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New Gov Action Plan Supports Vulnerable Users in UK Digital Phone Switchover

The UK government has published its revised Telecare National Action Plan (TNAP), which will require major UK broadband and phone providers (e.g. BT, Virgin Media, Vodafone and Sky Broadband) to go further with protecting vulnerable telecare users when upgrading legacy phone lines to new digital (IP based) networks. Just to recap. The industry-led shift to digital landlines is partly being driven by the looming retirement of copper telecoms lines in favour of full fibre (FTTP) broadband, as...

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French energy giant EDF offers up land for data centre projects

News Four sites have been identified by the utility company, with two more targeted by 2026 France’s state-owned utility company Electricite de France (EDF) says it has identified four locations on its land that could be ideal for data centre deployment. The energy giant says each site could host a data centre campus with 2GW of capacity, with the benefit of already being connected to the electricity grid. “For digital companies who wish to do so, EDF will also offer personalized support for...

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Mobile Operator Spusu Launch New 5GB SIM Only UK Plan for £4.90

Mobile provider spusu, which holds a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement via BTWholesale to harness EE’s national 4G and 5G network, today claims to have launched its “most affordable plan yet” at just £4.90 per month. As above, the spusu 5 plan costs £4.90 per month on a rolling monthly term and for that customers will get 5GB of data (mobile broadband), as well as unlimited calls and texts, 500 free international minutes and free EU roaming (roaming data is capped to just 3GB)....

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Connected America 2025 is now less than one month away

News Connected America 2025, scheduled for March 11-12 at the Irving Convention Center in Texas, is officially one month away By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Tickets remain available for Connected America 2025, an event next month that will bring together communications service providers, the public sector, enterprise verticals, and suppliers. The event, now in its third year, kicks off March 11 at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas, just outside of Dallas. Also featured...

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Digital Catapult is One of the First Sites to join UK 6G Research Platform

The self-proclaimed “deep tech innovation organisation“, Digital Catapult, has today become one of the first sites to connect to the University of Bristol (UB) led JOINER project (Joint Open Infrastructure for Networks Research), which is working to research and help accelerate the commercial deployment of future 6G based mobile broadband technologies across the UK. The 6G standard is currently still in the early R&D phase, and the first commercial builds aren’t due until around 2028-30...

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Court Rejects Appeal Over Dismissal of BT UK Landline Overcharging Case

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has rejected an appeal against its earlier dismissal of a £1.3bn class action claim against BT by the Collective Action on Land Lines (CALL) campaign, which had accused the national broadband ISP and phone provider of overcharging 2.3 million of its landline-only phone customers between 2015 and 2018. The campaign was first raised at the start of 2021 through UK law firm Mishcon de Reya, which was acting on behalf of a former Ofcom telecoms consultant,...

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Youfibre Preps First Own Brand Router for 7Gbps UK Broadband Plan

Broadband ISP Youfibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (Brsk) 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has begun to distribute a new router to customers of their top 2Gbps and 7Gbps (average speed) packages. But unlike the Asus AXE16000 router they shipped before, the new kit is their first own-brand device and more will follow. Just for some context. Netomnia’s full fibre network currently covers over 2.08 million premises across parts of more than 90 UK cities...

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Studies begin on Chile–Antarctica submarine cable

News The cable will provide vital connectivity to various research communities on Earth’s most extreme continent This week, the Chilean Undersecretariat of Telecommunications (Subtel) and the Development Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) have announced the hiring of Pioneer Consulting and Salience Consulting to produce a feasibility study for a submarine fibre-optic cable to connect continental Chile to Antarctica. “This study will allow us to know if the conditions exist to carry...

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BDUK Reopens Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme to Devon UK

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has made a change today that re-opens their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) for parts of Devon in England, which means that local homes and businesses in poorly served rural areas can apply for big grants to help get a much faster broadband ISP network installed. Just to recap. The GBVS usually offers grants worth up to £4,500 to help rural premises get a gigabit-capable broadband (1Gbps) ISP service installed, which is available to...

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Vitrifi’s cloud technology transforms M&A in fibre broadband market

Insight Vitrifi, an autonomic networking company, is changing how mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are managed in the fibre broadband industry.  It’s vendor-neutral, cloud-based platform enables networks to integrate efficiently, reducing the complexity and cost of consolidation. Accelerating fibre market integration Merging network assets after an acquisition is often slow, expensive and technically difficult due to incompatible systems.  Vitrifi’s platform eliminates these obstacles,...

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