AllPoints Fibre calls for crackdown on ‘misleading’ broadband advertising
News The fibre wholesaler is calling on the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to update its guidance on the use of the term ‘fibre’ New research from AllPoints Fibre, conducted in partnership with YouGov, shows that the UK public remains confused about what exactly constitutes ‘fibre’ with regards to broadband advertising. The study, which polled 2,000 adults online, found that 70% of Brits were aware that fibre provided faster and more reliable broadband than copper, but 77% were not...
Exabeam and Wiz Partner to Strengthen Cloud Security Threat Detection
BROOMFIELD, Colo. & FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Nov. 19, 2024 — Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, today announced its partnership with Wiz, a leader in cloud security. This collaboration provides organizations with improved threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities, ensuring a more secure and resilient cloud environment. With its open architecture the Exabeam New-Scale Security Operations Platform supports a best-of-breed...
CBRS Market to Exceed $1.3 Billion, Says SNS Telecom & IT
After many years of regulatory, standardization and technical implementation activities, the United States’ dynamic, three-tiered, hierarchical framework for coordinated shared use of 150 MHz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) band is experiencing a renewed wave of enthusiasm. This reinvigoration of interest follows a recent relaxation of rules and guidelines – collectively referred to as CBRS 2.0 – which extends uninterrupted commercial operations in the CBRS...
Ezditek Breaks Ground on Data Center Facility in Riyadh to Provide a Foundation for AI and Cloud Innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 19 November 2024 – Ezditek, a leading expert in data center and digital infrastructure services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), has broken ground on its flagship data center facility, RUH01, in Riyadh to provide a sustainable and scalable foundation for local digital transformation. The facility will be located in the world’s biggest female university, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) on a 35,000+ sqm plot and is expected to go live by Q1...
Cellnex backs new Digital Champion volunteer training programme in Greater Manchester
Press Release Nearly 93,000 adults over the age of 75 in Greater Manchester are considered digitally excluded – a third of these have never used the internet Around 170 Digital Champions currently support residents in Greater Manchester communities to develop essential digital skills and confidence A regional Digital Champion volunteer training programme has been launched, offering tools and training to new and existing volunteers across Greater Manchester The programme, developed and...
Broadband ISP YouFibre Deploy First UK 400Gbps vCGNAT Servers
Broadband ISP YouFibre, which is one of the retail outlets for Netomnia’s (inc. Brsk) 8Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network, has worked with NFWare to deploy the “industry’s first” 400Gbps virtual Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (vCGNAT) servers to its customers. The move should help them to keep up with their rapid subscriber growth. Netomnia’s full fibre network currently covers over 1.8 million premises, but they’re aiming to reach 2 million UK premises (homes and businesses)...
Rural UK ISP Wessex Internet Builds Gigabit Broadband to 30,000 Premises
Broadband ISP Wessex Internet, which is building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Southern England, has today – for the first time – announced that they’ve just connected their 10,000th customer and their gigabit network has covered 30,000 properties (Ready for Service). The provider now says that they’re on track for 60% customer growth this year, which isn’t all that surprising when you consider how many major Project Gigabit build contracts they’ve secured...
iD Mobile Doubles Data on UK Mobile Plans for Black Friday
Low-cost mobile network operator iD Mobile (Currys), which harnesses Three UK’s national 4G and 5G platform under a virtual operator (MVNO) partnership, has launched a range of Black Friday promotions for new customers that doubles the included data (mobile broadband) allowances across all of their 1, 12 and 24-month SIM Only mobile plans. The change means that iD Mobile’s SIM Only plans now start at £6 per month for 8GB on a 1-month term (up from 4GB) or 15GB on a 24-month term (up from 6GB),...
Ofcom UK Widen Scope of Probe into Gigaclear’s Emergency Calls Failure
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that they’ve widened the scope of their recently launched investigation into rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was probing their possible failure to “provide accurate and reliable caller location information to emergency organisations“ (i.e. making it more difficult for police, fire and ambulances to find callers). Just to recap. The regulator’s rules (General Conditions A3.5 (GC A3.5) and A3.6(a) (GC A3.6(a))) require that, when someone...
Bouygues Telecom completes acquisition of La Poste Telecom after shareholder squabble
News La Poste Telecom is France’s largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), providing services to customers using SFR’s mobile network French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom has announced the completion of its 100% acquisition of La Poste Telecom for an undisclosed sum. La Poste Telecom is France’s largest MVNO, with roughly 2.4 million subscribers. The company was previously majority owned by La Poste Group (51%), while SFR – Bouygues’ rival network operator, over whose mobile network...