This week, South Africa’s MTN has further monetised its passive assets, agreeing to sell and leaseback over 5,000 of its mobile towers to African infrastructure giant IHS Towers.
The deal, worth $412 million, will make IHS the largest independent tower operator in South Africa…
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The ManUp Key is a unique product. It’s patented slide hammer technology uses momentum and the hammer action to release stuck manhole covers. It is infinitely safer and much more successful than current methods of trying to release stuck covers.
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Telenor’s $7.5 billion tie-up in Thailand
In a statement, Telenor have today announced that they are in discussions to merger their Thai unit, Total Access Communication (Dtac) with Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group)’s True Corporation.
Combined, the value of the two companies is estimated to be around $7.5 billion.
The move would be an enormous shakeup for Thailand, reducing the number of major mobile operators from three to two, creating a new market…
Sky Broadband UK Took 18 Months to Fix Router Security Flaws
Sky Broadband has been embarrassed this morning after Pen Test Partners revealed that it had taken the ISP a whopping 18-months to fix a serious security flaw in their consumer routers, which affected the vast majority of their UK customer base and could have enabled a hacker to compromise home networks. The vulnerability itself reflected […]
EE UK Discount Full Fibre Broadband Packages for Black Friday
Mobile operator and UK ISP EE has recently discounted some of their Home Broadband packages as part of the usual Black Friday offers, which for example has seen the price of their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) plan on Openreach’s network fall to £49 per month for 24-months (£57 thereafter). Setup is also free. New customers […]
TalkTalk UK Quietly Adds Cheap 1Gbps FTTP Broadband Package
Low-cost UK ISP TalkTalk appears to have quietly launched a new “Fibre 1Gbps” broadband service as part of their CityFibre and Openreach based Future Fibre packages, but at present it only seems to be available in Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) areas (CF areas are still limited to 500Mbps) and costs just £49. The new product isn’t […]
RunFibre to Complement Own FTTP Build with Openreach Products
Bristol-based UK ISP RunFibre, which are currently busy building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South Gloucestershire in England, has decided to complement that effort by signing a new partner plus agreement with BTWholesale. At present RunFibre is busy deploying across a number of villages, such as Hawkesbury Upton, Inglestone […]
Rural ISP Wessex Internet Start Gigabit Fibre Rollout in Blandford
Rural focused ISP Wessex Internet has now started and made progress on the rollout of their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the North Dorset (England) market town of Blandford, which aims to cover “more than” 6,000 premises (homes and businesses). The first phase of construction in Blandford is already complete, and the […]
MTN: leveraging autonomous networks to build Africa's most valuable platform business
With a presence in 20 markets, 277.3 million subscribers and 117.4 active data users, MTN is the largest telcos in Africa. The telco recently launched Ambition 2025 strategy to accelerate growth and better leverage the value of its network assets and platforms.
MTN hopes to leverage AN to build the largest and most valuable platform business. This demands building mobile and fixed access networks across the consumer, enterprise and wholesale segments. This strategy will also help MTN to bring down network complexity to make it easier to manage network operations while evolving the network to meet the customers’ changing demands…
ISP BT UK Offers 3 Months FREE Broadband for Black Friday
Telecoms giant BT will today launch their official Black Friday sale, which looks set to offer the first 3 months of service completely free “across all our broadband packages.” On top of that, all of their TV and Sport packages will be half price for the first 3 months, which is in addition to the […]