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Embattled British telco TalkTalk has secured 100% of its Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) debt through ongoing refinancing efforts.
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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has raised his BT stake to 4.3% for around £150 million.
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The dark fibre network, scheduled to launch in 2025, will ensure data sharing among local authorities, healthcare providers, and universities.
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The UK Government will make an investment of up to £800 million to upgrade broadband infrastructure for 312,000 rural homes and businesses across England, Scotland and Wales.
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PlatformXCommunications (PXC)/TalkTalk has confirmed it has reached a £400 million deal with lenders for its refinancing efforts, aimed at extending the maturities of the company's secured debt.
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Bharti Global will become BT’s biggest shareholder after buying a 25% stake, worth US$4 billion from Altice.
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The UK government has announced £32 million in funding for 98 artificial intelligence (AI) projects designed to boost the UK’s productivity and public sectors.
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The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has delayed its investigation deadline into Vodafone and Three UK’s £15 billion merger.
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Wildanet has partnered with Nokia to accelerate the roll-out of its new gigabit-enabled Full Fibre network for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
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The UK Government has launched the UK-India Technology Security Initiative to foster critical collaboration on telecom security and stimulate investment in emerging technologies.
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With just over a week until the UK hits the polls for the 2024 general election, it seems increasingly likely that the ruling Conservative Party will be replaced by the Labour Party for the first time since 2010.
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nexfibre has published a report today arguing that the progress made by the UK’s fibre market is fragile and action is required to protect it.
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Following news earlier this week that more consolidation is afoot in the UK’s Altnet market, Neos Networks CEO
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Nexfibre, a UK Altnet with the same parent companies as Virgin Media O2, has announced that it has passed 1 million premises, just 14 months after its fibre build out began.
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This week, the UK and US signed a ‘landmark’ deal to work together on testing advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
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The UK and US have signed a landmark deal to work together to test advanced AI.
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Jon Hunt, UKTIN, project board member and executive director of research, enterprise and innovation at the University of Bristol believes the investment might spark innovation.
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BT Group has announced a narrowband internet of things (NB-IOT) network, which it says is set to pave the way for more UK smart cities and industries.
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Google has bought land in Essex for the possible development of its new data centre campus.
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EE has hit its target for expanded 4G coverage six months ahead of a June 2024 deadline.
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Neos Networks, a critical network infrastructure provider has helped Internet Central, one of the UK’s first ISPs, upgrade their network to 1Gbps connectivity.
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Leading tech firms including the likes of Meta, Google and OpenAI will allow regulators to test their latest artificial intelligence (AI) products before releasing them for public use.
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The UK has joined a global coalition to boost network resilience and is investing £70 million in advancing next-generation technology through the UKRI Technology Missions Fund.
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The UK Government has announced 19 successful projects in its Open Networks Ecosystem (ONE) Competition.
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The UK should consider the need for an artificial intelligence (AI) “kill switch” to safeguard the public and businesses if an AI system poses a serious threat.
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The economic benefits and improvements to people’s everyday lives brought about by artificial intelligence (AI) will outweigh the hit of job losses, Google has indicated in a new report.
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More people in the UK believe 5G has more potential to improve society than artificial intelligence (AI).
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Capacity speaks to industry experts on how the Vodafone/Three deal would affect the UK market and how likely it is to be approved.
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Microsoft has reacted furiously to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocking its US$68.7 billion deal to buy gaming firm Activision.
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Vodafone has launched 5G Standalone (SA) connectivity over its mobile private network.
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EE will bring 4G connectivity to a further 1,500 remote countryside communities across the UK, including Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
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The UK government has announced an investment package worth up to £150 million to boost digital connectivity across the country.
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The UK telecoms regulator is to refer the cloud business, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, to the markets regulator.
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Consumer association Which? says the price hikes planned by the likes of BT and Vodafone are “unacceptable” during a cost-of-living crisis.
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Netomnia and its sister company YouFibre have raised £230 million in committed debt financing.
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Ericsson and Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) will bring greater 4G and 5G coverage and capacity to major cities and towns across the UK as part of a renewed partnership agreement.
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The UK government has appointed a physicist, engineer and champion of diversity and inclusion (D&I) as the new chief scientific adviser to the Department for Business and Trade.
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EnSilica, a leading ASIC and mixed-signal chip maker has announced a contract to develop a new chip to address the next generation of mass-market satellite broadband user terminals.
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The owner of four of the UK’s smaller fibre operators are merging their operations in the face of rising competition.
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Broadband operators have been advised to use existing infrastructure when installing ultra-fast broadband to flats, after a change in UK Law.
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The UK Space Agency has announced that £50 million will be allocated for “ambitious and innovative” projects in the UK.
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New homes in England will be built with gigabit broadband connections, the UK government has revealed on the GOV.UK website.
