Nokia has announced that Japanese operator KDDI has selected Nokia’s 5G Core and Converged Charging software to support its transition to a fully automated, cloud-native 5G Core architecture.
Nokia’s cloud-native 5G Core’s near zero-touch automation capabilities help operators drive greater scale and reliability. Following the evolution of KDDI’s networks to 5G standalone core…
Poland’s long delayed 5G auction set back to 2022
The Polish regulator has now announced that it now intends to launch Poland’s first 5G spectrum auction next year.
Like so many 5G spectrum auctions around the world, Poland’s has faced a tumultuous journey in reaching actualisation. Initially planned to take place in 2020, the auction was initially delayed by the onset of the coronavirus, but further delays have been mostly due to amendments being made to the country&rsquo…
ISP Sky Broadband Sees UK Network Traffic Peak at 19.9Tbps
UK ISP Sky Broadband has today reported that internet traffic passing over their network reached its “highest ever peak” of 19.9Tbps (Terabits per second) last night, which was due to customers going online via Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service in order to watch their “exclusive” live Premier League Football matches. The figures compare with a […]
Royal Astronomical Society Criticises LEO Broadband Satellites
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has warned that new Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites, such as from SpaceX’s Starlink and British-registered OneWeb, will have a “significant” impact on radio astronomers and could put at risk hundreds of millions of pounds of UK investment in space research. At present OneWeb and Starlink are […]
Broadband ISP BT Sees Peak UK Network Traffic Hit 25.5Tbps
The CEO of BT’s Consumer division, Marc Allera, has revealed that last night’s live streaming of Premier League Football matches, on Amazon Prime Video, pushed internet traffic on their broadband network to its “highest peak yet” of 25.5Tbps (Terabits per second) – that’s about 12% higher than their previous peak set in December last year. […]
Virgin Media O2 UK Suffers National Outage of Pay TV Service UPDATE4
Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) are this morning reporting that the operator appears to be suffering from a major national outage of their TV platform – impacting their Live TV, On demand, and TV GO service. The issue started at about 10:30am and is currently ongoing. As usual in these situations, Virgin Media’s […]
Myanmar junta may force M1 to partner with local business to buy Telenor unit
Following the overthrow of the civilian government by a military junta in February this year, the Myanmar telecoms market has been plunged into chaos. By May, the highly volatile environment saw Telenor write off its $782 million Burmese unit entirely and, in July, the unit’s sale for around $105 million was agreed with Lebanese telecoms group M1.
However, it quickly became apparent that the new military regime was &ldquo…
IONIAN subsea cable to tap Grid Telecom for Athens connection
Back in May, IslaLink announced the creation of the IONIAN submarine cable system, set to link Crotone, Italy, with Preveza in Greece. The cable, which will span around 320km across the Ionian Sea, is due to come into service in Q4 2022.
At the time, IslaLink CEO Esther Garcé…
India’s satellite players could face spectrum auction
The Indian DoT has made the highly decision to auction spectrum for satellite broadband companies, eschewing the near universal convention of allocating the spectrum directly.
In most markets around the world, satellite players are directly allocated operating spectrum by the relevant regulatory bodies, with the satellite players paying licence fees accordingly…
Ofcom UK Seeks Views on Using Terahertz Bands for Broadband
Ofcom has today opened a new consultation that seeks feedback on how to maximise the long-term value of Terahertz spectrum, which is expected to play a role in future wireless broadband and mobile broadband (6G) technologies and could deliver speeds of 1 Terabits per second (Tbps) or 1000Gbps (Gigabits). At present, the regulator states that […]