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Customers of city-focused gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which aims to cover 2 million UK premises with their full fibre (FTTP / FTTB) network by the end of 2023, may like to know that the provider has introduced a new ZTE ZXHN H3600 Hyperhub router, which appears to be their first Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) capable device. […]

Press Release Telxius, the leading digital telecommunications infrastructure operator, has teamed up with NJFX, the carrier-neutral Cable Landing Station (CLS) colocation campus in Wall, New Jersey, to give customers on-demand access to redundant subsea cable infrastructure across the Atlantic and Latin America. This collaboration allows Telxius to provide its customers with fully diverse global solutions through submarine cables landing at or nearby NJFX and serve subsea cable restoration...

NEWS The demonstration saw robots assist soft fruit farmers in a variety of tasks, including picking and packing fruit and treating crops to deter pests Today, BT has announced the successful deployment of a robotics platform and management system to support the agricultural project Robot Highways, enabling a fleet of robots to help automate the farming process. Robot Highways is a project led by agricultural robot specialist Saga Robotics, aiming to explore the use of robots and automation to...

As expected, Sky (Sky Broadband) has today made their new standalone Sky Stream TV product available to UK consumers, which uses your home broadband ISP and WiFi connection to stream Sky’s on-demand video content and live TV channels directly to your existing TV without a satellite dish (no engineer install necessary). The company previously said […]

Broadband and Cloud Gaming ISP ZYBRE has just become the latest internet provider to hop on to FullFibre Limited‘s new wholesale network (Fibre Heroes), which is in the process of deploying a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to “at least” 500,000 UK premises by 2025 (they’re building across 80+ towns). At present FullFibre Ltd’s network, which […]

With traditional telco revenues beginning to dry up, operators know they must evolve to survive – but how? It has become increasingly apparent in recent years that existing telco business models are fundamentally flawed, with customers unable or unwilling to pay significantly greater sums for faster speeds alone. As such, telcos are beginning to look further afield for new revenue streams, from creating their own content and even metaverse platforms to building suites of enterprise software...

British-registered firm OneWeb, which is building a global constellation of compact Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites, has reached an agreement that will see the Panasonic Avionics Corporation work to market, sell, and support the rollout of their in-flight internet services to commercial airlines worldwide. OneWeb has so far launched 428 of their […]

Network provider Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP YouFibre – has today announced the start of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network rollout across three new locations including Newport (Wales), Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire) and Sleaford (Lincolnshire). The operator, which has already covered 265,000 UK premises with their optical fibre infrastructure (up from 210k in August 2022), currently […]

Ofcom’s latest Q2 2022 survey of UK consumer complaints has named ISP Shell Energy as attracting the most moans for both fixed line broadband and landline phone services, while BT (BTMobile) did the same for Pay Monthly mobile services and Virgin Media (VMO2) were on the naughty step for Pay TV. The regulator’s report only […]

Internet connectivity benchmarking firm Ookla, which maintains the popular Speedtest.net service, has updated their ranking of broadband performance in countries around the world to include internet speed rankings for some of the “world’s largest cities“. But London and Manchester in the UK appear nowhere near the top. Take note that speedtest based studies can be […]