Telco group VMO2 has given a snapshot of its recent connectivity upgrades in Scotland, which shows 5G is now in 58 towns and cities, and 4G has been boosted in 33,000 postcodes.
While the English government insisted on trying to reinvent the wheel, semi-autonomous Scotland did the sensible thing and went with the off-the-shelf decentralised model.
While there might be a few rogue entries into the UK broadband sh*t-list, the usual suspects are present once again demonstrating the difficulties in taking everyone across the digital finish line together.
With fibre becoming an increasingly politicised topic, fixed infrastructure wholesaler Openreach decided to hang out with a couple of Scottish politicians.
MLL Telecom and CityFibre have announced a new partnership to deliver gigabit fibre connections to local businesses over a new fibre network being built by the latter.
A couple of weeks back Vodafone announced it would be bringing full-fibre broadband to Milton Keynes as part of broad assault on the broadband scene and now the second gigabit city has been named – Aberdeen.
UK MNO EE has announced the activation of a 4G site in the Scottish Highlands that just happens to feature the Glencoe Mountain Resort and Ski Centre.
Virgin Media has announced it will expand its Project Lightning network expansion to include an additional 360,000 homes and businesses in Scotland.
Finnish networking giant Nokia has announced a new 4G network coverage deal with China Telecom to cover 19 Chinese provinces. At the same time it is experimenting with using drones for coverage in remote areas.
BT has completed a submarine broadband cable project in Scotland, claiming it has been hailed as the most complex underwater engineering challenge ever undertaken by the telco. The installation included 250 miles of fibre optic cabling across 20 seabed crossings.
Boffins at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, have come up with a novel way for mobile phone users to tell how much battery life is left in their phone, or how many messages they have, simply by shaking it. The Shoogle interface [apparently named after a Scots-English word for shake, although the dictionary reckons it’s […]
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