The MP for the small city of Stirling in Scotland, Alyn Smith (SNP), has revealed that CityFibre, which recently completed the rollout of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network for over 20,000 premises in the city, will shortly extend this network to reach a further 8,000 – 9,000 premises in nearby villages. Stirling officially […]
Ofcom UK Sets Out Predictable Annual Work Plan for 2022-23
The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed a new annual work plan for the 2022-23 period. The generalised summary covers everything from improving fairness for consumers to the 2G / 3G mobile switch-off and the migration to VoIP phone services from copper lines, among many other things. The plan itself doesn’t say […]
1,300 illegal telecoms towers discovered in Abuja, Nigeria
Authorities in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, have announced that they have discovered around 1,300 mobile masts and towers operating illegally within the Federal Capital Territory.
All of these towers have been erected without first obtaining permission from the relevant local authorities and will subsequently face appraisal and potentially decommissioning…
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners acquire Dense Air to rethink 5G
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP), a spin off from Google’s parent company Alphabet, is acquiring Dense Air Networks for an undisclosed sum, aiming to develop shared network infrastructure that operators more like a utility.
Following the acquisition Dense Air will become part of SIP’s CoFi platform, designed to “bridge the digital divide by enabling open and shared wireless networks&rdquo…
Digital Infrastructure Get GBP100m to Fuel UK Full Fibre Rollout
Network operator Digital Infrastructure (DI), which a few months ago revealed their aim to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to 1 million UK premises in 84 cities (here), has today confirmed that they’ve been able to secure £100m of funding from Basalt Infrastructure Partners. The provider’s first deployment has already begun […]
Deutsche Telekom targets 2 million new FTTH connections in 2022
This week, German incumbent Deutsche Telekom is showing off what a successful year it has had in both fibre and 5G, noting that its fibre rollout in particularly is set to accelerate even further in 2022.
According to the operator, the company has laid more than 70,000km of fibre throughout Germany this year, bringing the total length of the company’s network to 650,000km. This equated to 1.2 million additional homes gaining access to a FTTH connection in 2021, over double the amount that were connected back in 2020.
This fibre acceleration does not stop there…
EE to Upgrade 2,000 UK Rural Areas to Extend 4G Cover by 2024
Mobile operator EE (BT) has this morning announced plans to upgrade over 2,000 network sites by June 2024 to help extend 4G coverage (voice and mobile broadband) into rural parts of the UK and to significantly reduce partial not-spots, which forms part of their commitment under the £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project. The SRN […]
TNP Win Full Fibre WAN Contract for Service and Support in Trafford
Network services provider TNP (The Networking People) has today secured a key 3-year Wide Area Network (WAN) service delivery and support contract, which should ensure that Trafford becomes one of the first boroughs in Greater Manchester to begin “mainstream use” of the area’s new state aid funded full fibre network. Last year the Greater Manchester […]
5G Performance in London and 5 More UK Cities for H2 2021
Mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics has today published a new set of H2 2021 results from their testing of 5G (mobile broadband) networks in the UK cities of Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Manchester. Overall, EE tended to deliver the strongest availability and performance, but not for all cities. The company conducts their studies by […]
Rival Fibre ISPs Gigaclear and Swish Fibre Both Go Live in Thame
Smaller UK alternative network ISPs are increasingly starting to butt heads in some of the same areas. The latest example comes from the small market town of Thame in Oxfordshire (England), where Swish Fibre and Gigaclear have both started to go live with a new full fibre broadband network, within days of each other. Both […]