Broadway Partners Become One of the First Carbon Neutral UK ISPs
Rural-focused full fibre and wireless network operator Broadway Partners – supported by retail ISP Broadway Broadband – today states that they have become one of the first UK internet service providers to be certified by Carbon Neutral Britain – an initiative that allows individuals and businesses to offset their environmental impact. At present, Broadway, which […]
Netomnia Reveal GBP39m Gigabit Broadband Build in Liverpool
Network builder Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP YouFibre – has today announced their first deployment across a major city, which will see them invest £39m to cover homes and businesses across Liverpool (Merseyside) with a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network. The operator, which has so far secured £418m in funding and already […]
Box Broadband Aim to Install Router in 30% of Surrey and Sussex Homes
Surrey-based ISP Box Broadband, which was last year acquired by CommunityFibre (here) and is busy rolling out a full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of South England, has revealed that it “aims to install a Box router in 30 per cent of homes” across Surrey and Sussex within the next three years. The aim is […]
Copper Cable Thieves Strike Openreach’s Wrexham Network AGAIN
Some 1,200 customers on Openreach’s broadband and phone network in Wrexham (Wales) have been left disconnected again after the operator’s local network was hit by yet another theft of copper telecoms cable, which appears to have occurred in roughly the same area as two prior thefts earlier this month (here). Sadly, it’s not uncommon to […]
Deutsche Telekom’s joint venture GlasfaserPlus secures fibre funding
The funding round, the first for the joint venture, is part of Deutsche Telekom’s broader strategy of primarily funding the joint venture&rsquo… read more on TotalTele.com »
Universal access akin to the electrification of rural America
The next phase of the US “Internet for All” initiative has kicked off with governors and other eligible leaders being invited to submit a letter of intent as a step towards unlocking $45 billion to give every U.S. resident access to high… read more on TotalTele.com »
BT Trials Quantum Radios to Boost Future UK 5G Mobile Cover
Telecoms giant BT (EE) has begun to trial a new “hyper-sensitive quantum antenna technology using excited atomic states,” which represents a new way of detecting radio waves that could find much weaker signals than conventional receivers and thus boost the capabilities of future 5G mobile (broadband) and IoT networks. In this setup, researchers at BT […]
Three key steps to advancing 5G
Thailand’s True Corporation first turned on its 5G network over two years ago, back in March 2020, and since then the company has gone from strength to strength, leveraging the new technology to provide novel and improved services in both the B2C and B2B spheres. Speaking at Mobile World Congress 2022, True Corporation’s Head of 5G Working Group, Piroon Paireepairit, said that there were three main factors for the company’s success in the B2C space: coverage, new experiences, and the mobile...
BT Launch New Charter for UK Businesses and the Public Sector
UK ISP BT recently announced that it intended to become the flagship brand for their Enterprise and Global units, while EE would focus on their consumer packages (here). The operator has today unveiled a new Charter for its 1.2 million business and public sector customers, which sets out their blueprint for a new range of […]
CityFibre Completes FTTP Broadband Rollout to Peterborough UK
CityFibre has today announced that their long-running £35m project to rollout a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Cambridgeshire (England) city of Peterborough has now reached “primary” completion, which means that 67,000 homes and businesses (around 85% of the city) can now access gigabit speeds. The original Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) deployment in the […]