Madrid leads the development of quantum-safe communications through the MadQuantum-CM project | Total Telecom
Read More The Regional Government of Madrid is strengthening its commitment to quantum communications with an investment of 16 million euros in research projects on quantum communications and cybersecurity within the framework of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technologies declared by UNESCO. Among the initiatives the regional government is promoting stands out MadQuantum-CM, which aims to expand the largest quantum communications network in Europe, MadQCI, positioning itself as...
EY launches suite of AI agents for telcos | Total Telecom
Read More Press Release The EY organization today announced the launch of EY Telecom.ai agentic solution, a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for telecommunication providers that will operate across the critical functions of finance, network, customer service and content life cycle management. Telecom.ai is an AI-powered solution that leverages the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform. EY Telecom.ai is built on NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and includes NVIDIA NIM microservices, NeMo...
FCC is one step closer to auctioning unused 5G-grade spectrum | Total Telecom
Read More News The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously approved an early step towards bringing unused 5G-grade spectrum to market By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities New proposed rules approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) represent the first step towards bringing a slate of unused 5G-grade spectrum licenses to the market. The proposed rules, approved unanimously by FCC commissioners, will update rules around AWS-3 spectrum licenses, the FCC announced...
Deutsche Telekom targets ‘AI phone’ launch in 2026 | Total Telecom
Read More News “We are becoming an AI company,” said Deutsche Telekom board member Claudia Nemat, speaking on stage at MWC If Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has had a theme this year, it’s been mobile operators trying to cram AI into every facet of their operations. Only Deutsche Telekom, however, seems to be pushing that ethos directly down the value chain into hardware creation, revealing plans for their own ‘AI phone’ in partnership with US AI startup Perplexity. A Silicon Valley GenAI...
Tariffs kick in, Wall Street tumbles as China and Canada retaliate | Total Telecom
Read More News For the second day in a row, Wall Street stocks fell sharply after tariffs and sanctions were announced by governments around the world This article was originally written by our sister publication Broadband Communities Canada and China have announced retaliatory measures after President Donald Trump announced tariffs on both countries, beginning today. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones fell by over 670 points. The plunge follows another dip Monday, when the Dow fell 1.5 percent. Also...
ISP Virgin Media UK Discounts Broadband Prices for March 2025 | ISPreview UK
Read More New customers looking to sign-up with broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) might like to know that the provider has just introduced some bigger discounts across their range of standalone broadband and bundle packages. For example, Virgin’s 1Gbps package is now just £36.99 per month on an 18-month minimum term (price increases to £40.49 from April 2026). The discounted broadband plans, which include a wireless router and free setup, generally start at £23.99 per month for their 132Mbps...
MWC 2025: MasOrange Built Leading Optical Network to Accelerate Digitalisation | Total Telecom
Read More Press Release [Barcelona, Spain, March 3rd, 2025] During MWC 2025, Ms. Pilar Puerta Galvan, Transmission Director of MasOrange, delivered a keynote speech at the Green All-Optical Network Forum on “Leading Optical Network Accelerates Digitalisation.” As one of the largest telecom operators in Spain, MasOrange has built a leading optical network to deliver the premium experience for consumers, enterprises, and home broadband users, while accelerating digital and intelligent...
Gigaclear Complete FTTP Broadband Build to Large Oxfordshire Village | ISPreview UK
Read More Abingdon-based rural UK ISP Gigaclear has confirmed the completion of their gigabit broadband roll-out across the large South Oxfordshire (England) village of Sonning Common. The work to deploy their full fibre network across the village started in 2023 and a total of over 2,000 premises can now access the new service. New customers of the Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network can expect to pay from £19 per month for symmetric speeds of 300Mbps on an 18-month minimum term (£46...
BT Warns One in Five Small UK Firms Still on “Analogue” Lines | ISPreview UK
Read More Telecoms giant BT migrated 300,000 UK business customers away from legacy phone lines and on to digital broadband and phone solutions in 2024. But the provider claims that 22% of small businesses still see themselves as “analogue“, relying on tools like traditional landlines, paper contracts and fax machines, which must change before the old service is switched-off. In case anybody has forgotten, the big switch-off was recently delayed to 31st January 2027 in order to give broadband...
Wavemobile Warn UK 2G Switch-off May Impact Sizeable Number of Devices | ISPreview UK
Read More A number of mobile operators, including O2 and EE, have already set out tentative plans for phasing-out existing 2G mobile services. But new data supplied by rural connectivity provider Wavemobile suggests that quite a few connections are still 2G-only, and thus closing the service will be more complex than the prior 3G switch-off. Just to recap. The government and all major UK mobile operators have already agreed to phase-out existing 2G and 3G signals by 2033 (here), which will...