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CityFibre has completed a trial of 2Gbps residential services in York with its launch partner Vodafone.
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The new UK Telecoms Lab, which is being set up in a suburb of Birmingham, will operated by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) on behalf of the government.
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Marc Ganzi’s Freshwave infrastructure company has appointed a UK government infrastructure official to a senior post, with just a weekend gap.
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Four leading English-speaking economies have aligned their strategies for secure mobile infrastructure, continuing from the 5G era into 6G.
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An Ark Data Centres venture has won a seven-year deal to provide hybrid private cloud services for the public sector in the UK.
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The technical director of the UK’s cyber security agency has announced his departure with a thought-provoking blog criticising software design.
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Cellnex has agreed to sell 1,100 sites in the UK to Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) as part of its plans to buy 6,000 passive infrastructure sites in the UK from CK Hutchison for US$4 billion.
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Viasat and Inmarsat will work with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to demonstrate how the planned combination of the companies will benefit customers.
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Extreme Networks has selected Verizon as its partner to deploy wireless connectivity at Anfield, the stadium of Liverpool FC.
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Vodafone has confirmed that it is in talks with Three UK to merge its UK operations.
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Northern Ireland has the fastest broadband in the UK, with a median download speed of 65.21Mbps, faster than the UK’s average of 61.69Mbps.
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Three UK and Vodafone – the last remaining domestic operators that have not yet embarked on consolidation – could be about to combine forces. Saf Malik analyses the likelihood of a merger between the pair
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The UK’s 5G providers will face an investment gap of as much as £12-£14 billion as they seek to meet government commitments to provide nationwide coverage.
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A former marketing executive with satellite network Sky and with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has become the twelfth minister in charge of the UK’s digital policy in 12 years.
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Broadband in the UK is slower than in 34 other countries, mainly in Europe, according to a new study out today.
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Giganet has acquired the broadband provider Cuckoo as it looks to continue the growth of the Fern fibre family which includes Jurassic, Swish, Allpoints Fibre and Vorboss.
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After the UK government announced it would take no further action on Altice’s increased BT stake, a full takeover cannot be ruled out.
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The UK’s accounting watchdog has fined PwC £1.75 million after it failed to adequately challenge BT after a £500 million fraud claim was discovered in the telco’s Italian operations.
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UK full-fibre operator Zzoomm has enlisted the help of Iskratel to accelerate its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) rollout in the UK.
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Liberty Global, Telefonica and InfraVia Capital Partners have formed a joint venture (JV) that will build a new fibre network in the UK via a £4.5 billion cash injection.
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CityFibre, which raised £4.9 billion in debt last month, has increased the speed of its planned direct fibre network to 10Gbps, and possibly 25Gbps.
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Tango Networks has partnered with BT to use the EE network as it looks to deliver MVNO business mobile services in the UK.
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Almost three-quarters of respondents in the Equinix 2022 Global Tech Trends Survey indicated that their organisation is planning to expand in the next 12 months.
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VMO2 has revealed details of its burgeoning network of small cells across London as its UK investment strategy continues.
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More than a dozen companies in the UK telecoms infrastructure and content industries have formed a new organisation to advise government on digital connectivity.
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Onecom Group has announced it has expanded its £500 million strategic partnership.
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Leaders at the G7 summit have revealed an ambitious US$600 billion plan to counter China’s Belt and Road strategy.
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Huawei’s UK presence remains strong, despite government-imposed restrictions wrangling its consumer segment. Head of R&D Henk Koopmans talks to Saf Malik about innovation, partnerships and 5G and 6G use cases
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Virgin Media O2 has launched hyperfast gigabit-speed broadband for small businesses, offering what it claims to be the fastest widely available business broadband in the UK.
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A BT study has indicated a lack of awareness amongst UK students about the opportunity to pursue qualifications in AI related courses, as estimates reveal the industry will be worth £49 billion in 2022.
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One year on from its merger, Virgin Media O2 has revealed its customers have smashed previous data usage records – with 39 billion gigabytes of data used across their fixed and mobile networks since June 1, 2021.
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NTT DOCOMO has teamed with Yokogawa Electric Corporation to conduct proof-of-concept (PoC) tests of a remote-control technology for industrial processing.
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The Altice acquisition of 6% of shares in BT has been called in for a “full national security assessment”, the UK government has today announced.
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Three UK’s 5G network now covers more than 54% of the UK population, overtaking EE, the operator announced today.
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Vodafone says inflation could derail its profits despite posting a 5% rise in core earnings in its latest results.
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As the UK fibre market becomes more crowded, CityFibre’s plan to bring full fibre connectivity within reach of eight million homes by 2025 remains on track. The group’s chief operating officer, Simon Holden, discusses the continued pace of the rollout, foreign investment and why closing the digital divide has always been a priority.