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Due for completion in 2025, this follows a competitive tender where enhanced network security, resilience and bandwidth availability were high priorities. MLL’s managed SD-WAN solution will also ensure seamless connection for employees to key administrative applications. The SD-WAN includes dual rather than single circuits and the implementation of Fortinet firewalls. The network will be monitored and supported 24/7 by MLL’s Network Operations Centre (NOC). “As MLL’s first customer in the...

LONDON, December 9th, 2024 – Gigs, the operating system for mobile services, has partnered with Vodafone UK to empower startups and large tech companies across the UK to launch their own mobile services.  Together, Gigs and Vodafone UK are drastically lowering the barriers to entry and reducing operational overhead for businesses to launch their own Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). Through a seamless integration, Gigs’ platform will enable businesses of all sizes to allow their...

NetIX, a global internet exchange platform under the Neterra Group, has achieved a new record, reaching 4.02 Tbps of traffic through its network. At the start of 2024, NetIX had surpassed the 2 Tbps threshold. Within five months, its clients increased their traffic by an additional 1 Tbps, placing it 13th among the largest Internet Exchange Platforms (IXPs) globally by traffic. With its new record of 4 Tbps, NetIX now ranks within the prestigious top 10 global IXPs. NetIX continues solidifying...

Press Release Rural broadband provider Quickline has taken a significant step in its commitment to nurturing regional talent by welcoming its first cohort of telecoms apprentices.  The group of eight, aged from 18 through to mid-40s, joined the business in October and have already completed the initial phase of their training. Coming from diverse backgrounds, the recruits bring a wide range of experiences to their new roles.  After an intensive induction and training programme, the apprentices...

Rural focused UK ISP Quickline, which is deploying gigabit-capable broadband networks (FTTP and wireless) across remote parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has today announced that they’ve welcomed their first cohort of eight in-house trained telecoms apprentices to help build the new network. In case anybody has forgotten. Quickline previously won four Project Gigabit contracts from the Government to help expand their network (here, here and here), which will bring full fibre...

Satellite operator AST SpaceMobile has today signed a “definitive” long-term commercial agreement that will allow Vodafone to harness their new network of cellular broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) until 2034. This is essentially a space-based 2G, 4G and 5G mobile broadband service that can connect with regular handsets around the world. Over the past few years’ we’ve already seen AST conduct several trials of the new platform, including via their prototype 1.5-ton BlueWalker 3...

Broadband network operator and UK ISP Lightning Fibre, which has been building a new “full fibre” (FTTP) network across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has today revealed that their deployment in the Old Town area of Eastbourne has covered 6,574 (87%) premises and seen 2,021 of those take their service (31% of connectable premises or 27% of the total area). Just to put this in some context, the Old Town area of Eastbourne first started to go live on their new network in August 2021 and...

Sky (Sky Broadband etc.) has this afternoon announced that they’ve signed an expanded partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery in the UK and Ireland, which means that existing Sky TV and NOW TV customers (e.g. Sky Glass, Sky Stream) will gain free (non-exclusive) access to the new ad-supported streaming service (app), Max (HBO Max), when it launches in 2026. The deal means that Sky’s existing agreement has been extended until “early 2026“, with the new Max service set to become available “at no...

Edinburgh-based UK ISP GoFibre (BorderLink) has today confirmed that they’ve “completed” their roll-out of a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across the rural Northumberland village of Harbottle, which is home to over 250 people and forms part of their £7.3m Project Gigabit delivery contract (here) to cover 3,750 hard-to-reach premises in the county. The announcement means that around 90 additional premises are now ready to connect to their new FTTP network, which adds to the over...

Abingdon-based rural ISP and full fibre network builder Gigaclear has today celebrated a “record year of growth in 2024” after adding 40,000 new customers (up almost 50% in the year) to total over 130,000, while also extending their network coverage to 580,000 premises as ‘Ready for Service’ (up by 100k in the year). Nathan Rundle, CEO of Gigaclear, said: “Our mission is to bring the fastest full fibre broadband to rural Britain so I am delighted to report that we have connected more hard to...