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News The cable will provide vital connectivity to various research communities on Earth’s most extreme continent This week, the Chilean Undersecretariat of Telecommunications (Subtel) and the Development Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) have announced the hiring of Pioneer Consulting and Salience Consulting to produce a feasibility study for a submarine fibre-optic cable to connect continental Chile to Antarctica. “This study will allow us to know if the conditions exist to carry...

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has made a change today that re-opens their Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) for parts of Devon in England, which means that local homes and businesses in poorly served rural areas can apply for big grants to help get a much faster broadband ISP network installed. Just to recap. The GBVS usually offers grants worth up to £4,500 to help rural premises get a gigabit-capable broadband (1Gbps) ISP service installed, which is available to...

Insight Vitrifi, an autonomic networking company, is changing how mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are managed in the fibre broadband industry.  It’s vendor-neutral, cloud-based platform enables networks to integrate efficiently, reducing the complexity and cost of consolidation. Accelerating fibre market integration Merging network assets after an acquisition is often slow, expensive and technically difficult due to incompatible systems.  Vitrifi’s platform eliminates these obstacles,...

News The open beta testing phase will allow customers from AT&T and Verizon to also trial the satellite service In a Superbowl commercial last weekend, T-Mobile announced the launch of T-Mobile Starlink, a new satellite-based service that aims to eliminate mobile dead zones in remote areas of the US. The service uses SpaceX’s low Earth orbit (LEO) Starlink satellites to provide coverage to areas that terrestrial infrastructure currently does not reach, ensuring US customers have access to...

As enterprises increasingly adopt advanced Generative AI (GenAI) for security and efficiency, Globe is making notable progress in integrating this technology to streamline operations, optimize network performance, and elevate customer service.   A GSMA outlook for 2025 showed that telco operators around the world are looking to AI in driving business objectives, including better customer experience and enhancing financial performance.   Globe’s commitment in AI reflects these findings,...

New York – February 4, 2025 – Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, announced the company has closed the transaction to acquire substantially all of the assets of United Fiber and Data (UFD). The company also introduced LightCube Edge Data Centers that will be first deployed along its NYC-Ashburn strategic network route.  The asset additions elevate Lightpath’s position in the digital...

Corby-based internet service provider Rocket Fibre has revealed that they’re looking to expand their existing roll-out of a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based gigabit broadband network. The operator currently holds an “initial ambition” of being able to cover 21,000 “customers” in Northamptonshire (England) with the new network. At present the ISP already offers broadband packages to customers via CityFibre’s and OFNL’s national UK broadband networks, but more recently they’ve started to...

Customers of Sky’s broadband-based pay TV streaming service and devices may be interested to learn that the company has today introduced the first of their next generation Sky Glass Gen 2 televisions, which features an even brighter 4K HDR screen and an enhanced seven-speaker Dolby Atmos® sound system built in. This will be followed by SkyGlass Air “later this year“. Sky are continuing their gradual efforts to move away from satellite-based TV services, and the new Sky Glass Gen 2 TVs will...

Networking kit manufacturer TP-Link, which produces a lot of affordable broadband routers, WiFi extenders and smart home devices for ISPs and consumers, has this morning announced the opening of its “largest” UK and Ireland National Distribution Centre to date in Newbury. The new 72,000-square-foot warehouse is said to be “double the size” of any previous TP-Link facilities, boasts a 50% increase in storage capacity allowing faster deliveries, greater stock availability and improved service...

Network operator Netomnia (inc. Brsk and ISP YouFibre) has today announced that their £39m investment to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the city of Liverpool (Merseyside) has covered 110,000 premises (homes and businesses). But they’re now planning to add another 80,000 premises. In case anybody has forgotten, the operator originally announced their roll-out in the city all the way back in May 2022 (here) and the goal back then was to...