WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. and Baker Hughes Inc. have cleared a second major antitrust hurdle in their effort to create the world’s second-biggest oilfield services provider. GE won approval on Monday from the U.S. Justice Department to combine its oil and gas business with Baker Hughes. The clearance follows [...]

Openreach (BT) and Huawei have today offered a glimpse of a “hyperfast” future by conducting a live demo of their Fibre-to-the-Premise “consumer broadband” network running at an eye watering 100Gbps (Gigabits per second), but you won’t be able to get this at home anytime soon. At present most residential FTTP packages on [...]

UK ISP Hyperoptic has now expanded their ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB/P) network into the London borough of Croydon, with 20 large residential apartment buildings (Multi-Dwelling Units) being among the first to benefit and 10 more undergoing installation or being planned for the future. The provider’s commercial FTTB network is entirely urban focused [...]

Residents in the village of Poulshot (Wiltshire) reportedly used their cars to block an Openreach (BT) contractor after they began erecting 5 new telegraph poles for superfast broadband in a conservation area, which a local Parish council chairman said was done without prior consultation. The Gazette and Herald quotes council chairman Geoff [...]

The European Commission has published their annual 2017 European Digital Progress Report, which confirms that Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Greece all lag behind the rest of the 28 EU member countries when it comes to ultrafast “full fibre” (FTTH/P/B) broadband coverage. The Latest Report is more of a complement [...]

DONG Energy A/S ('DONG Energy') (NASDAQ OMX: DENERG), has received the following information from New Energy Investment S.à.r.l. ('NEI'):  • NEI has launched an accelerated bookbuild offering to institutional investors (the 'Transaction') of 8,828,000 existing shares in DONG Energy, equivalent to 2.1% of the existing shares in DONG Energy. NEI [...]

DONG Energy last month selected U.K.-based SeaRoc Group’s marine management software solution for a centralized hub for the company's U.K. Offshore Wind Farm construction activities. SeaRoc said that its SeaPlanner software will be used for DONG Energy’s Marine and Helicopter Coordination Center to centralize, standardize, automate and make equipment easily deployable [...]

Gigaclear, which specialises in rolling out untrafast Gigabit Fibtr-to-the-Premisis (FTTP/H) broudband networks to rural parts of england has today celebrated the news that their ever expanding service has managed to attract some 10,000 customers. The ISP initially started life as more of a commercial demand-led operator, although over the past [...]

Collaboration across the value chain will be the offshore wind turbinemanufacturers greatest advantange over coming years, says the CEO. Meanwhile, Lack of action from Politicians represents the biggest risk.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been awarded a 10-year extension to its service contract for the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary. The deal builds on the existing contract that covered the first five years of operation at the project, which consists of 175 Siemens SWT 3.6MW turbines. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Service managing director [...]

The winning subsidy-free bids in Germany’s first offshore wind tender may not be repeated by Dong in upcoming auctions elsewhere, according to the Danish giant. Chief executive Henrik Poulsen said a number of site-specific factors allowed for zero bids for the 240MW OWP West and 240MW Borkum Riffgrund West 2 [...]

At present only around a third of homes and businesses in the county of Kent (England) can access Virgin Media's 350Mbps capable cable broadband and TV network, but that's about to be boosted after the operator confirmed that their netowrk will add "up to" another 108,000 premises. As usual this [...]