South West based full fibre provider, Jurassic Fibre, has announced this week that it has passed the milestone of 100,000 premises reached. This landmark achievement brings Jurassic Fibre one step closer to its target of connecting 500,000 homes and businesses across the South West of England by 2025…
Voneus Name 9 Rural Buckinghamshire UK Villages for Full Fibre
UK ISP Voneus, which is supported by investment from Macquarie Capital and harbours a “near term” plan to cover 100,000 homes in rural areas (here) with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, has today revealed 8 new villages in rural Buckinghamshire (England) that will soon benefit from their rollout. The new rollout represents Phase Two of […]
Gov Pressures UK ISPs and Mobile Operators on Cost of Living
The UK government, which wants to be seen as at least trying to do something about the cost of living crisis, has reportedly summoned bosses from most of the major mobile and broadband providers to Downing Street next week. Seemingly in the hope of finding more ways to help those who may be struggling to […]
Court Ruling Brings Clarity to UK Telecoms Disputes Over Rents and Wayleaves
The UK Supreme Court has today handed down three judgements related to the contentious issue of land ownership and rent reductions on mobile masts, such as those that may occur when mobile and fixed wireless broadband operators (EE, Three UK, O2 and Vodafone etc.) attempt to upgrade an existing site. Just to recap. The Government […]
Belgian spectrum auction raises 1.2 billion euros
The main phase of Belgium’s mobile spectrum auction raised 1.2 billion euros, according to the Belgian regulator BIPT (The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications)…
Netomnia Adds Tewkesbury to UK FTTP Broadband Rollout
Network builder Netomnia, which is being supported by broadband ISP partner YouFibre, has today added 11,000 premises in the Gloucestershire town of Tewkesbury to the rollout plan for their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network. Meanwhile, YouFibre has just gone live in Barry, South Wales. The operator, which has so far secured £418 million in […]
Vodafone targets growth with network upgrades focusing on scalability and agility
Vodafone have signed a multi-year agreement with Oracle with an aim of modernising their European IT infrastructure and accelerating its transition to the cloud.
A broad range of systems will be migrated to dedicated fully managed regions of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that will be deployed in Vodafone&rsquo…
The Institute of Telecoms Professionals (ITP) appoints Charlotte Goodwill as CEO to drive the UK’s digital talent pipeline
The Institute of Telecoms Professionals (ITP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Charlotte Goodwill as its new CEO. Starting in June 2022, Charlotte will focus on diversifying the digital workforce and serving as a voice for the industry. Charlotte’s appointment follows the passing of Crissi Williams in March 2022.
Joining the organisation in 2017, Charlotte previously held the role of Head of Apprenticeships where she was responsible for addressing the UK technical skills gap within the telecoms and digital industries &ndash…
Giffgaff UK Slash Mobile Data Allowance on Free EU Roaming
Mobile operator giffgaff has today followed Tesco Mobile’s recent, if controversial, decision (here) to end free EU roaming for UK customers by announcing a huge 75% reduction in inclusive data roaming (mobile broadband) from 20 GigaBytes (GB) to just 5GB, as well as rates of 10p per MegaByte (MB) beyond that. The operator indicated that […]
Broadband ISP Onestream Set to Treble Size of UK Workforce
Hampshire-based home and business broadband ISP Onestream has announced that it plans to create up to 80 new jobs over the next year, which comes after its recent move into larger (6,000 sq ft) premises in Whiteley (Solent Way) – double the size of their previous base at Parkway (Solent Business Park). Assuming all goes […]