• New York Starts Enforcing $15 Broadband Law That ISPs Tried To Kill; + more notable news -
    January 14, 2025 from DSLreports - front page
    New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill arstechnica.com T-Mobile Once Again Strong Overall, Verizon Excels in 5G: Report telecompetitor.com Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile take on California wildfires...
  • Supreme Court Likely To Uphold TikTok Ban, Favoring Security Over Speech; + more notable news -
    January 13, 2025 from DSLreports - front page
    Supreme Court likely to uphold TikTok ban, favoring security over speech fortune.com T-Mobile Once Again Strong Overall, Verizon Excels in 5G: Report telecompetitor.com Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming...
  • Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About 'Unlimited Data'; + more notable news -
    January 10, 2025 from DSLreports - front page
    Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About Unlimited Data techdirt.com A US judge rules that Google must face a class action claiming Google collected users' personal data from their phones after they turned off...
  • Consumers Cut Streaming Services In 2024 After Endless Price Hikes And Enshittification; + more notable news -
    January 9, 2025 from DSLreports - front page
    Consumers Cut Streaming Services In 2024 After Endless Price Hikes And Enshittification techdirt.com NAD Supports Charter Regarding "Unlimited" Spectrum Data Claims telecompetitor.com TV broadcasters to plunder some of 5G's fat...
  • Washington State's AG Sues T-Mobile, Claiming The Carrier Failed To Secure Personal Info Of 2M+ Residents; + more news -
    January 8, 2025 from DSLreports - front page
    Washington state's AG sues T-Mobile, claiming the carrier failed to adequately secure sensitive personal info of 2M+ residents in an August 2021 cyberattack geekwire.com The White House launches the US Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary...
  • Wireless Is Apparently The New Copper; + more notable news -
    January 7, 2025 from DSLreports - front page
    Wireless is apparently the new copper lightreading.com Forget telco to techco - operators now want to be AI giants fierce-network.com Not willing to give T-Mobile an easy pass, attorney sues for avoidable harm to customers phonearena.com...
  • Chinese Hackers' Attacks On US Telecoms: Charter, Consolidated Comms, Windstream Networks Also Breached; + more news -
    January 6, 2025 from DSLreports - front page
    A look at Chinese hackers' attacks on US infrastructure and telecoms; sources: Charter, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream networks were also breached wsj.com Amazon plans to launch satellite broadband service in Britain...
  • US Arrests US Army Soldier Who Sold Customer Data From The AT&T and Verizon Snowflake hack; + more news -
    December 31, 2024 from DSLreports - front page
    The US arrests a US Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, who sold sensitive customer call records stolen from AT&T and Verizon in the Snowflake hack krebsonsecurity.com China-backed hackers breached US Treasury workstations...
  • AT&T And Verizon Say Their Networks Are Now Clear After The Salt Typhoon Intrusion; + more notable news -
    December 30, 2024 from DSLreports - front page
    AT&T and Verizon say their networks are now clear after the Salt Typhoon intrusion; AT&T says a few individuals of foreign intelligence interest were targeted bloomberg.com The Year Democrats Lost the Internet wired.com Will cable...
  • AT&T Can Substitute Wireless Home Phone For Copper, FCC Says; + more notable news -
    December 24, 2024 from DSLreports - front page
    AT&T can substitute wireless home phone for copper, FCC says seattletimes.com Will cable broadband rebound or merely stabilize? lightreading.com Fiber deployments top another record in 2024 fierce-network.com CWA says AT&T is poised to...
  • Space-Age Mobile Is Here To Connect Billions And Unlock Global Markets; + more notable news -
    December 23, 2024 from DSLreports - front page
    Space-Age Mobile Is Here To Connect Billions And Unlock Global Markets forbes.com Crown Castle, Lumen reportedly closer to selling their fiber networks lightreading.com $2 per megabyte: AT&T mistakenly charged customer $6,223 for 3.1GB...
