Vodafone has become the first company in the UK to carry full 5G over a commercial network. Live mobile data traffic is now being streamed to and from the Internet exclusively over 5G from a site in Salford, Greater Manchester, connected to Vodafone’s nationwide converged fibre network. Until now, companies have tested the technology either […]
With 50 per cent of houses still connected to less than 100Mbps, a combination of solutions comparable to Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) is essential to efficiently provide the speeds required by end-users, according to NetComm Marketing and Communications Director Els Baert. Speaking on the final day of Broadband World Forum 2018, Baert said that although fibre assets […]
A series of comprehensive tests using In Flight Communications supplier Global Eagle, and with Canada-based Telesat’s Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Phase 1 satellite and its ANIK F3 geostationary satellite, provided the “shortest-ever connection time” for the round-trip from the aircraft to the associated ground equipment. A statement from technology provider Gilat Satellite Networks said that […]
Sky Italia, as reported yesterday, is to add fixed-line broadband as well as a mobile product in the Spring of 2019, according to equity analysts at Deutsche Bank, quoting Italian sources. “The fixed broadband aspect was known – Sky signed an agreement with Open Fibre in March to provide fibre to the home (FTTH) – […]
The provision of superfast broadband has increased by 25 per cent across OECD member states, according to the Teligen division of consultancy firm Strategy Analytics. Within a year, the number of providers offering the highest speed plans has increased from 49 in 24 countries to 62 in 28 countries. As superfast broadband becomes more prevalent, […]
Telenor, the Norwegian multinational telco, has reported Q3 subscription and traffic revenues were stable, while total revenues increased by 1 per cent to NOK 27.6 billion (€2.91 billion). Sigve Brekke, Chief Executive Officer of Telenor Group, said in a statement: “The Telenor team delivered another quarter of solid and consistent performance, with stable revenues and a […]
Following the large-scale deployment of residential Wi-Fi services relying on its core elements, the cloud managed modern home services pioneer Plume, and Samsung have announced the formation of a new open source software initiative called OpenSync. The initiative, whose elements have already been deployed by Liberty Global, Bell and Comcast, creates a silicon, CPE, and […]
Italian pay-TV operator Sky Italia is planning to expand its activities into the telecommunications sector. Details of the transformation of the business – planned for spring 2019 – are contained in a confidential report, details of which have been leaked by local daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. The idea is to offer Sky-branded fixed and mobile […]
A report from IHS Media & Technology says that some well-established cable channels are facing a “perfect storm” from the twin threats of cord-cutting and ever-rising sports rights costs. IHS says that case in point is sports giant ESPN, which has seen overall subscriber numbers crash from 99 million in September 2013 to 88 million […]
There are now more than one billion fixed broadband subscribers worldwide, the Broadband Forum has revealed during Broadband World Forum 2018. The achievement – which has been confirmed by market analysis firm Point Topic – follows the release of Point Topic’s World Broadband Statistics Q2 2018 report which saw the number of fixed broadband subscribers […]