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• August 19, 2024 19 Aug'24

  Wessex Internet furthers reach through Project Gigabit

  As broadband roll-out speeds up across the country, west of England altnet goes live with gigabit connectivity in underserved communities, teaming up with arts education charity to offer ultrafast connectivity

• August 16, 2024 16 Aug'24

  Openreach unveils symmetric ultrafast FTTP broadband offer

  UK’s leading broadband provider looks to push capabilities of its network to diversify portfolio further, and offer comms providers and users a broader choice of competitive fibre-based products

• August 14, 2024 14 Aug'24

  Major players ‘less than impressive’ as altnets rise in UK broadband

  A range of surveys identify independent sector as the driving force in UK’s growing gigabit broadband industry and caution of slowdown in subscribers by major providers

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  BT Group sees share spike as Bharti buys out Altice holding

  Just a few months after Mexican business magnate takes 3.2% stake in UK’s leading telco, Indian multinational conglomerate to buy 24.5% holding in a deal valued at £3.2bn

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  Openreach to light up 312,000 rural UK premises in Project Gigabit next phase

  UK’s leading broadband provider engaged in latest step of £5bn gigabit access programme to improve broadband for more than 300,000 homes and business across UK

• August 08, 2024 08 Aug'24

  Le Royal Monceau enhances Wi-Fi to complete Olympic standard connectivity

  In time for the Olympics, historic 5-star Parisian hotel successfully upgrades Wi-Fi network facilitating uninterrupted access to connectivity benefits to guests checking in for the Summer Games

• August 06, 2024 06 Aug'24

  Court document reveals Google’s strategy to dodge Department of Justice

  Google got away with various practices to avoid scrutiny from regulators, but has been found guilty of acting in an anti-competitive way in the US

• August 02, 2024 02 Aug'24

  UK broadband altnets unite to push for fairer access regulation, pricing

  Five of the UK’s largest alternative fibre network operators have come together to create an alliance and call on UK comms regulator to ensure fair and equal access for all users of nation’s physical infrastructure

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  Wildanet accelerates Cornwall full-fibre deployment

  Cornish altnet teams with Nokia and Xantaro to transform connectivity for rural and hard-to-reach areas in south-west England

• July 29, 2024 29 Jul'24

  WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce

  A digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime

• July 29, 2024 29 Jul'24

  UK government invests £106m in five quantum tech hubs

  Five university hubs are receiving funding to support the development of quantum applications that can support healthcare and businesses

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  Nexfibre nears 1.3 million premises passed, reveals future build locations

  Quarterly report from joint venture fibre network operator shows just under 1.3 million premises passed by end of June 2024, and next stage of roll-out in 2025 and early 2026 to see high volumes of build

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  T-Mobile, KKR form fibre joint venture to acquire Metronet

  US 4G LTE and 5G network teams with global investment firm to take control of ISP, serving more than 300 communities across 17 states with multi-gigabit products to businesses

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  Frontier claims North American first with 100G broadband

  US pure-play fibre provider teams with global comms tech firm to become first in region to trial record-breaking broadband speeds of 100G, 50G, 25G and 10G PON technologies simultaneously

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  OECD: Demand soars for future-proof fixed, mobile broadband access

  Research from global policy forum finds broadband technologies such as fibre and 5G mobile networks that help “future-proof” networks

• July 25, 2024 25 Jul'24

  Project Gigabit continues pace with £190m broadband build contracts

  UK network provider secures two contracts under UK government’s £5bn gigabit broadband scheme to connect around 108,000 hard-to-reach premises in East and North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

• July 25, 2024 25 Jul'24

  Nokia launches FWA devices, streamlines fibre connectivity

  Raft of launches from comms tech provider sees subscription-based service based on AI and cloud-based to automate and optimise fibre connection process

• July 24, 2024 24 Jul'24

  Vodafone Spain, MasOrange agree terms to create joint venture

  Leading Spanish fixed operators propose deal to create joint venture to deliver ‘highly efficient’ fibre infrastructure for broadband customers

• July 24, 2024 24 Jul'24

  UK altnets celebrate further full-fibre milestones

  North of England gigabit deployments see Brsk rolling out full-fibre broadband to approximately 30,000 homes and businesses in Runcorn, Cheshire

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes

  Google abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  Global broadband reliability gets consistently higher

  Latest study from Opensignal places UK among the top countries for broadband reliability, reaching third out of 18 markets surveyed, behind only Sweden and Norway

• July 22, 2024 22 Jul'24

  Apollo takes off for Converge to break optical networking terabit barrier

  Philippines fibre broadband and technology provider taps technology firm to deploy optical network system to enhance network capacity from 800Gbps to 1.2Tbps per channel

• July 22, 2024 22 Jul'24

  NCA cracks digitalstress DDoS-for-hire operation

  The UK authorities have taken down a major component of the multinational DDoS cyber attack-for-hire ecosystem, hacking into the digitalstress.su service and exfiltrating data on its users, who now face arrest

• July 22, 2024 22 Jul'24

  BT fined £17.5m for ‘catastrophic’ emergency network outage

  UK comms regulator issues fine to country’s leading telco for being underprepared to handle disruption in June 2023, affecting 14,000 emergency calls and lasting 10.5 hours

• July 22, 2024 22 Jul'24

  Openreach accelerates copper broadband Stop Sell

  UK’s largest telco continues network transformation making full-fibre network available to more than 14 million homes and businesses, with more than four million premises currently taking a service

