- T-Mobile's foreign owner to trigger review of UScellular deal lightreading.com A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is "sold out" in parts of US arstechnica.com Streaming TV Enshittification Will Continue Until Morale...
- US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android theverge.com Trump's health secretary pick Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. has said wireless tech might make you sick lightreading.com Pointless DirecTV, Dish...
- Trump names FCC commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC chair bloomberg.com Is satellite broadband good enough to deliver internet for all? fierce-network.com Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the...
- • Charter strikes deal to acquire Liberty Broadband lightreading.com • Broadband data consumption growing, but pace of growth is slowing lightreading.com • Jeff Bezos Space Company Joins SpaceX To Win Major Phone...
- If You Like Being Ripped Off By Comcast, You ll LOVE Trump s Likely New FCC Boss techdirt.com FBI and CISA: Chinese hackers breached multiple US telecom companies, compromising the "private communications" of US officials and stealing...
- EchoStar removes going concern disclosure, but DirecTV deal in jeopardy lightreading.com The Ten Airports with the Fastest Free Wi-Fi Are telecompetitor.com Record labels unhappy with court win, say ISP should pay more for user piracy...
- Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can t punish us for selling user location data arstechnica.com Cable One tests pay-as-you-go Internet option, stays on the mobile sidelines lightreading.com Boost Mobile says it s ready to rumble with big...
- UScellular to Sell Spectrum Licenses to AT&T for $1.018B telecompetitor.com The FBI is investigating whether China used its access to Verizon networks to infect the iPhones of staff of a US presidential campaign forbes.com Data traffic...
- Net Neutrality Heads Back To Court; Corrupt Supreme Court Could Dismantle U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection techdirt.com What a Trump victory means for tech: antitrust woes die down, except for Google, TikTok survives, AI progress...
- T-Mobile is breaking world records in upload speeds with new 5G DC tech androidauthority.com Suspect arrested in Snowflake data-theft attacks affecting millions arstechnica.com Bell s purchase of Ziply could disrupt the Verizon-Frontier...
- Telecoms Bankroll More Misleading Attacks On Community Broadband Networks techdirt.com Canada's BCE to acquire US internet firm Ziply for $3.6 bln reuters.com How hackers used infostealer malware to breach AT&T, Ticketmaster, Santander,...
- 'Call of Duty' download, Amazon NFL stream drive record data usage at Comcast lightreading.com Laptop, smartphone, and game console prices could soar after the election arstechnica.com Study: 76% Of U.S. Residents Want Government To Do...
- Beavers chewing through fiber cable cause hundreds lose internet in a canadian remote community. ( CircleID ) An article from CBC earlier this year reported that beavers had chewed through an underground fiber and had knocked 900...
- Elon Musk recently announced that he was going to be providing cellular backhaul from the Starlink constellation of satellites. This makes a lot of sense from a financial perspective in that it avoids the costly wired fiber networks...
- Parks Associates recently announced its Home Services Dashboard release, a for-pay service that tracks consumer adoption of telecom services like Internet, pay-TV, and cellphones. As part of the announcement, the company released a blog...
- An artist's impression of the Exolaunch's Fingerspitzengefühl satellites deployment into orbit. Illustration: EXOLAUNCH Last week, I predicted that much of the Internet and most cloud datacenters would launch into space in the next ten...
- Every few years, I read something that resurrects the old question of whether ISPs should be dumb pipe providers or something more. Some ISPs have fought against the idea of being dumb pipe providers and want to believe they are far more...
- Unlike Bezos and Branson, they're going to stay there. Today we have space-based internet access and a terrestrial internet; within ten years, we'll have a space-based internet. Internet traffic will travel more miles in space than on...
- Over two years ago, an MIT research group ran a simulation of the low-Earth orbit broadband constellations of OneWeb, SpaceX, and Telesat, and last January they repeated the simulation updating with revised constellation characteristics...
- Most carriers don't order 200,000 5G base stations, so they will pay more, but that's the actual price for the joint procurement of China Telecom and China Unicom. The 200,000-300,000 cells the two jointly are upgrading are probably more...
