Nick Wood

England

Freelancer writing about telecoms and tech. I don't post much, but when I do, you'll find it on Bluesky, not this Nazi-ridden cesspit.

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Articles

VMO2 merges with Daisy to create £1.4 billion B2B provider

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

Under the agreement, Daisy will be consolidated into VMO2 Business, with each party respectively controlling 30% and 70% of the combined entity. Daisy serves around 175,000 business customers across the UK, managing 120,000 broadband connections, plus around 250,000 mobile and 150,000 fixed-line phone connections.
EU launches long-awaited merger consultation

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

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Vodafone takes AI to the great outdoors

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

The telco has established a partnership with UK National Parks that aims to combine the capabilities of its network with those of artificial intelligence to protect these natural environments and drive public engagement. For the benefit of readers who don't reside in the UK, here national parks are not just vast expanses of beautiful emptiness, they also encompass sometimes large conurbations including businesses – typically farms but also in years gone by quarrying and mining.
Octopus might be about to ink an MVNO deal

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

Investment firm Octopus Group, owner of the UK's biggest household energy company, is considering a move into mobile. That's the claim coming from unnamed sources cited in a Telegraph report, who assert that Octopus – via a subsidiary called Fern Trading – has approached one of the country's operators about establishing an MVNO agreement. According to the report, Fern Trading owns a company called Y Corporation, which already has a wholesale deal in place with Three.
Deutsche Telekom claims new quantum internet record

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

82 kilometres, in fact. That's the distance at which its T-Labs unit, together with quantum networking hardware provider Qunnect, was able to dynamically route so-called polarisation-entangled photons, or qubits, over multiple paths at fidelities of more than 92% in parallel with traditional data traffic.
UK telcos politely nudge vendors to up their green game

2 months ago | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

British CSPs have sent a letter to their suppliers asking if they wouldn't mind agreeing to a new environmental code of conduct. It originates from the Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF), which advises the government with regards to provisioning digital connectivity (funnily enough). The letter has nine service provider signatories – AllPointsFibre, BT, CityFibre, Openreach, PlatformX Communications (PXC), Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2), Vodafone – plus Swedish kit maker Ericsson.
Microsoft cans another bunch of planned data centres

Mar 28, 2025 | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

This is according to TD Cowen analysts cited by Bloomberg, who said the now-scrapped facilities would have amounted to around 2 Gigawatts (GW) of capacity had they gone ahead. That's a lot when you consider that – according to Dgtl Infra – a typical large data centre usually weighs in at 20-100 Megawatts (MW). The development comes just a month after another TD Cowen note said that Microsoft had cancelled data centre leases in the US totalling around 200 MW.
Vodafone unveils upgraded backup battery for vulnerable landline users

Mar 17, 2025 | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

With the country in the midst of a somewhat abortive attempt to completely migrate from PSTN to VoIP, telcos are working overtime to assure vulnerable customers they will still be able to communicate when the mains electricity is on the blink. As per Ofcom rules, service providers already offer rudimentary backup battery units (BBUs) free of charge to eligible customers, and these can keep them connected for at least an hour – the minimum length of time mandated by the watchdog.
Vodafone Idea taps Nokia for backhaul upgrade

Mar 13, 2025 | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

Finnish kit maker Nokia has won a deal to overhaul and expand Vodafone Idea (Vi)'s backhaul infrastructure. It's a three-year contract that will see Vi roll out Nokia's 7750 service router (SR), and its 7250 interconnect router (IXR).
Samsung ramps up AI-RAN effort with help from Nvidia

Mar 12, 2025 | telecoms.com | Nick Wood

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