Lancashire’s Claritel, a leading provider of telecoms services, has strengthened its position in the market with the acquisition of Burnley IT technology firm, J2 Technology Ltd. The strategic move will enable Claritel to offer a broader range of IT services to its customers, including network solutions, cybersecurity, and cloud services. Jay Motorwala, founder of Claritel, […]

Northern Telecom, which is headquartered in Leeds, has successfully acquired two Kent-based IT support enterprises, Allteks and Absols, fortifying its managed services division. The strategic aquisition has not only preserved several job positions but also integrated them into Northern Telecom’s Soda IT group. The Soda IT group itself became a part of Northern Telecom’s portfolio in […]

North-west network provider Boshhh has announced its launch across the UK providing a platform for users with poor credit ratings to build credit via an essential utility service. The first-of-its-kind platform enables people to take out cost-effective mobile phone plans to help build their credit score and aims to make mobile phone contracts accessible to everyone, […]

Mobile Tornado, a Harrogate-based mobile applications business, has secured additional funding through an extension to its revolving credit facility. The facility with InTechnology has been extended for a further 12 months until 26 September 2021 and provides a maximum principal amount of £300,000. Mobile Tornado has also revealed that that Hubbcat, its partner in the […]

Openreach has announced that more than 135,000 homes and businesses across Greater Manchester can now access some of the fastest, most reliable broadband anywhere in the UK. As designated key workers, Openreach engineers have been hard at work throughout the Covid-19 lockdown, building the new network that uses the latest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology – […]

Manchester-based UK ISP Telcom, has acquired the Yorkshire-based infrastructure firm SDH Project Services for an undisclosed sum. At present Telcom already has fibre networks in Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool and London. Most of that has been focused on connecting businesses and public sector sites via Dark Fibre infrastructure, but they’ve also connected some big residential apartment buildings (MDUs) via their sub-brands, such […]

A York telecoms solutions company has been taken over by a Leeds-based firm. Established, family-run Clifton Moor business to business telecoms provider, Local Telecom Service (LTS), has been acquired by telephony, mobile and internet specialist The Technology Group for an undisclosed sum, with the acquisition set to add £1.5million to Leeds-based The Technology Group’s turnover. Following the acquisition, […]

Technology giant Huawei could be moving into a new office in Manchester as early as March 2019. Chris Hill made the announcement at a ‘Grow your business through smart tech’ event earlier this month, which was held in association with Huawei and Manchester-based Utopia Technology. Hill, who is the director of sales at Huawei’s Enterprise […]

Chess ICT, which has offices in Alderley Edge and Burnley has expanded with the acquisition of an independent billing specialist. Telecoms specialist Chess ICT has purchased TMS which was founded in 2001 by Suzanne and David Chappell. Headquartered in Oxfordshire, it offers independent channel support services to the UK telecoms industry. The business brings Chess […]

North Yorkshire has been awarded £11.15m to bolster its connectivity infrastructure. The money will go towards the recent £20.5m deal the authority signed with BT to complete phase three of its Superfast North Yorkshire initiative. The first two phases of the programme have taken superfast broadband penetration to almost 90%, and the goal of the […]

Lancashire-based Daisy Group has partnered with Voice Mobile since 2004 and will retain its sales and operations teams to sell and manage EE mobile accounts to existing and new customers. Daisy said its distribution division will use the acquisition to create an “EE centre of excellence” to operate across the group, and that Voice Mobile’s relationship with […]

The £537.8m acquisition of CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings has completed. The company has Gigabit cities in Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford, Doncaster, Huddersfield and York. Cityfibre, which floated in 2014, has major networks in more than 40 cities and construction underway to reach five million homes. Greg Mesch, chief executive of CityFibre, said: “Having shaken up the UK […]

Telecoms operator aql, Gulf Oil and the University of Leeds and Leeds and Bradford city councils unveiled plans to trial self-driving PODs in Leeds city centre later this year. The ‘super-connected’ PODs will be deployed in a controlled environment on the South Bank and aql will be conducting real-world testing of newly-developed software systems. As […]

Three new trial projects from companies with big ideas to help make Manchester city centre smarter are being launched through CityVerve – the UK’s smart cities demonstrator. The three companies responded to a market consultation exercise that took place in late 2017.  The consultation provided an opportunity for companies to address current challenges within Manchester using digital solutions and […]

Stockport tech firm Trolex Aporta Holdings has secured £1m investment from Finance Birmingham’s national Rail Supply Growth Fund. The funding will enable the business to accelerate its growth plans with the rollout of an in-carriage entertainment system, and create 38 new jobs. The company’s Juxta Infotainment System allows uninterrupted streaming of TV shows, news, travel information and movies […]