Since 2010, Brand Finance has been compiling an annual report on the most valuable and strongest telecoms brands. The company has assessed 5,000 of the world’s biggest telecom brands, including the leading 150 in their dedicated report, the Brand Finance Telecoms 150 2022.
Brand value is understood as the net economic benefit that a brand owner would achieve by licensing the brand in the open market. Brand strength is the efficacy of a brand’s performance on intangible measures relative to its competitors.
Let’s take a look at some of the most notable results…
Business UK ISP Plan.com Signs TalkTalk Wholesale Deal
Business communications provider Plan.com has today signed a new partnership deal with TalkTalk’s Wholesale Services division, which will enable them to broaden their existing product options with more choice of broadband services on their my.plan platform. Established in 2014 and headquartered in the Isle of Man, plan.com specialise in the provision of connectivity and productivity […]
ISP Adds 21 Cambridgeshire UK Villages to FTTP Broadband Build
Rural focused UK ISP County Broadband (CB) has today added 21 villages in Cambridgeshire (England) to their multi-million-pound rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. All of the new villages are located within the St Neots and Huntingdon areas. The provider, which tends to focus on the East of England area and is being […]
Gigabit FTTP Broadband in Wingrave Finally Going Live via Ecom
After a long wait, UK ISP Ecom has finally started to connect the first properties in the rural Buckinghamshire (England) village of Wingrave – home to a local population of around 1,500 – to their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network. The provider, which was previously aiming to cover 2,500 premises with their new […]
Pure Broadband Becomes First Live CityFibre ISP in Sheffield
Hull-based UK ISP Pure Broadband, which serves consumers covered by new full fibre networks from KCOM, CityFibre and OFNL, has announced that they’ve just become the first internet provider to make services available via CityFibre’s new network in the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield. CityFibre started their £115 million rollout of a new 1Gbps […]
Rakuten Symphony starts harmonising with MTN for African Open RAN
MTN Group and Rakuten Symphony have announced that they will work together on three new proof of concept trials in South Africa, Nigeria and Liberia.
The trials, which are set to start later this year, will make use of Open RAN technology from the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP)…
Vodafone NZ latest to pursue tower sale
Vodafone NZ has reportedly engaged financial services firms Barrenjoey and UBS to explore the sale of its New Zealand towers.
The operator has the largest tower portfolio in the country, with its roughly 1,500 towers providing mobile coverage to around 98% of the population. The company says it remains committed to building additional sites to “maintain its relative coverage and capacity position in the future&rdquo…
Why digital investment is deeply intertwined with Levelling Up the UK
Three years is a long time for these issues of regional inequalities to sit unaddressed.
Post-COVID, the issue has become even more critical. Research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that COVID-19 has intensified many of the disparities between regions that the Levelling Up plan seeks to address.
As the nation moves to life post-lockdown, the shift towards hybrid working has already started to unlock the potential of digital transformation when it comes to levelling up the UK. Our own research last year with the Cebr revealed that a continued shift to regional movements due to remote working could result in a talent and skills boost for local economies.
In short, digital tech has a huge role to play in levelling up the UK…
Digital Infrastructure List Next 9 UK Areas for FTTP Broadband Build
Network builder Digital Infrastructure (DI), which last year began deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 1 million premises in 80 UK towns and cities by 2027 (here and here), has today named the next 9 locations to benefit from their rollout. The provider’s first deployment began for 38,000 homes in […]
EE Deploys 200 Small Cells to Boost Urban UK 4G and 5G Cover
Mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that they’ve deployed 200 units of a new type of small cell (tiny base stations) on UK street furniture and buildings in order to boost the coverage and speed of their 4G based (mobile broadband) network, which they claim allows “customers to benefit from download speeds up to […]