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There are few things the gaming community dislikes more than lag. This issue has negatively impacted the experience since the dawn of online gaming, and…

Colt helped partner Quendra to replace SD Worx´ WAN connectivity, ISDN and SIP trunking services – procured on a per-country basis – with unified, global network and SIP trunking solutions from a single provider. 

Awards season is in full swing for the telecommunications industry and I’m pleased to say that Colt has been shortlisted for five awards at the…

Many old-school stereotypes around masculinity have thankfully faded away but there are some that linger on – that men shouldn’t express their emotions, aren’t as naturally good parents as women or should earn more than their partner, for example. Let’s put these myths under the microscope and figure out how we can tear them down.

The HERoes 100 Women Executives List was announced yesterday morning and I’m truly honoured to have been included alongside women doing inspiring work to make…

Delivering an industry leading customer experience means looking at every aspect of the customer journey to see where improvements can be made. This can range…

Launching on International Literacy Day, the Connected Classroom will support child English literacy through world-leading software and reused Colt laptops

We’re thrilled to share that Colt has been shortlisted as a finalist across multiple categories in two top awards for customer experience (CX) in the UK and Europe.

Colt was an early adopter of Segment Routing (SR) in 2017, working closely with Cisco to add value to its SR-based network. This early commitment…

The agreement will bring new Dark Fibre and Data services to the Channel Tunnel for the first time in a generation, deploying the latest connectivity technology between the UK and mainland Europe.

Colt launches unique proposition that provides comprehensive market data coverage for exchanges in Mainland China via Hong Kong

VP Innovation, Mirko Voltolini and Head of Mobile Connectivity Solutions, Mark Gilmour, will speak at Light Reading’s BIG 5G Event taking place from 30 August – 3 September, 2021.

Persol Career Co., Ltd. selects Colt’s cloud connectivity service to connect to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Colt has been recognised in Vertical Systems Group’s new Global Carrier Managed SD WAN LEADERBOARD, appearing in the ‘Challenge Tier”. The LEADERBOARD is measured on…

Colt’s customer is a leading UK managed service provider (MSP) with a wealth of experience and expertise in enterprise IT. Its software and managed IT…

How often have you felt new customers were better treated than you? Or how many times have you threatened to leave a company delivering a…

Colt developed a compelling proposition for a powerful, flexible global connectivity solution that guarantees end-to-end performance, security, monitoring and visibility; and delivers outstanding levels of service and support

Octo Connected Forum Virtual meeting Colt is proud to be a sponsor of the Octo Connected Forum 2021. The event will bring together industry leaders,…

How good is the customer experience (CX) from your critical suppliers? In our 2021 cloud research we found that ERP and CRM systems, closely followed…

For a geographically distributed company, whose core business is based on electronic purchases and effective customer service, the availability of a reliable and efficient telco…

Following several years of rapid growth, Fintyre is the leader in Italy’s tyre replacement market today. Fintyre operates up and down the country, providing daily…

After so much change in the last 18 months, planning for, much less predicting the future, is trickier than ever. Our customers are facing up…

Colt brings enterprise sites even closer to the Cloud, covering almost all major public cloud PoPs in Europe and Asia

Customers using Colt SD WAN can have confidence their service meets the stringent requirements of MEF 70.

A company’s values define not what a company does, but how they do it. Done well, they show everyone – customers, partners, suppliers, and employees…

Through this expansion, Colt is supporting the peninsula on its way to becoming a connectivity crossroads between America, Asia, Africa and Europe

The data centre (DC) market is growing and partnerships are more important than ever. Consumer behaviour surrounding mobile connectivity, increases in internet traffic, cybersecurity demands…

There’s a lot of talk about Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), but what does it really mean? The term itself was coined by Neil MacDonald…

Capital Market customers will benefit from a quick turn on and low latency connection to the new pan-European equity derivatives exchange.

Colt becomes one of the first to deliver a managed SD WAN service integrated with Versa SASE.

Colt has been named a very strong performer by independent industry analyst GlobalData in its new report, Colt – Business Services Europe. Colt received scored…

Leading video game company uses Colt Private Wave to connect four regional studios to the company´s Paris data centre.

As a company, we strive to be the most customer oriented business in our industry. Our Customer Service and Customer Intelligence teams work tirelessly to…

For someone with a disability or long term condition, the workplace can be a minefield of potential obstacles, frustrations and straight-up roadblocks to what they need to do or where they need to go. From accessibility ramps to subtitles on video content, there are a number of things we can do to help our disabled team members feel more at home.

The Network Operations (NetOps) and Development Operations (DevOps) functions utilise similar tools, methods and techniques to improve the customer’s experience when building a flexible, software-defined…

Colt and IBM to collaborate on edge solutions for enterprise customers

The workplace can be a difficult place to navigate for a trans person – deciding on which bathroom to use isn’t quite as straightforward as it is for cisgender colleagues, for example, not to mention fielding questions on appearance. So how can we best support our trans coworkers? And our coworkers who are transitioning?

