Lynk welcomes SpaceX to the satellite-direct-to-phone party
You might think the arrival of a heavy hitter like Elon Musk as a new competitor would be bad news for startups such as Lynk, but apparently not.
You might think the arrival of a heavy hitter like Elon Musk as a new competitor would be bad news for startups such as Lynk, but apparently not.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has promised there will be ‘no dead zones anywhere in the world for your cell phone’ – but there’s not much substance on offer yet.
The European Aviation Network (EAN) inflight broadband solution uses terrestrial base stations, of which there are few in the middle of the sea.
Italian telcos TIM and Open Fiber have won government funding worth a total of €3.4 billion to roll out high-speed fixed broadband to uneconomic areas of the country.
UK mobile operator Three reckons its 5G network now covers 54% of the population, which is a bit better than EE.
The Italian government has opened a tender for more than €500 million worth of funding for the provision of 5G connectivity to areas without high-speed mobile coverage.
The US government has launched an ambitious new broadband funding scheme with the stated aim of closing the digital divide by the end of the decade.
MNO EE claims it is the first operator to expand its 5G coverage to more than 50% of people in the UK.
Italian operators Iliad and WindTre appear to have made progress in their plan to share the burden of rural 5G rollout.
UK mobile operator EE has announced it will be using at least part of the low frequency spectrum it won at auction earlier this year to improve its 5G indoor coverage.
BTEE had one of those strategic, news-light briefing sessions today, in which it was stressed that OpenRAN is far down its priority list.
A stretch of the UK’s famous Jurassic Coast has become one of the first locations in the world to receive standalone 5G coverage at 700 MHz.
Ofcom has heralded a narrowing of the digital divide in the UK, with statistics showing an increase in household connectivity over the past year fuelled by the restrictions linked to Covid-19.
Europe may not have been the first region in the world to launch commercial 5G services, but its mobile operators are working hard to roll out the technology.
The UK government wants to allow mobile operators to build taller and wider masts in rural areas, a move that is designed to improve mobile coverage.
Dorset is working towards a future in which farming is run by a fleet of robots and has signed up its latest tech partner to help it get there: Qualcomm.
Vodafone, O2 and Three have reached agreement on the first phase of the government-backed project to improve mobile coverage in rural areas of the UK, but EE says it doesn’t need to be involved at this stage.
Loon, the much-hyped Google-backed project to connect difficult to reach areas to the Internet, is no more; the company is winding down due to high costs.
Germany’s big three mobile operators have inked a pair of bilateral deals that effectively mean they will all share active mobile network equipment to boost 4G coverage.
BT’s consumer head Marc Allera reckons his rivals are stretching the truth with their 5G claims.
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