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• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Bechtel joins CityFibre gigabit broadband roll-out scheme

  Engineering, construction and project management firm supports step-change in mobilisation of build projects worth £1.5bn

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  UDG Healthcare deploys AT&T, Cisco SD-WAN to gain intelligent edge

  Global healthcare group deploys software-defined wide area network to create additional operational efficiencies

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Remote workers lack appropriate tools to adapt to the new normal

  Research finds that companies must proactively address the workflow and productivity challenges remote workers continue to face in order to drive greater productivity

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Ericsson acquires Cradlepoint to accelerate enterprise 5G

  Wireless edge WAN solutions supplier will complement Ericsson’s enterprise offerings in deal with an enterprise value of $1.1bn

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  UK Parliamentary committee casts doubt on value of OneWeb satellite project

  UK Parliament’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee hears experts from the world of satellite communications cast doubt on the intrinsic value of the UK government’s ambition to be a sovereign satellite communications provider

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Current IT infrastructures not prepared for incoming strain of fourth industrial revolution

  With the future of business increasingly driven by smart things, applications and digital services that use data for transformational purposes, CenturyLink is undergoing its own transformation

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Independent wholesale broadband market could connect 11 million more premises by 2025

  Research from Independent Networks Cooperative Association reveals surge in demand from members to provide wholesale broadband services across the UK

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms further extends 100Gbps capable network across the UK

  New connections built to provide 100Gbps optical and Ethernet services will enable SSE Enterprise Telecoms to reach more than 90 datacentres across the UK

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Openreach adds 67 locations to broadband fibre build plan

  Growth accelerates in UK full-fibre network, with 32,000 homes and businesses gaining full-fibre broadband access every week

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  UK government furthers investment in rural broadband

  Quarter of a million rural homes and businesses across England have been given access to more financial help to get super-fast and above broadband speeds up to gigabit

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Mobile stable as UK full-fibre broadband increases significantly over first half of 2020

  Second interim 2020 update to UK comms regulator’s examination of connectivity shows fibre and superfast broadband proliferate since March as millions remain at home to work, learn and be entertained during the pandemic

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Broadcom launches Brocade gen7 Fibre Channel switches

  New generation Fibre Channel doubles performance to 64Gbps with switches and HBAs now available. But what future for Fibre Channel with NVMe-over-fabrics hitting the datacentre?

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  5G roll-out delay could see £18.2bn hit to UK economy

  Huawei publishes research showing the huge potential financial cost of removing its 5G products and services from the UK’s next generation

• September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20

  Aberla Utilities forges UK fibre partnership with Gabitel Ingenieros

  Spanish telecommunications expert digs out deal with Cheshire-based telecoms, energy management, renewables and engineering services to provide fibre communications

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Adtran eyes IoT scale opportunities and enhances gigabit switch portfolio

  As part of a sweep of moves to help service providers grow IoT applications, services and revenue, business connectivity solutions provider announces new gateways and brings carrier-class feature set to gigabit switch portfolio.

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  Three expands full-fibre connectivity partnership with CityFibre

  The UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform provider teams up with telco on backhaul project

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  Two-fifths of UK small businesses claim productivity increases since lockdown

  As UK government mulls programme to encourage big return to the office, survey finds that commuting time has been swapped for work time as homeworkers notch up almost a month in overtime

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Enterprise WLAN market takes a tumble

  Quarantines and lockdowns due to pandemic are presenting a headwind for the enterprise WLAN market, with falls in first quarter persisting over the next three months of the year

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Western Europe dominates global broadband speed

  Annual assessment of global broadband speeds calculates that the gap is widening between the leaders and the laggards, with the countries focusing on pure fibre achieving the most success

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Businesses go all in on wireless WAN for post-pandemic recovery

  Report reveals extent of wireless WAN use, demand for 5G and how wireless connectivity will play a big part in businesses’ efforts to recover from the economic damage of Covid-19

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  Tour de France 2020 fans to get virtual experience delivered by NTT

  This year’s Tour de France was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. IT services company NTT has teamed up with event organiser ASO to offer a virtual experience to fans who cannot be at the roadside

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Unwired Planet wins patent licensing case against Huawei

  Landmark ruling goes in favour of Unwired Planet and Conversant Wireless and may define the future of telecoms patent licensing

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  How to keep IT staff safe when they are needed on-site

  One of the challenges for IT departments during the coronavirus pandemic is that staff sometimes need to come into the office, which poses health risks

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Gigaclear to take on 120 engineers for rural broadband expansion

  New full-time field engineers will join rural broadband provider’s in-house team by the end of March 2021 to increase company’s build capacity

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  UK government redesigns contact-tracing app and begins new trial phase

  No official launch, but app is upgraded to offer alerts based on postcode, QR check-in at venues, symptom checker and test booking in conjunction with the official Test and Trace programme