Andrew Edison, Colt’s EVP – Sales, Marketing & CRM (Interim), will speak alongside Hamish McRae, Associate Editor and Economics Commentator at The Independent and City Columnist at the Mail on Sunday, between 14.00 – 14.45pm BST, in a virtual session titled, “The World in 2030: a global connected economy.”

In our latest cloud research report, we found that Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) are the focus areas for the next…

The “telephone relay service” enables people with hearing or speech disabilities to communicate with other people over the phone through sign language interpreter operators, respond 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This service is provided by the telephone relay service provider designated by Minister of Internal Affairs and Telecommunications (MIC).

The media, entertainment and gaming industry is at a crossroads. Throughout the pandemic, most companies managed to work around their disconnected infrastructure to still deliver great experiences.

In 2019, 56.5% of disadvantaged young people in the UK left school without a GCSE equivalent. Compare that with the 75% of employers who require a GCSE equivalent for entry level roles. And it’s not just education – nepotism is rife when it comes to internships and work experience for young people. What can we do to boost social mobility and break those deep-rooted cycles of class inequality?

SAP migrations to the cloud are gathering pace. Ensuring that they are run on a best-in-class, cloud-optimised network, is pivotal to delivering a great customer…

It’s Women in Engineering Day, so we took the opportunity to speak to Aarushi Sharma about a typical day in her life and role in incident jeopardy management in Gurgaon, India.

Today is International Women in Engineering Day, so to mark the day we took the opportunity to speak to Mireia Sospedra about a typical day in her life as an incoming Mechanical Engineer in Barcelona.

Working under the cloud of a pandemic has been an exhausting experience for everyone. We have thousands of dedicated Colties across our business who are…

Colt is expanding its IQ Network footprint to Oracle’s dual-region Cloud to continue to serve the growing Cloud connectivity requirements of enterprise and government organisations.

A key theme that emerged from 2020’s BLM protest was the active involvement of non-Black people seeking to be allies. But what does being an ally really mean? And how can you be one to those around you – taking constructive steps instead of being patronising or facetious?

Pride Month is celebrated in June each year to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a pivotal protest that changed the face of LGBTQ+…

Colt announces changes to its Strategy & Transformation team under Jaya Deshmukh.

Colt Technology Services (Colt) has committed to play a key role in levelling up the UK by partnering on the development of a set of Levelling Up Goals.

Through this partnership, customers of Colt and NorthC Datacenters (NorthC) can directly connect their infrastructure to both the expansive Colt IQ Network and NorthC’s footprint.

i3D.net, a leading provider of high-performance hosting and global infrastructure services, uses the +100Gbps Colt IQ Network to provide direct access from the local Smartdc datacenter in Rotterdam into +950 globally IQ ready datacenters.

As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, the question of whether or not to come out at work is complicated – as of 2018, Stonewall reported that over a third of LGBTQ+ people don’t come out in their workplace for fear of discrimination. So how do we create a space where people can not only come out, but thrive in their environment?

Head of Mobile Connectivity Solutions, Mark Gilmour will speak at FierceTelecom’s “Telecom Blitz Week, Summer Edition,” taking place from 7 – 9 June, 2021.

Colt appointed Ashby Corrigan as Capital Markets & Enterprise Regional Sales Director for Singapore and Hong Kong.

uCPE (or Universal Customer Premise equipment), is a general purpose platform that integrates compute, storage and networking on a commodity, off-the-shelf server, allowing it to provide network services (such as SD WAN, firewall etc.) as virtual functions to any site on a network. uCPE is the equivalent of a “Cloud for network services”, but at the customer premise.

IP connect, cloud connect, direct connect, dedicated interconnect, direct link, fast connect …… What does it all mean?!? Introduction History of cloud connect Public Internet…

Adopting a combination of Cisco Silicon One hardware, Segment Routing MPLS software and 400G OpenZR+ technology, Colt is future-proofing further its global IQ Packet Network.

Through this partnership, i3D.net and Smartdc can meet the network demands of today and tomorrow with Colt’s IQ Network Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 26 May 2021…

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than a billion people (15% of the world’s population) are estimated to live with some form of…

Last week marked my anniversary of becoming CEO. I have to say it has been a journey that I never imagined against the backdrop of…

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Namex is the annual meeting gathering telecoms operators and stakeholders in the internet digital ecosystem. The event provides a platform to hear from industry experts on future trends and to network during one-to one meetings.

Colt Technology Services has today released new research into enterprise plans for the next wave of technology migration. The findings demonstrate a hunger for emerging tech solutions, with 54 percent of respondents citing ‘technology evolution’ as a key enabler of their plans.

To help tackle disability inclusion in business, Colt has united with 500 other corporations as part of the Valuable 500, an international disability network putting disability on the business leadership agenda.

In this newly created role, Jaya will lead Colt’s Strategy and Transformation team to develop and implement Colt’s long-term strategy.

