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The Essex Police, which had been investigating thefts of copper broadband and phone cables from Openreach (BT) across several counties in England, have announced that a gang of four men have been jailed for a combined total of 14 years. The men were responsible for stealing almost £1m worth of the operator’s telecoms cables. The Essex Police are understood to have deployed their Serious and Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) to identify those responsible for a spate of related thefts of cable and...

Broadband, communications and managed service provider (MSP) Wavenet has indicated to ISPreview that they’re expecting to make some redundancies as part of their merger with Daisy Corporate Services (here), which aims to create the UK’s “largest independent IT managed service provider”. But the figure should be “substantially less” than 400. The merger was officially announced in May 2024 and aims to create a £500m revenue company that supports over 22,000 business and public sector...

The Scottish Government (SG) has launched a new Digital Connectivity website, which is now directly integrated into the main government website and appears to replace the old Digital Scotland (Superfast Scotland) site. The new site continues to cover the SG’s various broadband (e.g. R100), mobile, IoT and green data centre projects. The new site hasn’t yet been able to integrate the old broadband availability checker (this still redirects you to the old site), but it does include some useful...

News   The upgrade will allow business customers a better understanding of the emissions related to individual apps and workloads  BT has rolled out new features for its Carbon Network Dashboard, which will provide businesses with detailed insights into electricity usage and carbon emissions linked to their networks and data centres.   The enhancements aim to help companies effectively manage the increased energy demands associated with deploying AI technologies, according to BT.  AI...

News The funding will focus on 6G innovation and sustainable network development  At the 5G-Techritory event this week, Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) has announced the recipients of €127 million in funding set aside for 6G research in Europe.  The SNS JU was set up in 2021 with the aim of developing industrial leadership in 5G and 6G networks and services.  Sixteen projects have been chosen to drive forward Europe’s 6G development, with a focus on sustainable,...

Press Release Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, today announced that Thai Airways has modernized the network infrastructure of its headquarters in Thailand, by deploying Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform to deliver the right data, the right real-time response and the right infrastructure for reliable, measurable and secure wired and wireless services. With the upgrades, Thai Airways can now achieve better simplicity, productivity and consistent performance at...

The state-aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme has suffered yet another problem with one of their rural broadband contracts, which occurred today after they announced that their full fibre roll-out deal with Worcestershire-based Airband was being “scaled back” following its underperformance. In case anybody has forgotten, CDS is a local government-led partnership that has spent many years helping to deliver faster internet infrastructure to areas where the market had...

News The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says the operator’s sales staff had acted “unconscionably” towards hundreds of vulnerable customers This week, Australia consumer watchdog the ACCC has launched a legal suit against telco giant Optus, alleging that 429 customers had been affected by ‘misconduct’ from Optus’ sales staff over a two-year period up to June 2023. The suit alleges that sales staff used aggressive tactics to pressure customers to buy expensive and...

10/29/24   Adding Eight On-Net Data Centers, RapidPath Quick Dark Fiber Deployment Between Data Centers in Five Days, and 15-Miles of Fiber Network Expansion New York and Miami, October 29, 2024 – Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, announced it is continuing its aggressive expansion in the Greater Miami region by adding connectivity to eight new data centers, adding 15-miles of new...

Internet benchmarking firm nPerf has today released the results of a new study into mobile broadband (3G, 4G and 5G) performance across several EU countries, which analysed 61,696 internet speed tests via their app (crowdsourced) to reveal that the average UK download is 80Mbps – this makes the country slower than Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, France and Portugal. The study, which is based on thousands of tests carried out between 1st January 2024 and 30th September 2024, reveals that Italy...