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Broadband upstream usage, speeds spike higher in Q2 2020

  As the need for remote working, learning, information and entertainment makes broadband access more important than ever, a consumption report finds mass usage of applications such as Zoom driving uptake of higher-speed packages

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  SD-WAN revealed as key enabler for ‘new normal’ remote workforces

  Research from software-defined network and cloud platform provider shows the increased importance of software-defined infrastructure to the new work environment

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  UK government gigabit broadband scheme nears half a million new premises benchmark

  UK government celebrates reaching gigabit broadband services deployment milestone as part of its ambitious target over the lifetime of parliament

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  SD-WAN gains momentum with enterprises in Australia

  As Australian businesses accelerate migration to the cloud, the underlying network will play an increasingly important role and nearly 60% of enterprises in the country have already implemented SD-WAN

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  ‘Inadequate’ broadband impacts bottom line for London’s SMEs

  Research reveals as many as 85% of small businesses in UK capital do not know how fast their broadband speed needs to be for their business to thrive, and only two-fifths were able to transition to a fully online business model after Covid-19 hit

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Bandwidth Inc wraps up Ribbon deal to boost home network capacity for AWS

  Session border controller software edition deployed on AWS to enable enterprise communications company’s customers to improve home working with no disruptions to network performance

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Virgin brings gigabit speeds to Glasgow, Leeds and Bradford

  Cable provider extends gigabit broadband footprint to more than 12 million homes with coverage in Scotland’s largest urban conurbation and West Yorkshire twin cities

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  ‘Precipitous’ rise in network disruptions since March 2020

  Research finds that since lockdown, regional network availability and performance has differed between ISP and cloud networks, with cloud provider networks showing greater resilience

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Application monitoring, video games dominate internet traffic in first half of 2020

  Increased focus on digital presence during lockdown likely to have prompted companies to invest more in ensuring and measuring application uptime and enhancing customer experience

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Edge server shipments set to double by 2024

  As business gets close to the edge, analyst predicts a ‘supercharged’ edge server market over the next five years driven by an associated boom in cloud services

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  BT launches drive to support UK SMEs

  Small Business Support Scheme will help country’s 5.8 million small businesses boost connectivity, cashflow and confidence following coronavirus pandemic

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Apple smashes sales in third quarter, outpaces rivals in growth

  iPhone SE and iPhone 11 sales contribute to record June quarter as Apple defies expectations in first true half of the year

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  BT takes Covid-19 hit but claims strong first quarter

  Comms provider warns of further impact from pandemic in future quarters as a result of insolvency, slower decision-making by larger customers and lower usage across businesses

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  VMware completes participation in UK contact-tracing app development

  The day after UK government announced that its long-awaited and controversial contact-tracing application would be available ‘shortly’, VMware revealed it has completed its role in the development

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  UK government announces further funding for tech innovators to seize 5G opportunities

  Next stage in national programme to pioneer new ways to take advantage of the potential of next-generation networks helping companies harness the power of 5G and boost economic productivity

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK households suffer as online problems disrupt work during lockdown

  Quadient urges broadband and mobile providers to focus on customer service as UK ranks connectivity as more essential than gas, banking or council services

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK rural full-fibre broadband network expanded further

  Over three million more homes and businesses in rural areas of the UK given the opportunity to get ultra-reliable, gigabit-ready, full-fibre broadband by mid-2020s

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  £400m full-fibre broadband expansion as Warburg Pincus, DTCP take control of Community Fibre

  Expansion of full-fibre network across London will deliver up to 10Gbps of broadband to a million households and businesses

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Google Cloud announces Grace Hopper subsea cable

  IT giant connects up first new undersea cable of its kind since 2003 to connect UK, US and Spain

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  MainOne West African submarine cable implements Infinera to boost spectrum capacity

  Comms tech provider works with global operator to optimise performance on undersea cable serving as West African backbone network for Orange’s international connectivity in Africa

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Amdocs boosts 5G portfolio with Openet acquisition

  Deal will bring Openet’s open and network-centric technologies to Amdocs’ portfolio of more than 350 service provider customers worldwide

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Telekom Slovenije introduces 5G

  Slovenia’s leading telco unveils the first in a number of phases in its evolution towards next-gen communications

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Aryaka, Check Point announce global managed security partnership

  Cloud-first-managed wide area network provider and threat prevention specialist collaborate to produce integrated security and SD-WAN-as-a-service solution

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  UK government ignored civil service warning of no benefit in acquisition of OneWeb

  Civil service revealed to have taken the rare step of alerting government that $500m investment in troubled satellite company would bring no discernible benefit

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Nokia launches first commercial enterprise 5G standalone private wireless networking

  New technology aims to provide ‘direct to 5G’ entry point for high-spec industrial use case validation and ecosystem development