For a technology which has been around for a while, few breakthroughs seem to occur in the wifi world, but tackling wifi roaming the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) believes the digital divide can be narrowed.
Huawei has released its Global Connectivity Index 2018 with the team claiming artificial intelligence will provide the necessarily catalyst to almost double the value of the digital economy to $23 trillion by 2025, but only if IoT is embraced.
With the technology world constantly focusing on bigger, faster and better, it is easy to forget there are challenges outside aside from satisfying the demanding appetite of the digital natives.
Through an almost non-existent subsidiary, Facebook is seemingly exploring how it can play a role in the delivery of connectivity through low-orbit satellites.
Ofcom has released the Spring edition of its Connected Nations report, revealing there are now more UK consumers who have access to FTTH connectivity than those who struggle to get a 10 Mbps connection.
Parents are often the last to realise their children are little horrors and new research from uSwitch has given them another excuse for their little angel failing in school; rubbish internet.
Over the course of 2017 Google was making a lot of noise about its connectivity mission in India, but now it is sharing its Wifi love in Mexico.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a new initiative which will see churches and other buildings used to improve broadband, mobile and WiFi connectivity for rural communities.
China Telecom, China Unicom, Facebook, Tata Communications, and Telstra have all teamed up to sign a turnkey contract for the deployment of the Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) submarine cable network.
Seeing money leave your bank account is not something anyone likes, but how about a future in which mobile and broadband bills are a thing of the past?
Without the distraction of smartphones Londoners can get dangerously close to talking to each other on the tube, but social interaction shouldn’t be an issue if TfL has anything to do with it.
Last week’s AfricaCom conference had a heavy focus on satellites but how many people actually understand the economics of satellite connectivity? We didn’t, so we asked Intelsat.
Usually telcos are quite guarded with the truth. Announcements and statements are filled with PR nonsense about aiding the greater good, but Safaricom’s new Chief Innovation Officer has been surprisingly honest.
After several presentations, discussions and lectures at AfricaCom 2017 I’m still not too sure what the plan is in the African telecoms markets.
The last decade has seen the rise of the OTTs at the expense of the telcos; if the Africa connectivity issue is going to be addressed, this is a trend which cannot be replicated.
Connectivity is the impossible mission for Africa, but for some at AfricaCom 2017, it’s not the most critical issue that needs addressing across the continent.
Kicking off Telecoms.com’s week-long road trip in South Africa, we’re going to start with Orange’s efforts to improve connectivity in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Google’s Project Loon has been lifted out of the Mountain View crackpot basement lab to provide much needed connectivity in disaster hit Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
New technology has been billed as a means to make us more efficient in the work place, but we are actually becoming less productive. So what’s missing from the equation?
Truphone has raised £255 million in funding through a successful rights issue to clean the slate and launch an assault on the burgeoning world of IoT.
