In a now familiar gamekeeper-turned-poacher maneuver, Willington Ngwepe, CEO of South African communications regulator ICASA for the last five years, has joined South Africa's MTN Group in a new role of chief of staff in the office of the company's group president and CEO, Ralph Mupita. (See MTN snags former SA regulator Willington Ngwepe.)

UK altnet CityFibre plans to invest £30 million (US$36 million) in a new full-fiber network covering the south English coastal towns of Hastings and St Leonards, around 60,000 homes in total. CityFibre says it now reaches up to 8 million homes and businesses across the UK.

Virgin Media O2 has been trumpeting what it's been up to in Scotland, highlighting initiatives that include covering 58 towns and cities with 5G and boosting 4G capacity in more than 33,000 postcodes. On the fixed-line side, the company says that all 1.2 million premises on its Scottish network are now able to access broadband speeds of 1.1 Gbit/s.

EE, the UK mobile operator owned by BT, has announced a revamped line-up of monthly plans, including one for iPhone users that offers the Apple One package (comprising Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and iCloud+ with 50GB storage) as part of the deal.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading