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• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Vodafone selects Nokia software-defined tech for fixed access network

  Mobile operator signs exclusive deal with comms tech provider on the evolution of software-defined network manager and controller (SDN-M&C) services for multi-access fixed network technology

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  FullFibre expands reach in East and West Midlands

  Boost to altnet’s goal of reaching 500,000 premises by 2025 as rising expectations from consumers, and demands such as increased homeworking, drive expansion in key central England belt

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Verizon adds to adapter portfolio to boost 5G fixed wireless access

  Leading comms tech provider certifies C-band 5G adapter to provide connectivity across Ultra Wideband Network to give enterprise and business customers speed, capacity, coverage and performance

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  Neos Networks delivers education and research dark fibre network across Northern Ireland

  Neos Networks introduces education and research dark fibre network to Northern Ireland, bringing new points of presence and Belfast-based access centres designed to offer greater resilience through sub-sea backup links to mainland UK

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  UK full fibre flourishes from local, European gigabit broadband providers

  Slovenia-headquartered ICT provider is intensifying its activities in Western Europe, and is now offering fibre-to-the-home services from a newly opened branch in the UK

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Vodafone targets UK small business with full-fibre broadband offer

  With the impending shutdown of ISDN and PSTN phone lines in 2025, UK operator unveils full-fibre broadband offer specifically for the small office/home office sector

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  CityFibre gains £300m funding as it passes Portsmouth full-fibre milestone

  New investment increases network provider’s recent financing round to over £1.4bn to enable participation in Project Gigabit rural programme and support continued roll-out acceleration

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Connectivity partnership sees Tata Communications get in gear with Formula 1

  Global communications firm charged with delivering a managed end-to-end network that will transform the F1 fan immersive video experience in more than 180 countries

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  UK government warned of ‘slow progress’ on infrastructure plans

  Annual report from UK’s official independent infrastructure adviser warns that progress on gigabit roll-out may be at risk, and sets out infrastructure priorities for 2022

• March 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  FullFibre furthers reach in Midlands and goes live with Droitwich Spa cabinet

  Boost to altnet’s goal of reaching 500,000 premises by 2025 as wholesale customer lights up first cabinet in Droitwich Spa, allowing residents to access an ultrafast, full-fibre network, as Midlands South team makes gain

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Nokia and Hrvatski Telekom conduct first 25G PON fibre broadband trial in Croatia

  Following earlier deployments in Belgium and the UK, comms tech provider’s cutting-edge optical network technology gets trialled in Croatia with subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom Group

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  600 public buildings in Wales get full-fibre broadband

  Completion of the largest public sector broadband project in Wales, funded by the UK government, sees gigabit connectivity delivered to buildings including hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes, libraries and youth centres

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Telefónica Vivo launches 5G-ready IP transport network across Brazil

  Brazilian operator teams with Cisco and NEC to deploy a flexible and scalable 5G-ready IP transport network for its converged mobile and fixed networks as it prepares to launch a next-generation communications network infrastructure

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Orange Business Services and Fortinet seal SASE partnership

  Business services division of telco inks partnership with cyber security firm to gain differentiation for secure access service edge solution based on cloud-native technologies and using a dedicated global IP backbone to deliver expanded on-demand ...

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  CityFibre deploys 100th fibre exchange to power full-fibre roll-out

  Century up for fibre exchange (FEX) deployments for UK’s largest independent full-fibre platform, enabling the delivery of live gigabit broadband services to the first 4.8 million premises of its eight million roll-out

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Limelight gains large CDN scale with Edgecast acquisition

  Leading CDN provider gains extra scale with strategic purchase, claiming to have created global leader in edge-enabled software services with diversified revenue across products, clients, geographies and channels

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Accelerating full-fibre gigabit growth sees UK altnet association start 2022 on strong note

  Independent Networks Cooperative Association enjoys continued membership boom as altnets maintain momentum in UK after several years of record investment

• February 14, 2022 14 Feb'22

  UK superfast, ultrafast broadband deployments track upwards rapidly in Q4 2021

  Majors and altnets hit the accelerator in gigabit connectivity roll-out in the UK, but survey reveals big discrepancy between the country’s best and worst fibre-enabled locations

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  TalkTalk: Switch to full fibre benefits climate

  Study from leading UK operator pinpoints green gains from switching to full fibre over copper networks, including increased efficiency, reduction in degradation and exchanges, and fewer engineer journeys

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  ISPA, Good Things Foundation team to address UK digital divide

  Digital exclusion remains a huge issue in the UK and to address the problem, leading digital inclusion charity has entered into a partnership with the Internet Services Providers’ Association

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  NO-UK submarine cable system claims record line rate

  Submarine cable system between Norway and the UK claims milestone that will facilitate a new era of connectivity between the countries

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  6GHz Wi-Fi spectrum critical to enable Australian technology innovation

  Global spectrum organisation calls on Australia to set aside the full 1200MHz of available 6GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi applications under the country’s communications and media authority licensing framework

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Bakkavor aims for more network bite with Neos Networks SD-WAN

  UK-based provider of fresh prepared food selects software-defined wide area network technology from growing connectivity provider to improve resilience and continue its digital transformation.

