Mobile operator EE UK has today announced that Pay Monthly Mobile customers of their service can now take a Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with “unlimited gaming data” from £21 a month (£31 with the video data pass) and they can also have an Xbox Series X video gaming console for just £10 upfront. The […]
Toob Adds GBP50 Amazon Voucher to FTTP Broadband Packages
New customers in areas covered by UK ISP toob, which is currently building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network around parts of England, will from later this morning be able to benefit from an included £50 Amazon shopping voucher when they sign-up. At present the operator is busy building FTTP across various locations, including the […]
Old YouView TV and Broadband ISP Boxes Lose Access to ITV Hub
Owners of the first generation of YouView (IPTV) powered Pay TV set-top-boxes (e.g. the retail Humax T1010), including the Humax T1000 from UK broadband ISP BT and the Huawei DN370T from TalkTalk (TT Plus Box), have been informed that they will “no longer be able to access” the ITV Hub app from January 2022. Just […]
Latest US 5G auction raises $22bn
Today marks the completion of the first phase of the US’s latest 5G spectrum auction, raising an enormous $22 billion.
The winners of the auction will not be revealed until the next phase of the auction process, in which the various blocks of spectrum are directly assigned to the operators…
Nokia takes the plunge into Software-as-a-Service market
Offering SaaS for CSPs is a natural evolution of Everything-as-a-Service, a key element to Nokia’s overall strategy. It reflects a culmination of steps Nokia has taken in recent years to enhance CSP network operations, including re-architecting its software applications to make them fully cloud-native and deployable in any cloud environment, edge, public or private.
To seize the 5G opportunity, CSPs need to shift away from the legacy practice of deploying customized software for analytics, security, network management, and other functions, that run on costly, complex, on-premise infrastructure…
OneWeb’s space race: From bankrupt to billions
UK satellite company OneWeb has seen a meteoric rise since initially filing for bankruptcy in March 2020. Since then, saved by an initial combined $1 billion investment from the UK government and India’s Bharti Global, OneWeb has gone on to attract over $2.7 billion from various investors, including Eutelsat, Hanwha, and SoftBank.
Now, the company is targeting global coverage of its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, looking to increase the number of devices it has in orbit from 358 today to 648 at some point next year.
The company has also been very active in seeking out partners for its budding constellation…
Emtelle Chosen to Supply Upp’s UK FTTP Broadband Rollout
Broadband ISP and network builder Upp, which is investing £1bn to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to 1 million UK premises in Eastern England by 2025, has today chosen Emtelle to become their main supplier of fibre optic network kit until March 2026. Upp’s initial rollout has already begun in several towns across […]
Broadband ISP Plusnet Places Future of Email Under Review
Internet provider Plusnet has finally restored their embattled UK email service after a week of chaos, but its long-term future may now be in doubt after the ISP placed the service “under review.” A number of customers have allegedly also been told by the provider’s support staff that the email platform would close in 2022. […]
Openreach Officially Name the Next 170 UK FTTP Rollout Areas
Openreach (BT) has today officially added another 170 new towns and villages (covering 1.5 million premises) to the UK rollout plan of their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which are all the same as those we leaked last month (here). The news comes as they reach 6 million premises passed. The operator’s full fibre […]
Vodafone UK Launch New 5G TCL HH500V GigaCube Router
New customers of Vodafone‘s ultrafast 5G mobile based broadband packages may be interested to know that they’ve just introduced a new router to the bundle, which is named as the TCL HH500V GigaCube. In addition, their plans are currently half price for the first 6 months of service. According to the announcement, Vodafone’s new 5G […]