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As Technology Advisor I´m translating the requirements and needs of professional users into technologies and innovations. With 5G, this starts in standardization, in which the requirements of the industry e…
Netomnia Add Horwich and Bamber Bridge to UK FTTP Broadband Build
Network operator Netomnia has today added the town of Horwich (Bolton) and the village of Bamber Bridge (Lancashire) to their ongoing UK rollout of a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP – XGS-PON) based broadband ISP network in England. The operator, which last year secured £123m of funding (here) and has so far covered over 90,000 […]
Startup Stories: how respeak are facilitating conversations and feedback with your customers
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Engaging customers, employees, and partners in a continuous conversation is critical for companies to learn and improve. Therefore, respeak offers the easiest software to build digital conversations that scale communication. Our use cases include user research, employee engagement, and customer feedback in which companies are experiencing high costs and large effort of getting to the real ‘why’ something is good, ‘why’ something is bad, and ‘why’ something needs improvement. Current tools such as questionnaires don’t adapt to the participants and fail to uncover deep insights…
Multi Billion Boost to Gigabit Broadband in Rural England Agreed
The Australian-based financial services firm Macquarie Group and UK Government have jointly announced a new £12bn private investment in “sustainable infrastructure“, which among other things includes a plan to help spread “super-fast wireless broadband and ultra-fast fibre” (FTTP) across more parts of rural England. Readers may recall that there were high expectations of a major […]
BT Set for New Union Battle as CWU Rejects “Insulting” Pay Rise
The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents around 40,000 staff at the UK telecoms and broadband ISP giant BT (inc. Openreach and EE), has rejected a new pay offer from the operator – described as a flat rate of £1,200 – as “insulting” given the “rising inflation and squeeze on household incomes.” BT says they […]
Startup Stories: reaching the other 80 billion
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KLEO Connect is a “New Space” global network, data management and application company. Its aim is to drive “digitalization and business transformation from space” within the global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Machine-To-Machine (M2M) market.
By delivering a global satellite communications network, KLEO Connect is targeting the “other 80 billion” and more devices that are estimated to become internet-ready in the next years. The relevant customer base covers all industry verticals, including automotive, transportation &…
DigitalBridge enters $820m tower deal with Telenet
DigitalBridge, a US-based real estate investment trust and associate of DigitalBridge Group, has announced its agreement with Telenet to obtain all of the operator’s mobile telecommunications towers in Belgium.
The investment group has agreed to pay $820 million for 3,322 of Telenet’s sites…
Is T-Mobile’s shutdown of Sprint 3G facing further setbacks?
Two years ago, after years of regulatory manoeuvring, T-Mobile and Sprint finally completed their enormous merger for $26 billion. As part of the conditions for the merger, T-Mobile agreed to sell Sprint’s pre-paid mobile business to satellite operator Dish, a satellite operator who had agreed to build their own 5G mobile network.
By October 2020, T…
New mobile players within Germany drive investment trends
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I am a Director in ING’s TMT Sector team where I advise and finance companies in the digital infrastructure space…
A Quarter of UK Parents Use Content Filters from Broadband ISPs
A new Ofcom report has found that 61% of parents are aware of the existing network-level internet filtering (Parental Control) tools provided by big UK broadband ISPs, yet only 27% have actually chosen to use them. Meanwhile, 6% of children have circumvented parental controls and 5% used a proxy server to avoid them. The results […]