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Viewpoint At the 2024 MWC held in Barcelona, Liu Kang, President of ICT Marketing & Solution Sales at Huawei, shared his insights into the new opportunities that 5G & BEYOND will bring, and how we can make the most of them Liu Kang notes how each change in technology innovation has changed our economic development for the better. During the industrial revolution, it took about 100 years for the steam engine to deliver 30% additional growth to the world’s economy. This same economic...

News Weighed down by a $26 billion debt pile, Dish Network says it will likely pass on the chance to buy more spectrum from T-Mobile Back in 2020, the controversial $24 billion merger of US mobile giants T-Mobile and Sprint was finally completed, reducing the number of major national operators in the market from four to three. As part of regulatory remedies applied to the deal, Dish was permitted to purchase all of T-Mobile’s 800 MHz licences for roughly $3.69 billion by June 30, 2023. This...

Customers of broadband ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) are reporting that a recent firmware update to their Hub 5 (Sagemcom F3896LG-VMB) router, which has the version number of LG-RDK_7.6.15-2306.5, appears to have caused the device’s sole 2.5Gbps network (LAN) port to stop functioning correctly. The issue – as covered on Virgin’s Community Forum (credits to Paul […]

The Chief Security and Networks Officer of BT, Howard Watson, has hinted that EE may be in a position to begin their commercial deployment of 5G standalone (5G SA) mobile network technology during the second half of 2024. But they won’t have a better idea of the likely timing until this summer. Most existing 5G […]

New research from Point Topic has revealed how the adoption rates of “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband ISP networks vary between 30 countries within Europe (i.e. how many subscribers take the service vs premises passed). Overall, the average take-up stands at 54.4% (up from 53.3% in mid-2021), while the UK scores just 34.7%. Before we get […]

A small but important development is happening this month as BT finally ends the free distribution of a physical phone book on 31st March 2024. The move, which was announced last year, will bring to end a service that has been running since as far back as 1880. But these days, the vast majority of […]

Network builder and ISP Brsk, which is deploying a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the Midlands of England and beyond (rollout plan), have informed ISPreview that their coverage has grown to pass 450,000 homes (up from 358,000 on 10th Nov 2023). Customer take-up has also increased. The operator – fuelled by an investment […]

Broadband ISP Zen Internet has furnished ISPreview with a small update on their efforts to make their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband packages available – nationwide – across CityFibre’s entire UK network, which was previously due to complete at the end of 2023. Just to recap. Back in March 2022 we reported that Zen Internet […]

News  Pressure on the public sector to embrace AI must be “constant and relentless”, he said Deputy PM Oliver Dowden The UK government has announced that it will test AI systems to increase efficiency and productivity within the civil service.  Roles that the AI systems could assume include administrative work, analysing responses to government consultations, and drafting preliminary responses to parliamentary inquiries.  The number of civil servants has skyrocketed in recent years, increasing...

News  At MWC this year, we sat down with Igor LePrince, Chief Executive Officer of Boldyn Networks, to discuss their European operations and recent M&A activity  Today, Boldyn Networks has announced the completion of its acquisition of Cellnex’s private networks business.   The acquisition, which was originally announced in November last year, will primarily consist of Cellnex’s Finnish subsidiary Edzcom, which designs, builds, and operates private 4G and 5G networks in numerous markets...