MLL Telecom appoints former BT Financial Director as CFO | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release Image credit: MLL Telecom MLL Telecom, a leading provider of secure managed network services to the UK Public Sector, is pleased to announce the appointments of James Withers as Chief Financial Officer James’s long and highly successful career in finance commenced at HP followed by senior posts at Computer Sciences Corporation, BT and EE. James’ tenure at BT included Financial Director and VP Finance roles for the company’s Enterprise...
Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz for $32bn | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Press Release MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 18, 2025)— Google LLC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, Inc., a leading cloud security platform headquartered in New York, for $32 billion, subject to closing adjustments, in an all-cash transaction. Once closed, Wiz will join Google Cloud. This acquisition represents an investment by Google Cloud to accelerate two large and growing trends in the AI era:...
Some Users of UK Broadband ISP TalkTalk Struggling to Access Websites UPDATE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Some customers of UK internet provider TalkTalk appear to be struggling to access certain websites, including major ones like github.io, due to what appears to be some sort of peering or routing issue. The ISP’s network teams are said to be “currently investigating” the ongoing issue. According to customers affected by the issue, the problem appears to have started at around 1am last night and is currently ongoing. The issue has also been reported on...
Essex Council Settles Legal Dispute with Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Essex County Council (ECC) in England has this afternoon confirmed that they’ve settled their legal dispute with Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was originally raised last summer (here) over an alleged failure by the network operator to deliver on their contracted Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) build. Just to recap. The situation in Essex concerned Gigaclear’s earlier contracts under the previous Government’s Superfast Broadband (SFBB)...
UK Broadband ISP GoFibre Extend Community Fund to Northumberland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Edinburgh-based UK alternative network ISP GoFibre, which is building a new gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across parts of remote rural Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve expanded the availability of their GoFurther charity fund to North Northumberland for the very first time. The GoFurther Fund currently offers grants of up to £3,000 to help local charity projects and community organisations in the regions of...
Broadband Outage in Goole After Car Crashes into KCOM Cabinet | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Around 800 premises in the East Yorkshire (England) port town of Goole (DN14) are experiencing protracted disruption to their FTTP broadband and phone services after a car crashed into one of UK ISP KCOM’s street cabinets on Sunday night at 10:55pm, which completely disconnected the apparatus from all of its cables. The incident, which was caused by a Black coloured Mini, occurred on Stanhope Street and the latest update – posted an hour ago – states...
Guernsey Court Overturns £3m of Telecoms Competition Fines | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Royal Court appears to have overturned an earlier decision by the Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (GCRA), which – between 2019 and 2022 – had fined broadband and mobile providers Sure and JT for allegedly breaking competition rules, including by sharing “commercially-sensitive information” and co-ordinating with each other. The GCRA, which is currently in the process of reviewing the judgement and is “considering next steps” (BBC...
New Technology Helps Subsea Fibre Optic Cables to Detect Sabotage | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More A new report reveals how several companies are responding to the growing problem of deliberate sabotage against vital subsea fibre optic cables, which carry much of the world’s internet data traffic, by turning those same cables into a sophisticated sensor net capable of detecting when, where and how an attack may be occurring. The idea of using optical fibre cables, which transmit data using pulses of laser light, to detect and monitor nearby events is...
O2 UK’s AI Flags 50 Million Suspected SPAM and Scam Calls a Month | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Readers may recall that mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) integrated Hiya’s new AI-powered scam detection service (‘Call Defence’) to help combat fraud and nuisance calls last November 2024 (here). Since then, more than 150 million “suspected” scam and spam calls have been flagged by the new technology, recently rising to more than 50m per month. The service, which O2 launched for its customers “at no extra cost“, is clearly helping to protect consumers...
Ofcom to Launch Improved UK Mobile Coverage Checker Later in 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, this week informed ISPreview that they’ve been “working hard to overhaul our mobile coverage checker” in order to better match people’s real-world experiences, particularly of modern 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) services, and intend to launch the result of all their work “later this year“. Ofcom’s existing Mobile Coverage Checker is currently based on coverage predictions from the mobile network operators themselves (EE,...