Report Examines Why Openreach’s UK Full Fibre Take-up Beats AltNets
A new report from strategic consultancy firm Eight Advisory has examined the question of why the average consumer take-up across alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks (Altnet) is currently still at 16%, while Openreach stands at c.34%, despite the collective footprint of the new challengers now equalling that of the incumbent. Network access provider Openreach (BT) recently revealed that their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network had covered 14 million UK...
US chip companies have licenses to sell to Huawei revoked
News The move is the West’s latest step to crackdown on Huawei’s technology The US government has revoked certain licenses that permit US chip makers to export goods to Chinese tech giant Huawei. The crackdown will mean that major chip producers like Intel and Qualcomm’s sales to China will be significantly reduced. “We are not commenting on any specific licenses, but we can confirm that we have revoked certain licenses for exports to Huawei,” said the US government on Tuesday. It is...
Local Heroes at Gramatneusiedl Fire Station Boosted by ZTE’s Latest FTTR solution
04 May 2024, Vienna Austria – ZTE Austria, a global leading provider of information and communication technology solutions, deployed the Fiber to the Room (FTTR) solution for the Firefighters connectivity at their newly built Gramatneusiedl Fire station which serves altogether almost 3700 people in Gramatneusiedl while assisting neighboring villages such as Mooosebrun, Velm, Ebergassing, Himberg as well as the central service of the state Fire Brigade association in the times of accident, fire...
German U-Bahn completes high speed 4G deployment
News The subway serves over one million passengers a day, all of which can now benefit from improved connectivity This week, the Berlin underground (U-Bahn) has completed the installation of a 4G mobile network, bringing high speed internet access to travellers throughout the subway system. Germany’s O2 Telefonica and Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), the German public transport company that operates the U-Bahn, worked together on the deployment. Data usage amongst subway users has...
Indian elections delay nation’s satellite broadband plans
News The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) says the election could set back spectrum allocations by up to six months This week, reports suggest that the Indian government is likely to delay spectrum allocations for satellite broadband providers by four to six months, with the DoT waiting for results of the general election to become clear. India is currently conducting the largest general election process in history, with around 970 million eligible voters set to vote over 44 days....
Telefonica Germany becomes first mobile operator to shift core to public cloud with AWS
News The move, the operator says, will provide customers with a more efficient, flexible, and resilient 5G network Telefonica Germany is set to move 1 million 5G customers to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud later this month, according to company executives speaking to Reuters. The company will move its 5G core network to AWS’s cloud infrastructure, becoming the first operator in the world to shift this sensitive part of the network to the public cloud. The 5G core handles critical...
Verizon Business and Cummins deal combines private 5G and neutral host tech
Press Release Verizon Business and Cummins Inc have announced an agreement to implement Verizon’s all-new Neutral Host Network product at Cummins’ Jamestown Engine Plant (JEP) in Lakewood, NY. The deal combines a Neutral Host Network with a Verizon Private 5G Network to cover distinct public-network and private-network use cases onsite at JEP. Cummins views the network’s technological capabilities as integral to enhancing operations across the site and improving the already best-in-class...
AT&T sheds cybersecurity division to create LevelBlue
News AT&T has divested its cybersecurity services group and established a joint venture backed by WillJam Ventures. This week, AT&T announced it had completed the sale of its cybersecurity division to create a new standalone managed cybersecurity services business, LevelBlue, which will have over 1000 employees across 10 countries. WillJam Ventures is now the majority owner of LevelBlue, while AT&T will have a minority ownership stake. Reports about the potential sale began...
CityFibre Builds FTTP Broadband to 3.6 Million UK Premises, with 400k Connected
Network operator CityFibre has this morning revealed that their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network has now grown to cover 3.6 million UK premises (3.3m RFS), which is up slightly from 3.5m (3.2m RFS) in late January 2024. The network is also home to 400,000 customer connections (up 77% year-on-year). In case anybody has forgotten, the operator currently aspires to reach up to 8 million UK premises (funded by c.£2.4bn in equity, c.£4.9bn debt and c.£800m of BDUK...
Wayve secures $1bn in funding for AI-powered autonomous vehicles
News Investors include SoftBank, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others UK self-driving car startup Wayve has secured $1.05 billion in investments to develop its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered vehicles, led by Japanese bank Softbank and with1notable contributions from Nvidia and Microsoft. Founded in 2017, Wayve develops AI foundation models to help enable autonomous driving. Its technology equips vehicles with a ‘robot brain’ that can learn from and interact with real-world environments....