According to data from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), women make up less than one fifth of the nation’s telecoms workforce, putting the UK far below the global average of 37 per cent.
GoFibre is celebrating connecting 1,000 Hawick residents, as build completes in the town with homes and businesses now benefitting from full fibre.
The organisers of a combined charity football tournament and CSR initiative in the ICT industry are calling on more fibre providers to get involved in 2025 and help young homeless people change their lives.
Openreach is to stop selling legacy analogue copper-based phone/broadband services in a further 163 locations, covering more than 960,000 UK premises, to help encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over a full fibre connection.
netomnia is celebrating a strong year for premises serviceable passed in 2024, following the full financial results published that includes figures for YouFibre and Brsk.
CityFibre has begun work to connect more than 50,000 homes and businesses across rural areas of Kent to full fibre broadband as part of a £112m Project Gigabit award, helping boost connectivity to residents.
Pulse Fibre has joined in partnership with Entity Connect to deliver full fibre connectivity at the Farriers Green development in Rainham, Kent and providing residents and the developer with faster broadband technology.
A new partnership between Quickline and South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation is set to boost employment opportunities in the region, building on the success of a previous skills programme for young people.
A new study from the FTTH Council Europe reveals that Portugal, Spain and Sweden are already phasing out legacy copper networks in Europe, with the UK and other countries lagging behind and relying heavily on old copper infrastructure.
LightSpeed has joined forces with Neos Networks to expand its FTTP and wholesale services, highlighting LightSpeed’s commitment to delivering Gigabit broadband to underserved communities while bolstering its network infrastructure.