The CEO of broadband ISP Cuckoo, Alex Fitzgerald, has today called – perhaps in vain – on all rival UK internet service providers to “abolish shady exit fees and above-inflation price rises” to help alleviate the pressures of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen almost all of the major […]
New mobile palyers within Germany drive investment trends
Can you introduce yourself and your role?
I am a Director in ING’s TMT Sector team where I advise and finance companies in the digital infrastructure space…
Broadband ISP VISPA UK Faces Compulsory Strike-off Action
Customers of UK ISP VISPA may be concerned to note this week that the broadband provider has suddenly become the subject of a “compulsory strike-off” notice, which usually occurs when Companies House finds reasonable grounds to believe that a limited company is no longer trading. The small Manchester-based ISP recently began to deploy their own […]
Standing out in the crowd: a customer-centric approach to subsea connectivity
Ahead of Submarine Networks EMEA 2022 in May, Total Telecom caught up with Crosslake Fibre’s CEO Mike Cunningham to hear more about their recently completed CrossChannel Fibre project as well as to understand what’s next for the business.
Congratulations on the recent completion of the CrossChannel Fibre project. Please can you tell us more about the system?
Many thanks, it is always an exciting time when you place a new system into service. The launch of the CrossChannel Fibre system in 2021Q4 comes after two years of focused development and construction. It is a very challenging region of the world to develop a new system given the number of constituents and how busy the English Channel is…
BDUK Publish Next Batch of Gigabit Broadband Coverage Reviews
The Broadband Delivery UK team has today published another batch of Public Reviews (PR) for Surrey, Lancashire, Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire (inc. Swindon), Derbyshire, East Sussex and Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes under the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout. Just to recap. The project seeks to ensure that a minimum of 85%+ of UK […]
Canada gets 5G standalone courtesy of Rogers
Rogers Communications has announced it has launched the first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network in Canada and one of the first globally, turning on the next-generation service after completing the rollout of Canada’s first national standalone 5G core and the country’s first 5G standalone device certification, continuing its leadership in the rollout of 5G technology…
The role of collaboration in delivering seamless global connectivity
With the global growth of the IoT and machine learning, cross-border connectivity has never been more important.
In a recent conversation with Total Telecom…
Zen further deepens partnership with CityFibre, goes nationwide
UK internet service provider, Zen Internet, first teamed up with CityFibre back in 2020, agreeing to launch commercial services over the CityFibre network in Newcastle, Leicester, Ipswich, and Worthing.
Since then, CityFibre’s fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) footprint has grown enormously as part of their £4 billion rollout plan, seeing new locations added across the country…
US Air Force adds latest batch of companies to $950m Command and Control project
Earlier this month, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced the implementation plan for the military’s JADC2 initiative they have planned since 2020, aiming to create a unified and secure network to share information between units on the battlefield in real time.
In the past, the various branches of the US military – the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and now the burgeoning Space Force – have each created their own tactical network through which they convey crucial battlefield intelligence…
US Air Force adds latest batch of companies to $950m Command and Control project
Earlier this month, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced the implementation plan for the military’s JADC2 initiative they have planned since 2020, aiming to create a unified and secure network to share information between units on the battlefield in real time.
In the past, the various branches of the US military – the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and now the burgeoning Space Force – have each created their own tactical network through which they convey crucial battlefield intelligence…