Alternative network ISP toob have today announced that they will invest £7 million to extend their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure to cover 19,000 homes and businesses in the Hampshire (England) market town of Fareham. The operator, which was originally backed by an investment of £75m from funds advised by the Amber Infrastructure Group (here) […]
Telenet partners with Netcracker on its digital transformation journey
Telenet has announced that it has selected to deploy Netcracker Technology’s Online Charging System (OCS) as part of its ongoing digital transformation programme. Netcracker’s Digital BSS solution…
PLDT to offload 6,000 towers to cut debt
Philippines telecoms operator PLDT is reported to have begun discussions with two companies, EdgePoint and Edotco, aiming to sell 3,000 mobile telecommunications towers to each buyer.
In total, the two deals are valued at approximately $1.5 billion.
EdgePoint, backed by Digital Bridge and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, will reportedly acquire 3…
5G spectrum auction could offer Bite a taste of Estonian mobile market
According to the TTJA, four mobile operators have applied to bid for the three 5G spectrum licences being made available in Estonia’s upcoming auction.
Each licence will offer a 130MHz block in the 3.5GHz spectrum band, with a reserve price for these licences is set at €1.6 million.
All three of Estonia’s existing mobile players – Telia, Elisa, and Tele2 – have confirmed their intention to take part…
Amazon’s Project Kuiper prepares for lift off with procurement deal
From the enormous scale of Elon Musk’s Starlink deployment to the meteoric recovery of OneWeb from bankruptcy to billion-dollar investment, low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are one the hottest topics in the international telecoms sector.
Able to provide broad geographic coverage in areas typically hard to reach by conventional methods, as well as providing lower latency and higher bandwidth that their geostationary counterparts, LEO satellites are becoming an increasingly viable alternative to terrestrial communications infrastructure…
Sky Broadband’s New 900Mbps Gigafast UK Package Goes Live
As first predicted on Monday (here), UK ISP Sky Broadband has today officially confirmed the launch of their new Gigafast Package for homes, which offers average download speeds of 900Mbps (90Mbps uploads) via Openreach’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. The details of this are exactly as we described on Monday. Customers will pay £55 per month […]
Creating a new 'norm' for the subsea cable industry
In the run up to Submarine Networks EMEA 2022 next month, we caught up with Lynsey Thomas from Subsea Networks to hear her take on the biggest topics in the global submarine cable market.
In your view, what is the most exciting thing happening in the industry right now?
It is really great to see all the projects that have been in the planning, financing and design phases starting to come to fruition. LinkedIn is scattered with images of new shore end landings and final splice deployments, all across the globe. Seeing the teams who have worked so hard to deliver these projects, especially in the recent challenging times, is very uplifting.
Similarly, we are seeing an increase in the deployment of SDM systems, and learning how to address the new issues faced by high fibre count designs is interesting; how and what should be tested at acceptance being a particularly important question, especially for multi-landing designs with numerous discrete fibre pair owners…
Price Rises as Full Fibre UK ISP Zzoomm Offers 6 Months Free
New customers of Zzoomm’s gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network – available in parts of Henley-on-Thames, Hereford, Sandhurst, Crowthorne, Crewe, Cannock, Thirsk, Easingwold and Northallerton – can now benefit from 6 months of free service. But contract terms and core prices have increased. As above, broadband ISP Zzoomm has announced that they’re offering 6 months of […]
Opensignal Award Best 4G and 5G UK Mobile Networks for Q1 2022
The latest April 2022 Mobile Network Experience study from Opensignal has measured the 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) performance of all four primary operators – EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three UK – to determine which delivers the best service. Overall, EE wins most of the categories, but Three UK does very well for 5G. The […]
New tax in Papua New Guinea could complicate Digicel Pacific sale
Late last month, the PNG government announced that it had imposed a new tax that could see Digicel Group’s PNG operations liable to pay a one-time fee of around $100 million, with a further $14 million due for non-payment.
The Additional Company Tax comes as parts of reforms to the Income Tax Act and specifically targets telecoms and banking companies that control over 40% of their respective markets in PNG…