Virgin Media street cabinets are to be fitted with electric car chargers. Small-scale trials will begin this week – with the first such one going live in London. According to the Financial Times, the UK subsidiary of Liberty Global will use its cable ducts to install kerbside charging points for electric vehicles. Last March Deutsche […]
A European Space Policy conference, organised by Business Bridge Europe, created something of a stir last week when the European Digital Economy Commissioner Mariya Gabriel said the commission was fully backing the deployment and use of high-throughput satellites for the remotest regions of Europe in order to fill the much criticised broadband digital divide. However, […]
The UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Amber Rudd MP, has welcomed news that Openreach, the UK’s digital network business, will hire 3,000 new trainees – of which around 1,600 are newly created roles – over the next 12 months. The announcement is an extension of Openreach’s largest ever recruitment drive, with 6,500 […]
Open Fiber, the sole wholesale-only player in the Italian broadband market, has selected Nokia for a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout that will bring ultra-broadband services to the small towns and rural areas of Italy. The Open Fiber network will bring optical fibre from a point of presence to the customer’s home and deliver speeds of up […]
The football TV war is the main factor in Vodafone Spain announcing a 7.3 per cent fall in revenues – to €1.16 billion – in its third fiscal quarter (October-December). The previous quarter ‘s revenues (July-September) also dropped by 4.8 per cent, marking a negative trend. In the third quarter, TV subscribers rose by just […]
Ukraine was one of the last countries in Europe to introduce 4G technology as it was rolled out only in March 2018. However, 4G coverage has since expanded and can now cover more than half of the population, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Sergej Gavrilov, Telecoms Market Data & Intelligence Analyst […]
The proposed realignment of some C-band frequencies over the US in order to boost 5G take-up has seemingly “lost lustre” these past few months as investors saw the FCC withdrawing into its ivory tower as reason to take profits after an electric year of out-performance [by the two main backers of the scheme: Intelsat and […]
Parts of central London, Stroud, Tunbridge Wells and Canterbury were among the more surprising areas suffering from the worst broadband in the UK, according to Which? analysis of customer speed tests. The consumer champion found that while rural Scotland and Wales still have Britain’s slowest average connection speeds, many local authority areas including in the […]
Broadband usage in Europe and the United States continued to accelerate at similar paces throughout 2018 and Amazon made substantial year-end inroads into consumers’ device ecosystems, according to broadband industry analytics and technology solutions provider OpenVault. OpenVault’s data suggests that both average and median data usage for 2018 increased when compared with both 2017 statistics. […]
OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb, has announced the delivery of the first satellites for the OneWeb constellation. The satellites were manufactured at the OneWeb Satellites facility on the Airbus Defence and Space Toulouse site and the first six have been shipped to Kourou for launch. The first launch of the mega […]