Virgin Media O2 UK Joins Lincolnshire’s New Street Works Charter | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More UK ISP Virgin Media (O2) has become the latest broadband operator to join Lincolnshire County Council’s (LCC) interesting new Street Works Charter, which aims to help cut down on road traffic disruption by encouraging a more co-operative approach to street works between different companies (reducing unnecessary works). The Street Works Charter, which was officially introduced last year, already appears to have had a positive impact. For example, data...
CGI and Buckinghamshire Council Expand Ultrafast Broadband to Rural Sites | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Buckinghamshire Council in England has worked with global IT consultancy firm CGI to bring “ultra-fast rural broadband connectivity” to selected sites across the county by harnessing Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology from Starlink (SpaceX), along with a free-to-use public wireless (WiFi) service. The hybrid solution, delivered in collaboration with Onwave, adopts a similar approach to the one that CGI took in Norfolk last year (here). The...
New 280km Full Fibre Network in South Essex Covers 9,000 Businesses | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The ITS Technology Group, which has deployed various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has revealed that their £7.5m (state aid) project to deploy a new 280km long full fibre network in South Essex (England) has now connected 250 public sector sites and covered 9,000 businesses. The full fibre network, which is both constructed and managed by ITS Technology, was...
Cable Thieves Knock Out Broadband in St Neots for a Second Time | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Criminals have, for the second time in the space of around one month (here), today disrupted Openreach’s broadband services in the Cambridgeshire (England) town of St Neots by attempting to steal an unspecified amount of the UK network operator’s local copper telecoms cable. The latest incident appears to have occurred during the early hours of this morning, and precise details are currently in short supply. But Openreach has confirmed to ISPreview that...
Street Works Firm C-Plan Telecommunications Falls into Administration | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Long-running Scottish civil engineering firm C-Plan Telecommunications, which has been helping to deploy gigabit broadband networks north of the border for a long list of clients (e.g. Openreach, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Gigaclear, and others), has fallen into administration after allegedly losing out on forecasted work. C-Plan is currently one of the better-known contractors north of the border (there are others, like Diona and Comex) and, according to...
Huawei embroiled in European Parliament bribery scandal | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The investigation, which has led to multiple arrests and searches across Europe, has raised concerns about foreign interference and political integrity in the EU This week, Belgian authorities have arrested several people as part of a corruption investigation related to the European Parliament and Chinese tech giant Huawei. It has been confirmed that a large-scale investigation is ongoing into potential corruption, forgery, and money laundering...
TOTSCo to Begin Testing of UK Business Broadband ISP Switching in June 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is the industry-led company that is helping to implement Ofcom’s solution (One Touch Switching) for easier and quicker UK consumer switching between broadband and phone providers, has revealed that they’ll start testing a switching solution for businesses by the “end of June” 2025. Just to recap. The current consumer focused OTS system is a Gaining Provider Led (GPL) process, where the customer contacts...
North Lanarkshire to Deliver Free Broadband to 36,575 Council Homes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) in Scotland has today announced a “groundbreaking digital plan” that, over the course of between 10 and 15 years, will aim to ensure that “all council housing tenants” (36,575 homes) will gain access to “free internet access, a first for any Scottish council“. The announcement is somewhat vague on the details of the internet service that tenants can expect to receive (i.e. it’s unclear if this will be a fixed line...
‘Adapt or die’: VOX Solutions’ message to telcos in the age of AI | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview We caught up with Ehsan Ahmadi, CEO of VOX Solutions, to discuss the many monetisation opportunities offered by AI and why telcos must evolve to take advantage You founded VOX Solutions back in 2010 – how has the industry changed since then and what has that meant for VOX? The telecom industry used to be a walled garden. Now? It’s a battlefield. Traditional telcos aren’t just competing with each other anymore, they’re up against tech giants,...
FBA CEO defends rural fiber subsides at Connected America | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities The Fiber Broadband Association CEO pushes back against rhetoric questioning the feasibility of subsidizing rural fiber at Connected America. Gary Bolton, the CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association, was outspoken in defense of rural fiber broadband subsidization at Connected America in Dallas this week. Bolton’s comments came in response to another panelist during a keynote discussion on Day 2 of Connected...