World’s first 5G-A region in Mobile AI Era launched
Contributed Article This month, at the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit 18th edition in Dubai, the world’s first 5G-A region in the mobile AI era was launched. Under the theme ‘Global. Regional. Digital.’ the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit spotlit the industry’s main trends, including 5G, cloud, data centers, and digitilisation The launch followed a panel discussion, in which a group of ten industry professionals gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities in advancing 5G technology in...
Part 1: Some US broadband industry predictions as we approach 2025
Viewpoints The broadband industry is poised for significant change as we move forward into 2025 By: Bob Bartz, VP of Engineering at CHR Solutions To read the Part 2 of this viewpoint series, click here. New technologies and evolving challenges are driving innovation and adaptation with respect to how we expand connectivity, especially in rural and underserved areas. As a result, and based on my three decades of experience in telecommunications and broadband engineering, I thought I’d share...
For two consecutive years, Huawei has been recognized among notable vendors in the zero trust edge field
Viewpoint [Beijing, China, December 16, 2024] Huawei announced today that Forrester, an international authoritative organization, recently released The Zero Trust Edge Solutions Landscape, Q4 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”), which provides an overview of zero trust edge solutions (secure access service edge or SASE technologies like SD-WAN, ZTNA, SWG) of 25 vendors. This report provides an authoritative definition and overview of the zero trust edge market. Huawei has been named...
BDUK Expand CityFibre’s Norfolk UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency recently revealed that their £114m (state aid) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Norfolk (Lot 7), which was won by CityFibre in July 2023 (here), has seen its scope expanded. As a result the public funding has been boosted to £128.8m and the targeted premises for intervention has risen from 62,282 to 75,587. The first homes under CityFibre’s state aid supported build contract for Norfolk started to go live on their new 10Gbps...
Altnet UK Broadband Provider Fibrus Summarises Financial Results
Infracapital-backed network provider Fibrus, which is busy rolling out their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across rural parts of Cumbria (England) and Northern Ireland, has published a limited preview of their latest financial results for 2024 – showing a 58% increase in revenues and a 143% increase in connected customers. The operator, which has already built their full fibre network to cover 400,000 UK premises (up from 375k on 26th Aug 2024), has...
Openreach Publish Updated Dec 2024 UK FTTP Broadband Build Plan
Network operator Openreach (BT) has today updated the build plan for the ongoing roll-out of their 1.8Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology, which is the first update since May 2024 when they added 517 new UK locations to their deployment. But this update mostly just reflects changes and progress with their existing locations. Just to recap. Openreach are currently investing up to £15bn to expand the coverage of their new full fibre network to reach 25 million UK premises...
Openreach Publish Updated Dec 2024 UK FTTP Broadband Build Plan
Network operator Openreach (BT) has today updated the build plan for the ongoing roll-out of their 1.8Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology, which is the first update since May 2024 when they added 517 new UK locations to their deployment. But this update mostly just reflects changes and progress with their existing locations. Just to recap. Openreach are currently investing up to £15bn to expand the coverage of their new full fibre network to reach 25 million UK premises...
Big UK ISPs Ordered to Block More Pirated Book and Journal Websites
The Publishers Association (PA) has convinced the High Court to force most of the major broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom (BT, Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, EE and Plusnet) to extend and expand their existing block of websites, focusing on those that were found to facilitate internet copyright infringement (piracy) of books and journals. At present such blocking orders, which in the UK flow from Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA), aren’t cheap to bring but...
Europe is the top target for hacktivists, Orange Cyberdefense report reveals
News Orange Cyberdefense, cybersecurity arm of Orange Group, has published its Security Navigator 2025 report, a strategic guide to understanding changes in the cyber threat landscape Now in its sixth year of publication, this year’s report reveals a stark increase in politically motivated cyberattacks across Europe since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. At a launch event this month in London, Char van der Walt, Head of Security Research at Orange Cyberdefence, and Sara Puigvert,...
Trial Seeks to Improve Broadband on Public Transport in Swansea Bay Area
The Welsh Government (WG) and a consortium of partners have today kicked off the StarBws project, which will trial a mix of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite and 4G mobile (wireless) technologies from Starlink, Peplink and wavemobile in order to improve broadband for passengers travelling on public transportation in rural parts of the Swansea Bay area. Getting good internet connectivity on public transport in rural areas can be a challenge, not least due to obstructions such as tree canopies and...