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Bolton-based electrical appliances’ retailer AO.com has today become the latest UK company to try their hand at launching their own 4G and 5G virtual mobile network operator (mvno) with AO Mobile, which reflects a new partnership with Vodafone. Not that the market needed another one, but you’ve got it now anyway.
The decision by alternative broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group) to significantly scale-back their roll-out of full fibre (FTTP) broadband across the UK, which was recently followed by another round of redundancies (here), needs to be tempered against the fact that their retail ISP – YouFibre – are now busy hiring lots of new staff.
Mobile infrastructure firm Cornerstone (CTIL), which was originally established as part of a UK network sharing deal between O2 (Virgin Media) and Vodafone (Vantage Towers), has expanded their partnership with Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP) to improve how they manage and renew existing telecommunications site agreements (wayleaves etc.).
Internet video streaming provider Disney+, which already carries ESPN’s sports TV content, has announced that they’ve reached a multi-year agreement to show all Formula E races via Disney+ and ESPN+ in the USA and in “most” international markets beginning with the 2026/27 season.
Mobile network operator EE (BT) has notified UK customers in Colombia (South America) that, due to the devastating impact of Monday’s 7.4-magnitude Earthquake, they’re promising to credit back charges for mobile calls, texts and data (mobile broadband) used in the country, as well as mobile and landline calls from the UK to Colombia.
A new study from network benchmarking giant Ookla, which collects data from consumers via their popular broadband and mobile Speedtest.net service, has done a deep dive to expose the often hidden ways in which travel eSIMs work and the negative performance impacts (particularly on mobile broadband speeds and latency) this can sometimes have.