UK’s digital divide narrows, but deepens
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.
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.
O2 has tested out Vilicom’s OpenRAN technology, in an effort to make it cheaper to offer indoor 4G and 5G coverage for businesses.
The UK government unveiled its latest spending plans, which have had to be revised due to the breath-taking cost of shutting down the entire country.
UK MNO EE has switched on 5G in 12 more UK towns and claims to be the country’s number one network for that sort of thing.
The UK is making steady, if not world-beating, progress in the rollout of full fibre, but residents’ ability to connect is still highly dependent on where they live.
France this week unveiled a €100 billion post-Covid-19 stimulus plan that includes a quarter-of-a-billion-euro shot in the arm for rural fibre networks.
Spanish telecoms group Telefónica officially switched on its 5G signal today and promised three quarters of the population will have access by the end of the year.
Mobile network benchmarker Opensignal has analysed the real-world 5G experience in a bunch of countries, with the UK and US scoring poorly across the board.
Telefónica Germany was supposed to hit certain coverage targets by the end of July, but it got away with being 10 days late.
Half a million UK premises now have access to gigabit-capable broadband, which leaves only 27 million to go.
With the Australian telco claiming to have delivered 5G to a third of the population already, it has just under a year to hit the 75% milestone.
In what should be described as somewhat of a slow burner, Deutsche Telekom has made the bold claim it will be able to connect 50% of its population to 5G by mid-July.
German telco regulator, Bundesnetzagentur, is seemingly searching for its dentures as it lets all three mobile network operators escape punishment for missing coverage obligation deadlines.
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