The next phase of the US “Internet for All” initiative has kicked off with governors and other eligible leaders being invited to submit a letter of intent as a step towards unlocking $45 billion to give every U.S. resident access to high…
Three key steps to advancing 5G
Thailand’s True Corporation first turned on its 5G network over two years ago, back in March 2020, and since then the company has gone from strength to strength, leveraging the new technology to provide novel and improved services in both the B2C and B2B spheres.
Speaking at Mobile World Congress 2022, True Corporation’s Head of 5G Working Group, Piroon Paireepairit, said that there were three main factors for the company’s success in the B2C space: coverage, new experiences, and the mobile handset markets maturity.
You can watch the full interview from the link above
The necessity of widespread 5G coverage largely speaks for itself; for customers to adopt 5G, they must be assured that the high bandwidth and low latency, as well as next…
BT Trials Quantum Radios to Boost Future UK 5G Mobile Cover
Telecoms giant BT (EE) has begun to trial a new “hyper-sensitive quantum antenna technology using excited atomic states,” which represents a new way of detecting radio waves that could find much weaker signals than conventional receivers and thus boost the capabilities of future 5G mobile (broadband) and IoT networks. In this setup, researchers at BT […]
CityFibre Completes FTTP Broadband Rollout to Peterborough UK
CityFibre has today announced that their long-running £35m project to rollout a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Cambridgeshire (England) city of Peterborough has now reached “primary” completion, which means that 67,000 homes and businesses (around 85% of the city) can now access gigabit speeds. The original Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) deployment in the […]
BT Launch New Charter for UK Businesses and the Public Sector
UK ISP BT recently announced that it intended to become the flagship brand for their Enterprise and Global units, while EE would focus on their consumer packages (here). The operator has today unveiled a new Charter for its 1.2 million business and public sector customers, which sets out their blueprint for a new range of […]
The importance of submarine cable channel planning
Different submarine cable capacity consumption models
When bandwidth demands were comparatively low (compared to today) in the pre-ICP days, sub-lambda services were commonly sold carried by 5Gb/s to 10Gbs wavelengths. As bandwidth demands surged with the growth of the Internet, wavelengths became the currency of network services where end-users purchased entire wavelengths typically operating at 10Gb/s or 100Gb/s rates, still commonly used today.
For end-users with massive capacity demands, such as ICPs, entire fiber pairs were purchased from wholesalers. For routes where an entire fiber pair was unavailable for purchase or for end-users needing more than a few wavelengths but less than an entire fiber pair…
Ofcom 2022 Study Rates Mobile and Broadband ISPs by Quality
Ofcom has published their 2022 survey of UK broadband ISP and mobile service quality, call waiting times, complaints and install times among the largest providers. For example, Vodafone attracted the lowest satisfaction for broadband (77%), while BT secured the highest (88%). But overall, service quality has improved since COVID-19. As usual this annual report is […]
CityFibre’s FTTP network now larger than Virgin Media’s
Today, reports have confirmed that CityFibre has overtaken Virgin Media O2 as the second largest provider of FTTP services in the UK.
According to Think Broadband, CityFibre’s most recent audit shows the company to have reached a total of 1,083,888 premises passed…
BT Issues 2022 Progress Update on the UK 10Mb Broadband USO
UK ISP BT has today issued their latest biannual study into the progress they’ve made toward delivering the 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband, which reveals that they’ve so far built a USO connection to over 4,600 premises, with more than 2,300 further builds in progress. The USO officially went live in March 2020. […]
Ericsson and Intel team up for Cloud RAN tech hub
Two of the most innovative companies in global ICT – Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Intel – are pooling R&D excellence to create high-performing Cloud RAN solutions. The companies have launched a tech hub in California, USA. It focuses on the benefits that Ericsson Cloud RAN and Intel technology can bring to: improving energy efficiency and network performance, reducing time to market…