Garforth Residents Vent Anger Over Giggle Fibre’s FTTP Pole Deployment | ISPreview UK
Read More Residents in part of Garforth, which is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds (England), have vented anger at alternative network operator Giggle Fibre (aka – Giggle, Giggle Broadband, Giggle Holdings) and pledged to “boycott the service” after they complained it had started deploying lots of “unsightly” new poles for their full fibre broadband network. The deployment of wood poles to run overhead fibre is a common practice (over 4 million have already been built)....
Progress Update as New Greenwich Full Fibre Network Expands in London | ISPreview UK
Read More The Digital Greenwich Connect (DGC) project, which is as Joint Venture (JT) between DG Cities, the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Innovation Company, and full fibre broadband provider ITS Technology, has today announced the next phase of their network expansion, which will now cover both Woolwich and Eltham town centre. The original project, which aimed to commercialise a 21km long gigabit-capable full fibre network around the London borough of Greenwich (serving both homes and...
Netomnia Builds 10Gbps Broadband to 50,000 Premises in Swansea | ISPreview UK
Read More Alternative network operator Netomnia (Brsk and ISP YouFibre), which has already expanded their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 2.08 million premises (RFS) across over 90 UK cities and towns, have today confirmed that their roll-out in Swansea (Wales) has reached 50,000 premises. Starting in the community of Morriston during 2022, Netomnia has since expanded its XGS-PON based full fibre network to cover even more areas in Swansea City. The...
Virgin Media Find Tuesdays are the Biggest for UK Broadband Usage | ISPreview UK
Read More Network data from broadband ISP Virgin Media has revealed that Tuesday is the UK’s new “big night in“, with evening peak (between 8-10pm) internet traffic pushing higher than on any other day of the week – usually driven by online video gaming (mostly big update/patch downloads) and TV sports events (streaming). When asked, some 34% of British survey respondents separately admitted that their weekday social plans depend on sporting fixtures, with major Tuesday matches – like Man City...
VEON looks to local language LLM creation for revenue growth | Total Telecom
Read More News The operator already has a Kazakh language LLM and is developing additional capabilities in Uzbek, Begali, Ukrainian, and Urdu Speaking at Mobile World Congress this year, VEON’s chief digital officer Lasha Tabidze was adamant that telcos’ primary AI focus should be on service creation, not cost efficiencies. “Gaining efficiency is important, of course, and shame on us if we don’t pursue that,” he said. “But AI is not a cost-cutting machine. For us, AI is for growth.” Perhaps...
BT urges SMEs to go digital | Total Telecom
Read More News BT is encouraging small businesses across the UK to move from analogue technology to digital networks before the end of 2025, as the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is set to be retired New research indicates that one in five SMEs (22%) still use traditional landlines, fax machines, and paper-based systems, which could lead to service disruptions as the network is phased out. Ofcom’s latest Connected Nations report highlights an increase in network incidents on the...
Turkcell Deploys Europe’s Largest Super C+L ASON Mesh Network in Partnership with Huawei | Total Telecom
Read More Press Release Turkcell, Türkiye’s leading telecommunications and technology company, has been deploying Europe’s largest Super C+L ASON (Automatic Switched Optical Network) mesh metro and backbone network, in collaboration with global technology leader Huawei. This cutting-edge infrastructure sets a new benchmark in the evolution of high-capacity, flexible, and reliable optical networks. This state-of-the-art network provides bandwidth capacity of up to 400 Gbps and 800 Gbps,...
Huawei ICT Services & Software Enable Digital Intelligence Acceleration | Total Telecom
Read More Press Release [Barcelona, Spain, March 3] Bruce Xun, President of Huawei Global Technical Service, unveiled five innovative ICT Services and Software solutions and best practices at the Huawei product and solution launch event held during MWC Barcelona 2025. These solutions include fast equipment Centre Offices (COs) modernisation solution, intelligent operations solution for MBB cross-domain service keepalive, mobile network NPS improvement solution, differentiated service...
SMBs’ cybersecurity woes could be opportunity for telcos | Total Telecom
Read More Feature Week A new report from STL Partners suggests that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) consider cybersecurity a priority, but lack the expertise to manage it themselves SMBs’ cybersecurity spend on the rise With the rise of AI over the past two years, the cybersecurity landscape for SMBs is rapidly growing more complex, with bad actors able to conduct more frequent and more personalised attacks on smaller enterprises. The scale of the threat this presents to SMBs should...
AllPoints Fibre Networks and Daisy Communications announce fibre deal | Total Telecom
Read More News AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN) and Daisy Communications have announced a long-term strategic partnership to improve national full fibre services through APFN’s wholesale platform, aquila Under the agreement, Daisy Communications will use the aquila platform, gaining access to a nationwide, full-fibre-only network. This will enable Daisy to deliver high-speed connectivity to millions of premises via a single API-first platform, streamlining operations and expanding its reach...