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| May 29, 2026 | Commsworld Appoints First Chief Revenue Officer | Commsworld, one of the UK’s largest independent network providers, has moved to strengthen its senior leadership team with the appointment of Melony Buchanan to the new role of Chief Revenue Officer.
Melony will lead the Edinburgh-headquart... |
| Jan 22, 2026 | Commsworld Wins £8.5M WAN Contract With West Lothian Council | Edinburgh-based telecomms firm Commsworld has secured a 15-year contract worth more than £8 million to deliver and maintain a new Wide Area Network (WAN) for West Lothian Council.
The long-term contract will involve Commsworld replacing Wes... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Commsworld Unveils Broadband Service with Ciena’s XGS-PON | Internet service provider (ISP) Commsworld is leveraging Ciena’s broadband solution for its new business-grade ‘Ethernet over Fibre to the Premises (EoFTTP)’ ultra-high-speed broadband service.
Addressing a gap in the UK connectivity market... |
| Jul 3, 2024 | Commsworld increases competitiveness in UK market with Smartoptics 400G solutions | Commsworld increases competitiveness in UK market with Smartoptics 400G solutions
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Oslo, Norway – July 3, 2024 – Smartoptics, a leading provider of optical networking solutions, today announced... |
| Feb 19, 2024 | Commsworld Secures 10-year Dundee City Council Contract | UK-wide network solutions provider Commsworld has secured a contract worth £2.6m over 10 years to transform the connectivity to 42 schools in and around Dundee.
Dundee City Council’s City Governance Committee has given its approval for Edin... |
| May 9, 2023 | Commsworld Partners with Charity Right There | Commsworld, the UK’s largest privately-owned network operator, has unveiled its first official charity partner, Right There.
The year-long partnership was announced by Commsworld chief executive Steve Langmead and Right There chief executiv... |
| Jan 10, 2023 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | December 2022 | Funding and Investment Microplate Dx Limited
University of Strathclyde spinout medtech, Microplate Dx Limited, secured seed funding to scale-up development of its diagnostic test.
The Microplate Dx team has completed an initial seed funding... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Movers and Shakers | October 2022 | Recruitment CodeClan
CodeClan made two major announcements in October: firstly that current CEO Melinda Matthews-Clarkson was to step down from her role, and that Loral Quinn would be taking up the post.
Matthews-Clarkson plans to take a sa... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Movers and Shakers | May 2022 | Recruitment Archangels
Edinburgh-based angel investment syndicate Archangels has announced the appointment of Ian Macleod as the new chair of its board.
The former investment analyst and fund manager takes over from Eric Young, who has held... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | March 2022 | Funding and Investment Innovatium
Scottish renewable energy tech company Innovatium has secured over £900,000 in funding to enhance its pioneering new liquid air battery technology.
Led by Kelvin Capital alongside Scottish Enterprise, the i... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | February 2022 | Funding and Investment FutureX
Business education and community platform FutureX will expand its Silicon Valley Scale programme after securing funding from the Scottish Government Tech Ecosystem Fund.
With the new funding, the group will be... |
| Feb 24, 2022 | New £150m Deal to Accelerate North Lanarkshire Gigabit Broadband | A new deal worth up to £150 million aims to accelerate access to gigabit-capable fibre broadband across North Lanarkshire.
The move, approved by North Lanarkshire Council, could see the money spent as part of a 15-year deal with Commsworld ... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | DIGIT Movers & Shakers | October 2021 | Recruitment Aveni
Speech analytics firm Aveni has appointed Elizabeth Gooch, MBE, as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.
Shortly after its recent funding round, the speech analytics company also announced a raft of key design and engineeri... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | October 2021 | Recruitment Aveni
Speech analytics firm Aveni has appointed Elizabeth Gooch, MBE, as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.
Shortly after its recent funding round, the speech analytics company also announced a raft of key design and engineeri... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | September 2021 | Recruitment The National Robotarium and Innovate UK
The National Robotarium has marked a major milestone with the appointment of its first chief executive officer.
Stewart Miller, former chief technology officer at Innovate UK, has been con... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | May 2021 Edition | Recruitment IGS
Edinburgh-headquartered agritech business Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) has welcomed Sarah Willis into the role of Chief Financial Officer.
The vertical farming company says that Willis’ appointment reflects the “need f... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | Commsworld Co-founder Ricky Nicol to Step Down | Ricky Nicol, co-founder and chief executive of Edinburgh-based independent network provider Commsworld, has announced his retirement.
