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News On Thursday Mark Zuckerberg revealed his plans regarding AI to Meta employees during an all-hands meeting. An aggressive push forwards is based, he says, on “really incredible breakthroughs – qualitative breakthroughs – on generative AI” and in a statement to news platform Axios revealed that this gave the opportunity to “take that technology, push it forward, and build it into every single one of our products,” In reality, this means that generative AI text, image and video generators...

VIEWPOINT The Chinese service providers have accelerated their journey towards 5.5G. A case in point is the recent launch of the Dual 10 Gigabit City project by China Mobile Hangzhou and Huawei on the occasion of the 55th World Telecommunications Day. The project is designed to use 5G-Advanced or 5.5G technology to build the next-generation infrastructure to boost Hangzhou’s digital economy. “From the mobile Internet capital to a city of innovation and vitality, Hangzhou has always been a...

British registered OneWeb, which is part-owned by the UK government, and Eutelsat have demonstrated how fast the company’s new global constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based broadband satellites can operate when connected to one of Kymeta’s Hawk u8 user terminals, mounted on a 4×4 Land Rover Discovery. The company’s Proof of Concept (PoC) test, […]

News Reports suggest that private equity firm KKR could slightly increase its bid for TIM’s broadband network, while the CDP is unlikely to budge from its original offer This week marks a major turning point Italy’s incumbent operator TIM, which will soon need to decide whether to move forward with the sale of its fibre network or else rethink its strategy. At the start of 2022, TIM’s CEO Pietro Labriola outlined a new strategic plan to help the operator cut its roughly €30 billion in debt....

News América Móvil’s rivals AT&T and Movistar have already said they will not participate in the auction if spectrum prices are not revised According to local media reports, América Móvil’s Mexican subsidiary Telcel has confirmed its interest in bidding for 5G spectrum in Mexico’s upcoming spectrum auction. “We already have 5G spectrum and we will always be evaluating the tenders called by the regulator,” América Móvil’s Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs Alejandro Cantu told El...

News Reports suggest the European Commission is unsatisfied by the efforts being made by some countries to secure their 5G networks against perceived high-risk vendors According to a report from the Financial Times, the EU could be considering a bloc-wide ban on network equipment vendors that are deemed to present a security threat, such as Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. Anonymous sources suggest that the European Commission is deeply concerned that some members states have taken too little...

Reports indicated that the UK broadband and mobile giant, BT Group, will freeze the base pay of its CEO, Philip Jansen, at £1.1m – to be renewed on a rolling basis – until he leaves the company. Mr Jansen’s annual salary was fixed for 5 years when he joined, but this agreement was due to […]

Mobile operator EE (BT) has announced that they’ve deployed another 411 small cells (tiny base stations) on UK street furniture and buildings in order to boost the coverage and speed of their 4G based mobile broadband network (total of 611), which they claim allows customers to “take advantage of download speeds of up to 300Mbps.” […]

Abingdon-based alternative network and UK ISP Gigaclear, which has built a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 380,000 premises in rural areas, has today secured fresh equity investment from Equitix – worth “up to” £420m – and raised their target to cover “over” 1 million premises by 2027. Until today, the Infracapital-backed ISP […]

O2 (VMO2) has today confirmed that they will either build or upgrade a total of 30 masts in Jamie Stone MP’s constituency – Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross – over the “next few months“, which forms part of the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) project to help boost 4G (mobile broadband) coverage. The SRN […]