The Connected Britain Awards have become a regular and hotly contested element of the annual Connected Britain event, which returns to London on the 20-21 September 2022.
This year’s awards promise to be the best yet with fourteen categories…
A1 Bulgaria buys local ICT firm STEMO
A1 Telekom Austria Group said on Thursday that it has acquired Bulgarian ICT company STEMO.
STEMO was founded in 1991 and offers software services and other ICT management and support services to the international market.
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BT partners with MTN for business service offerings
A new strategic partnership announced this week will see BT’s business services become available to MTN’s enterprise customers.
The first service to become available will be a security operations centre (SOC) service, featuring a cloud-based platform for security incident and event management…
Comms Provider Daisy Group UK Acquires Communicate Better
Lancashire-based business communications provider and UK ISP Daisy Group has today officially acquired another IT and telecoms firm in the form of Communicate Better for an undisclosed sum. The move follows their recent acquisitions of broadband provider XLN Group and Premier Choice Telecom Ltd. “I am delighted with the acquisition of Communicate Better,” said Dave […]
RunFibre Adds 2 South Gloucestershire Villages to FTTP Rollout
Bristol-based ISP RunFibre, which is building a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South Gloucestershire in England, has this week announced that their deployment is being extended to cover 600 premises in the neighbouring villages of Easter Compton and Over. The move looks set to complement their existing deployments in the […]
Openreach to Start R100 Subsea Fibre Broadband Build in Scotland
The Scottish Government‘s £35m subsea fibre project with Openreach (BT) and Global Marine, which aims to connect 15 remote islands around northern Scotland via 16 new fibre optic cable links – laid across the sea bed, is finally getting underway after an extensive period of engineering surveys and the build of landing sites. The work […]
DTAC and True absence leaves merger detractors unchallenged at regulatory meeting
According to reports, both True and DTAC were absent from a regulatory hearing today, despite saying yesterday that they would present their plans to ensure the market remained competitive after their prospective merger.
The meeting was a public hearing held by the NBTC focussing on consumer protection, presided over by telecoms commissioner Prawit Leesatapornwongsa, who was quick to emphasise that no decision had yet been reached regarding permitting the merger.
True and DTAC, Thailand’s second and third largest operators…
Peru pulls plug on tender to run the country’s national fibre backbone
Back in March, Pronatel announced that it would launch a tender process for the operation and maintenance of Peru’s national fibre backbone, the National Fiber Optic Dorsal Network (RDNFO), following the cancellation of the contract with its previous operator, Mexico’s Azteca Communications.
The RDNFO spans roughly 13,600km throughout the country, linking 180 of Peru’s provincial capitals and connecting with 21 regional broadband projects…
ITS Technology Name 8 New Full Fibre Build Locations in England
The ITS Technology Group (its.) has today revealed that their wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet network – known as ‘Faster Britain‘ – has started to deploy across part of 8 additional locations in and around London, the Midlands, and the Northwest of England. At present you can already find ITS’ networks in locations such […]
Truespeed Adds 5 Somerset Areas to FTTP Broadband Rollout
UK ISP Truespeed, which is currently focused on deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of Bath and Somerset (England), has today announced that they’re investing a further £8m from their budget to extend across additional premises in 5 towns and villages. The operator, which has so far covered 200 communities […]