Nicol will take on the new position of vice-chairman and will remain on the board of the company as a non-... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | December 2020 | Investment & Funding Alba Medical Sciences
A medical technology firm from Perth launched a funding appeal to finance its innovative infrared R&D project last month
Alba Medical Sciences is looking to raise £120,000 to fund the vario... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | Commsworld Secures £5.8m Contract to Transform Glasgow Digital Systems | Network provider Commsworld has gained a £5.8m contract from Glasgow City Council (GCC) to transform digital systems across the city.
The Edinburgh-headquartered firm will install, manage, and support a new full-fibre network delivering CCT... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column: July 2020 | Investment
Eos Advisory and Cumulus
July was off to a good start for Eos Advisory, who led a £1.7 million investment round to back Europe’s first oncology drug discovery accelerator, Cumulus Oncology.
The investment round, which was support... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | Commsworld Chairman Urges Investment in Digital Infrastructure | Britain must invest more heavily in digital technology and infrastructure in the future if our economy is to emerge from Covid-19 in a stronger position, according to the new Commsworld Chairman, John Trower.
Trower took up the position as ... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | Commsworld Targets UK Growth Drive Following LDC Investment | Edinburgh-headquartered telecoms and ISP provider, Commsworld, has secured investment from LDC, the private equity branch of Lloyds Banking Group.
At present, the value of the deal is undisclosed. However, Commsworld said the investment wil... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Edinburgh Telecommunications Provider Launches London Base | Edinburgh-headquartered independent network provider, Commsworld, has underlined its continued growth ambitions by opening its first office in London.
Commsworld manages and controls Britain’s largest privately operated core fibre network a... |
| Dec 12, 2018 | Consumers to Receive Compensation for Broadband Failures | Customers who experience broadband or landline outages will soon be entitled to compensation under a new scheme.
Openreach has agreed to award £8 per day to customers in the event that their services are disrupted. Five of the UK’s biggest ... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | Commsworld Secures Exclusive Access to CityFibre Networks | Commsworld has announced exclusive access to long-distance fibre networks from CityFibre and Zayo, a move that will enable the company to build its own national optical core network and propel it toward becoming one of the UK’s largest priv... |
| Jul 3, 2018 | DIGIT Deal Roundup – June 2018 | Acquisitions Incremental Group
Glasgow-based digital technology services company Incremental Group, has acquired Gap Consulting, a Microsoft Gold Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Partner.
This acquisition takes Incremental’s headcount... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | Commsworld Partnership Could Revolutionise Borders Broadband | The Scottish Borders are set to benefit from connection speeds that are comparable to those found in Edinburgh or Glasgow thanks to a collaboration between GB Technologies and Commsworld.
The collaboration between two of Scotland’s most ren... |
| May 30, 2018 | DIGIT: Movers and Shakers May 2018 | Appointments Women’s Enterprise Scotland
Mark Logan has become the first male ambassador to join Women’s Enterprise Scotland (WES). Logan will be leading a campaign to recruit a new cohort of male ambassadors. Logan, a former Skyscanner exe... |
| May 4, 2018 | DIGIT Deal Roundup: April 2018 | CityFibre
CityFibre, the fibre-optics infrastructure company which is currently building networks across Scotland has agreed to a £538 million takeover. Antin Infrastructure Fund partnered with Goldman Sach’s-backed West Street Infrastructu... |
| May 2, 2018 | Commsworld Acquires ECS | 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... |
| Apr 24, 2018 | CityFibre Agrees to £538m Takeover | CityFibre, the fibre-optics broadband infrastructure company, which is building networks in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Stirling, has agreed to a £538 million ($750m) takeover deal.
A consortium of infrastructure funds will pay investo... |
| Mar 5, 2018 | DIGIT Deal Roundup: February 2018 | Administrate Teams Up with Zoom Video Communications
Edinburgh based SaaS (software as a service) Administrate has recently partnered up with Zoom Video Communications, an expert in video conferencing to provide virtual instructor-led train... |
| Feb 9, 2018 | Commsworld Secures £30M ICT Contract With Glasgow City | 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 con... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | Budget Pledges £600M for Superfast Broadband Across 100% of Scotland | In today’s draft Scottish budget, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Constitution Derek Mackay announced £600 million to complete the government’s R100 commitment to provide every house and business premise in Scotland with access to superfa... |
| Sep 14, 2017 | Network Firm Commsworld Keeping Young Volunteers Connected | Edinburgh-based Network provider Commsworld is providing six globetrotting volunteers with state-of-the-art smartphones to document their experiences abroad. The young adults, who have travelled to Africa thanks to funding from the profits ... |
| Aug 30, 2017 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: August 2017 | NEW HIRES Eden Scott
Scottish recruitment firm Eden Scott is bolstering its Sciences, Manufacturing and Technology sector team with four new starts. Lyn Smith has joined the Glasgow office as senior consultant after relocating from Northern... |
