At the start of this week, Belgian operator Proximus announced that it had passed one million buildings with fibre, the final building being Brussel’s iconic Atomium.
Now, the operator has revealed even greater ambitions when it comes to providing fibre connectivity throughout the country, suggesting that its massive fibre drive is only just beginning.
This week, Proximus has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with a consortium of Belgian financial partners called I4B (The Belgian Infrastructure Fund)…
INWIT, Vodafone & TIM win €346 govt contract for rural 5G
Back in March, Infratel, an agency within Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development, announced that it would launch two major tenders, one aimed at deploying 5G sites in 2,000 underserved areas of the country, the other at connecting around 10,000 existing mobile sites with fibre.
The contracts were worth a combined €2 billion, derived from the government’s post…
Connecting America: The Total Telecom roundup of broadband development
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in the USA promises to see billions invested in broadband and bridging the digital divide. Total Telecom are keeping track of events by pulling together a timeline from multiple news sources, here, in one location. If you are interested in a more in…
Samsung wins the race to 3nm, but can it take on TSMC?
Today, Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass production of 3nm semiconductors, becoming the first foundry company to do so worldwide.
The breakthrough to 3nm comes as a result of Samsung switching to GAAFET (gate-all-around field-effect transistor) technology for the new chips – more specifically, to the company’s own nanosheet innovation known as Multi-Bridge-Channel FET (MBCFET™).
The new technology makes use of nanosheets with wider channels, rather than the nanowires and narrower channels of older GAA technologies, allowing for significant improvements in crucial power…
Virgin Media O2 UK to Expand 4G and 5G Small Cells Outside London
Broadband and mobile giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) has revealed that they’ve deployed more than 1,300 live 4G and 5G capable Small Cell sites across London, which are often used to boost mobile coverage and capacity in high density urban areas (shopping malls etc.). The operator plans to expand this into other parts of […]
ISP WightFibre Starts Transitioning Fleet to Electric Vehicles
Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is currently deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 80,000 premises on the Isle of Wight (South Coast of Hampshire, England), has started a programme to switch their vehicle fleet to electric (inc. hybrid electric) with the arrival of several new cars and vans. A number of UK network operators, […]
BT Seek Delay to UK Deadline for Removal of Huawei’s Telecoms Kit
The Chief Technology Officer for UK telecoms giant BT (EE), Howard Watson, has revealed that the operator is seeking more time from the Government for it to remove Huawei’s kit from the sensitive core of their national broadband and mobile network (this is due to be replaced by similar kit from Ericsson). Back in 2020 […]
Vodafone Claims 5G May Boost UK Economy by £7bn Per Year
Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today published a new Digital Ambition 2030 study, which among other things claims that investment in 5G could be worth up to £7bn per year to the UK economy by 2030 and that failing to attract such investment may “undermine” the Levelling Up agenda, with “towns and smaller cities having […]
BT: We need more time to excise Huawei from our network
Facing increasing pressure from the US over national security fears, back in January 2020 the UK government initially ruled that Huawei’s market share in the UK’s mobile networks would need to be reduced to just 35%.
At the time, BT said that the process of removing and replacing the Huawei equipment in its networks would take years and cost them roughly £500 million.
Later that same year, however, the UK government took the decision to ban Huawei more broadly…
Snoop no more: Court rules against UK security services free access to telecoms data
Back in 2016, the UK government introduced the IPA, defining and in many cases expanding the electronic surveillance powers of the British intelligence agencies, including Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), the Security Service (MI5), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence.
Quickly nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter by the media, the IPA allowed the state security agencies to monitor the publics’ private communications and personal information…