Just as it published network traffic data showing its broadband infrastructure lit up to unprecedented levels thanks mainly to Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City’s Premier League football games being shown simultaneously over Amazon Prime Video, Openreach announced that its full-fibre network is now available to 12.5 million UK premises, …
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A huge appetite from UK business for high-capacity connectivity is set to support the next surge of digital investment, offering a great opportunity for alternative network providers (altnets) to meet growing demand for gigabit broadband – yet according to a study from Neos Networks, there are marked shortcomings in …
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Becoming the latest firm of its kind to reach for the skies in terms of connectivity, Orange has extended its range of broadband solutions in France with a satellite service. Based on the expertise of the French and European space industry, the service is being marketed through Orange’s distribution …
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The European Union’s (EU) Digital Decade 2030 programme aims to ensure broadband internet speeds of at least 100Mbps across all member states by 2025 and to every EU household by 2030, but while this plan is on track, the UK’s similar infrastructure roll-out is paling by comparison, according to …
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One of the key and challenging industry dynamics of UK gigabit broadband roll-outs has been the worry that networks are being rolled out primarily in large metropolitan areas to the detriment of smaller locations, yet as far as Openreach is concerned, Scotland is defying convention, and as the UK’s …
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From the moment in 2019 when the US government first decided to put in train action against leading Chinese technology suppliers, the issues of network security and resilience have been firmly on the agendas of global authorities, and in a next step to ensure such capabilities in their countries’ …
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Satisfaction with many UK services is probably at an all-time low, but more than a third of people (38.5%) believe the UK’s broadband providers offer the worst customer service of any industry, and more than a quarter of people are left furious, upset or confused after speaking to their …
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Research from GSMA, the global mobile industry trade association, shows mobile broadband networks are now accessible to 96% of the population in Asia-Pacific, with operators set to spend almost $260bn on their networks by 2030. The research report, Digital societies in Asia-Pacific: Harnessing emerging technology to advance digital nations, …
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One of the more noticeable, if not surprising, aspects of the UK’s broadband industry has been not just the presence, but degree of success, of alternative providers (altnets), and the annual study of the UK full-fibre broadband industry from Broadband Savvy has identified altnet Community Fibre as the UK’s …
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Alternative network provider Brsk has announced another milestone in its mission to bring better broadband to underserved areas of the UK by securing an additional £156m debt investment, while leading provider CityFibre has revealed that it has now laid 340km of full-fibre internet beneath the streets of Reading as part of its £58m plan to future-proof …
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