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The Telecoms.com Podcast: COVID-19, video and disruption

The usual crew adjusts seamlessly to the new reality by recording this week’s pod remotely. Inevitably they start by reviewing some of the adjustments the telecoms industry is having to make to the unprecedented change forced on the world by the COVID-19 pandemic. They move on to look at the video streaming sector, which is bracing itself for a spike in demand, and conclude with a look at some other industry disruption taking place, some of which hasn’t even been imposed by the crisis, believe it or not.

• 23 Mar 2020

BT suggests network traffic surge is no threat thanks to 17.5 Tbps horsepower

With suggestions telco networks might come under strain over the coming weeks, BT has unveiled the facts and figures of its network to calm fears of homeworkers and parents desperate for peace.

• 20 Mar 2020

BEREC sets up European monitoring system as tech giants downgrade downloads

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has set up a networking monitoring mechanism as Netflix and YouTube reduce streaming quality.

• 20 Mar 2020

China Mobile claims 15.4 million 5G subscriptions

We all know that China is a very large country, but sometimes numbers are just numbers and we forget just how big it actually is.

• 19 Mar 2020

Europe gives operators minor throttling concession

The powers that be in the European Union have said its operators can do a little bit of traffic management if they absolutely have to.

• 19 Mar 2020

Europe asks Netflix to save networks by restricting HD streams

European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton has been on the phone to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to officially request the streaming service slowdown downloads.

• 19 Mar 2020

How UK operators are helping customers during the COVID-19 outbreak

With telecommunications now acting as the foundation for almost every element of society, how telcos react to the on-going coronavirus outbreak will be critically important.

• 18 Mar 2020

BT and O2 fall foul of UK advertising rules

Both BT and O2 have been given a slap on the wrist for airing misleading advertisements in the UK aired across the course of 2019.

• 18 Mar 2020

Spanish operators beg customers not to screw the network up

All the major Spanish telcos have unveiled a joint statement to customers, asking for fair and reasonable use of the internet during over the foreseeable future.

• 16 Mar 2020

What is driving Internet Content Providers to demand dark fibre?

ICPs, telcos, and enterprises are all building data centres as well as seeking extra capacity through third parties as they extend and expand their scale and service offerings.

• 13 Mar 2020

AT&T follows Italian lead by temporarily unlocking data limits

AT&T has announced it will suspend download limits on its broadband products in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

• 13 Mar 2020

Innovating to Unleash the Value of Fixed Networks in the 5G Era

Last year saw an explosive growth of Fixed Broadband (FBB) and Mobile Broadband (MBB) networks as well as the volume deployment of gigabit access. The compound annual growth rate of the 10G PON market will exceed 30 percent in the next five years and more than 70 countries worldwide have started or are planning 5G rollouts. Judging from the broadband initiatives of different countries, the business strategies of operators, and the competitive landscape, an era of dual-gigabit speeds based on FBB and MBB has arrived and the two access technologies will coexist for a long time. FBB and MBB will work together to further accelerate technical innovation and network transformation.

• 12 Mar 2020

UK government pumps £5 billion into broadband sector

In the first budget of the new Conservative government, the UK telecoms sector was just one recipient of a major public spending spree.

• 11 Mar 2020

Build optical cross-connect (OXC) transport networks with the lowest per-bit cost

The acceleration of 5G application, rapid development of video services, increasing demands for quality, and longer video viewing times lead to sharp traffic increases. Ovum predicts that global mobile broadband (MBB) and fixed broadband (FBB) traffic will reach approximately 3,000,000 PB in 2023, roughly triple 2019’s traffic. This brings great changes and challenges to transport networks.

• 11 Mar 2020

China Mobile (Chengdu) Adopts Huawei BusinessPON Solution to Upgrade Private Line Services, Greatly Improving User Experience

Recently, China Mobile (Chengdu) adopted the Huawei BusinessPON solution to deploy gigabit Internet private lines for more than 50 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Chengdu Jiaozi FinTech Center, significantly improving user experience and satisfaction.

• 10 Mar 2020

The UK’s digital future finds its home in the north

Northern cities such as Manchester and Leeds have produced unicorns of their own and continue to achieve significant growth.

• 09 Mar 2020

TIM gets fined for rigging Italian fibre market, will appeal

The Italian Antitrust Authority (AGCM) reckons operator TIM acted to restrict competition in certain parts of the domestic fibre market. TIM disagrees.

• 09 Mar 2020

CityFibre raises full-fibre table stakes to £4 billion

UK fixed infrastructure challenger CityFibre has committed another £1.5 billion for fibre deployment, taking the total investments up to £4 billion across 62 towns and cities.

• 06 Mar 2020

Turkcell and Huawei Complete the World’s Leading 800G Trial on the Live Carrier Network

[Istanbul, Turkey, March 2, 2020] Turkcell announced that it has completed the World’s leading 800G WDM trial with Huawei out of China on a live Mobile Carrier network. This gives Turkcell a competitive edge in high speed transmission while also driving the evolution of this technology in 5G era.

• 02 Mar 2020

VC money continues to flow into European fixed networks

KKR is the latest investment firm to pump cash into European telecoms infrastructure, and with traditional investments on wobbly ground, the trend is set to continue.

• 02 Mar 2020