Colt’s CEO Keri Gilder is named alongside 50 others in the Advocate List, celebrating those that drive equality in business and break down barriers at work for ethnic minorities.

RGP Europe, a global consulting firm that offers business services in finance and accounting, transitions to hybrid working through Cloud SBC and enables Microsoft Teams for inbound and outbound calls on their fixed company numbers, regardless of their location.

Towards the end of last year, we announced changes to our Colt Online portal, the user-friendly online tool for Colt customers and partners that allows…

Learn how to prepare your business for the hybrid workforce and implement a successful digital transformation strategy.  

The Pride Matters committee, our LGBT+ network at Colt, recently commemorated LGBT+ History Month to celebrate those throughout history who have empowered the LGBT+ community.

With the average cost of a data breach reaching $3.92 million, and DDoS attacks increasing by 967% this year alone, there’s never been a more important time to secure your network.

We’ve launched this blog series to shine the spotlight on some of the different roles we have across Colt. We want to better understand what…

At Colt, we strive to build an inclusive workplace thriving on diversity.  The release of our 2020 Gender Pay Gap report is an opportunity to…

Most pharmas lack the complete connectivity to make effective change. But Colt’s network optimisation breathes life into any digital transformation, enabling greater collaboration and data sharing.

Colt is bringing its IP-based ISDN Phone Service to Japan, enabling enterprises to simplify the migration to SIP Trunking. Tokyo, 28 April 2021 – Colt…

2020 was a year where connectivity mattered more than ever. As millions of us worked from home or spent time away from loved ones, the…

 By Assunta Adiceam – Mesmin, Regional Manager France – Customer Relationship & Service Management of Colt Technology Services The COVID-19 pandemic has rocketed the adoption…

Leading provider of medical devices in the global healthcare sector chooses Colt´s cloud-first strategy to reduce TCO of their IT, increased employee productivity, optimised application performance and delivered improved flexibility and security

The company is undertaking a recruitment drive in a bid to appoint 70 new members to the Colt family.

As the world becomes more digital, the importance of online portals has become significant. Voice resellers need control over their numbers any time and anywhere…

Colt services make it quick and easy to transfer, access and back up critical services and terabytes of data. From humble beginnings in Paris 170 years ago,…

Colt announced the introduction of new ultra-low latency connectivity routes, Market Data and Managed Services in Thailand, delivering best-in-class latency speeds between Bangkok and other major capital cities in Asia.

CAPCOM, headquartered in Osaka, is a leading video game manufacturer which has developed some of the world’s most popular video games such as “Street Fighter II” and “Resident Evil (BIOHAZARD)”.

Colt Technology Services’ selects IBM Cloud Satellite to drive innovation and more flexibility for customers around deploying hybrid cloud applications at the edge and enabling…

From 2 Gbps to 400 Gbps; 2021 marks a quarter of a century of the Colt network in Germany, delivering industry-leading connectivity solutions to German…

Colt now has achieved another milestone by successfully provisioning 600G wavelengths, making Colt the first and only provider with a capability to transport 600G wavelengths in a long-haul live network in Japan.

  Based on its recent analysis of the European business network services market, Frost & Sullivan has recognised Colt with the 2021 European Customer Value…

Getting ready for hybrid working is something that every enterprise can do by going through three key steps: move to a fully cloud-based digital workplace, implement an extended security perimeter and support this with secure, flexible connectivity.

The Colt Partner Hub is a partnership programme launching this week that enables partnership by design, not by chance.

At Colt, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. It’s written in our strategy, it’s in our vision, and we’re focused…

Colt has retained a strong second place on the Vertical Systems year-end 2020 Global Provider Ethernet Leaderboard.

What is the future of enterprise cloud? Hear from the big tech players We’re entering the next evolution of cloud 3.0. What a journey it…

Connectivity has always mattered at Colt. Over the next few months we’re replacing all laptops used by our employees which are over five years old and giving the old ones to schools across the globe.

Windstream Wholesale and Colt Technology Services solidified their technology partnership by successfully trialing an optical spectrum solution, building a 600G wavelength using their own coherent transmission system.

Where is the cloud heading in 2021? 2020 was an unexpected catalyst of change. With the rise of cloud computing becoming mission-critical, amplified by large-scale…

To mark International Women’s Day, we asked some of our female leaders at Colt for their thoughts on IWD and the importance of representation, inspiration and challenging gender stereotypes in making positive change. Here, Francesca and Maria share their views.

Colt now enables partners to offer its feature-rich and award-winning SD WAN proposition to their end customers globally, without the need for heavy investment or extensive development.

Gartner has again recognised Colt Technology Services as a Visionary in the latest Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global, due to its completeness of vision and ability to execute.

To mark International Women’s Day, we asked some of our female leaders at Colt for their thoughts and the importance of representation, inspiration and challenging gender stereotypes in making positive change. Dr Tanya Goldhaber, who holds a PhD in Engineering and is Global Strategy Manager in Colt’s CEO Office, shares her view.