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Scottish telecoms provider Commsworld has acquired ECS (Edinburgh Computer Services) and rebranded it to Essential Cloud Solutions.

The acquisition is a significant step forward for both businesses and allows Commsworld to offer a cloud and connectivity suite of solutions including cyber security, Wi-Fi and IT, ‘taking Commsworld to the desktop’.

The acquisition enables Commsworld to offer a…

New proposals from Ofcom to encourage greater investment in ultrafast full-fibre, or fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) networks, have been welcomed by Scottish telecoms leaders.

The regulator claims its proposals will cut the cost of full-fibre broadband networks by up to 50% and help the industry hit its target of connecting approximately 20% of UK premises (the current figure stands at around 3%) to…

Commsworld, Scotland’s largest independent telecoms firm has secured a contract with Glasgow City Council to deliver an enhanced Wide Area Network of ultra-fast fibre to the city’s schools, libraries and other council buildings.

The new contract is the largest to be signed in the UK in the last year and is the biggest in Commsworld’s 23-year history.

100 Times Faster

The new pure-fibre…

ONE of the major points to come out of the recent Scottish Budget Statement was the unveiling of £600 million for the Reaching 100 (R100) programme.

Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Derek Mackay MSP, has pledged the substantial sum to complete the programme which commits the government to providing every home and business in the country with access to “superfast broadband” by 2021.

So from Stirling…

OPINION: @Commsworld's Ricky Nicol (@rickynic) considers the UK's 2% Fibre-to-the-Premises and asks - How do we do better?

SCOTLAND has long been a nation of innovation, home to more than its fair share of world-changing inventions.

Yet when it comes to our networks, the millions of miles of wires and cables that connect our homes and businesses, it would seem we are – with a number of exceptions – uncharacteristically risk-averse.

Like the wider UK, our entrepreneurial spirit has been pushed to the periphery,…