Street Works Firm C-Plan Telecommunications Falls into Administration | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Long-running Scottish civil engineering firm C-Plan Telecommunications, which has been helping to deploy gigabit broadband networks north of the border for a long list of clients (e.g. Openreach, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Gigaclear, and others), has fallen into administration after allegedly losing out on forecasted work. C-Plan is currently one of the better-known contractors north of the border (there are others, like Diona and Comex) and, according to...
Huawei embroiled in European Parliament bribery scandal | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The investigation, which has led to multiple arrests and searches across Europe, has raised concerns about foreign interference and political integrity in the EU This week, Belgian authorities have arrested several people as part of a corruption investigation related to the European Parliament and Chinese tech giant Huawei. It has been confirmed that a large-scale investigation is ongoing into potential corruption, forgery, and money laundering...
TOTSCo to Begin Testing of UK Business Broadband ISP Switching in June 2025 | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The One Touch Switching Company (TOTSCo), which is the industry-led company that is helping to implement Ofcom’s solution (One Touch Switching) for easier and quicker UK consumer switching between broadband and phone providers, has revealed that they’ll start testing a switching solution for businesses by the “end of June” 2025. Just to recap. The current consumer focused OTS system is a Gaining Provider Led (GPL) process, where the customer contacts...
North Lanarkshire to Deliver Free Broadband to 36,575 Council Homes | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) in Scotland has today announced a “groundbreaking digital plan” that, over the course of between 10 and 15 years, will aim to ensure that “all council housing tenants” (36,575 homes) will gain access to “free internet access, a first for any Scottish council“. The announcement is somewhat vague on the details of the internet service that tenants can expect to receive (i.e. it’s unclear if this will be a fixed line...
‘Adapt or die’: VOX Solutions’ message to telcos in the age of AI | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview We caught up with Ehsan Ahmadi, CEO of VOX Solutions, to discuss the many monetisation opportunities offered by AI and why telcos must evolve to take advantage You founded VOX Solutions back in 2010 – how has the industry changed since then and what has that meant for VOX? The telecom industry used to be a walled garden. Now? It’s a battlefield. Traditional telcos aren’t just competing with each other anymore, they’re up against tech giants,...
FBA CEO defends rural fiber subsides at Connected America | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities The Fiber Broadband Association CEO pushes back against rhetoric questioning the feasibility of subsidizing rural fiber at Connected America. Gary Bolton, the CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association, was outspoken in defense of rural fiber broadband subsidization at Connected America in Dallas this week. Bolton’s comments came in response to another panelist during a keynote discussion on Day 2 of Connected...
Broadband ISPs Vodafone, BT, KCOM and Zen Internet Prep New UK Battery Backup | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband, mobile and phone provider Vodafone UK has today announced that they’ve teamed up with rival ISPs BT, KCOM and Zen Internet to help bring an improved Broadband Battery Backup (BBU) device for WiFi routers to market, which is said to be capable of powering a customers broadband router (inc. digital phone/voice service) for up to 4-to-7 hours. At present, many ISPs already provide a BBU to “vulnerable customers” who have taken their IP-based...
Nine European countries launch join forces on semiconductors | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The ‘Semicon Coalition’ will collaborate on research and development, as well as bolstering Europe’s chip production capabilities This week, nine European countries have founded the ‘Semicon Coalition’, pledging to cooperate to better support the continent’s semiconductor industry. The initiative, spearheaded by the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Dirk Beljaarts, was formally initiated today in Brussels, Belgium, with ministers of Belgium,...
Alncom Prep £1.4m FTTP Broadband Build in Rothbury, Northumberland | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural gigabit broadband ISP Alncom has today announced that they’re working on a £1.4m project to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover over 200 of the hardest to reach premises in and around the remote town of Rothbury in Northumberland (England), which aims to tackle areas that are still “unable to access superfast broadband“. In fact, Alncom’s network already reaches into central Rothbury, although their new roll-out looks to be...
BDUK Release UPRN Level Data for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s executive Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today published fresh data that reveals the current levels of broadband connectivity, future commercial plans for gigabit broadband, and any premises included in BDUK’s publicly funded interventions (e.g gigabit vouchers and Project Gigabit contracts) down to the individual premises (UPRN) level. The data, which currently only covers England and Wales up to September 2024, does not contain...