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 […]
MS3 Expands FTTP Broadband Build to 3 Lincolnshire Towns
Hessle-based network provider MS3, which is backed by infrastructure fund Asterion and is working to deploy a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the North of England (here), has added the three Lincolnshire towns of Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Cleethorpes to their build plan. So far much of MS3’s early XGS-PON fibre build, […]
Samsung Sets Out Plan for 6G Mobile Broadband at 1Tbps Speeds
South Korean tech giant Samsung, which has historically played a major role in the development of new mobile network technologies, has this week published some of its early research findings into the future 6th Generation (6G) of mobile broadband technology and set out what sort of technologies it may incorporate. At present much of the […]
Commsworld Highlight Rural Northumberland Fibre Progress with Alncom
Last year saw rural ISP Alncom enter into a new partnership with business provider Commsworld (here) to help support the rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Northumberland and Durham in England. The fruits of this agreement are now starting to show. The original announcement didn’t contain much in the […]
CityFibre Invest GBP15m to Build FTTP Broadband in Great Yarmouth
CityFibre has announced that they will invest £15m to rollout their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across “nearly every” home and business in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth. Construction work on the new full fibre network is planned to “begin this winter“. The new deployment will form part of the operator’s […]
Smart places: Why getting the governance right is vital to project success
Without clear, specific objectives, it can be difficult to get buy-in from the people who need to implement the solutions and those it impacts, making it harder to demonstrate the value or benefits of solutions, risking wasting money on the wrong things.
Often ‘smart’ solutions are aimed at improving existing services like waste management or public parking; however, without the necessary support of those responsible for delivering these services, it can be hard to persuade them to consider how ‘smart’ solutions would enhance their ‘tried and tested’ practices.
Understanding the challenge(s)
Every place is unique and to stand the greatest chance of success…