This week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against former US congressman Stephen Buyer for insider trading related to the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.
The SEC alleges that Buyer leveraged his position as a T-Mobile consultant to gain non-public knowledge about the upcoming T-Mobile acquisition of Sprint…
South Korean operators betting big on content creation
The 2020s are a shaping up to be a decade of change for telco business models. While connectivity itself is more important in all facets of our lives than ever before – as highlighted throughout the coronavirus pandemic – traditional voice and data service revenue are not growing in time with the surging demand. Combine this with the expenditure telcos face with the pricey rollout of new technologies like 5G and fibre, and the telecoms industry at large is looking for its next money-maker.
For many operators…
Netomnia Add 4 UK Towns and Villages to Full Fibre Rollout
Network builder Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre – has today added four new towns in England and Scotland to their national rollout of a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network, which includes Mansfield, Purfleet, Bedford and Coatbridge. The operator, which has already secured a total of £418m in funding for […]
RootMetrics Benchmarks the Best UK Mobile Networks for H1 2022
Mobile testing firm RootMetrics, which was last year acquired by Ookla (here), has today published their biannual H1 2022 study of mobile network (4G and 5G) and broadband performance across the United Kingdom, which sees EE collecting the most awards. But rival Three UK is threatening to pull ahead in 5G. The new study used […]
Virgin Media O2 Bring Dark Fibre to All Proximity Edge Data Centres
Broadband ISP Virgin Media Business UK (VMO2) has today announced that their wholesale division is working to deliver network services, including diverse Dark Fibre and optical high capacity services up to 100G, to customers across Proximity’s portfolio of regional colocation data centres. At present Proximity, which is a rapidly growing regional edge colocation data centre […]
Truespeed Connect 300 South West Businesses to Full Fibre
Broadband ISP Truespeed, which is deploying a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of South West England, has today announced that they’ve so far connected 300 businesses in the region to their new ultrafast broadband network. The operator, which has so far covered 40,000 premises (homes and business) and last year confirmed that they […]
Cost of Household UK Broadband and Mobile May Rise by Over a Third
Technical UK consultancy firm FarrPoint has estimated that the cost of household connectivity services (e.g. fixed broadband, phone and mobile) could rise by more than a third over the next 5 years. As usual, the proposed solution is to try shopping around for a better deal. Many of our readers will have already been hit […]
Campaign Forces Openreach to Remove Fibre Poles in Fife Village
Residents in the large Fife (Scotland, UK) village of East Wemyss have succeeded in petitioning Openreach (BT) to remove several of its recently deployed telegraph poles. The poles were built to help bring full fibre (FTTP) broadband to the area, but locals found them “obtrusive” and feared the value of their homes might suffer. We […]
UK govt launches £25m Future Open Networks Research Challenge
Today, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has announced the launch of its new Future Open Networks (FON) Research Challenge, aimed at providing funding to enable universities to work with major RAN vendors on Open RAN R&D.
The Challenge will allocate £25 million in funding across numerous university-led projects, aiming to explore the validity and further develop open and interoperable telecoms equipment for 4G and 5G…
India kicks off long-delayed 5G spectrum auction
The operators will be able to bid for spectrum in the 600MHz, 700MHz, 800MHz, 900MHz, 1.8GHz, 2.1GHz, 2.3GHz, 3.3GHz, and 26GHz bands.
Licences awarded will be valid for 20 years, with equal payments expected annually throughout this period. Winning bidders may also choose to surrender the spectrum after 10 years with no further payment obligations.
These measures, combined with the scrapping of spectrum usage charge as part of the telecoms relief package announced last year…