Customers need educating to get the best from Wi-Fi
PRESS RELEASE Based on analysis of live data from nearly 3,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) around the world, RouteThis, a global leader in remote Wi-Fi network diagnostics and troubleshooting for ISPs and smart home brands, today revealed that Internet users in North America are facing significant connectivity issues despite increases in connection speeds. Although upstream speeds have risen 51% and downstream speeds have risen 125%, pandemic-related behavioral shifts and device upgrades...
Startup Stories: it’s a noisy life
STARTUP STORIES We meet the Birmingham based startup who have developed sound classification algorithms to detect a wide range of sounds to improve healthy, safety, security and comfort. Tell us about your start up Innovation Factory has developed cutting-edge technology an acoustic camera sensor that is able to detect and analyse, traffic movements, direction, noise monitoring and vehicular emissions using spatiotemporal context (Traffic EAR). The fusion sensors are using highly innovative AI...
Rakuten Symphony Symware™ Phase Two Begins with Plans to Commercially Deploy 30,000 Units in Japan
Press release Rakuten Mobile, the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized 4G and 5G commercial mobile network, will rapidly expand coverage with plans to deploy Symware™ multipurpose edge appliances across 23,000 new sites in just 10 months. Earlier this week, Rakuten Symphony announced general availability for its Symware™ next-generation distributed unit (DU) product with plans to deploy 30,000 units across Rakuten Mobile’s network in Japan. The rollout targets installation across 23,000...
Ofcom Asks Broadband ISPs to Halt Price Hikes and Offer Social Tariffs
Ofcom has revealed that 29% of UK households (8 million) – double last year’s 15% – are still having problems paying their phone, broadband and TV bills. In response, they’ve called on major ISPs to reconsider annual price hikes and ordered TalkTalk, Shell Energy, EE, Plusnet and Vodafone to introduce “social tariffs as soon as […]
Comms Council Name Best UK 2022 VoIP Provider Award Winners
The Comms Council UK, which is the body responsible for representing the United Kingdom’s Unified Communications (UC) and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone industry, has today revealed the winners of their 14th annual 2022 awards event. Entrants to all categories for the 2022 event were said to have been independently reviewed by several Comms Council UK judges […]
Virgin Media O2 Hand UK FTTP Rollout Contract to Avonline Networks
Broadband ISP and mobile operator Virgin Media (VMO2) has signed an extended contract with civil engineering firm Avonline Networks (M Group Services), which will see the firm’s engineers continue their relationship with Virgin by helping to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure to 23 million UK premises by 2028. In case anybody has forgotten, Virgin Media […]
GoFibre Win Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract for Teesdale
The second Local Supplier contract under the UK Government’s new £5bn Project Gigabit broadband scheme – worth £6.6m – has today been awarded to rural ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which will upgrade broadband for more than 4,000 hard-to-reach Teesdale premises in Northern England. Project Gigabit aims to extend 1Gbps capable (download speed) networks to reach at […]
Fibre frustration in Germany
NEWS Just weeks after the German Broadband Association (BREKO) revealed its Market Study 2022, the German market has seen a flurry of announcements about fibre rollout – even as some in the sector are expressing fears over consolidation. Earlier this month, the BREKO report revealed that one in four German households is now connected to an optical fibre network but described the goal of reaching full coverage in Germany by 2030 as “fraught with risks”. Report author Jens Böcker painted a...
WIOCC Group secures $30 million equity investment from IFC to support Africa’s digital infrastructure expansion
Press release IFC Equity Investment in WIOCC Group to Support Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Expansion. To improve access to quality broadband internet and data hosting services for homes and businesses in Africa, IFC today announced it is expanding its relationship with West Indian Ocean Cable Company Holding Ltd (WIOCC Group), a leading digital connectivity and infrastructure provider in Africa, with a $30 million equity investment. The new investment will support WIOCC Group’s continued...
Opensignal Name UK Best 4G and 5G Mobile Networks in Q3 2022
Opensignal has published their biannual September 2022 Mobile Network Experience Report, which measures the 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) services of all four primary network operators – EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three UK – to determine which delivers the best performance. Both EE and Three UK picked up most of the wins. As usual, this […]