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News   Italy is in advanced negotiations with SpaceX for a €1.5 billion ($1.55 billion) contract to enhance the country’s telecoms security, according to media reports  The proposed five-year deal will focus on implementing encrypted government communications, enhancing military operations in the Mediterranean, and providing satellite services for emergency responses to natural disasters or security threats.  As part of the deal, SpaceX’s Starlink system will be deployed to boost connectivity...

Press Release Brightspeed, one of the nation’s largest fiber broadband builders focused on empowering more homes with ultrafast, reliable internet, today announced its multi-gig-speed network has passed approximately 1.82 million locations — surpassing its year-end goal of 1.75 million fiber-enabled premises across its 20-state footprint. The company rolled out more than 17,600 miles of fiber cable in 2024 bringing the total fiber deployed since the build launch to more than 103,000 miles....

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today revealed that broadband usage across their UK network increased by 10.5% in 2024 (higher than the c.9% recorded for 2023 and 2.5% in 2022) to total 103,590 PetaBytes (PB) of data, with December 2024 being the “busiest month of the year for broadband traffic” (1st Dec 2024 was the busiest day). The operator typically supplies numerous broadband ISPs (e.g. TalkTalk, BT, Sky Broadband and hundreds more) across the country and as such their platform...

Press Release A ten-fold increase in customers in the space of a year has led Red Helix, a market leader in cyber security and network performance, to invest £1million in expanding the capacity of its UK-based 24/7 security operations centre (SOC), increasing headcount by 150%. The company expects its SOC team to grow further in 2025, as demand for its specialised cyber services continues to soar. Despite the global cyber skills shortage, Red Helix has been successful in recruiting and...

News The hyperscaler continues to double down on AI infrastructure while also making overtures to the incoming Trump administration to keep regulation to a minimum In a blog post titled on Friday titled ‘The Golden Opportunity for American, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith confirmed that the company is “on track to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters” in 2025. These data centres, Smith says, will be crucial to training new and more sophisticated AI...

Alternative network provider Freedom Fibre, which are busy rolling out a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband networks across different parts of England (North West and Midlands), has today announced that they’ve become the latest operator to sign the Armed Forces Covenant (AFC). The AFC broadly reflects a pledge to recognise the contribution of serving personnel, both regular and reservists, veterans and military families – often as part of recruitment (i.e. ensuring they are...

Ogi – Wales’s home-grown full service telco has today completed work on a multimillion-pound programme to connect Cardiff’s city centre economic gateway to its 10 Gigabit-capable high-capacity full fibre network.   After an extensive programme of work to connect business in the city’s Ocean Way industrial zone, the next phase of Ogi’s work focuses on the Central Square enterprise zone and surrounding area, including St Mary Street.   Connecting to the company’s ‘dark network’ traveling along...

The UK Government and Openreach (BT) have today confirmed their latest four UK contract awards – valued at £289m+ – under the Project Gigabit broadband roll-out scheme, which we leaked last week (here). Some 131,000 premises in rural parts of North and Southwest Wales, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Devon, Somerset, Essex, North East England and Worcestershire will benefit. Just to recap. The development forms part of Openreach’s earlier Single Supplier Framework agreement (here), which saw them...

Infracapital-backed network builder and UK ISP Ogi, which is rolling out a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across South Wales (100,000 premises are already covered / RFS), has today announced the completion of their network expansion to connect businesses in Cardiff’s city centre economic gateway. The central Cardiff build began in early 2023 (here) and was focused on serving “parts of the city that have seen significant growth in recent years.” But the...

The Group behind mobile operator Lyca Mobile, which in the UK is a virtual operator (mvno) on EE’s network, has this morning announced a “strategic reorganisation” that it says aims to “drive efficiency and foster global growth“. This will include, among other things, “plans” for global expansion into Spain and the USA during early 2025. Over the past couple of years’, the operator has certainly faced plenty of challenges, particularly in the UK. For example, there was the 2023 cyberattack...