Today, anonymous sources have told the media that TIM’s head of network operations could soon leave the company, potentially jeopardising new CEO Pietro Labriola’s plans to restructure the business.
At the start of this year, however, Pietro Labriola, previous head of TIM Brasil, was announced as the new Group CEO…
FCC kicks off latest 5G spectrum auction
At the end of last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the launch of its latest 5G spectrum auction, which it hopes will help fill in the gaps of rural wireless coverage.
The auction, Auction 108, will offer 8,017 county-based licences in the 2.5 GHz band for areas where this spectrum is currently unassigned, primarily rural areas.
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Artists Paint ISP Ogi’s Full Fibre Broadband Street Cabinets
Broadband ISP Ogi, which is busy investing £200m to build a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 150,000 premises across South Wales by 2025 (here and here), has teamed-up with a local art gallery – Breakout Gallery – in Haverfordwest to give their street cabinets a rather.. unique look. A series of artworks, based on […]
Humboldt: The first subsea cable connecting LatAm with APAC and Oceania
Today, Chilean state-run infrastructure fund Desarrollo País and H2 Cable, a subsidiary of Singapore’s BW Digital, have announced they now seeking a partner to begin work on the Humboldt Cable, a submarine cable system set to link Latin America to the Asia Pacific and Oceania regions for the first time.
The planned Humboldt Cable will span roughly 15,000km as it connects Valparaiso, Chile, to Sydney, Australia. From there, Humboldt will interconnect to other cable systems in Asia.
The initial plans for the system also include provisions deploy additional branches to the Juan Fernández Islands, Easter Island and New Zealand, further diversifying the route…
10 Recommendations to Help Improve Broadband in Wales
The Welsh Parliament‘s Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee (CCEIC) has today publish a new report into the state of broadband internet access across Wales, which makes 10 recommendations for how the UK and Welsh Government’s could improve connectivity and fill the remaining gaps. Back in 2014 some 55% of residential premises could access “superfast […]
TP-Link Supply WiFi Kit to Support 5,000 UK Digital Inclusion Hubs
Technology and network kit manufacturer TP-Link UK has today announced that they’re supplying WiFi and mobile broadband hardware to help support the Good Things Foundation’s aim of tackling the digital divide, which reflects the latter’s plan to set up 5,000 Digital Inclusion Hubs across the UK by the end of 2025. According to the foundation, […]
1 in 7 UK Broadband, Mobile and Mortgage Users Hit by Loyalty Penalty
A new “nationally representative” Opinium survey 3,087 UK adults with a mobile, broadband ISP, or mortgage contract, which was commissioned by Citizens Advice, has found that 1-in-7 customers are still paying their providers a “loyalty penalty” (i.e. paying more than new customers) despite cost-of-living crisis. The issue of “loyalty penalties” is an old one. New […]
BT CEO on the Full Fibre Threat from Virgin Media O2 and TalkTalk
The CEO of BT Group, Philip Jansen, has given a more detailed comment about the likely impact on their full fibre plans of broadband rival Virgin Media (VMO2) acquiring budget UK ISP TalkTalk, which he admitted would “knock off some cream of the FTTP case” but it apparently won’t “touch the fundamentals of it at […]
8000 Premises Lose Broadband After Maidstone Copper Cable Theft
The seemingly endless campaign of copper cable thefts by increasingly brazen criminals has continued. The latest incident is one of the biggest so far, knocking out broadband and phone services for around 8,000 homes and businesses on Openreach’s (BT) UK network across Maidstone, Sutton Valance and Staplehurs in Kent. The theft appears to have occurred […]
EE and BT Mobile UK Customers Gifted Free Data for Sunday
Customers of both EE’s and BT’s mobile UK service will be able to enjoy it a bit more on Sunday this weekend after the operators announced that they were zero-rating data (mobile broadband) across their network this Sunday. The move is intended to celebrate the Women’s England vs. Germany UEFA European Championship final. EE and […]