LMT Group completes strategic pivot, transforming from telco operator to technology company | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More LMT has long ceased to be just a mobile network operator, but rather an ICT company that offers exportable solutions. Now, LMT is purposefully shifting into a multi-sector technology company ecosystem – the LMT Group. The Group comprises several companies and branches, including LMT IoT, LMT Defence, LMT Systems, LMT Retail & Logistics, LMT Finance, LMT Innovations, and Santa Monica Networks. LMT Group’s strategic diversification is firmly rooted in...
World Communication Award Winners 2025 | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More World Communication Awards Total Telecom is thrilled to unveil the exceptional winners of the 2025 World Communication Awards (WCAs) For over two decades, the WCAs has been the definitive global benchmark for technological excellence and industry leadership. With a rigorous, independent review panel of over 80 judges, the WCAs ensure that every award recognises genuine, real-world impact and future-defining innovation that is transforming the global...
Ofcom clears the way for satellite-to-smartphone services | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News Ofcom has given the green light for mobile network operators to deliver ‘direct-to-device’ (D2D) satellite services to ordinary smartphones, clearing the regulatory pathway for calls, texts and data to be delivered from space across the UK. The regulator’s final decisions authorise the use of mobile spectrum below 3 GHz for D2D links, with safety guards in place to prevent harmful interference with radar and air traffic control systems. The...
O2 UK Expand 5G Standalone Mobile Broadband Network to Essex | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve switched-on their next-generation 5G Standalone (5GSA) mobile broadband network in Essex (England) as part of its UK-wide rollout, which is now live in a total of more than 500 locations (70% of the UK’s population or c.49 million people). Just to recap. 5GSA networks are pure end-to-end 5G that can deliver ultra-low latency times, greater energy efficiency, better speeds (particularly...
UK ISP Spitfire Launch PSTN Switch Off Migration Service for Businesses | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Business telecommunications and UK broadband ISP Spitfire has today launched its new PSTN Switch Off Migration service, which is designed to provide both technical support and expertise to UK businesses making the move from the old Public Switched Telephone Network to all-IP (digital). Just to recap. The legacy phone switch-off was last year delayed to 31st January 2027 in order to give broadband, phone, telecare providers, councils and consumers more...
BT’s Former Chief UK Network Architect Becomes CityFibre’s New CTIO | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network operator CityFibre, which have so far expanded their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband network to cover 4.6 million UK premises (4.3m RFS) and connected 730,000 customers, has today announced that BT Group’s former Chief Architect, Neil McRae, has been appointed to be the company’s new Chief Technology & Information Officer (CTIO). The operator has yet to put out an official press release on the development, although Telecom TV appears to have...
ASA Bans UK Starlink Satellite Broadband Ad for Misleading Pricing | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an online banner advert for SpaceX’s ultrafast broadband satellite service, Starlink, after it was found to be “misleading” because the offer of free terminal hardware (normally £299) omitted several key bits of material information. The Starlink promotion in question will probably be familiar to some of ISPreview’s readers, as we’ve written about it before. In this case, the ad contained the following...
ASA UK Ban Ads for The One Broadband Over Misleading Performance Claim | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a direct mailing and circular advert for UK ISP The One Broadband (DSV Communications Ltd), which occurred after both were found to have misleadingly suggested that some of those who received the promotions currently only received “poor broadband connectivity” from their existing service, when that was not the case. Both of the ads were addressed to “Dear Resident” and included claims such as “your...
Government Launch 80 Free Local Digital Skills Training Schemes Across UK | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government has today complemented their Digital Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) by launching 80 local schemes across the UK, which will offer free digital skills training and other support to help some of the most vulnerable in communities get online with confidence (i.e. disadvantaged young people to elderly people and the homeless etc.). The new schemes, which will be funded by the £11.7m Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund (DIIF), are largely...
CityFibre Updates on Future UK 50Gbps and 100Gbps Broadband Upgrades | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Chief Technology Officer of major alternative network provider CityFibre, David Tomalin, has provided an update on their plans to upgrade their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband infrastructure to support 50G-PON (50Gbps Passive Optical Network) and then 100G-PON technology in the future. At present, CityFibre’s network has only just completed its upgrade from slower GPON to XGS-PON (Symmetric 10Gbps PON) technology, which is how they were...