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Power Outage UK Telecoms

10th February, 2025 (9 Comments)

The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today published the results of a recent study it conducted into the costs of improving power resilience at UK mobile network sites (masts etc.). This finds that the cost of ensuring “almost everybody” could maintain access to the emergency services for up to 4 hours, in the event of a power cut, would be approx. £1bn.

BT Staff and Recruits UK

7th February, 2025 (8 Comments)

Broadband ISP and telecoms giant BT have today confirmed that they will recruit more than 600 additional apprentices and graduates in 2025 (up from 500 in 2024) – forming part of their September 2025 intake. The roles will span across areas such as cybersecurity, software engineering and customer service.

virgin media uk engineers jacket

7th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media (inc. nexfibre and O2) and civil engineering partner Svella Connect are currently trying to resolve a difficult dispute over “contractual terms“, which touches on issues of worker safety, rate reductions, and work volumes for Nexfibre. But there’s still hope for an amicable solution that may avoid the risk of redundancies.

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virgin media engineer poking cabinet

6th February, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband and mobile provider Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has today announced that they’re planning to create more than 100 early UK careers and re-skilling opportunities during 2025, which is about half the intake figure of last year (here) and down from the c.350 they pledged to create during 2023 (here).

BT-Sign-on-Office-Window-2025

5th February, 2025 (4 Comments)

The UK telecoms giant, BT Group, has today continued to reduce their international operations by announcing the acquisition of their Irish wholesale and enterprise business unit – ‘BT Communications Ireland Ltd.‘ (BTCIL) – by the Speed Fibre Group, which describes itself as being an open access fibre infrastructure provider (managing or owning 5,400km of fibre).

Vodafone-Logo-Outside-Office

4th February, 2025 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has today published their Q3 FY25 financial results, which confirms that their fixed line broadband base grew by a new record to total 1.549 million customers (up by 72k in Q3 vs 50k in Q2). But their mobile base fell again to total 18.3m (down by -174k vs -93k in Q2), due entirely to a fall in their prepaid/PAYG base.

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Orbital-Net-2025-Logo

31st January, 2025 (0 Comments)

Independent Kent-based UK ISP Orbital Net (Orbital Internet Group), which runs the Vfast sub-brand that sells packages to homes via a mix of fixed wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks, has today announced that they’ve acquired ClubWifi, which is a key supplier of commercial WiFi services to holiday parks, marinas and more.

BT-Group-Head-office-front-One-Braham-PR-290125

30th January, 2025 (44 Comments)

Telecoms giant BT Group has today published a brief trading update to the end of 2024, which reveals that Openreach added another 1 million premises in the last quarter (unchanged) to the coverage of their full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network (total 17m) and saw related take-up rise by 472k (net adds) to total 6m (stable at 35%). But total broadband lines fell by 208k as rivals continue to bite.

Man carrying UK optical fibre cable by 123rf ID 37098753

29th January, 2025 (16 Comments)

A new research note from analyst firm Enders Analysis has warned that mergers between smaller alternative gigabit broadband networks, such as the one that occurred on Monday between FullFibre Limited and Zzoomm (here), will not be enough for the sector to become “sustainable” and “further financial distress may be required” for some realism over valuations.

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28th January, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today published the “provisional findings” of their investigation into the UK’s public cloud infrastructure services market, which is currently dominated by Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure). The probe found that “competition is not working as well as it could” and is now shifting its focus to look at remedies.

Smartphone-chat-and-text-SMS-messages-uk-123rf-106949094

28th January, 2025 (6 Comments)

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to cap the wholesale price charged by mobile network operators (e.g. EE, O2, Vodafone and Three UK) for the delivery of automated text messages, known as application-to-person (A2P) SMS, which are widely used by business and organisations across the public and private sectors.

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28th January, 2025 (0 Comments)

Juniper Networks and European broadband operator Liberty Global, which is one of the parents of Virgin Media and O2 UK, have just completed a joint Proof-of-Concept (PoC) in the UK that demonstrated a “cost-efficient, software-programmable, secure and seamless way” to consistently connect services and applications hosted in disparate locations and across different cloud technologies.

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27th January, 2025 (10 Comments)

Mobile operators Three UK and O2 (Virgin Media) have today announced that they’re partnering with the cloud communications platform, Sinch, to make RCS Business Messaging (RBM) available on iOS (Apple iPhone, iPad etc.) for their customers – previously this was only available to Android based phones and devices.

Freshwave PR Picture of 8 Bishopsgate on 270125

27th January, 2025 (5 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure provider Freshwave has teamed-up with Electracom Projects to deliver a 4G mobile signal – from all four mobile network operators (MNOs) – to the 50-storey ‘8 Bishopsgate’ development in the City of London (CoL), which will benefit local businesses inside the property.

27th January, 2025 (14 Comments)

Alternative broadband network builders Zzoomm and FullFibre Limited (Fibre Heroes), both of which have been rolling out multi-gigabit speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) ISP networks across different parts of the United Kingdom, have this morning announced that they’ve agreed to merge to create one of the UK’s largest Altnets.

Hyperoptic UK Engineers Training 2022

27th January, 2025 (10 Comments)

City-focused ISP Hyperoptic, which since 2011 has built an alternative full fibre (FTTP/B) network to reach “more than” 1.73 million homes in parts of 64 UK towns and cities, has informed its staff that 2025 will see a “reduced volume of work” and thus a potential reduction in their infrastructure teams of nearly 130 jobs (out of nearly 280 potentially impacted roles).

ITS Technology full fibre node

24th January, 2025 (6 Comments)

The ITS Technology Group, which operates various wholesale full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, has today introduced both 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps symmetric speed tiers on their “FibreLight” Ethernet over FTTP (EoFTTP) service.

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