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A turboprop Britten-Norman Islander (BN2T-4S) aircraft has helped a group of UK companies, led by Stratospheric Platforms (SPL), to complete trials of a new advanced airborne 5G connectivity system that could be used to help extend mobile broadband coverage into remote rural areas or to provide coverage during events/disasters etc. The goal of this project is ultimately to deliver an unmanned, possibly liquid hydrogen-powered aircraft, designed with a 56-metre wingspan that will, due to its...

Liskeard-based alternative network operator and UK ISP Wildanet, which is rolling out a gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband across South West England, has boosted connectivity at Cornwall Airport Newquay by deploying a new “lightning-fast” public WiFi network to replace the previous and somewhat slower service. The work is said to form part of Wildanet’s wider partnership with Cornwall Airport Newquay, which will see their engineers working to “modernise and upgrade critical data...

News The company is struggling to keep its financial health amid approaching debt repayments  UK telco TalkTalk is racing to secure £200 million in funding from its founder Sir Charles Dunstone and other shareholders to avoid the business collapsing, according to a report from the Telegraph. Dunstone is set to meet with bondholders this week to discuss the potential cash injection.  TalkTalk has a debt pile of £1 billion, with those deadlines for repayments approaching rapidly. Both Dunstone...

News The FCC has released findings from an investigation into a Feb. outage at AT&T that blocked thousands of 911 calls and disconnected millions of devices. This article was originally released by our sister publication, Broadband Communities The direct cause of an AT&T outage in February that impacted 125 million devices and prevented 25,000 calls to 911 call centers was an error by an employee who misconfigured a single network element, according to a newly released report from the...

The CTO of network operator O2 (Virgin Media), Jeanie York, has today become the first UK mobile provider to set out their plans for withdrawing the old 2G service, which will see the first customers beginning to be moved off that platform in 2025. But they won’t be switching 2G off completely, at least not for a long time. The UK government and all major mobile operators have so far agreed to phase-out existing 2G and 3G signals by 2033 (here), which will free up radio spectrum bands so that...

The UK telecoms regulator has announced that, following a request from BT, it has launched a review of the annual licence fees they charge mobile network operators (EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2) for use of three popular mobile spectrum bands – 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2100MHz – supporting 2G, 3G and 4G (mobile broadband) services. As regular readers will already know, the cost of Annual Licence Fees (ALF) can be a highly divisive subject. Mobile operators often complain that hikes in this area can...

Viewpoint Shanghai, China, June 26, 2024: During MWC Shanghai 2024, Mr. Victor Rodrigo Nilo Poyanco, service delivery manager of Chile Entel, delivered a keynote speech at the F5G-A All-Optical Network Summit on ” Lighting Up Digital Chile With F5G-A Optical Network “. As the largest telecom operators in Chile，Entel has consistently introduced new innovative technologies, is building F5G-A optical network, lighting up digital Chile. Entel is the largest mobile operator in Chile and is...

Press Release Nokia today announced that it has successfully completed its first 5G non-standalone (NSA) Cloud RAN trial with Bharti Airtel (Airtel) in India. The project supports Airtel’s strategy of delivering a superior customer experience using high-performing networks. It is expected to deliver higher levels of service innovation, higher network automation, flexibility and efficient scaling of resources to support end-user services. The trial took place in an over-the-air environment...

News  The unrest centres around student protests over government job availability  Bangladesh has entered the fourth day of a near-total internet shutdown following th outbreak of widespread student protests, in which 114 people have so far lost their lives.  The unrest relates to the reintroduction of Bangladesh’s quota system for government jobs. The system reserves a third of government positions for relatives of veterans who fought for the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971. This...

Press Release Altnets look to rapidly extend their wholesale offering to new ISPs through streamlined provisioning automation  Strategic Imperatives, the UK market leader in SaaS provisioning, connectivity and monetisation solutions for the telecom industry, has today announced that UK Altnets Trooli and OFNL have joined its Fibre Café platform. This move enables both companies to leverage the platform’s unified interface into the UK’s growing FTTx ecosystem, gaining a strategic advantage and...