BT Group has switched on its first self-powering mobile site, located in the Shropshire Hills, with approximately 70 per cent of its energy needs expected to be generated by the on-site solar panels and wind turbine. The site was identified through an environmental assessment which calculated its viability for renewable power. Power is generated through […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 79 new exchange locations, covering more than 900k premises across the UK, where the business plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over an ultrafast Full Fibre connection. The business is giving […]
EE, the consumer brand for the BT Group, and Sky have announced a retail partnership that will see Sky Stream launch across EE stores, via the EE website and EE telesales from October 15th. The partnership builds on a relationship established in 2017 and forms part of EE’s strategy to partner with consumer electronics and […]
BT has switched on Global Fabric, its new network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform and has been carrying out extensive live testing over the past few weeks. The first Global Fabric services will launch in early 2025. Global Fabric will make it easier and quicker for businesses to securely connect employees, customers and devices to apps and digital […]
BT Group has announced changes to its Strategy and Change and Digital units. Tom Meakin, who joined BT Group in April as interim Chief Strategy and Change Officer, will be appointed to the role permanently from November 1st. Meakin joined from McKinsey & Company where he was a senior partner leading its Consumer Tech and […]
BT has reported that it identifies more than 2,000 signals of a potential cyber attack every second – over 200 million per day – as it defends critical networks across the world, according to data pointing to an accelerated cyber security threat. The data, unveiled at BT’s Secure Tomorrow cyber security festival at its Adastral […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has published its latest monitoring report on digital infrastructure provider Openreach’s independence. Since 2018, Openreach has been legally separated from BT and Ofcom has imposed rules on the company designed to support competition and investment in faster networks. In that time, availability of full-fibre broadband in the UK has increased from […]
Virgin Media O2 is reportedly seeking outside investors to help fund its £5 billion (€4.5bn) newly created network company to challenge market leader BT Group, according to a Bloomberg report. Virgin Media O2, jointly owned by Liberty Global and Telefónica, is working with advisers to raise at least £1 billion by selling a minority stake […]
BT Group has announced it will collaborate with Edgio – the platform of choice for security, speed and simplicity at the edge – as their first partner, to integrate their CDN into its MAUD technology solution. In the coming months, they plan to trial delivery of EE TV content on some STBs in the live […]
EE has announced that it has now deployed over 1,000 small cells across the UK, marking 400 new deployments over the last 12 months including its first 5G sites, recently installed in Croydon, London. Small cells are miniature mobile masts which offer performance boosts in high-demand areas thanks to their size, which makes them easy […]