This week, Virgin Media O2 (VMO”) has announced that launch of five new apprenticeship schemes, set to focus on digital marketing, cyber security, quantity surveying, network cabling and DevOps.
These new schemes will run in addition to the 40 the company already offers in these crucial areas, with VMO2 also running alternative schemes for network engineering roles.
Apprentices will reportedly be paid a minimum annual salary of £19,000, with the company seeking to fill an additional 70 roles in total…
Scotland Unveil £36m Extension of R100 Fibre Broadband Rollout
The Scottish Government has unveiled an extension of their existing £600m Reaching 100% (R100) contract with BT (Openreach), which will see a further £36m being invested to cover an additional 2,637 rural properties with a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network. But completion is now 2028! The original R100 project was split between three […]
Connecting Kilimanjaro: Africa’s tallest peak to gain internet access
This week, the Tanzanian government has announced that state-owned mobile operator Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (TTC) has begun connecting Africa’s highest mountain to the internet.
The government said that it had completed the installation of telecommunications equipment 3,720 metres up the mountainside, providing access to a high-speed broadband connection for the thousands of climbers that visit the mountain every year.
By the end of the year…
Ofcom Finds Sky UK Breached Rules on Contract Notifications UPDATE
A long-running investigation by the UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today concluded that Sky (Sky TV, Sky Broadband etc.) broke consumer protection rules by failing to send end-of-contract notifications to their satellite based Pay TV customers. The End-of-Contract Notifications (ECN) system requires all fixed broadband, mobile, home phone and pay TV providers to […]
ISP Zone Broadband UK Joins MS3’s FTTP Broadband Network
Internet provider Zone Broadband, which is normally more accustomed to selling packages via Openreach’s national network, has this week become the latest UK retail ISP to hop on to MS3‘s new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the North of England. In case anybody has forgotten. MS3 are currently rolling out a new full fibre network to […]
Good Law Project Questions Award of £70bn Net Zero Contract by Broadband Group
The Good Law Project (GLP) has filed judicial review proceedings against the East of England Broadband Network (E2BN) for their alleged decision to “unlawfully award” a £70bn ‘Everything Net Zero‘ Framework Agreement to the Place Group, which they claim is a micro “company with scant emissions reduction expertise“. Just to give this some context. The […]
EE's new firewall tech blocks 11 million scam calls in a month
Every year tens of millions of scam calls target people in the UK. Many scam calls that reach UK consumers come from international locations posing to be from UK-based numbers for legitimacy. They are often run by international scam networks for the purposes of fraudulently acquiring personal information, access to devices and, in some cases, bank details from the customer.
The firewall technology from EE uses AI to review calls passing through UK Calling Line Identification (CLI) from other countries and blocks those pretending to be based in the UK…
Trooli Bring Full Fibre to 275,000 UK Premises and Hits Derbyshire
Broadband ISP Trooli has announced that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which aims to reach at least 1 million UK premises by the end of 2024, has now extended to cover a total of 275,000 premises (up from 220k in May 2022) – nearly triple the coverage they had a year ago. They’re also entering […]
Cloud Gaming ISP ZYBRE Offers Discounts on Restaurants and UK Attractions
Cloud gaming ISP ZYBRE has announced that customers of their broadband packages, which are available to those taking FTTP services via Openreach or MS3’s platforms, are now able to receive a reward card that entitles them to discounts on eating out, cinema and money off top UK attractions. Jonathan Harding, CMO of ZYBRE, said: “With […]
China funding Huawei mobile tower build in the Solomon Islands
This week, the Solomon Islands’s government has announced that it has a secured considerable loan from the Exim Bank of China, with the funds being used to deploy 161 new mobile towers across the country.
The loan of roughly $94 million will be repaid over 20 years, with an annual interest rate of 1%.
The government said that the towers will be gradually deployed over the next three years, aiming to have half of the total deployed before the Pacific Games take place in the nation&rsquo…