17
Mar, 2022

Three UK deliver strong full year results

Three UK have reported strong full year results including the most significant growth in contract customer base since 2012 – adding more than half a million subscribers to bring the total to 8m…

Three UK have reported strong full year results including the most significant growth in contract customer base since 2012 – adding more than half a million subscribers to bring the total to 8m.

Strong growth in contracts along with new revenue from SMARTY, Home Broadband and Business saw overall revenue up 4% to £2.44bn. EBITDA grew by 10% YOY to £609m due to better margins from new lines of business, coupled with ongoing focus on cost control.

Three UK now claim to cover 99% of the UK outdoor population with either 3G or 4G network and to carry 28% of mobile data traffic in the country. Continued rollout of 5G takes them to more than 2500 sites live in 370 towns and cities, covering one third of the UK population. Developing the 5G spectrum portfolio has seen £280m spent on low frequency spectrum delivering what Ookla say is the UK’s fastest 5G network.  

Robert Finnegan, Chief Executive of Three UK, said:
“I am really pleased with this set of results which have delivered our strongest customer contract growth since 2012. We are also seeing strong performance in new areas of our business including SMARTY, B2B and Home Broadband. »

He also went on to repeat his view that the « UK market with 4 operators continues to remain dysfunctional and requires a structural change to improve the overall quality of infrastructure that UK customers should expect.”

16
Mar, 2022

Entel Chile vendra un réseau de fibre optique ainsi que l’exploitation d’un centre de données

Dans la foulée de l’annonce de son intention de céder ses activités de centres de données, l’opérateur chilien Entel revient dans l’actualité avec des projets de vente de son réseau de fibre optique – pour lesquels des manifestations d’intérêt ont déjà apparemment été reçues de tiers.

La société a chargé BNP Paribas, un important établissement bancaire international, de trouver un repreneur pour le réseau de fibre, évalué entre 300 et 500 millions de dollars, selon le service d’information du Diario Financiero.

L’activité des centres de données comprend des centres de données à Ciudad de los Valles, Amunategui, Nunoa, Pedro de Valdivia et Longovilo. Pour cette vente, Entel s’attend à lever environ 800 millions de dollars américains.

Entel a déclaré avoir reçu des offres pour l’achat de son réseau de centres de données. Il serait en négociations avec I Squared Capital, une société de capital-investissement américaine spécialisée dans les investissements mondiaux dans les infrastructures, et Macquarie Group, un groupe mondial de services financiers dont le siège social et la liste sont en Australie.

Entel se décrit comme une entreprise de technologie et de télécommunications de premier plan avec des opérations au Chili et au Pérou, marchés sur lesquels elle comptait plus de 18,2 millions d’abonnés mobiles et un chiffre d’affaires annuel consolidé de 2 147 484 millions de dollars en décembre 2020.

Au Chili, la société offre des services de téléphonie mobile et des opérations de réseau fixe intégré pour les données, la voix, l’informatique / numérique, l’Internet et les services connexes pour les particuliers, les entreprises, les entreprises et les grossistes.

Ce n’est pas la première fois qu’Entel vend ses actifs physiques. À la fin de 2019, American Tower Corporation a acheté 3 242 des tours de télécommunications d’Entel dans le cadre d’une transaction de 772 millions de dollars américains.

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16
Mar, 2022

Remembering Crissi Williams

The loss of Crissi is unfathomable and deeply felt by all of us here at the ITP. Crissi was our straight-talking and down to earth CEO, and not only have we lost an inspirational leader, but a mentor and friend. For many, Crissi was a role model; living and breathing the values she so passionately promoted. She openly discussed the fact she left school without any qualifications but demonstrated that with hard work and determination anything was possible. Crissi originally joined the ITP in 2008 as Office Manager having worked in various recruitment roles before that…

The loss of Crissi is unfathomable and deeply felt by all of us here at the ITP. Crissi was our straight-talking and down to earth CEO, and not only have we lost an inspirational leader, but a mentor and friend.

For many, Crissi was a role model; living and breathing the values she so passionately promoted. She openly discussed the fact she left school without any qualifications but demonstrated that with hard work and determination anything was possible.

