Jio pays off $4 billion in spectrum dues and takes broadband crown
Reliance Jio is on a roll, paying off billions of dollars of spectrum liabilities just a day after official figures revealed it is now India’s biggest fixed broadband provider.
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Italy dangles €3.7 billion in broadband funding
Italy has launched a major ultra-broadband tender worth €3.7 billion just days after it failed to attract interest in its first attempt to allocate EU funding.
Italian broadband recovery plan in doubt after small islands failure
Italy’s telecoms players have all declined to take part in a project to roll out high-speed broadband in its islands, an outcome that could have a knock-on effect.
2021 was a record year for UK data use – VMO2
UK operator group Virgin Media O2 has published the numbers on the use of its networks this year and revealed we downloaded more than ever.
Ofcom reckons around half of the UK population is now covered by 5G, sort of
UK comms regulator Ofcom says the number of 5G base stations in the UK doubled in 2021, and coverage is now ‘outside 42-57 percent of premises.’
Deutsche Telekom targets 2 million new fibre connections in 2022
German operator group DT has been crowing about its FTTH achievements this week as part of an ongoing effort to shed its image as a fixed-line-Luddite.
UK business centres to get new fibre next year
Neos Networks is making a lot of noise about its new full fibre metro networks in a handful of major UK cities, but it hasn’t actually launched any of them yet.
Virgin completes its gigabit upgrade
As anticipated a month ago, Virgin Media O2 now claims to provide average speeds in excess of 1 gigabit per second over its entire fixed network.
Covid drives Internet uptake but many are still left behind – ITU
Millions of people became new Internet users in the past two years, but over a third of the world’s population has still never gone online, according to new statistics from the ITU.
Telecoms industry remains optimistic despite everything
Seven out ten respondents to the 2021 Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey are largely happy with how this year went and more are expecting a strong 2022.
Orange Belgium in €1.8bn takeover talks with VOO
Convergence is the name of the game in Belgium, which is why Orange hopes to hammer out a €1.8 billion cableco deal there.
US broadband market normalises after Covid high
The number of new customers signing up for fixed broadband services in the US was back to what could be considered a normal level in the third quarter of the year, according to new research published this week.
Chinese optical-fibre cables face punitive EU tariff
Optical-fibre imported from China could face up to a 44% tariff after an EU investigation has supported allegations of state-backed distortion and dumping behaviours, and Deutsche Telekom isn’t happy.
Ofcom gives BT a break on broadband obligations
Ofcom has made changes to the UK’s universal service obligation that ultimately ease some of the cost burden on BT when it comes to providing high-speed broadband in hard-to-reach areas.
Vodafone expands fibre push with CityFibre deal
Vodafone has brokered a deal that will see it become the anchor tenant across CityFibre’s nationwide full fibre network, extending the existing wholesale partnership between the pair.
Virgin Media O2 is agonisingly close to doing something significant
UK converged operator VMO2 is so excited about the near completion of its network upgrade that it has started the celebrations early.
It’s fibre all the way for the UK in Q3 21
BT has dropped plans to partner up on fibre, while data shared by rivals CityFibre and Virgin Media O2 shows that high-speed broadband is rolling out apace in the UK.
Non-wireless business propels Nokia to improve outlook
Nokia slightly improved its full-year outlook after delivering a healthy quarter, driven mainly by its network infrastructure and licensing business groups, partly offset by weakness in the mobile networks business.
Netflix issues tepid response to Korean network usage payment demands
US video streaming giant Netflix has published a blog in response to SK Broadband suing it for the costs of increased network traffic resulting from Squid Game.
Spain looks ahead to lifting all fibre access rules
Spain’s telecom regulator has lifted fibre access regulations in a large swathe of the country and is looking ahead to the possibility of an entirely rule-free set-up in just a few years.
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