Today, Nokia, Telia and Digita have announced that they will jointly deploy a private 5G SA network for Agnico Eagle Finland Oy, the Finnish company that owns the Kittilä goldmine.
The Kittilä mine, which is situated around 900km north of Helsinki, constitutes an extensive tunnel system that, at some points…
Mobile money coming to Vietnam
This month has seen two mobile operators in Vietnam launch trials of mobile money services for the first time, having been awarded licences to do so from the State Bank.
The pilot programme will allow Vinaphone (VNPT) and MobiFone mobile customers to use their mobile subscription as a bank account, capable of paying for goods and services as well as depositing…
Bharti Airtel and Vi hike mobile prices by up to 25%
For years now, Indian telco Bharti Airtel has opined that mobile tariffs in India are unsustainable, with average revenues per user (ARPU) far too low to support the expensive network rollout costs.
At the start of this week, Bharti Airtel announced that it would finally raise its prepaid mobile prices, increasing them by up to 25% in some cases…
Zen Internet Boost Refer a Friend Scheme with GBP40 Voucher
Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK has today enhanced their Refer-a-Friend scheme by making it so customers and their referee will both receive a £40 shopping voucher, the highest value since the initiative launched in 2019. The vouchers themselves are available for a range of retailers including Amazon, Argos, John Lewis, and M&S. However, the small […]
Govt gives NTT Docomo slap on the wrist for ‘serious’ network outage
On October 14, NTT Docomo’s network suffered a system failure that left at least 12.9 million customers without voice and data services at various times. Now, the government has responded to what it categorised as a “serious incident” with an administrative order telling the operator to ensure that that a disturbance of this scale does not happen again…
Lit Fibre Extend FTTP Broadband Rollout to Sudbury and Evesham
UK ISP Lit Fibre, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to reach 500,000 homes by 2026, has announced that the next two towns to benefit from their rollout will be Sudbury (Suffolk) and Evesham (Worcestershire). But aggressive competition will soon follow. The provider, which is partly supported by an unspecified […]
ISP YouFibre Discounts UK Full Fibre Packages Down to GBP11
Customers in towns covered by UK ISP YouFibre, which is harnessing the new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network being built by Netomnia, may be interested to know that the provider has dramatically discounted their prices for those who sign-up over the Black Friday weekend. At present the network has already covered 75,000 UK premises […]
Openreach Reveal Pilot Price of Advanced Install for Standalone Broadband
Openreach has today revealed the pilot pricing for the new Advanced Install option on their stand-alone broadband products for UK ISPs, which are more technically known as Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SOGEA) products on FTTC (VDSL2) lines or SOGfast on G.fast lines. But it’s not intended for homes. Just to recap. SOGEA enables ISPs […]
Virgin Media O2 UK Extend FTTP to 6,100 Tyne and Wear Homes
Broadband ISP and TV provider Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that another 6,100 homes across Tyne and Wear, including in Bruton Park, Newcastle and Longbenton, North Tyneside, have now gained access to their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. The operator has so far invested more than £84 million in the North East to connect […]
ISP Voneus Brings Faster Wireless Broadband to Dalton Piercy
Residents in the rural Hartlepool borough village of Dalton Piercy (County Durham), which is home to almost 300 people, can now access faster broadband speeds of up to 45Mbps after UK ISP Voneus deployed a new Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network. Previously, some locals often struggled to get fixed line speeds of above 1Mbps. The […]