Total Telecom

JUNE 19, 2025

Having brought together five businesses – Giganet, Jurassic Fibre, Swish Fibre, the original AllPoints Fibre, and Cuckoo – into a single group, APFN (a wholesale business) and Cuckoo (a retail business) now operate as self-standing companies, owned by Fern Fibre. Now that that process is complete, some leadership changes are taking place.

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Telecoms Tech News

JANUARY 27, 2025

The merger brings together FullFibre, a wholesale full-fibre network operator with its in-house retail ISP arm BeFibre, and Zzoomm, an established and fast-growing player. Read more » The post FullFibre and Zzoomm merger creates a UK full-fibre leader appeared first on Telecoms Tech News.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 3, 2025

Vodafone Spain will use FibreCo to deliver services to both retail and wholesale customers. FibreCo will use existing infrastructure, with nearly 40% of the combined FTTH network already in use by 4.5 million customers. It plans to deploy the latest technologies, such as XGS-PON, to improve service quality.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In response, CEO Allison Kirkby outlined several measures to mitigate this impact, including potentially passing costs on to mobile and broadband customers. Reported profit before tax sits at £1 billion, down 10%.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 16, 2025

16 JANUARY 2025 – High-speed broadband provider LightSpeed has joined forces with Neos Networks, one of the UKs foremost business connectivity providers, to expand its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and wholesale services. ENDS About Neos Networks Neos Networks has the UKs largest business-dedicated network.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 21, 2024

T-Mobile is set to acquire the majority of UScellular’s wireless operations, including its customers, retail stores, and around 30% of the company’s spectrum holdings, for $4.4 All of these transactions hinge on the closing of UScellular’s sale of wireless operations and select assets to T-Mobile, which was announced earlier this year.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 7, 2025

Ogis investment in Cardiff is part of its ongoing commitment to revitalising urban centres and supporting communities with reliable, high-capacity broadband technology. This latest phase in its city centre rollout, equips the business, retail and residential zone for the digital demands of the 21st century. restoration.

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Light Reading

MAY 21, 2025

Thai operator AIS said it has not reached an agreement with National Telecom amid reports that it is seeking to acquire NT's mobile phone and retail fixed broadband Internet subscriber base.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Contributed Article by Rajiv Datta, CEO of nexfibre In today’s digital age, full-fibre broadband is much more than a faster way to browse the internet; it is the backbone of our modern lives and a critical driver for economic growth. Connectivity has become an essential that touches nearly every aspect of our daily routines.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 13, 2025

million people without mobile broadband following the 3G sunsetting. Given handset distribution in the UK and the fact that retailers have been gradually taking 2G/3G-only devices off the shelves for a number of years it is likely that the majority of the phones reported in the do not know category are, in fact, 4G/5G ready.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

13, 2024 – Two tech think tanks want the Supreme Court to block states from regulating retail broadband rates. For almost twenty years, the Federal Communications Commission adhered to Congress’s deregulatory directive, correctly classifying broadband as a Title I service. WASHINGTON, Sept. Signed into law by Gov.

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Telecom Talk

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Novos Fiber, a retail fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) internet service provider (ISP), and its sister company, Prime Fiber, a commercial open-access fiber

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

29, 2024 – With a federal court recently declaring the funding mechanism for a major low-income connectivity program unconstitutional, telecom policy experts are actively discussing alternative solutions to keep essential broadband programs funded. over time, easing financial pressures on telecom companies.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 28, 2024

28, 2024 – A coalition of broadband advocates has urged the nation’s telecom regulator to abandon its proposal to regulate bulk billing for internet in apartment complexes, arguing the federal regulators lack the legal authority to enforce such a rule.  WASHINGTON, Oct. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Aug.1,

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, tech and telecom companies remained silent on the measure throughout the campaign. The opposition movement to Measure 118, largely financed by a PAC supported by grocery and retail giants like Kroger, Albertsons-Safeway, and Costco, raised over $16 million — more than 26 times what the Oregon Rebate Campaign PAC raised.

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Mark Goldberg

JANUARY 30, 2025

It’s pretty easy to spend fifteen million dollars building broadband infrastructure. It doesn’t appear that the CRTC takes the same care spending money it has collected from the tax it charges on the basis of our telecom bills. Starlink retails for $140 per month. By GerthMichael – GerthMichael, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Telegeography

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Broadly speaking, telecom service providers have two ways of connecting traffic to a destination telco. They can either connect directly with the destination carrier or route traffic to a wholesale carrier that connects to a destination telco.

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Real Wireless

AUGUST 21, 2024

Put very simply, these are small satellites, in large constellations with orbits that are closer to the Earth than traditional GEO orbits – that can offer broadband-like services with less latency than satellites in higher orbits. We are experts in telecoms engineering, network planning, economics and regulation.

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Mark Goldberg

JANUARY 20, 2025

Let’s open the discussion of the subsidy plan, recognizing that the Commission has just launched its “Call for comments Implementing a retail Internet service subsidy in the Far North” Initial interventions are due February 18 and replies 10 days later. This has led to unaffordable Internet prices for many residents.

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Telegeography

JULY 23, 2024

British telecom regulator Ofcom recently published its Connected Nations report for 2023. million premises—or 57% of the United Kingdom—had access to full-fiber fixed broadband as of September 2023. The latest findings indicate that 17.1 This is an increase of 15 percentage points—or 4.6

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Mark Goldberg

MAY 28, 2025

The post CRTC needs Solomon’s wisdom appeared first on Telecom Trends. In February 2025, CRTC issued its reconsideration , brushing aside Cabinet’s recommendation, and confirmed Bell, Rogers and TELUS could access mandated wholesale fibre in those regions where those companies don’t operate their own facilities.

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Mark Goldberg

JUNE 19, 2024

Even retail internet access service is regulated in Northwestel territory. This meant that CRTC approval was required before the Connecting Families low-income broadband savings program could be introduced. Over the past year, I have pointed to the potential for regulatory-driven restructuring of major telecom service providers.

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IEEE ComSoc

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

. “The biggest surprise for 2023 was the lack of 5G SA deployments by AT&T, Verizon, British Telecom EE, Deutsche Telekom, and other Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) around the globe. An updated Ericsson study of retail packages offered by mobile service providers reveals that 79% have a FWA offering.

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IEEE ComSoc

JULY 31, 2024

Verizon has 94 million wireless retail +30.2 It’s the primary purchase decision in a connected life and that people will choose the wireless company that is right for them and we believe we will compete effectively as a pure play wireless company regardless of our simultaneous participation in broadband.” million prepaid subscribers.

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Total Telecom

APRIL 2, 2025

Lumos customers will keep their current fibre service, but will gain access to T-Mobile’s support infrastructure, including its retail presence and bundled offerings.

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IEEE ComSoc

DECEMBER 11, 2024

telecom market, thereby eliminating one of the last few remaining regional wireless network operators and strengthening T-Mobile’s position across the 21 states where UScellular maintains operations. ” The deal is relatively small as telecom mergers go — valued at about $4.4

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