Crissi originally joined the ITP in 2008 as Office Manager having worked in various recruitment roles before that. Only recently she told us that she certainly didn’t aspire to be a CEO. It’s not that she didn’t think she could be; it just wasn’t something she had envisaged. But thanks to two female mentors, Ann Potterton and Lucy Woods, her eyes were opened to the opportunity, and she was encouraged to step up to the mark.

And step up she did…. achieving many things. Most notably, launching an apprenticeship scheme creating hundreds of jobs that would never have existed without her. She championed diversity and advocated apprenticeships for everyone – irrespective of background or gender. Over the past few years, she had become a familiar face in the trade press and industry events raising awareness of diversity and addressing the skills gap. She was passionate about her work in STEM and making a difference to young people’s lives, particularly women and championed that through her work with ITP.

The results of her work are everywhere you look in our industry. From the jubilant winners of the ITP Awards to the apprentices now in senior roles who are members of the ITP Journal Board. Her down to earth demeanor meant she was accessible, able to communicate with everyone from school leavers to senior industry professionals. She was admired and respected by both.

Josh Fowler, one of the first apprentices recruited by the ITP back in 2013 summarises perfectly how we all felt about Crissi, and her legacy:

“I was lucky enough to have met Crissi way back in 2013 being one of the first ever apprentices via the ITP scheme. Crissi soon became one of my biggest cheerleaders and believed in me as my career started in telecommunications. She was never far away cheering me on and as the years went by our relationship grew on a professional level, formed a great friendship and in a way, a form of extended family, as is the whole of the ITP.
If I had one word to describe Crissi, it would be: authentic. I know she touched the hearts of many with her authenticity. She remained true to herself, her values and lived them every, single, day. Admirable. Her laughter was infectious, and she had a cracking sense of humour, which I will never forget. Her passion for the telecoms industry showed, along with her passion of equality and providing a platform for women in tech and apprenticeships. “

Since the announcement of her death, tributes have flooded in via the condolence board, emails, social media, messages and drop ins to ITP HQ for a (strong!) cup of tea and a chat with her ITP family. All reinforce how well respected and loved she was, with recurring comments about her kindness, determination and of course, her ever-changing hair colour.

Crissi had many plans for the ITP in 2022, including a campaign to challenge perceptions around apprenticeships. She planned to continue matching mentors with mentees, celebrate individual achievements at the annual awards and get back to meeting members face to face at ITP events. We will proudly carry on this work in her name.

The ITP wasn’t Crissi’s only passion. She was a wonderful and dedicated mother to Jack and Lizey, a devoted wife to Tony, a pub landlady, godmother, aunty, sister, best friend and rock to many. She loved a cold glass of Pino Grigio with absurd amounts of ice, being with family and friends and laughing, you could pinpoint her location from the sound of that cackle.

She was real, tenacious, loyal and unapologetic; never afraid to speak up or speak out. But she was also kind and compassionate, she put other people first and went out of her way to help people, no matter who they were.

That was Crissi Williams, and we will miss her forever.

16
Mar, 2022

Hispasat annonce des offres de télé-éducation et d’OTT en Amérique latine

Hispasat, l’opérateur espagnol et fournisseur de solutions et de services satellitaires, a récemment été impliqué dans deux offres très différentes, couvrant l’éducation et la vidéo OTT.

Au Panama, il a fourni au gouvernement un projet pilote de télé-éducation qu’il a mis en œuvre dans le Centre éducatif Plan de Chorcha, situé à Ngäbe-Buglé, l’une des régions les plus montagneuses du pays. 

Hispasat dit avoir fait don d’un service Internet par satellite à l’école avec un système de télé-éducation qui permet d’envoyer et de stocker localement des contenus éducatifs fournis par le ministère de l’Éducation. De cette façon, les élèves peuvent télécharger le matériel sur leurs appareils et travailler avec eux à la maison. 

Hispasat dit qu’il mettra également en place un service de connectivité Wi-Fi pour la communauté, en dehors d’un service à l’école, qui permettra au reste des résidents de se connecter. 

Le projet pilote sera complété par deux salles de classe technologiques. Ces salles de classe comprennent des ordinateurs portables pour les enseignants, des tablettes pour les élèves, une armoire pour stocker et charger les appareils, un écran numérique interactif et un programme de gestion de classe technologique avec une sécurité logique. L’opérateur fournira également une formation aux enseignants sur la façon de manipuler ces appareils numériques.

