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Insight Since that first summer in 2019, 5G has become the fastest-growing mobile communications technology in the world. According to David Wang, Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board at Huawei, speaking on stage at Day 0, there are currently around 320 5G network services worldwide, covering around 1.8 billion users. This is three times the growth rate of 4g in the same time period. Alongside mobile subscriptions, 5G has proved revolutionary...

News The deal is expected to increase the scale of Nokia’s optical networks business by 75%  Nokia has announced the acquisition of California-based Infinera, a global supplier of optical transport networking solutions, for $2.3 billion, as the Finnish company looks to expand its optical networking in North America.  The deal is expected to “strengthen the company’s technology leadership in optical and increase exposure to webscale customers, the fastest growing segment of the market,” said...

The Northumberland County Council (NCC) in England has put out a general warning to residents after observing a rise in “broadband-related cyber fraud“, which occurs when scammers attempt to impersonate your ISP in order to steal financial data and money. Some 68% of the reported victims have collectively lost £12.57k to this scam alone. The scam in question typically begins with a phone call from somebody who claims, fraudulently, to work for your ISP. The fake support agent will often say...

Contract-free mobile operator VOXI, which is a virtual network operator (MVNO) sibling of Vodafone, has more than doubled the 4G and 5G data allowances (mobile broadband) on their two entry-level plans. New customers will now get 45GB (GigaBytes) for £10 a month (up from 20GB) or 75GB for £12 (up from 25GB). As usual, these plans reflect a 30-day subscription that you can cancel at any time, which also includes unlimited calls, texts & picture messages, support for WiFi Calling, 4G Calling...

The recent meeting of an overview and scrutiny committee in West Devon (England) saw local councillors, as well as some residents, heap criticism on the state aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme and contracted UK ISP Airband for being “inefficient and chaotic” in their delivery of faster broadband networks. Just to recap. The CDS scheme is a local government-led partnership which has spent many years helping to deliver faster broadband infrastructure to areas where the...

Hampshire-based business broadband and cloud provider Onecom, which is backed by LDC and Ares Management Corporation (here), has today announced yet another acquisition after they scooped Leicester-based telecoms and IT provider Daly Systems for an undisclosed sum. Martin Flick, CEO of the Onecom Group, said: “The acquisition of Daly Systems is yet another transaction that fits perfectly into our expansion and diversification strategy. In addition to broadening our geographic reach across the...

City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which has so far extended their gigabit full fibre (FTTP/B) network to cover “more than” 1.6 million UK homes (as well as 300k customers) across parts of 64 towns and cities, has appointed ex-BT figure Kathryn Bowden to be their the new Director of Regulation, Policy, Risk, and Compliance. Kathryn’s career began at BT, where she contributed to Openreach’s regulatory market reviews and established new compliance frameworks. Following her tenure at BT,...

News  The move is a huge investment in the North of England, and will create the UK’s third Microsoft datacentre  Microsoft has announced that it will build a huge data centre on the outskirts of Leeds, on a site costing £106.6 million.  The deal was announced by Rotherham based property development group Harworth, who said the deal was the largest in its history.   The hyperscale data centre site will be comprised of two plots, one of 27 acres valued at £52.9 million, and one of 21 acres...

Viewpoint China Mobile held a press conference in Beijing to announce the commercial use of the world’s largest 400G all-optical premium transmission for intelligence. By the middle of this year, China Mobile expects to realize high-speed interconnection between eight hubs in the “East Data, West Computing” project. This will make it an carrier that provides the world’s first 400G all-optical inter-province backbone network, which features the largest scale and widest coverage among all...

News  India’s latest 5G spectrum auction completed on Wednesday after seven rounds  The government collected 113.40 billion rupees ($1.35 billion) from the auction, which was far less than the total spectrum on sale, simply because demand for the spectrum is too low. The sale fell short of the 962.38 billion rupees worth of spectrum on offer.  The auction covered spectrum in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz, 2500 MHz, 3300 MHz, and 26 GHz frequency bands, but it was the 900...