The Top 5 Fastest and Slowest Parts of the UK for Broadband
A new analysis of 265,572 consumer broadband ISP speed tests claims to have revealed the top fastest and slowest five areas, as well as five cities, across the United Kingdom. For example, the village of Halkirk in the Highlands of Scotland was named as the slowest area (2.8Mbps), while Canterbury came out as the slowest […]
Xavier Niel pledges €200m AI investment
News The investment aims to push France to forefront of the AI advancement race Xavier Niel, the founder and CEO of telecoms group Iliad, is set to invest €200 million in AI projects in an effort to ensure that Europe remains competitive against US and China in the field. “We want – and we can – create a European AI champion. It’s a question of sovereignty: to protect our data, we need platforms established on our territory,” said Niel. The investment includes the purchase of an NVIDA...
Openreach CEO Clive Selley on the health of the UK broadband market
Interview At this year’s Connected Britain, we had the pleasure of speaking to Clive Selley, CEO of Openreach, to discuss the enormous acceleration of the UK broadband market in recent years and the current chatter around market consolidation “Some level of consolidation is inevitable,” explained Selley. “I see well over 100 altnets out there and that possibly is not what we are going to see in five years’ time. Some of the bigger altnets sound like they are interested in being consolidators....
FCC continues to wrestle with net neutrality
News Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairperson Jessica Rosenworcel (pictured) is set to reopen the ‘open internet’ debate later this week Earlier this month, Democrat Anna Gomez was finally confirmed as the new FCC Commissioner, ending the deadlock over the agency’s vacant fifth seat that had been immovable for the last two years. Upon taking office in November 2021, President Joe Biden had quickly indicated his preferred candidate to fill the vacant fifth seat on the FCC as lawyer...
CBRS network infrastructure a $1.5 billion opportunity
Press Release After many years of regulatory, standardization and technical implementation activities, the United States’ dynamic, three-tiered, hierarchical framework to coordinate shared use of 150 MHz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) band has finally become a commercial success. Although the shared spectrum arrangement is access technology neutral, the 3GPP cellular wireless ecosystem is at the forefront of CBRS adoption, with more than half of all active...
Ofcom UK Sets Plan to Auction 26GHz and 40GHz for Faster 5G Mobile
The UK media and telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today revealed more details about their proposed plan to auction off a large chunk of millimetre wave (mmW) radio spectrum frequency across the 26GHz and 40GHz bands, which will be used by mobile operators to deliver even faster 5G (mobile broadband) services in urban areas. At present […]
TalkTalk CEO steps down as de-merger continues
News From March, CEO Tristia Harrison will become a non-executive director of the new independent wholesale platform The CEO of TalkTalk, Tristia Harrison, is stepping down from her role as the firm prepares for its demerger. Last week, the Broadband ISP informed staff of their plan to demerge the business into three separate entities: consumer, business and wholesale. Harrison, who has been in the role since 2017, will oversee the group’s breakup, before handing over leadership of the...
BT outlines timetable for analog landline switch-off
News The UK’s Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), which supports analog landline services, is planned for closure by 2025 This week, BT has shared more details about the way in which it will gradually shut down the nation’s PSTN and rollout its replacement Internet Protocol (IP)-based Digital Voice service. Having successfully completed shutdown trials earlier this year in the East Midlands, Yorkshire, and Northern Ireland, BT says it is now ready to continue the process in a phased...
BT Wi-Fi Starts Promoting Future UK Rebrand to EE WiFi
Customers of BT’s national UK network of free and premium public WiFi hotspots, which are currently branded as BT Wi-Fi, have noted that the operator recently started to inform users that the service is shortly going to be rebranded under the EE WiFi name. The move is part of BT’s wider branding shake-up, which was […]
Zayo’s UK and European Fibre Network Gets Fully 400G Enabled
The Zayo Group, which runs a large metro and long-haul fibre optic network that delivers global reach, has just announced that their network capacity across the United Kingdom and Europe has been “supercharged” by becoming fully 400G (Gbps) enabled. Next stop.. 800G! Zayo’s European network is currently built on 5 diverse subsea cables, 3 of […]