Hispasat dit avoir également conclu un accord avec NAGRA, un fournisseur indépendant de solutions de streaming, de protection de contenu et de monétisation pour la télévision numérique, pour développer une solution de télévision en gros over-the-top (OTT) en Amérique latine.

Le service permettra aux opérateurs de télévision payante, aux fournisseurs de services Internet (FAI) et aux sociétés de contenu régionales d’offrir à leurs clients un service de divertissement multi-écrans de haute qualité distribué sur Internet sans avoir à déployer leur propre infrastructure. 

Hispasat sera responsable de l’ensemble du fonctionnement du service depuis le téléport de Lurin, au Pérou, où il dispose d’une équipe de professionnels expérimentés qui exploite actuellement plusieurs plates-formes de télévision par satellite pour les principaux opérateurs sud-américains. Le lancement est imminent: Hispasat dit qu’il est prévu pour le printemps 2022.

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15
Mar, 2022

“The People’s Network” expands into Vietnam

A new partnership between IoT company Kerlink and Vietnams VIoT Group, a pioneer is enabling rollout of Vietnam’s first nationwide LoRaWAN® IoT network, and VIoT’s plan to support Helium’s “The People’s Network”.
 
VIoT specialise in smart urban &&…

VIoT specialise in smart urban & industrial park development in Vietnam, first launching smart-city applications in 2018 with a LoRaWAN® streetlighting project. They now offer a range of applications such as smart utility metering, end-to-end air-water-quality monitoring, and early flood-incident management systems. 

 

The partnership with Kerlink sees VIoT distribute Kerlink Helium-enabled hotspots and deploy its own IoT network at the same time. The model utilises partners and household owners in strategic locations to roll out Helium’s The People Network to create a cost-effective and secure blockchain-powered IoT backbone network.

Founder and CEO of VIoT Group, Viet Nguyen said that “These deployments will make it possible for Vietnamese factories, businesses, cities and consumers to benefit from of cost effective, easy-to-deploy vertical wireless solutions, and to use Helium’s global, decentralized network of hotspots to disrupt traditional telcos’ subscription-based operating models.”

 

The first phase of the project will be completed by the end of May and will cover six Vietnamese cities, with a second phase – installing 1,400 additional Kerlink gateways – expected to be completed by the end of 2022 and covering 10 more cities in 2023.

Kerlink’s VP for Asia Pacific, Rene Arbefeuille explained the benefit of the Helium’s network, “The connected hotspots provide cities with miles of low-power network coverage for billions of devices and are paid in Helium’s cryptocurrency, HNT. Kerlink’s industrial-grade indoor Wirnet™ iFemtoCell and Wirnet™ iFemtoCell-evolution, as well as carrier-grade outdoor Wirnet™ iStation IoT gateways, have been enabling the use of HNT cryptocurrency mining on the LoRaWAN® protocol for the past year.”

15
Mar, 2022

FullFibre refreshes the towns other providers cannot reach

FullFibre, the altnet committed to delivering gigabit infrastructure to communities overlooked by larger telecom companies has announced that their Midlands South region is to expand to offer homes and businesses in Bewdley and Shipston…

FullFibre, the altnet committed to delivering gigabit infrastructure to communities overlooked by larger telecom companies has announced that their Midlands South region is to expand to offer homes and businesses in Bewdley and Shipston-on-Stour access to speeds of up to 1Gbps both up and downstream.

FullFibre is installing high-speed telecoms equipment that is usually only connected across dense urban areas to increase the speed and quality of broadband coverage across rural towns. They state that their objective is to decreasing the digital divide between rural and metropolitan regions and so create equal opportunities across all regions in the UK.

Oliver Helm, CEO at Full Fibre commented:

“Fast and reliable connectivity is more important than ever before and at Full Fibre, our main goal is to close the digital divide between rural and urban areas so that all regions across the UK, have equal opportunities. The new service will connect those in Bewdley and Shipston-on-Stour who currently lack access to fast and dependable digital networks to a high-quality service.

Area General Manager Gareth Yardley at FullFibre says:

“The extension of our Midlands South region is yet another indicator of our rapid and successful growth as a business. Moreover, we are proud to be giving the power of ultrafast, gigabit capable internet to the local residents of Bewley and Shipston-on-Stour.”

Full Fibre has the goal of reaching over 500,000 premises by 2025.