Virgin Media makes Manchester its second giga-city
Following the initial launch in Southampton, Virgin Media has announced Manchester is the second city in the UK which will be offered ‘gigabit’ speed broadband services.
Following the initial launch in Southampton, Virgin Media has announced Manchester is the second city in the UK which will be offered ‘gigabit’ speed broadband services.
Pierre’s back, which means the pod is too. Scott once more the filling in a Light Reading sandwich, joined as he is by Iain and Ray. After some extensive plugging they start by reviewing some Q3 earnings numbers, then Iain and Ray report from the recent Broadband World Forum event before they conclude with an ad hoc review of Iain’s new iPhone.
BT has launched its biggest TV advertising campaign for 20 years’ to reinvigorate the brand and hopefully drive towards the convergence dream.
It might be dominating the headlines, demanding the lion’s share of CAPEX and a fresh opportunity to show some sort of innovation, but BT has reiterated the message that the future is more than just 5G.
Australia’s NBN is a company which has taken its fair share of criticism over the last few years, but it is difficult to argue with the concept as well as the progress which is being made.
5G has opened up a whole new channel for Qualcomm to flog its modems through and it seems to have got off to a decent start.
A new report commissioned by fixed line infrastructure provider Openreach has concluded the UK would be £59 billion better off with full FTTP.
Some might suggest this is a knee-jerk reaction to the intentions of an activist investor, though the vulture fund should not be able to claim credit for this one.
The UK Government has unveiled new rules which will allow telcos to speed-up the process of dealing with non-responsive landlords.
Convergence is a proven business model and now the slumbering giant of the UK telco market is starting to head in the right direction.
Finnish kit vendor Nokia has unveiled a new chipset family called Quillion that is designed to get the best out of fibre networks.
Openreach has provided some colour to the rural fibre plans, testing out new technologies and techniques, with the objective of connecting 50,000 homes by Christmas.
Mobile broadband in the form of 4G and now 5G may have been grabbing the headlines for the past few years, but in the background the fixed line broadband market has been growing steadily, driven by both regulatory imperatives and operator expansion ambitions on the supply side, and the increasing use of bandwidth-hungry applications on the demand side.
This Telecoms.com Intelligence report examines the competing and complementing dynamics between different broadband technologies, in particular the fixed (especially FTTx) and the Fixed Wireless Access (especially 5G-based) solutions.
Mobile subscriptions are continuing to rise in India, though the fixed market is increasingly looking prime for disruption as the number of users falls once again.
BT’s fixed line wholesale division has created a new website that allows everyone to see how its fibre roll-out is going.
A US Court of Appeal has seemingly put the final nail into the net neutrality coffin at a federal-level but has opened-up the option for state-specific rules.
New market analysis reveals how how critical the connected home market is becoming.
It’s been twenty years since Wireless Fidelity was invented and first released for consumers by the IEEE committee 802.11.
The final arguments have been presented to the Australian courts and now Vodafone Australia and TPG will have to wait until early 2020 for the decision on whether the $15 billion merger will be allowed.
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