Broadband ISP BT has informed us that their BTSport TV streaming service is making the 2022 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League finals available for everyone in the UK to watch – for free – whether on TV, online (BTS YouTube Channel) or on mobile. Jamie Hindhaugh, Head of BT […]
Connectivity in the APAC region set to be boosted by the SEA-H2X subsea system
The new 5,000km SEA-H2X system will connect Hong Kong, Hainan, the Philippines, Thailand, East Malaysia, and Singapore. There will also be options to extend onwards to Vietnam…
Enterprises need faster 5G upload speeds
Research conducted by CELLSMART, a division of French managed services provider SmartCIC, has found that 5G upload speeds are in many cases insufficient to support data transfer for enterprise applications…
Southern Cross, with Pioneer Consulting, announces provisional acceptance of the NEXT subsea system
Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fiber optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, along with Southern Cross, announces that the Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable project has been granted Provisional Acceptance. The culmination of the submarine segments of the cable system marks the nearing completion of a project six years in the making that will be the largest and lowest-latency route connecting Australia…
Zzoomm Adds 7 Towns in England to FTTP Broadband Rollout Plan
UK ISP Zzoomm has today announced that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network has added 7 new market towns across Cheshire, North Yorkshire and Staffordshire to their build plan, which means that they’ve so far announced enough locations to reach 250,000 premises in England. The provider, which holds a wider ambition to reach […]
New Rules for Utility Firms to Benefit UK FTTP Broadband Rollout
The Government has announced changes that are designed to improve the quality of street works, not least through more inspections, better quality resurfacing and tougher fines for poor quality road works and leaving behind potholes. But the new rules also include changes to help support the rollout of gigabit-capable broadband. At present commercial telecommunications companies […]
Guidelines for residential Wi-Fi sensing published by the WBA
Wi-Fi networks in the home are set to become more interactive after the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) published new deployment guidelines on Wi-Fi Sensing which will enable new applications and revenue streams in markets such as home security…
Ookla Move to Improve Latency Testing on Broadband Speedtest
Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service for broadband and mobile connections, has announced that they’ve redesigned how their service measures latency to give users better access to this metric and to provide more information so that you can better “understand where the bottlenecks in your network’s responsiveness” are. Just for some context. Latency is […]
Vodafone and Three UK Reportedly Open Merger Talks
Unconfirmed reports claim that mobile operators Vodafone and Three UK (CK Hutchison Holdings) have opened early stage talks with a view to reaching an agreement over a possible merger / joint venture of their two businesses in the UK, which would reduce the number of primary network operators from four to three. The report, which […]
Survey Finds Poor Broadband Holding Back Rural Businesses
A new survey of over 4,000 businesses in England, which was conducted by the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE), has claimed that sub-standard infrastructure in rural areas – particularly the lack of quality broadband in many parts – is making it harder for businesses to be “resilient and bounce back from adversity“. According […]