Late last year, Orange CEO Stephane Richard was convicted of misuse of public funds following a legal dispute dating all the way back to 2008, when he served as the chief of staff to then French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.
Though Richard maintains his innocence, he nonetheless immediately offered his resignation to Orange’s Board of Directors, which the Board accepted.
Richard was scheduled to step down from the role of CEO by the end of January…
Nokia Achieve New 5G Mobile Broadband Speed Record of 3Gbps
A joint trial conducted by Nokia, China Mobile (CMCC) and MediaTek has successfully achieved a new Standalone 5G (SA) download speed record of 2.94Gbps (Gigabits per second), which isn’t as fast as some previous tests but, crucially, it was achieved using modest amounts of spectrum within the common 700MHz and 2.6GHz bands. Most of the […]
ISP Vodafone UK Discount Openreach and CityFibre FTTP Prices
Mobile operator and fixed line ISP Vodafone UK has today further reduced the already discounted prices of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) powered home broadband packages for new customers, which are available on both Openreach and CityFibre’s respective national full fibre networks. The slower FTTC plans have also been cut. At present Openreach’s gigabit-capable FTTP network already […]
ISP Giganet Boosts its UK Full Fibre Rollout with Anixter Deal
UK ISP Giganet (M12 Solutions), which is currently investing £250m to deploy a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 300,000 premises across South England (here), has today moved to boost this by contracting Anixter to support them with logistics services and supply chain solutions. Building major new full fibre networks at scale isn’t […]
Svella Connect Takes Over NMCN’s Virgin Media Rollout Contract
CityFibre wasn’t the only fibre broadband operator to be impacted by last year’s collapse of UK civil engineering firm NMCN (here), with ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) also being impacted. The good news is that Svella Connect, which acquired NMCN’s old business, has now completed the transfer of related contracts with Virgin. Included in today’s deal […]
Google lines up $1bn investment in Bharti Airtel
Back in 2020, Google announced plans to invest $10 billion in India over the next five-to-seven years, via the newly created the Google for India Digitization Fund.
At the time, Google noted that the investments would be a mix of equity acquisitions, partnerships, and operational and infrastructure deals, with a focus on helping provide Indian customers with services meeting their unique needs.
Just a few months after launch, the India Digitization Fund made its first major investment…
MagentaGaming fades to black as Deutsche Telekom announces shutdown
Back in August 2020, Deutsche Telekom launched its MagentaGaming service, proclaiming the ambitious goal of scaling up the cloud platform to compete with major players in the gaming industry.
At the time, Deutsche Telekom said that the service will allow uses to access around 100 games, which they can stream directly from the cloud to their computer, mobile, or tablet…
Digital Realty opens first carrier-neutral data center in South Korea
Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, today announced the official opening of its first data center in South Korea, and the first carrier-neutral facility in the country. Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10) will serve as a gateway to global expansion for enterprises in Korea to scale their digital business into new markets globally, and vice versa.
ICN10 is a multi-story facility spanning 22,000 square feet and is strategically located in the northwest region of Seoul within the Sangam Digital Media City, a newly developed urban planning zone populated with technology and media companies…
FWA to account for 9% of US broadband subs by 2026
FWA, effectively providing fixed broadband services using mobile network connectivity, has been a part of telecoms operators’ repertoires for many years now. For the most part, however, the technology has been viewed as a something of a stopgap, providing connectivity to the relatively small number of customers who are too difficult – or costly – to reach with traditional fixed broadband infrastructure, like fibre.
Until recently, the technical performance of FWA had been considerably below that of fibre and fixed infrastructure, meaning that operators would only deploy it in niche cases. Now, however, with the advent of 5G and recent advances in FWA technology, this is no longer the case, with FWA even able to deliver fibre-like experiences in some situations…
Alternative UK Broadband ISPs Set to Improve Consumer Switching
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), which represents various alternative broadband networks in the UK (AltNet), has signed a deal with Mediafon Datapro to adopt the company’s new centralized internet service migration solution during the first quarter of this year. At present, migrating between ISPs on Openreach’s (BT) national infrastructure is an easy and largely […]