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Event | 22 Jul 2024
The Great Telco Debate 2024: Let’s get ready to rumble!
The telecom industry’s end-of-year wrap-up returns to London on Thursday 5 December, for a day of boisterous discussion and debate on the big issues and topics that are shaping the future of telecoms.
Debates proposed so far include:
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Resource | 30 May 2024
Glasgow City Region: Smart & Connected Social Places Presentation
Presentation outlining Glasgow City Region strategic context and properties
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Resource | 30 May 2024
UKTIN Clusters Coventry City Council Digital Innovation Presentation
Presentation outlining digital innovation undertaken by Coventry City Council
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News | 22 May 2023
Many UK consumers ‘priced out’ of broadband
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Resource | 11 Mar 2023
NEOS Networks | Our UK-wide network
Our 34,000km private telecoms network spans the UK providing a range of high capacity connectivity and collaboration solutions.
National network maps
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News | 24 Jul 2024
Gov-backed UK Infrastructure Bank provides funding to another rural FibreCo
Cornish Wildanet attracts £35m investment from UKIB, days after the bank ploughed £150m into Hyperoptic.
Southwest fibre altnet Wildanet has become the latest UK challenger to attract investment from UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB), and has secured a revolving credit facility from Santander to boot.
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News | 11 Jul 2024
Nokia buys Infinera for $2.3 billion to boost US optical division
Nokia is splashing the cash in hopes of capitalising on the burgeoning US fibre market.
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News | 10 Jul 2024
Cable ops are lab-testing 'enhanced' DOCSIS 3.1, CommScope says
CommScope says operators are using new software to fuel lab tests of an upgraded, enhanced form of DOCSIS 3.1 that beefs up downstream speeds. Field trials are expected to begin later this year.
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News | 28 Jun 2024
TAL acquires gigabit networks’ residential CityFibre customers
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News | 27 Jun 2024
NEC develops compact millimeter-wave distributed antenna for Beyond 5G/6G through the development of a radio-over-fiber system enabling low power consumption
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News | 19 Jun 2024
New submarine fibre optic project will connect five European countries
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News | 18 Jun 2024
Vodafone connects UK to the world’s largest subsea cable system
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News | 13 Jun 2024
Optical transport equipment market dips 13% in Q1 – Dell'Oro reports
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News | 30 May 2024
Nokia deploys subaquatic fibre in the Amazon Rainforest
Nokia has deployed a new subaquatic and future-proof Optical, IP and fibre broadband network in the Amazon Rainforest alongside Global Fiber Peru.
The network connects over 400 communities to multi-gigabit broadband access that Nokia says is critical in today’s digital economy,
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News | 17 May 2024
CityFibre completes its acquisition of Lit Fibre
CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, has now completed its acquisition of Lit Fibre (Lit) from Newlight Partners.
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News | 16 May 2024
Telecoms Trailblazers: A Day in the Life of Emma Philpott
Hello, I’m Emma Philpott, a principal technical consultant at FarrPoint: I work on various connectivity projects involving 4G, 5G, IoT, fixed wireless access and fibre networks aimed at improving digital connectivity across the UK.
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News | 10 May 2024
Gigabit infrastructure act: Council gives final green light to faster deployment of high-speed networks in the EU
To ensure faster deployment of digital network infrastructure across Europe, today the Council adopted the gigabit infrastructure act, which will replace the 2014 broadband cost reduction directive (BCRD).
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News | 08 May 2024
China Mobile tops telco-to-techco ranking
China Mobile is currently the most advanced operator in terms of shifting from telco to techco, according to a new report from research house Omdia.
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News | 30 Apr 2024
UK altnet nexfibre passes 1 million homes with FTTP
The fibre network operator says it “is on track to become the second-largest competitive network in just its second year of operation”
Just 14 months since launching commercial services, fu
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News | 08 Apr 2024
Ciena, Toshiba demo quantum-safe network
The quantum computing era and its upsides and downsides might still be years away, but the threat to communications network security set to be posed by cyber criminals armed with quantum computers is already being addressed by multiple telcos and vendors, with Ciena and Toshiba the latest to team up and show off their quantum-safe networking cap
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News | 05 Apr 2024
Ofcom launches 2026 wholesale telecoms review to power-up gigabit broadband rollout
Ofcom has today kicked off its review of the regulations that will apply to the UK wholesale telecoms markets from April 2026
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News | 04 Apr 2024
Zayo expands connectivity across Europe with new Waves on Demand service
Service offers customers dedicated 100G Wave routes across the continent in just five working days