Indosat partners with airline Garuda Indonesia for digitalisation project
News The strategic partnership is backed by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, which hopes the deal will add value to the country’s aviation and tourism sectors Today, Indonesian telecoms operator Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has announced a new strategic partnership with Garuda Indonesia, the country’s national airline. The collaboration will see Garuda explore the use of various new digital technologies with help from Indosat, aiming to “enhance operational quality, optimize...
KCOM Expands FTTP Broadband Network into 2 New Villages
Macquarie-backed network operator and UK ISP KCOM, which is building a gigabit broadband network across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has revealed that they’ve now expanded their full fibre (FTTP) service into the previously unannounced villages of Scotter and Brayton. Both of the new locations are extensions of the operator’s existing build and spotted by some of our readers. For example, Scotter is home to over 3,000 people and sits right below KCOM’s existing deployment in...
Unitirreno subsea cable to land at Sparkle’s Genoa Landing Platform
Press Release The new submarine cable system will use Sparkle’s scalable infrastructure thus gaining immediate access to the most important Internet Exchange points in Europe Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, has signed an agreement with Unitirreno – a partnership between Unidata, Italian TLC operator and ISP, and industry experts – for the landing of its new subsea cable system in Sparkle’s Genoa Landing Platform....
Ofcom Improve UK Spectrum Sharing for Mobile and Wireless Broadband
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today announced a series of improvements to their spectrum sharing framework, which among other things will “significantly increase the availability of spectrum” to help improve the performance and business models of using this to foster new types of 4G, 5G, wireless broadband and mobile services etc. The existing spectrum sharing framework was first introduced in 2019 (here) and paved the way for lots of smaller mobile and fixed wireless broadband...
EE UK TV Customers Get Eurosport’s Olympics Coverage for Free
Broadband ISP and UK mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that customers of their pay TV service will be able to access discovery+’s extensive coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 24, regardless of what package they’re on and “at no extra cost” until 12th August. EE TV’s discovery+ basic customers will thus gain access to discovery+ Standard at no extra cost for the aforementioned period, enabling them to stream every moment of the Games live. This means customers will be able to access...
Connexin’s LoRaWAN Wireless Network to Connect Northumbrian Water Meters
Fixed wireless and UK broadband provider Connexin UK has signed a new deal that will see their Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) being expanded to connect up to 900,000 of Northumbrian Water‘s smart meters across the North East, which is something they’ve already done in other parts of the country. Fixed wireless LoRa networks harness only a small slice of lower frequency radio spectrum (usually in one of the sub-1GHz bands like 868MHz or 915MHz) in order to support relatively slow, but...
Singapore bidding farewell to 3G this summer
News Operators will begin shutting down the network technology from August 1 Singapore’s mobile operators have today confirmed that they will begin shutting down their 3G networks in the coming months. M1 says that it will begin the switch off from the start of next month, while Singtel and StarHub say they will begin to discontinue 3G services from November. This transition is slightly behind schedule. Last summer, all three operators issued a joint statement saying that they would switch off...
Andrews & Arnold Clash with Ofcom Over Broadband ISP Switching Woes
The boss of UK ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, has written somewhat of a spicy open letter to Ofcom – highlighting both their concerns with the preparedness of the organisation (TOTSCo) overseeing development of the new broadband provider switching system and with the regulator’s own “lack of response” to this. Just to recap. The industry-led One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo) is responsible for implementing Ofcom’s now heavily delayed One Touch Switch (OTS) migration...
Study Finds No Mobile Operator in Powys Surpasses 50% for Good Coverage
Mobile UK network analyst firm Streetwave has published the first results from their work with the Growing Mid Wales (GMW) programme, which uses bin lorries to map local network (4G, 5G etc.) coverage and broadband performance. Overall, none of the mobile operators provided “Good Coverage” across more than 50% of Powys’ road network, but EE does come top (49%). The use of bin collections to map mobile coverage and data performance is one that has only recently started to become popular (here,...
ISP Brsk Boost Broadband Speed of Entry Level UK Plan to 150Mbps
Full fibre operator and broadband ISP Brsk, which now covers 573,050 UK premises (RFS) with their FTTP network and is in the process of being merged into Netomnia (here), has today boosted the speed of their entry-level ‘BetterNet100‘ package from 100Mbps to 150Mbps (symmetric) at no extra cost for new customers. New residential customers would have previously paid £23 per month (normally £25) for a 100Mbps (symmetric) package on a 24-month term and this rises up to £32 (normally £45) for...