  • Broken USF May Require A Congressional Solution; + more notable news -
    December 20, 2024 from DSLreports - front page
    Broken USF May Require a Congressional Solution telecompetitor.com Trump is expected to free lower 3GHz for 5G lightreading.com Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses - the 1st Amendment might stop him arstechnica.com Not...
  • Beavers Kill Fiber Route
    July 24, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • Satellites and Cellular Backhaul
    July 21, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • The Growing Rate of Standalone Broadband Adoption
    July 20, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • Computing Clouds in Orbit – A Possible Roadmap
    July 20, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • The Dumb Pipe Question
    July 14, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • The Internet and the Cloud Are Going Into Space
    July 13, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • A Simulation of the SpaceX, Amazon, Telesat and OneWeb Broadband Satellite Constellations
    July 13, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • 5G Base Stations $13,000 in China
    July 13, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • Where are the Gigabit Applications?
    July 9, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • New Innovations in Free Space Optics
    July 5, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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 Interview: SpaceX, Starlink and His Motivation and Philosophy
    July 3, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • The Infrastructure Guessing Game
    June 30, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • Capping Broadband Internet by Design
    June 28, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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 New Broadband Map
    June 22, 2021 from CircleID: Broadband
    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...
  • What's the Right Definition of Upload Speed?
    June 18, 2021 from CircleID: 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...
  • Zzoomm adds Cannock to its full fibre build list
    May 18, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    Following on from the news about Crewe becoming a Zzoomm fibre town Cannock has now been added to the list.
  • Zzoomm to build FTTP network in Crewe
    May 17, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    Crewe joins Ascot, Hereford and Thirsk as areas on the build list where Zzoomm is going to deliver its full fibre service.
  • Broadband package speeds in April 2021
    May 17, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • Openreach increases ambition from 20 million to 25 million FTTP premises
    May 13, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • Openreach adds 27 new areas to its Fibre Towns and Villages list
    May 12, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    The expected update to the transparency lists that Openreach update each quarter has taken place and the 27 new areas are confirmed.
  • New record of 204,301 premises of Openreach FTTP added in last month
    May 12, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • What kit BT offers as part of its Digital Voice Migration
    May 11, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • 77 Openreach exchanges in next tranche of places for copper stop sell
    May 11, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • April 2021 update on broadband availability across the UK, nations and regions
    May 7, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • Openreach issues copper stop sell for Mildenhall
    May 7, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    Following on from Salisbury the second PSTN switch off location has had a stop sell notice placed for the old copper based products.
  • 4 out of 10 properties now have a Gigabit broadband option
    May 6, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    40% of UK premises now have the option of access to an FTTP connection or Virgin Media DOCSIS 3.1 connection.
  • Fibrus full fibre in and around Coalisland, Northern Ireland
    May 5, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    The rural areas around Coalisland are some of the first parts of Project Stratum to go live in Northern Island.
  • KCOM launches pilot to wholesale FTTP in two towns
    May 4, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • Tracking of Openreach FTTP roll-out in Northern Ireland breaks 530,000 premises
    May 4, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • New BT Home Essentials social tariff service just £15/m
    May 3, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • Ofcom finds number of homes without internet access falls from 11% to 6%
    April 29, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • £25 billion boost to productivity with nationwide full fibre
    April 29, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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 Openreach full fibre roll-out speeding up
    April 27, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • Broadband Provider package speeds in March 2021
    April 24, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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.
  • More Gigaclear FTTP in Essex and spring price offer
    April 23, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    Little Easton in Essex is one of latest Gigaclear locations added to our broadband mapping.
  • How popular are the different broadband technologies?
    April 22, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    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 celebrates 100th customer in Portsmouth
    April 21, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    Giganet who is one of the retailers for the CityFibre network in Portsmouth is celebrating a small milestone in terms of connecting customers.
  • Another point of FTTP coverage in UK, but still 78% without it as an option
    April 18, 2021 from thinkbroadband news feed
    The UK full fibre roll-outs continue and that latest point of coverage has been added in just 35 days.
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