• July 19, 2024 19 Jul'24

  UK fibre forges forward, but further altnet consolidation likely

  Moody's research finds UK roll-out of fibre broadband continues to progress, although take-up remains low compared with Europe

• July 19, 2024 19 Jul'24

  Brightspeed cuts Ribbon on network transformation

  US fibre builder modernises network infrastructure using real-time comms provider’s network transformation service, with aim of efficiently managing and upgrading legacy assets while enhancing scalability and innovation

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Viavi enhances sensing for fibre-enabled critical infrastructure

  As the use of fibre optic cables increases across various industries to enable accurate, resilient monitoring while complying with security regulations, network monitoring firm unveils sensing offering for critical infrastructure systems

• July 12, 2024 12 Jul'24

  VMO2, MS3, Brsk report gigabit gains

  UK full-fibre broadband boom continues as major provider allows 20,000 more homes in Milton Keynes to gain access to 2Gbps connectivity, while leading altnets record deployment landmarks

• July 12, 2024 12 Jul'24

  CityFibre sees 100x speed improvement in new tech, network upgrade testing

  After ‘robust’ mitigation is said to have become a critical need after rapid expansion, the UK’s largest independent network provider invests in technology to increase overall test capacity by 300%

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Wireless Broadband Alliance reveals Wi-Fi HaLow phase two

  Global industry body dedicated to improving Wi-Fi standards and services releases results of its phase two trials of real-world use cases for Wi-Fi HaLow

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Sodvin launches broadband services with XGS-PON

  Trøndelag county-based utility broadband provider looks to transform residential connectivity services with increased network performance and scale for future upgrades, with high-speed 10 Gbps passive optical network

• July 08, 2024 08 Jul'24

  Nokia, Google Fiber claim 50G PON first in live fibre trial in US

  Tech giant’s development hub for transforming the internet experience expands relationship with comms tech provider on 50G passive optical network trial

• July 05, 2024 05 Jul'24

  Virgin Media adds to Yeovil gigabit broadband estate

  Full-fibre broadband with top speeds of 2Gbps, up to 38 times faster than the current local average, now available to more than 20,000 additional homes in key town in country of Somerset

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  BT tops UK fixed broadband customer experience rankings

  Research from network quality of experience testing and monitoring firm pinpoints UK’s largest leading broadband provider as offering best quality of experience

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  EXA Infrastructure, SOCAR Fiber plan for Red Sea route diversity

  European dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider, connecting North America and Asia via the Middle East, inks deal with secure electronic communication infrastructure company for terrestrial fibre optic route

• July 01, 2024 01 Jul'24

  CityFibre, nexfibre gain further gigabit ground in southern England

  UK’s leading independent provider makes full-fibre available to majority of homes and businesses in West Sussex county town, while growing gigabit broadband wholesaler reveals plans to deliver it to more than 15,000 premises in Buckinghamshire

• July 01, 2024 01 Jul'24

  Nokia to acquire Infinera in $2.3bn deal

  Nokia sees acquisition of open optical networking solutions provider to increase scale in optical networks business

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Neos Networks advances Oxfordshire GigaHubs project

  More than 180 public service sites, from local GP practices to schools, community centres and the authority’s own IT estate, are now connected with full-fibre connectivity as part of a County Council programme

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  NTT upgrades JUNO submarine cable

  Largest trans-Pacific submarine cable system boosts network capacity to support delivery of ubiquitous high-capacity 800Gb, 400Gb and 100Gb services, claiming to hit service delivery targets as soon as it launches

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  Nokia maintains 25G PON momentum with HKBN and Chorus

  Comms tech provider closes more deals for 25Gbps passive optical network technology with Hong Kong fibre network provider and New Zealand’s largest open-access internet infrastructure company on behalf of leading retail service provider

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Altnet full-fibre firms hit the north

  Independent UK broadband providers continue programmes of network expansion to light up premises in Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Humberside with gigabit connectivity

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  Neutral internet sites account for 70% of leading 50 US exchanges

  Study reveals steady transformation over the past decade in the way networks choose to interconnect with neutral IX models operated by a neutral third party rather than by datacentre operator or carrier

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  DDoS gang threatens to disrupt European elections

  Russian hacktivists are threatening to disrupt the European Parliament elections, while the BBC reports on new deepfake threats to the UK’s electoral process

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market

  Data initiative Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into a planned digital European single market, as the EU seeks to extend the reach of vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Zoom opens immersive Experience Centre in London

  Leading collaboration and communications technology firm looks to raise bar of international footprint and strengthen UK commitment with major investment

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites

  Websites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  T-Mobile bolsters connected workplace with FWA

  Expanded fixed FWA offering combines Cradlepoint 5G networking solutions and T-Mobile 5G Business Internet to offer more choice to more customers 

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  Ciena, Digicel, Southern Cross bring high-speed connectivity to Fiji schools

  Leading optical technology provider announces the second year of its partnership with Digicel Fiji and Southern Cross to deliver high-speed connectivity for school students on Fiji

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  Nokia and Global Fiber Peru aim to close digital divide in Amazon rainforest

  Subaquatic optical, IP and XGS-PON fibre broadband network brings future-proof connectivity to remote region of Peru, Colombia and Brazil in bid to reduce digital divide in 400 communities