- I remember that soon after the City of Chattanooga launched its citywide fiber network, the company held a competition seeking web applications that would benefit from gigabit speeds. I don't recall if anything useful came out of that...
- Photo of an 8-beam free space optics laser link. Source: Wikipedia I read an article on the Finley Engineering blog that talks about new research with free-space optics. For those not familiar with the term, this means communication gear...
- Elon Musk discussing Starlink Internet at MWC 2021 Elon Musk packed a lot about SpaceX and Starlink into a 32-minute interview at the 2021 Mobile World Congress and ended with a discussion of his motivation and the roles of his three...
- As U.S. Congress inches closer to an infrastructure bill, the industry is feverously speculating how a broadband infrastructure plan might work. There is still a lot of compromise and wheeling and dealing to be done, so nobody knows how...
- FIOS by Verizon , is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and television service that operates over a fiber-optic communications network with over 5 million customers in nine U.S. states — providing Fiber to the Home (FTTH). One...
- NTIA's Indicators of Broadband Need uses several different data sources to show broadband availability within the United States. (Source: NTIA ) The National Telecommunications and Information Administration surprised the broadband...
- I read a blog on the WISPA website written by Mark Radabaugh that suggests that the best policy for broadband speeds would be met by asymmetrical architecture (meaning that upload speeds don't need to be as fast as download speeds). I...
- Following on from the news about Crewe becoming a Zzoomm fibre town Cannock has now been added to the list.
- Crewe joins Ascot, Hereford and Thirsk as areas on the build list where Zzoomm is going to deliver its full fibre service.
- While the usual DOCSIS 3.1 and FTTP services rule the top of our speed table some 20% of the speed tests we saw in April were slower than 12.7 Mbps.
- In the BT Group results there is the big news that Openreach is planning to build a further 5 million premises of FTTP by December 2026 on top of its original 20 million ambition.
- The expected update to the transparency lists that Openreach update each quarter has taken place and the 27 new areas are confirmed.
- Our report on Openreach FTTP build progress set a record for the amount found and we have broken that again. With 204,301 premises versus the previous month of 192,905 premises added.
- BT Consumer is just one of many firms taking part in the migration to an all IP voice network but as the largest what it offers in terms of kit and help will set the benchmark to judge other voice providers by.
- The move from analogue phones to an IP based phone network in the UK is a step closer with the announcement of the next set of 77 exchanges where a stop sell order will apply in 2022.
- Another month and the numerous FTTP roll-outs continue to add a decent amount of coverage each month. The increased FTTP roll-out also means more overlaps between the various networks.
- Following on from Salisbury the second PSTN switch off location has had a stop sell notice placed for the old copper based products.
- 40% of UK premises now have the option of access to an FTTP connection or Virgin Media DOCSIS 3.1 connection.
- The rural areas around Coalisland are some of the first parts of Project Stratum to go live in Northern Island.
- KCOM has been busy expanding across the East Riding of Yorkshire but lack of retailer choice often gets mentioned, a new pilot from the operator may reduce that concern.
- Back in April Openreach said they had built FTTP to 530,000 premises and three weeks later our tracking is showing a footprint of 530,986 premises passed.
- BT has launched a new £15/m social tariff based around the 40/10 FTTC and FTTP products that includes 700 minutes of monthly calls.
- Being online and actually able to do things like shopping has been critical in the last year so the latest figures from Ofcom showing the digital divide has narrowed is very welcome.
- The benefits of full fibre may seem obvious to those who have been building it for years, but the scale of the benefits from much higher coverage than today does need restating.
- East Grinstead is one of many towns and villages Openreach is building to and after several months of relative inactivity the roll-out has numerous patches of live FTTP.
- Virgin Media and its Gig1 product tops the speed test table for March 2021 and that is a service that is not full fibre based.
- Little Easton in Essex is one of latest Gigaclear locations added to our broadband mapping.
- Build it and they will come is the dream of many projects and while people are signing up for full fibre the pace is very like the 2010 to 2012 era for partial fibre.
- Giganet who is one of the retailers for the CityFibre network in Portsmouth is celebrating a small milestone in terms of connecting customers.
- The UK full fibre roll-outs continue and that latest point of coverage has been added in just 35 days.