This week, Helios Towers have announced its latest financial results, showing a revenue increase of 25% from $212.4 million in HY1 2022 to $265.4 million in H2.
Helios attributes this significant bump to the strong performance of its newly acquired towers in Africa in recent years…
AI Firewall Helps EE UK Block 1 Million International Scam Calls a Day
Mobile operator EE – including broadband ISPs BT and Plusnet – have today revealed that they’ve blocked 11 million international scam calls since July, with the rate rising to 1 million a day. This comes after they launched a new AI powered firewall to filter out callers from international locations posing to be from UK-based […]
Three UK Appoints New Chief Network Officer, Iain Milligan
Mobile operator Three UK has announced that their existing Chief Network Officer (CNO), Carlo Melis, is to be replaced by Iain Milligan next month. Carlo is understood to be returning to his native Italy to become Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Three’s sister company, Wind Tre. Iain is certainly no stranger to the operator and […]
Newark to Benefit from CityFibre’s £10m FTTP Broadband Rollout
CityFibre UK has today confirmed that they’ll invest £10m to cover almost all of the premises in the Nottinghamshire (England) market town of Newark (Newark-on-Trent) with their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. Construction work is planned to begin this November 2022. The new build forms part of CityFibre’s wider £4.9bn investment programme to […]
US Broadband News: New names and new initiatives to drive affordable, reliable, high-speed internet services across America
Total Telecom are keeping track of the latest news from the USA as billions of dollars pour into developing internet access for all. If you are interested in a more in-depth look at how progress is being made, check out our new Connected America event.
16 August 2022
Fort Worth partners with Cisco to promote digital equity – SmartCitiesWorld
15 August 2022
Propelled by New Name, Fastwyre Delivers High-Speed Connectivity & Premiere Broadband Services – GlobeNewswire
12 August 2022
Cantwell, Capito Propose Broadband Buildout Along America’s Electricity Grid – Press Release
11 August 2022
Village of Sherburne Cuts Fiber Deployment Time from Four Years to End of this Year – OPTICS
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AT&T contributes $1.1m to library-based digital literacy programmes
As part of $6 million in contributions, AT&T is bringing bilingual, in-person digital literacy workshops to more than 400 libraries and community centers across the country. These contributions are part of our $2 billion commitment from 2021 to 2023 to help bridge the digital divide.
AT&T’s digital literacy initiatives aim to help more than 65,000 people learn to use computers and mobile devices, navigate the internet and commonly used apps, and participate safely and responsibly in today’s increasingly connected world. These are crucial skills for people who are new to using the internet and computers…
Scientists Find Way to Help WiFi Network Signals Go Through Walls
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Rennes in Austria have found an interesting solution that could help WiFi signals from your local wireless network to more effectively penetrate through walls and boost coverage, which can be thought of as being similar to an anti-reflective coating on glasses. At present if […]
London ISP Community Fibre Appoints Ex-Hyperoptic Man as CFO
London-focused broadband ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has already built to 500,000 premises with their 3Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network (aiming for 2.2 million by the end of 2024), has today appointed Hyperoptic’s former finance chief – Peter White – to be its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The announcement comes after the board of CF revealed […]
Virgin Media O2 Update on Broadband and 5G Progress in Scotland
Telecoms giants Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today jointly issued somewhat of a brief progress update on the work they’ve been doing to deploy both gigabit-capable fixed line broadband ISP connectivity and 4G and 5G mobile networks to consumers across Scotland. At present, VMO2’s existing Project Lightning deployment has already covered a total of […]
The Plan to Add Broadband and Mobile Cover to UK Property Listings
The National Trading Standards – Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT), which works to protect consumers by enforcing existing legislation, is reportedly considering updating the material information rules for property listings to require that agents include data on broadband ISP and mobile coverage. At present Estate Agents are not strictly required to include key detail […]