London-focused UK ISP CommunityFibre (CF), which has already covered 435,000 premises with their 3Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network and aims to reach 2.2 million homes in London by the end of 2024, has today refreshed their packages and added some new discounts. The new deals will be available to order from now until 5th May […]
Conservative peer Lord Grade picked as UK govt's preferred candidate for Ofcom chair
In early 2020, Ofcom announced that they would be appointing Dame Melanie Dawes as CEO, replacing Jonathan Oxley who had been serving as interim CEO since late 2019. At the same time, the UK regulator also announced that the company Chairman, Lord Burns, would stand down, with the government seeking a new Chair more suited to overseeing Ofcom’s increased regulatory powers over internet content…
CityFibre’s £21m Full Fibre rollout sparks Lincoln jobs boost as contractor appointed
CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, has awarded a £21m contract to Trust Utility Management Ltd. to deliver its network rollout in Lincoln, a project which has sparked the creation of more than 80 local jobs.
The latest milestone has incited a recruitment drive with new workers needed to support throughout the build process. CityFibre and employment agency Carbon60 are supporting Trust Utility Management Ltd in hiring across various roles…
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In a world where modern enterprises face increasingly rapid data growth and high real-time requirements Xelera’s software platform enables the easy deployment of accelerator technologies, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), to address these challenges.
Big Data algorithms in data centres, clouds and edge clouds are accelerated to run up to 100 times faster as well as far more energy efficient. The guaranteed low latency enables completely new approaches to many application areas…
Optus calls foul on Telstra–TPG network sharing
Last month, Telstra and TPG Telecom signed a ten-year network sharing agreement, helping to boost each operator’s coverage of rural Australia.
As part of the deal, TPG will gain access to roughly 3,700 of Telstra’s mobile network assets, increasing TPG’s 4G coverage from 96% to 98.8%. In return, TPG will give Telstra access to spectrum across both 4G and 5G, as well as roughly 169 mobile sites.
In addition, it deal will allow TPG to decommission around 725 of its mobile sites…
Gov Name Michael Grade as Preferred Candidate for Ofcom Chair
The UK Government has named Conservative Peer, Michael Grade (aka – Lord Grade of Yarmouth), as its preferred candidate for the position of Chairman at the UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom. Grade has had a long career in TV and broadcasting, encompassing London Weekend Television, the BBC, ITV and Channel Four. Back in early […]
Top and Bottom 10 UK Local Authorities by Full Fibre Coverage
New data from Point Topic has revealed the top and bottom ten UK local authorities for coverage by gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP networks, which perhaps pegs Hull in East Yorkshire (99.2% premises passed) to the top and pushes Oadby and Wigston in Leicestershire (1.4%) to the bottom. At the end of 2021 a […]
AltNets Raise Concerns Over Openreach’s UK Exchange Closures
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents UK alternative full fibre and fixed wireless broadband ISP networks, has warned that Openreach’s (BT) plan to close 4,600 exchanges creates a huge and costly problem for many of their rivals in the alternative network space. Network access provider Openreach currently has around 5,600 UK exchanges but […]
Samsung mulls manufacturing 4G and 5G kit in India
India first introduced PLI schemes in March 2020, primarily targeting mobile manufacturing and electric components, the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, and medical device manufacturing. These schemes offered companies incentives of 4–6% on incremental sales over the base year of 2019–2020 for a four to six-year period.
Now in its second iteration as of 2021…
My way or the Skyway: Planning the world’s largest ‘drone superhighway’
A consortium has submitted plans to create the world’s longest ‘drone superhighway’ in the UK, spanning roughly 165-miles between the Midlands and the Southeast.
The initial plan for the project will see the enormous drone corridor connect Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry, and Rugby, wither further options to expand the project to Ipswich on the West coast and Southampton on the South coast if initial deployment proves successful.
The consortium in charge of the project is led by Reading-based Unified Traffic Management (UTM) specialist Altitude Angel, which plans to use the superhighway to expand the UK’s drone ecosystem…