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News The joint venture will reportedly invest $100 billion “immediately” to deploy AI date centre infrastructure This week, OpenAI has announced the ‘Stargate Project’, a new joint venture set to invest $500 billion into AI infrastructure over the next five years. The new joint venture is a partnership between OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, in which SoftBank will reportedly have financial responsibility, while OpenAI will have operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son, billionaire founder...

News By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities The policy director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Science, Commerce, and Transportation has been nominated to serve as an FCC commissioner. Olivia Trusty’s nomination was first announced by now-President Donald Trump on Truth Social last week, a social-media platform owned by Trump Media. “She has fought tirelessly to grow the economy, empower innovation, and reignite the American Dream,” Trump’s Jan. 16 post stated. He said Trusty would work with...

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their UK parentage with retail broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has today announced that they’ve made their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network available to more than 8,000 homes in the market town of Northallerton (North Yorkshire, England) for the first time. The deployment is interesting because the town was already home to two competitive gigabit-capable full fibre broadband networks via both Openreach and Zzoomm. In...

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has announced that their UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network now covers over 1.45 million properties in Scotland (half of all premises), which has also delivered a strong take-up rate of 38% and at a total build cost of £435 million. The vast majority of their full fibre build in Scotland – costing an average of £300 per premises passed (unchanged from 2023) – reflects commercial investment, although they’re also covering some...

Alternative network provider Wildanet, which is building a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, has just become the latest UK ISP to start offering special discounts to holders of a Blue Light Card (i.e. price cuts for workers in the emergency services and veterans). In short, those in possession of this card will benefit from a discount worth 10% off their broadband subscription by using the code “Hero10” (without...

Network services provider BT Wholesale has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve taken the decision to “retire” their long-running BroadBand Performance Test (speed tester), which is a change that was formally introduced at the start of this month. But BT has yet to post a notice about this on the service page, which may cause some confusion for those trying to run a test. The tester itself was more intended for BTW’s ISP customers to use as part of their customer connectivity diagnostics,...

News This article was originally released by our sister publication, Broadband Communities An order signed by newly inaugurated President Donald Trump names Brendan Carr as chairman of the FCC. Carr, a Republican FCC commissioner who was first named as Trump’s pick to be chair back in November, released a statement with the news. In the statement, Carr said he’s deeply grateful and honored that Trump has designated him to be chair. “I have had the privilege of working at the FCC for over a...

Some customers of UK ISP Sky Broadband, primarily those in West Yorkshire (England), appear to be suffering from an unusual problem with their internet connectivity. The issue is disrupting video playback on YouTube and hampering access and downloads from Google Play (App store) on Android devices, as well as some other services. The sporadic problem (i.e. it doesn’t impact everyone in West Yorkshire, but there are a lot of complaints) appears to have started over a week ago (around 11-12th...

21 January 2025 – Telstra International, the global arm of telecommunications and technology company Telstra, has announced its vision and roadmap for the international network, aligning with Telstra’s broader strategy to develop a highly autonomous network that aims to transform customers’ experiences in a zero-touch, secure, and resilient way. As part of its ambitious plan, Telstra International is upgrading its subsea cable infrastructure to over 800 Tbps of total lit capacity, to meet...

London, 21st January 2025 – Cerillion (AIM: CER), a leading provider of BSS/OSS-as-a-Service solutions to the telecoms industry, today announced a major new contract with Ucom, one of the leading telecommunications providers in Armenia. Cerillion will implement its pre-integrated BSS/OSS suite as the digital foundation to power-up Ucom’s quadruple-play services portfolio and enable the next phase of growth. Thanks to its 4G+ and 5G mobile networks and state-of-the art fibre network, Ucom...