This week, Brazil’s national communications regulator Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) has awarded OneWeb a licence to provide connectivity services in Brazil, saying that the move will greatly help to reduce the digital divide and bring connectivity to rural communities.
As part of the agreement, OneWeb has also agreed to build two satellite gateways in Brazil, in Petrolina and Maricá, from which the company will be able to expand its services across South America and the Caribbean…
Netomnia Prep FTTP Broadband for 20,000 Premises in Irvine
Network builder Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – has today announced that 20,000 premises in the North Ayrshire (Scotland) town of Irvine will be the next to benefit from their rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which is expected to cost the operator £6m. The company is partnering with civil […]
Ofcom Sets Out UK Internet Censorship Plans Under Safety Bill
The UK communications and media regulator, Ofcom, has today set out their plans for putting the mess of complex and confusing legislation – that is the Online Safety Bill (OSB) – into practice, which aims to tackle “harmful” internet content through website bans by broadband ISPs, fines and other sanctions. As we’ve said many times […]
Russian operators unite for 5G research JV
Today, MTS has become the latest mobile operator to join New Digital Solutions, taking a 25% stake in the business alongside its mobile rivals Rostelecom, MegaFon, and Vimpelcom.
The move means that all four of Russia’s largest mobile operators are now equal partners in the JV, which aims to explore the viability and availability of various spectrum bands for 5G services.
The history of New Digital Solutions begins back in 2017, when MegaFon and Rostelecom first set up a working group to explore the future of 5G technology in the 3…
Hyperoptic Discounts Some UK Full Fibre Plans in Summer Sale
City-focused gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is building a new “full fibre” (FTTP/B) network to 2 million UK homes by the end of 2023 (825,000 completed so far), has today launched a new “Big Bang Sale” that knocks a few extra pounds off their previous monthly prices for new customers on 24-month terms. As usual, […]
Broadband ISP BT Sees UK Network Traffic Peak at 28Tbps
Telecoms giant BT has posted a new update on their current network plans and performance, which among other things reveals that data and internet traffic over their fixed network (broadband and Ethernet) recently hit a new peak of 28Tbps (Terabits per second) during their busiest hour (up from 25Tbps at the end of 2021). The […]
Devon and Somerset UK Update on Openreach’s FTTP Build Progress
The state aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) project in England has today issued another update on the full fibre rollout progress of their £6m Fibre Extension Programme (FEP) contract with Openreach (BT), which was originally due to complete by the end of 2021 but is still ongoing. The contract, which mostly harnesses public […]
Toob’s Broadband Poles Cause Annoyance in Surrey UK Again
Residents in the Camberley and Frimley areas of Surrey have complained of an “eyesore” and raised other concerns after UK ISP Toob began deploying new telegraph polesin the area, which are being used to serve local premises with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network. Such complaints, as this time aired through the BBC and […]
Phoenix Tower International buys WOM’s towers
Today, communications infrastructure specialist PTI has announced that it will acquire up to 3,800 mobile towers from Chilean mobile operator WOM.
The deal, worth $930 million, will see WOM transfer ownership of roughly 2,334 sites at the time of closing, with an additional 1,466 sites to be transferred by 2024.
The deal represents PTI’s first foray in the Chilean market and will immediately make them the market leader in terms of tower ownership.
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5G RuralDorset partners Qualcomm for mmWave 5G farming
Today, 5G RuralDorset has announced that it has expanded its partnership with semiconductor specialist Qualcomm, aiming to explore the highly anticipated mmWave spectrum for the creation of new farming use cases.
The trials will utilise Qualcomm’s latest microchips in tandem with 26GHz spectrum, capitalising on the spectrum’s improved capacity compared to existing 5G frequencies in order to test the rapid transmission of enormous amount of data…