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The new unit will support SoftBank's expansive AI data centre ambitions The post SoftBank to build its own batteries for AI data centres appeared first on Total Telecom.
Skylo applied for FCC authorization to support millions more IoT, smartphone and wearable devices in the US with its D2D satellite connectivity service.
Alternative network ISP Fibrus has issued a progress update on their £34.6m (public subsidy) UK Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract in Northern Ireland, which began at the end of 2025 (here) and aims to cover 9,333 of the hardest to reach rural premises. The provider has just passed its first milestone by covering 1,593 of […]
TX Fiber is deploying Vecima's XGS-PON platform to bring symmetrical multi-gigabit speeds to areas in south Texas. #pressrelease
SoftBank forecasts 27% rise in profit over next five years as AI becomes foundational, reporting net income jumped 11% in the latest fiscal year.
Retail internet service provider Cuckoo, which is the consumer broadband outlet for the associated AllPoints Fibre (APFN / Fern Trading) network and wholesale platform (they also provide services via several third-party full fibre networks, such as Openreach and CityFibre), has confirmed to ISPreview that rival ISP Onestream will acquire their customer base. The agreement, which […]
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Charter and Comcast made big promises to customers in 2025. Not all of them locked your actual bill.
Carlisle-based alternative broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect), which has already built their point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 270,000 UK premises (aiming for 600,000 in the future) and in 2025 secured a £225m funding boost (here), has now been spotted deploying their network in the Lincolnshire (England) town of Scunthorpe. At present homes and […]
According to a report from Business Insider, US mobile network operator Verizon is preparing to cut ‘several hundred’ jobs. The post Verizon cuts hundreds more jobs as slimdown continues appeared first on Total Telecom.
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Elisa goes drone detecting; Vodafone offers 5G in-home broadband; UK's Project Gigabit extends further into Essex.
Orange's Philippe Ensarguet and DT's Kai Steuernagel expound on what it will take to make cloud and AI native a reality for telcos.
Mobile operator Vodafone (VodafoneThree) has this morning announced a “major expansion of its home broadband offering” by launching Vodafone 5G Broadband and claiming to open up “full‑fibre like speeds” to a further 3.7 million homes across the UK. The focus seems to be on those homes still stuck on “slow, unreliable speeds offered by part-fibre […]
Mobile satellite may not be a game-changer, but it could be a point of difference.
The UK Government has this morning confirmed that their recent modification to Openreach’s (BT) Call Off 5 contract for Essex and North East England (here) will be the “first Project Gigabit contract to target pockets of poor connectivity in towns and cities“, as well as the countryside. Over 9,500 extra premises in Essex “burdened with […]
Openreach (BT) has today published a huge batch of 238 exchanges (Tranche 24) – covering 1.69 million premises – under their “FTTP Priority Exchange” stop sell programme, which reflects areas where over 75% of premises are able to get full fibre lines and will thus stop selling copper based legacy phone and broadband products (i.e. […]
NTIA shares progress on preparing spectrum for 6G with updates on work in 7GHz, 4GHz, 2.7GHz and 1.6GHz bands.
Optimum lost more broadband subscribers than expected in Q1 alongside a solid gain in mobile lines. Meanwhile, Optimum is still trying to break down a massive debt wall that includes $6.2 billion due next year.
The UK government has posted contract modifications for three of Openreach’s Project Gigabit contracts – Call Off 1 (Lancashire, West Berkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire), Call Off 2 (Essex and North East England) and Call Off 3 (North Herefordshire, North Wales, Shropshire and South West Wales). The move expands their planned deployments of […]
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today moved to help facilitate the closure of the old analogue phone network (PSTN/WLR) in favour of digital (IP-based) alternatives, which they’ve done by making it free for broadband and phone providers to migrate WLR Solus (i.e. voice-only lines) to MPF (fully unbundled) or SOTAP (data-only copper broadband for […]
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: why AI is like gingerbread; Germans have no digital patience; Airtel Africa on the up.