Last month, G.Network announced that its CEO and co-founder, Sasho Veselinski, would be stepping down from the business for “personal reasons” with immediate effect.
The company’s COO and fellow co-founder, David Sangster, has since been acting as interim CEO while the company searched for a full…
Three UK in Huge Hike to Standard Charges on PAYG Mobile Plans
Customers of mobile network operator Three UK, specifically those who still take their Pay As You Go (PAYG) plans, have begun to receive a new notification that informs them of another significant price hike to their standard rates for calls, text messages (SMS) and data usage (mobile broadband). At present Three UK charges PAYG customers […]
ASA Ban Sky Mobile UK Ads for Misleading Perfect Network Claim
A complaint raised by broadband ISP and mobile giant BT looks set to result in the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banning a TV and poster advert for Sky Mobile (Sky Broadband), which was found to have “misleadingly” claimed to have offered “the perfect network“. The complaint related to two Sky Mobile adverts – seen […]
e& partners with DataRobot to launch AIaaS
Earlier this year, United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based operator Etisalat underwent a major rebrand, renaming itself ‘e&’ and restructuring numerous divisions in an attempt to transform itself from a traditional telco to a world-leading tech company.
One such new division was ‘e& enterprise’, aiming to focus on providing digital technologies and expertise to businesses around the world and assisting them with their digital transformation…
CityFibre Start Halifax FTTP Broadband Build with New Contractor
After a long delay due to the failure of their previous local contractor, CityFibre has today announced the start (or restart) of their £23m project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large West Yorkshire (England) town of Halifax. The local deployment – due to cover “nearly every home and […]
Full Fibre ISP G.Network Appoint Former Openreach MD as CEO
London-focused gigabit-broadband builder and UK ISP G.Network, which unexpectedly saw its founder and former CEO – Sasho Veselinski – exit last month due to “personal reasons” (here), has managed to grab the former Managing Director of Openreach’s Fibre and Network Delivery team, Kevin Murphy, to be its new CEO. The operator has made rapid progress […]
New Record Fibre Optic Speed of 1.02Pbps Hit Over 51.7km
A team of network researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan has done it again after they achieved the “world’s first” successful data transmission of 1.02 Petabits per second (Pbs) in a standard cladding diameter (0.125 mm) multi-core fibre cable over a distance of 51.7km. The eagle-eyed among you […]
Ogi Issue Progress Update on FTTP Broadband Rollout in Wales
Broadband ISP Ogi has just issued a brief progress update to celebrate the first year of their £200m effort to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across South Wales (here and here), which initially aims to cover 150,000 premises by the end of 2025 (they’ve almost completed 23,000). At present Ogi, which was formerly […]
Oak Hill Capital investing $300m in New York fibre player Greenlight Networks
Greenlight Networks (“Greenlight”), a leading fiber-to-the home provider in upstate New York, announced today that New York-based middle-market private equity firm Oak Hill Capital (“Oak Hill”) has become its majority investor. The transaction announced in March of this year provides the financial backing to accelerate Greenlight’s growth in building and connecting fiber…
Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr strike six deals worth $912.5m
Today, Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr have announced a number of new partnerships cumulatively worth EGP17 billion ($912.5 million).
The agreements largely focus on allowing Etisalat to offer customers commercial services using Telecom Egypt’s network, with the largest deal, valued at around $670 million…