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Ofcom leans towards permitting Openreach’s Equinox 2 price cuts

by Harry Baldock | Feb 3, 2023

News The regulator says its provisional view is to not intervene over Openreach’s plans to further...

How rural America is looking to close the digital divide

by Total Telecom Staff | Dec 13, 2022

By Steve Alexander, Chief Technology Officer, Ciena Corporation. For regional and rural households across America, the digital divide has been a way of life for decades now. Since the dawn of the internet those in rural areas have suffered through lower speeds more so than their urban counterparts.

OneWeb celebrates first Florida launch

by Rob Chambers | Dec 9, 2022

OneWeb successfully shifts launch activity from Russia to Florida in first mission with SpaceX

$3 billion now invested by the US Capital Projects Fund

by Rob Chambers | Dec 9, 2022

American Rescue Plan Funds to Increase access to affordable, high-speed internet have been awarded to Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Utah, taking the total number of states benefiting to 22, with 700,000 locations reached and nearly $3 billion awarded by the Capital Projects Fund (CPF)

Northern cities bookend broadband disparity table

by Rob Chambers | Dec 8, 2022

Glasgow has the UK’s biggest broadband speed gap, with its quickest area getting speeds 866 times faster than the slowest, just four miles away. Nottingham and Cardiff have the next biggest download rate divides, while Portsmouth, Wolverhampton and Bradford were the most equal.

Vodafone Spain launching 5G FWA

by Harry Baldock | Nov 25, 2022

News The operator hopes to leverage its mobile network to gain a stronger market share in the...

FCC unveils National Broadband Map

by Harry Baldock | Nov 21, 2022

News The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will use the map as the foundation for allocating...

UK broadband networks may be wrongly valued by up to 20%

by Rob Chambers | Nov 18, 2022

UK broadband providers may be inaccurately valuing their businesses by up to 20 percent because they don’t have the right oversight of their networks, leaders of the UK’s alt net sector have been told today.

Bless this highly nutritious broadband and the people who sold it

by Rob Chambers | Nov 18, 2022

Broadband provides in USA to be required to provide point of sale labels for consumers

Northern Telecom acquires business and assets of Toople Plc & DMSL

by Rob Chambers | Nov 15, 2022

Leeds based Northern Telecom completes their eighth acquisition. The business provides fixed and mobile telephone services and broadband connectivity and IT solutions to businesses and organisations across the UK. Northern Telecom operates a number of brands including: Northern Telecom, Northern Telecom Home, UP Telecoms and Soda IT
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VMO2’s Volt passes one million customer milestone

by Harry Baldock | Oct 31, 2022

Press Release Virgin Media O2 is today celebrating a major milestone as the company’s first joint...

Comtec (Part of ETC Group) helping to resolve supply issues with huge stockholdings in the UK

by Cheryl Cheong | Oct 20, 2022

Founded in 1978 and acquired by ETC Group in 2020, Comtec is one of the UK’s largest value-added...

Connecting America: I think of it as accommodating basic equity, not a digital divide, says AT&T’s Stankey

by Total Telecom Staff | Oct 18, 2022

We track progress as billions of dollars pour into developing internet access for all on route to deliver a more Connected America – mostly through deployment of fiber

America has a massive job of education to complete to get people online

by Rob Chambers | Oct 14, 2022

The most recent survey of American internet usage by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has shown almost 20 percent of US households remain offline – and most do not see why this should change