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• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  Community Fibre secures additional £125m for London gigabit push

  London-based 100% full-fibre broadband provider secures additional funding to bring total investment past billion-pound barrier to drive acquisition growth and achieve penetration targets

• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  Openreach preps to boost network automation, visibility and control

  UK’s leading fixed broadband provider reveals work taking place to improve complete full-fibre estate’s capability with software defined network

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  EXA Infrastructure extends global managed fibre network

  Dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider expands its current reach, launching managed fibre network offering across 31 countries including key strategic Nordic territory

• October 11, 2024 11 Oct'24

  Nokia, Centranet trial brings 50G PON to rural Oklahoma tribal nation

  US electrical cooperative claims first in demonstrating a 50Gbps fibre internet connection for a tribal nation, closing digital divide for rural and Indigenous communities

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  Google slams US government’s proposal to split company up on anti-competitive grounds

  The US Department of Justice has incurred the wrath of Google for suggesting a series of remedies, after the US court ruled back in August that Google had an illegal monopoly over internet search market

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation

  A likely glitch in Amazon Payments resulted in hundreds of Mechanical Turk workers being suspended from the platform without proper explanation or pay

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  CityFibre extends Project Gigabit, Sky Broadband eases full-fibre switching

  UK gigabit providers continue to drive gigabit, with leading independent provider adding to national £5bn broadband scheme while major provider launches dedicated 24/7 switching support service

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  BT readies customers for Global Fabric infrastructure

  Telco announces live testing of AI-ready network-as-a-service platform with global points of presence now installed in over 45 of the world’s major cloud datacentres

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  EXA Infrastructure, Macarne partner for network growth into Europe

  Dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider connecting Europe and North America announces partnership with advanced infrastructure solutions and IP Transit specialist for six transatlantic routes and 155,000km

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  Project Gigabit extends into Yorkshire

  Latest stage of UK government’s £5bn gigabit broadband delivery programme sees advanced connectivity made availed to hitherto unserved rural communities in north of England

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  Comms giants unite to deliver more energy-efficient fibre networks

  Broadband Forum-led project including BT Group, Orange, Calix, Futurewei, Huawei and Nokia seeks to lower energy consumption when accessing the internet through more energy-efficient networks

• September 20, 2024 20 Sep'24

  HPE sharpens edge computing with ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server

  Server engineered for diverse edge locations is said to ensure high performance for environments that generate demanding workloads such as in stores, clinics, banks and factory lines

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  European FTTP adoption rates and market value track upward

  Research finds continued large range in degree of fibre connectivity adoption in leading European economies but finds optimism in growing average adoption rates and fibre broadband revenue models

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  CoreWeave taps Nokia to power AI networking backbone

  AI hyperscaler to deploy IP routing and optical transport portfolios as part of backbone build-out, with immediate roll-out across its datacentres in US and Europe

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Arelion claims optical transmission first

  Optical transmission services and technology providers announce the successful completion of project leading to the world’s first 1.6 terabits-per-second wavelengths data transmission in a live network field trial

• September 02, 2024 02 Sep'24

  Grüner Veltliner winegrowers gain ultra-fast fibre connectivity

  Wine-growing regions of Lower Austria connected with 800km of fibre internet enabling 10 gigabit connectivity for residents in rural region, less than a year into project deployment

• September 02, 2024 02 Sep'24

  Ogi secures £45m funding to support next stages of fibre growth

  Leading Welsh altnet secures major financial package to support next stages of growth in gigabit network spanning domestic territory and the South Wales trunk road into England

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Swansea Bay City Deal to build a dedicated dark fibre network

  Partnership between Virgin Media O2 Business and South Wales infrastructure project to build dark fibre infrastructure will help connect public sector sites with significantly improved capacity and speed

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Community Fibre, Virgin Media mark full-fibre milestones

  Leading London-based altnet reveals strong customer growth over the past 12 months with 300,000 customers switching to 100% full-fibre broadband across the capital

• August 22, 2024 22 Aug'24

  New Qilin tactics a ‘bonus multiplier’ for ransomware chaos

  Sophos X-Ops caught the Qilin ransomware gang stealing credentials stored by victims' employees in Google Chrome, heralding further cyber attacks and breaches down the line.

• August 22, 2024 22 Aug'24

  Illwerke vkw to deploy business optical transport solution across Austria

  Austrian energy service provider evolving existing network to meet rapidly growing capacity demand and offer 10G, 25G and 100G mobile backhaul and fronthaul services

• August 21, 2024 21 Aug'24

  NTT advances all-photonic infrastructure with optical network digital twins

  Comms and IT giant claims major step towards the realisation of full optical network digital twins, with successful end-to-end measurement of signal power across optical fibre transmission lines

• August 21, 2024 21 Aug'24

  Sky to offer broadband services over CityFibre full-fibre network

  UK’s largest independent broadband provider gains major coup with leading ISP to run gigabit services on full-fibre infrastructure that aims to reach eight million premises in coming years

• August 19, 2024 19 Aug'24

  Government furthers calls to prevent ‘unnecessary’ telegraph pole installation

  UK administration continues battle to stop what is regarded as unnecessary infrastructure to address need to hit gigabit connectivity commitments

• 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