, targets self-healing systems by 2025
BT Digital today announced plans to consolidate all of BT Group’s application monitoring on the Dynatrace® Software Intelligence Platform as part of a new service management stack. Dynatrace will be deployed across the Group, with a goal to dramatically simplify, add intelligence to, and ultimately automate, service operations within BT in a new AIOps model…
Orange targets digital divide with new digital skills centre in Brussels
Following the launch of a similar centre in Paris, France, earlier this month, Orange is now celebrating the launch of its second European ODC, this time in the Belgian capital, Brussels.
The operator calls the ODC a “complete ecosystem for acquiring digital skills testing and fine-tuning actual projects”, with the centre positioned directly in the centre of the city, in the BeCentral hub within Brussels Central Station.
The ODC comprises numerous elements, the including a Digital Academy and a digital production workshop known as the Solidarity Fab Lab.
At the Digital Academy, participants will receive training in various digital training programmes…
Vodafone Gift All UK Customers 24 Hours of Free Unlimited Data
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has announced that all of their consumer customers (including those on Pay As You Go, Pay Monthly and even VOXI plans) will be able to benefit from 24 hours of free unlimited data on Sunday 26th June 2022, which is intended to mark the UK’s first ever “Celebration Day” event. Celebration […]
Could a four-day week work for the telecom sector?
As the world has moved back to the office, many companies are addressing how to make this more appealing to their staff. A recent report from CNBC said that 92% of people supported the four-day working week and claimed employees felt “it would improve their mental health and productivity.”
European Computer Telecoms AG (ECT) faced the same challenge as many others…