News  Australian subsea cable company SubCo has announced an upgrade to the capacity of its SMAP subsea cable system that connects Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth (S-M-A-P) The cable spans roughly 5,000km, was supplied by Alcatel Submarine Networks, and was installed by Optic Marine Systems.  SMAP was originally designed with twelve fibre...

News US House of Representatives passed bipartisan bill to reauthorize NTIA and modernize its role On Wednesday 15 May, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation to reauthorize the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for the first time since 1992. The goal of the bill is to “update the mission...

News Both KPN’s fixed and mobile networks have been using green energy since 2011    Dutch telco KPN has announced the signing of a 15-year deal to source green energy from Eneco.   Eneco is currently deploying around 88,000 solar panels at its existing windfarm in Kabeljauwbeek.   From 2025, this solar–wind farm will provide renewable electricity...

News The study, conducted by Dialog Consult on behalf of the Internet industry association VATM, shows the fibre rollout accelerating across Germany but was critical of the incumbents methods  This week, a new study from Germany’s Verband für Telekommunikation und Mehrwertdienste (VATM) has shed light on rapid progress being made in Germany’s fibre...

News The three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will see the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) help the UK public sector gain access to telecoms products and services at scale from Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) Business Today, VMO2 and CCS have signed a new MoU “to provide enhanced technology and telecoms solutions to support ongoing digitisation efforts...

WALTHAM, MA — May 14, 2024 — Netcracker Technology announced today that it has extended and broadened the scope of its partnership with Virgin Media O2 in an ongoing expansive digital transformation program that will benefit the operator and its customers across the UK. This phase of Virgin Media O2’s digital transformation includes deployment of the...