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19th April, 2024 (0 Comments)
The Zayo Group, which runs a large high-capacity metro and long-haul fibre optic network with global reach, has today announced that they’ve appointed industry veteran Colman Deegan to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zayo Europe.
26th March, 2024 (0 Comments)
The Zayo Group, which runs a large high-capacity metro and long-haul fibre optic network that delivers global reach, has today launched a new “Waves on Demand” service that enables customers to swiftly activate bandwidth across its 400G fibre network in Europe and the UK within 5 working days (the industry standard is said to be 30+ days).
22nd March, 2024 (12 Comments)
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today finalised new rules – due to be enforced from 1st October 2024 – that will require mobile network operators, such as Three UK, Vodafone, EE and O2 (inc. MVNO operators), to protect consumers who travel abroad from mobile BILL SHOCKS on data (broadband), call and text charges.
1st March, 2024 (16 Comments)
New research from Point Topic has revealed how the adoption rates of “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband ISP networks vary between 30 countries within Europe (i.e. how many subscribers take the service vs premises passed). Overall, the average take-up stands at 54.4% (up from 53.3% in mid-2021), while the UK scores just 34.7%.
9th January, 2024 (1 Comment)
The Zayo Group, which operates a large metro and long-haul fibre optic network that delivers global reach, has announced an expansion of their “near-net” that will put their 100Gbps capable connectivity within reach of thousands more businesses across Western Europe (inc. the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, and France).
27th December, 2023 (13 Comments)
The tumbling share price of European satellite operator Eutelsat has effectively more than halved the value of the UK Government’s associated stake in OneWeb (currently worth c.£200m). The operator is now facing more pressure to secure a key EU satellite broadband contract, which won’t be easy due to.. politics.
5th November, 2023 (54 Comments)
Customers of EE (BT) are venting frustration after the mobile operator twice increased the price of their “Roam Abroad” add-on – making for a hike of 150% within the past year. The pass allows customers to use their existing allowances, at no extra charge, while in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand plus 47 European destinations.
20th October, 2023 (12 Comments)
Customers of UK mobile operator Tesco Mobile may be pleased to learn that they’ve extended their ‘Home From Home’ EU roaming offer until 2025. Customers can thus continue to tap into their UK minutes, texts and data (mobile broadband) allowances, at no extra cost, when travelling around 48 destinations in the EU and beyond.
28th September, 2023 (9 Comments)
The European Commission has published their annual ‘Broadband Coverage in Europe’ study, which reveals how the EU’s fixed broadband and 5G mobile networks compare across all of its 27 countries, plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. We take a closer look to see how the UK is fairing.
20th July, 2023 (13 Comments)
Ofcom has today proposed new rules to force mobile network operators, such as Three UK, Vodafone, EE and O2 (inc. MVNO operators), to protect consumers who travel abroad from mobile BILL SHOCKS on data (broadband), call and text charges by introducing new roaming alert protections for consumers and small businesses.
17th July, 2023 (22 Comments)
As predicted last month (here), the Stelios-linked easy® family of brands (i.e. easyJet, easyMoney, easyCar) has this week launched a new UK mobile operator service called easySim.global, which is focused on giving people low cost travel data (mobile broadband) to use all around the world via eSIM.
22nd June, 2023 (19 Comments)
A new Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was commissioned by Uswitch, has claimed that British people have had to fork out approximately £539m in “unexpected roaming” costs over the past 12 months since most mobile operators reintroduced EU roaming charges.
19th June, 2023 (19 Comments)
A new mobile operator called easySim.global, which is part of the familiar Stelios-owned group of brands (e.g. easyJet, easyMoney, easyCar) and last existed around a decade ago as easyMobile before vanishing, appears set to launch this summer. But the focus this time will be on giving people low cost travel data all around the world.
13th June, 2023 (7 Comments)
Colt Technology Services has confirmed the completion of a new multi-Terabit speed capable Dark Fibre (G.652D/G.657) cable along the Channel Tunnel, which runs between the UK (Folkestone, Kent) and France (Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais) under the English Channel sea.
8th August, 2022 (31 Comments)
A new MSE report has called on Ofcom to improve consumer protection measures for mobile roaming when within the EU, which follows after the organisation’s research highlighted that consumers are still at risk of being caught out by unexpected roaming costs. But operators aren’t helping by adopting different definitions of a “day“.
8th August, 2022 (4 Comments)
The European Commission recently published their annual 2022 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which charts how the EU’s fixed line broadband ISP and mobile networks compare across all of its 27 countries. The UK was removed from this report post-Brexit, but it’s still possible to see how we compare by using Ofcom’s data.
3rd August, 2022 (48 Comments)
The mobile division of supermarket giant ASDA has begun notifying customers of a huge price hike to their Pay As You Go (PAYG) services, while also revealing that they will slash the amount of inclusive data (mobile broadband) that you can use while roaming within the EU from 25GB (GigaBytes) to just 5GB per bundle!
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