Broadband and mobile providers were on Friday subjected to a shock twist after the Government – without consultation – amended the Russian sanctions legislation to require that – “a person who provides an internet access service must take reasonable steps to prevent a user of the service in the [UK] from accessing … an internet […]
Top 30 Full Fibre Operators by Share of UK New Build Homes
New data has given us our first indication of which network operators hold the greatest share of the new build homes market, at least with respect to those catering for such sites by deploying Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology. But it’s perhaps no surprise to find that Openreach (BT) tops the table. At present around […]
Lucid Drone Technologies partners T-Mobile to enable cleaning drones
T-Mobile has announced that Lucid Drone Technologies has chosen the Un-carrier to be the exclusive provider of IoT connectivity and management for their fleet of industrial spraying drones. Together, Lucid Drone Technologies and T-Mobile are collaborating to put maintenance teams and exterior cleaning companies out of harm’s way using drone technology for high-risk facilities maintenance work like exterior soft-wash cleaning and high-rise window washing. The companies also plan to leverage T-Mobile’s industry-leading 5G network in the future to fly drones beyond line…
Lucid Drones partners T-Mobile to enable cleaning drones
T-Mobile has announced that Lucid Drone Technologies has chosen the Un-carrier to be the exclusive provider of IoT connectivity and management for their fleet of industrial spraying drones. Together, Lucid Drone Technologies and T-Mobile are collaborating to put maintenance teams and exterior cleaning companies out of harm’s way using drone technology for high-risk facilities maintenance work like exterior soft-wash cleaning and high-rise window washing. The companies also plan to leverage T-Mobile’s industry-leading 5G network in the future to fly drones beyond line…
Airtel launches 5G connected ambulance
Today, Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced it has collaborated with Apollo Hospitals and Cisco to demonstrate the potential of 5G-connected ambulances to support patient care during transit to medical facilities.
The 5G Connected Ambulance demonstration, which took place in Bengaluru, was specially built including various patient monitoring applications, medical equipment and other devices, aimed at relaying vital patient information back to the hospital in real-time over 5G.
The set up also includes various onboard cameras and wearable cameras for the paramedics…
UK govt announces new Open RAN guidelines
The government’s commitment to Open RAN has been growing steadily in recent years. The technology first appeared to come to their attention while the government was mulling whether to designate China’s Huawei a ‘high risk’ vendor and order its removal from UK networks back in early 2020. At the time, Prime Minister Boris Johnson notably called upon the telecoms industry to “tell us what the alternative is” and, since then, it appears that the answer has increasingly been ‘Open RAN&rsquo…
Rural ISP B4RN Raise 1Gbps Broadband Prices for First Time
Network builder and UK ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which has spent the past decade deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of England, has for the first time ever announced a price increase to their monthly rental. But they’ve also added a social tariff and cut setup fees. The […]
Ofcom Probes Shell Energy Over Missing End-of-Contract Letters
Energy provider and UK home broadband ISP Shell Energy are facing a new investigation by the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, after the provider indicated that it might not have sent the required end-of-contract and annual best tariff notifications to customers. The regulator’s End-of-Contract Notifications (ECN) system – as introduced in February 2020 – requires all […]
CoD Pushes TalkTalk Broadband Traffic to New 8.71 Tbps Record UPDATE
Internet traffic across UK broadband ISPs surged last night as people tuned in to stream the Champions League semi-final and to download the latest 40GB (GigaByte) ‘Season 3’ update for the popular ‘Call of Duty Warzone’ video game. As a result, TalkTalk set a new peak traffic record of 8.715Tbps (Terabits per second). The new […]
India now eying June for 5G auction
India’s first 5G spectrum auction has been delayed by over two years now, first impacted by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and since then by major disagreements between the Indian operators and regulatory bodies.
Since late 2021, it has been clear that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been aiming for the auction to finally take place in late 2022…