This week, Spanish investor Asterion Industrial Partners has announced its latest conquest in Italy, purchasing a 78.4% stake in digital infrastructure specialist Irideos.
The deal, worth an estimated €400 million, will see Asterion combined Irideos’ various digital assets with those of its newly purchased Italian company Retelit…
Full Fibre UK ISP Lit Fibre Picks Comtec as Supply Chain Partner
Broadband ISP Lit Fibre, which is being backed by investment from Newlight Partners LP to help build a new gigabit-speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to reach 500,000 homes in England by 2026, has today chosen Comtec to be their Strategic Supply Chain Partner for the ongoing rollout. The deal essentially means that the operator has outsourced […]
VMO2 shares the heatwave's impact on UK data traffic
Virgin Media O2 has released its latest network data showing massive spikes in traffic at events and popular coastal resorts as the UK records the hottest day ever. The converged network operator is upgrading the UK’s summer experiences by investing more than ever in keeping customers connected – either with temporary sites at key events or via upgrading 4G sites across the country.
Battling the heatwave
With temperatures reaching record highs this month, coastal areas in Northern Ireland including Portrush and Portstewart saw the biggest spikes in network traffic compared to average levels over the previous month…
Rights Holders Move Closer to Website Blocks via DNS Providers
People who use Cloudflare’s popular third-party public Domain Name System (DNS) resolver – via the easy to remember IP address of 1.1.1.1 – may soon find that the company is forced by the courts to block websites that have been found to facilitate internet copyright infringement (piracy). A DNS provider will typically work to convert […]
Sun shines on Openreach’s Equinox prices as CityFibre appeal fails
At the end of last week, the CAT announced that it had rejected CityFibre’s appeal against an Ofcom ruling that would allow Openreach to offer major discounts to its client internet service providers (ISPs).
In August year, Ofcom announced that it would allow Openreach to go ahead with its new pricing strategy, Equinox, which would see them reduce their wholesale prices by up to a third for ISPs taking out long term contracts.
The ruling spurred outrage from the UK altnet community, who said that the discounts would make competing with Openreach in many locations unfeasible, thus making the market less competitive.
While the altnets could not launch a legal challenge against the Equinox prices directly…
CEO of Broadband ISP Voneus Named New Chair of the UK ISPA
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA UK), which is the national trade body for broadband and internet providers, has today had a key change in its leadership, which sees Steve Leighton (CEO of Voneus) taking over the reins from Andrew Glover (CEO of Air Broadband) to become the organisation’s new Chair. Andrew will hand over […]
G.Network Become Latest Full Fibre AltNet to Sign Armed Forces Covenant
London-focused broadband ISP G.Network has today become the latest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network builder in the UK to sign the Armed Forces Covenant (AFC), which reflects a pledge to recognise the contribution of serving personnel, both regular and reservists, veterans and military families – often as part of recruitment. A number of other telecoms and broadband […]
Telenet forms fibre JV with Fluvius
Today, Belgian operator Telenet has announced a new agreement with utility company Fluvius to form a joint venture (JV) to deploy full fibre throughout Flanders.
Telenet will own 66.8% of the JV, while Fluvius will own the remaining 33.2%.
The JV, with the working title of NetCo, will focus on combining the partners hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) network infrastructure and upgrading it to full fibre, aiming to reach 78% of their combined footprint in Flanders by 2038. In some areas, NetCo will instead be upgrading the HFC network with DOCSIS technology…
Openreach Add 12 New UK FTTP Broadband Rollout Areas – July 2022
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today added 12 new places (towns and villages) to their £15bn rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which also includes a few corrections due to past errors and a larger build on the Isle of Wight. Some 8 million premises are now covered. The rollout, […]
Three UK’s Ultrafast 5G Mobile Goes Live in 86 New Locations
Mobile operator Three UK has revealed that their ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband network has gone live in 86 new locations since the start of this year, including rural and coastal “staycation” locations like Dartmouth, Milford on Sea, Aberystwyth, Holywood and Irvine. The news comes hot on the heels of Three UK announcing that they’ve […]