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Giganet, Anixter team to expand FTTP internet service to the UK

  Further momentum in UK full-fibre broadband market sees leading ISP entering into a multi-year agreement with subsidiary of Wesco International, to support the expansion of gigabit connectivity delivery across the UK

• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  City Fibre full-fibre network goes live in Thames Valley

  UK’s largest independent network provider aims to bring much-awaited gigabit connectivity to Reading and Slough areas

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  UK altnets add fibre across Greater Manchester, Midlands and Southwest

  Two UK independent broadband providers announce full-fibre network offers aimed at allowing businesses to reach potential through supporting both on-premise and hybrid modes of work

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Global broadband divide is closing but speed inequalities widen

  Research finds need for greater investment in advanced, full-fibre broadband networks is essential to closing a digital divide among global broadband users

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Jisc selects Neos Networks for gigabit fibre network serving north-west England

  Business connectivity provider strikes partnership to connect major universities and research centres in Liverpool and Manchester to gigabit-capable fibre network offering up to 100Gbps connections and 10-fold increases

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  International Space Station gets connected on SpaceDataHighway

  SpaceDataHighway deploys space laser communications to increase the operational flexibility of ISS, allowing more astronauts, scientists and researchers to benefit from a direct link with Europe

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Connexin switches on full-fibre broadband network in Hull

  So-called ‘disruptive’ communications company specialising in building and operating smart city infrastructure connects first customer to full-fibre network in East Yorkshire

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  98 more Openreach exchange areas to go digital in copper network shutdown

  Mildenhall and Salisbury test sites will be first to stop selling copper-based services in 2022 in a further acceleration of Openreach’s plan to halt traditional broadband and voice services across the UK by 2025

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  IT teams give remote tech the thumbs up, but worry about extra work

  With people continuing to work from home, remote access technologies have become key tools in supporting a hybrid workforce

• January 11, 2022 11 Jan'22

  CityFibre gets to work on bringing full-fibre to Cambridgeshire

  Further expansion from network provider will fulfil Fenland District Council’s digital needs, bringing previously unavailable full-fibre connectivity within reach of thousands of homes and businesses

• January 04, 2022 04 Jan'22

  Aviva invests further £100m in Truespeed for full-fibre roll-out

  Just after appointing a new CEO, regional UK internet service provider gains £100m worth of funding from Aviva Investors to fast-track ultra-high-speed broadband connectivity

• December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21

  UK must continue to embrace technological innovation and invest in mobile infrastructure

  Video conferencing and livestreaming over mobile have entered the mainstream, but speed testing finds many users suffer from connectivity issues that prevent them from making full use of these services

• December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21

  UK government reveals next step in plans for gigabit broadband in new-build homes

  Latest part of programme to accelerate gigabit broadband across the UK will see it included in new-build homes

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Neos Networks brings high-capacity fibre access to leading UK cities and Oxfordshire

  UK business connectivity provider opens first of four metro access networks to offer last-mile services direct to nearly 10,000 regional businesses and those in the City of London while also announcing rural county expansion plan to connect over 200...

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Virgin Media O2 completes full gigabit access over entire footprint

  Gigabit speeds now available across UK cableco’s entire network, offering average download speeds of 1.130GMbps supporting hyperfast services

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  Network technologies shaping post-Covid global recovery

  Latest round-up ranking world’s most ‘network ready’ markets revealing how countries around the world are using information technologies to emerge from the Covid pandemic and become network ready.

• November 26, 2021 26 Nov'21

  VMware, Mitacs set sights on discovering sustainable path for 6G

  Partnership will drive applied research with Canadian universities in the areas of sustainable grid, digital equity and clean tech involving 6G

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  Openreach hits six million homes with full-fibre reach

  BT broadband provision division says full-fibre broadband roll-out programme is on track to reach 25 million premises by December 2026

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  National Infrastructure Commission pinpoints strategic gaps in UK infrastructure planning 

  UK infrastructure assessment stresses it remains critical for health of country that gigabit broadband is effectively rolled out to rural areas and towns to ensure genuinely universal provision

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Vodafone claims solid half-year

  Hot on the heels of signing a contract with City Fibre to gain UK fibre leadership, leading European comms operator’s results for the first six months of 2021 shows sustainable growth in both Europe and Africa

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Broadband beats bedrooms for UK homebuyers

  Research from global communications provider finds that fast internet access is now a top-two must-have for UK homebuyers

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Openreach in consultation over next stage in transition to fibre

  BT-owned UK broadband provision firm accelerates plan to stop selling copper-based broadband and traditional voice services, aiming to use five pilot areas to develop and test approaches for mass-migrating end-users to new digital offers

• November 10, 2021 10 Nov'21

  Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise

  Leading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required

• November 10, 2021 10 Nov'21

  Cisco aims to conquer complexity in hybrid world of work

  Network tech and services giant Cisco unveils solutions designed to simplify complex environments as the world embraces flexible ways of working, giving global view of SaaS application health and outages map

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  More than 90% of Virgin Media O2’s network now gigabit-ready

  After switching on gigabit-capable services for 1.6 million more homes, UK cable provider claims to be within touching distance of enabling its entire network to access broadband download speeds of up to 1.13Gbps

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  BT unveils robotics test lab to speed infrastructure roll-out

  Telco opens UK’s first dedicated telecoms civil engineering robotics test facility designed to help fibre network development and roll-out in challenging environments

• October 29, 2021 29 Oct'21

  UK government to drive gigabit broadband to half a million more rural UK homes

  Project Gigabit quarterly update Autumn 2021 reveals the estimated sequencing, scope and dates for the English Phase 3 rural projects which will see 570,000 more rural premises in line for full-fibre broadband.