- 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.
- 5G Conspiracy Theorists Are Embracing New Wireless Technology Called 5G pcmag.com Virgin Media Ranked Worst In UK For Broadband, Mobile Wait Times silicon.co.uk Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast,...
- A multi-year investigation into 2017 net neutrality rulemaking finds 18 million fake comments were filed with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and half a million fake letters were sent to Congress. According to the Office...
- 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.
- Broadband providers bankrolled fake net neutrality opposition; Attorney General confirms 18 million of the more than 22 million comments the FCC received in its 2017 proceeding to repeal net neutrality rules were fake lightreading.com...
- Following on from Salisbury the second PSTN switch off location has had a stop sell notice placed for the old copper based products.
- SpaceX on Tuesday disclosed that it has received 500,000 preorders for its Starlink satellite internet service and that it anticipates no technical problems meeting the demand. But Elon Musk says it could be "more of a challenge when we...
- Cable's Broadband Monopoly Continues To Protect It From TV Cord Cutting techdirt.com Cable Firms Fear Being Left in Dust in Biden Fast-Internet Quest bnnbloomberg.ca Full speed ahead for low-latency DOCSIS lightreading.com The best ISPs...
- 40% of UK premises now have the option of access to an FTTP connection or Virgin Media DOCSIS 3.1 connection.
- SpaceX has received over 500,000 preorders for Starlink satellite internet service, anticipates no technical problems meeting the demand itnews.com.au T-Mobile Reports Quarterly Results, Smashes Estimates webpronews.com Qualcomm...
- The rural areas around Coalisland are some of the first parts of Project Stratum to go live in Northern Island.
- There have been rumors for years about merging Dish Networks and Direct TV to try to gain as much market synergy as possible for the two sinking businesses. It's hard to label these companies as failures just yet because between two...
- 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.
- Only 14% Of Americans Think Communities Shouldn't Be Allowed To Build Their Own Broadband Networks techdirt.com Biden s broadband plan would leave rural America behind protocol.com T-Mobile Joins FCC Emergency Broadband Benefit Program...
- 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.
- The new Biden Administration in the USA laid out a $100 billion proposal for broadband investment as part of its $2 trillion+ infrastructure plan. Under the proposal, the plan is to provide national broadband coverage. The Administration...
- New York requires $15 broadband for poor people, promptly gets sued by ISPs arstechnica.com Canadian Government Wants To Regulate Social Media Like Broadcast techdirt.com Verizon is nearing a deal to sell its media division, including...
- 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.
- OpenSignal: 5G-capable devices access mmWave 5G less than 1% of the time across all US carriers; Verizon leads with just 0.8% availability arstechnica.com President Biden taps Kamala Harris to lead the admins rural-broadband initiative...
- Here are the states with the fastest internet - Rhode Island is tops at 129 Mbps, and Montana slowest at 54.4 Mbps techrepublic.com Iowa governor signs into law broadband expansion program apnews.com Report: T-Mobile Has Best 5G Download...
- 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.
- FCC lets SpaceX cut satellite altitude to improve Starlink speed and latency arstechnica.com France invests $550m in OneWeb to challenge Musk s SpaceX easterneye.biz YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue...
- There was a recent dispute between OneWeb and SpaceX regarding the possibility of a collision between two of their low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. OneWeb's satellite (OneWeb-1078) was launched on March 25 and headed for its orbit at an...
- Internet service was down for nearly 900 customers in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, over the weekend after beavers chewed through a crucial fiber cable, resulting in "extensive" damage. According to a statement from the area's telecom...
- 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.
- Frontier Sets Bankruptcy Exit Date, Names New Board telecompetitor.com AT&T is upgrading the speeds of its Fiber home internet plans cnet.com Starlink creates risk of internet investment doom cycle, says APNIC researcher theregister.com...
- 'It's the biggest thing in the history of the internet': Pentagon quietly transfers 175 million internet addresses to mysterious firm in Florida dailymail.co.uk Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in...
- 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.
- Senate Republicans propose $65B for broadband lightreading.com Comcast Full Duplex DOCSIS trial pumps out 4-Gig symmetrical speedst lightreading.com Starlink creates risk of internet investment doom cycle, says APNIC researcher...
- There was a headline in a recent FierceTelecom article that I thought I'd never see — Jeffries analyst says the rural broadband market is ripe for investment. In the article, analyst George Notter is quoted talking about how hot...
- 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.
- Even though 5G hasn't yet made it onto any cellphone, the wireless vendor industry is already off and running looking at the next generation of wireless technology that has been dubbed as 6G. Hexa-X project aims to be the next generation...
- The UK full fibre roll-outs continue and that latest point of coverage has been added in just 35 days.
- More FTTP, this time the village of Merriot has gained access to full fibre via Gigaclear.
- I still run across articles that extol the supposed wonders of 5G. The most recent, published in Gizmodo asks " How 5G Could Replace Your Home Broadband Connection ”. I was surprised to see an article like this in a tech-oriented...
- The number of premises passed by CityFibre with its FTTP roll-out has reached 506,143 premises.
- Openreach is to invest £100 million to pass 100,000 more premises with FTTP in Northern Ireland and take on another 100 apprentices.
- The last month set a new record for the amount of Openreach FTTP found and added to our records and the Fibre First programme has broken the 2 million premises passed mark.
- This post is a little more lighthearted than my normal blog posts. An article in FierceWireless caught my eye talking about how Nokia plans to establish a 4G network on the Moon. The primary purpose of the wireless technology will be to...
- Percentage Increase in VPN Traffic (a US ISP) – The notable drop-off on weekend use makes it pretty clear that this traffic is due to work/learn-from-home activity. (Source: NETSCOUT) ISPs in the U.S. saw a significant surge in...
- The UK full fibre roll-outs continue with the UK now at 21.58% FTTP coverage and around 7% of all the speed tests we see are using an FTTP connection.
- Reading the White House $100 billion broadband plan was a bit eerie because it felt like I could have written it. The plan espouses the same policies that I've been recommending. This plan is 180 degrees different than the Congress plan...
- Starlink is now delivering initial beta service both domestically and internationally, and will continue expansion to near global coverage of the populated world in 2021. (Source: Starlink) We are getting closer to using alternative...