Back in 2020, the French and German governments agreed to collaborate in the development of 5G and by spring 2021 a joint call for 5G projects focussing on private campus networks using Open RAN architecture had been announced.
Now, around a year later, the French and German governments are jointly providing €17.7 million to support four winning 5G projects that will be co-developed by a consortia of 14 French and 16 German partner companies.
“I am looking forward to an intensive collaboration between France and Germany…
Tesco Mobile, Sky Mobile and GiffGaff Top for UK Customer Satisfaction
The Institute of Customer Service has today published their latest biannual UK Customer Satisfaction Index (Jan 2022), which saw Tesco Mobile, Sky Mobile and giffgaff all managing to make the UKCSI’s ranking of the top 50 organisations – the only telecommunications providers to make the cut. The study reflects the results from a large survey, […]
MediaTek Demo Next Gen Wi-Fi 7 and Claims it Will Kill Cables
Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company MediaTek claims to have conducted the “world’s first live demo” of the next generation Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) wireless networking technology, which is theoretically capable of peak data speeds up to around 40Gbps and “can be a true wireline / Ethernet replacement.” At present the fairly recent Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard is […]
Openreach Publish Next 113 UK FTTP Broadband Rollout Areas
Openreach (BT) has this morning published the first update of 2022 to the £15bn rollout plan for their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network, which adds 113 new locations (towns and villages) to their coverage plan. The operator aims to reach 25 million premises (80% of the UK) by December 2026. So far the operator’s […]
Vodafone UK waves goodbye to 3G next year
After 17 years of continuous operation, Vodafone has today announced that it will begin retiring 3G services from 2023.
As the service is phased out, customers still reliant on the service will gradually be shifted to the more advanced 4G and 5G, offering faster and more reliable services to customers.
The spectrum that was previously used for the 3G services will be refarmed to support these more advanced services.
Vodafone’s 3G service has been in operation for around 17 years…
Vodafone UK Reveals Plan to Switch-Off 3G Network from 2023
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today announced that they will begin to retire their “legacy” 3G network from 2023 onwards. The gradual phase-out will enable them to repurpose the related radio spectrum bands to help boost the performance (faster broadband data), reliability and coverage of their existing 4G and 5G services. The 3G service has […]
Virgin Media UK Discounts Gigabit Broadband to GBP50.99
Broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) will this morning discount the price of their top “Gig1 Fibre Broadband” (1130Mbps download and 52Mbps upload) package, for new customers, from £62 to £50.99 per month on an 18-month term (a one-off £35 setup fee also applies). The discounted price will be available to order until 6th February 2022 […]
Brsk Plan FTTP Broadband for 150K Greater Manchester Homes
UK ISP Brsk, which is busy building a new gigabit-capable and “open access” Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, has today announced a major expansion that will see them aim to cover 150,000 premises across the Greater Manchester area (i.e. Stockport and the surrounding areas, with plans for Middleton and Oldham). The operator began their rollout last […]
Jurassic Fibre Breaks from FTTP Rollout to Recycle XMas Trees
And now for something completely different. Broadband ISP Jurassic Fibre, which is building a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across parts of South West England, has volunteered staff and vans to assist in Hospiscare’s (charity) Christmas Tree Recycling fundraiser. A total of 1,200 trees were collected, raising £16K. As you can probably guess, the initiative involved […]
Telstra and Ericsson team up for AgriFood Connect private 5G
Telstra Enterprise customer AgriFood Connect, an Australian not-for-profit organisation, created to accelerate the adoption of technology and innovation across agriculture and manufacturing industries will be the beneficiary of this new technology.
Ericsson Private 5G is a private wireless connectivity platform that facilitates advanced operations through automation, flexibility and intelligent connectivity. Using a single server 5G dedicated network based on a dual mode core…