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Bitterly divided FCC severs the Lifeline broadband scheme
© Flickr/cc-licence/US Dept. Agriculture Dogma trumps Internet inclusivity programmeDeepens the digital divide by cutting subsidy to poorest citizensProgramme funded by a levy on fixed line voice...
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Trust me. I'm your ISP. I know what websites are best for you
via flickr © Wesley Fryer (CC BY 2.0) New FCC proposals would result in US ISPs become de facto censorsBig Brother will direct you to the sites he wants you to seeIt's OK though. ISPs will have to be...
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Plastic Fantastic: Demand for POF rising fast
via Flickr © borshop (CC BY 2.0) Bend me, shape me, anyway you want meMass production of Plastic Optical Fibre about to startInexpensive and 10 times lighter than glass30 per cent of the POF market...
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Verizon commits to residential fixed broadband as first 5G use case, but...
© Verizon Verizon to launch 5G “residential broadband services” in up to five markets in 2018First market will be Sacramento, California, part of a broader PPP30 million households identified for...
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Huawei unveils its prototype for cloud VR-enabled home gateways
© Huawei Integrated HGW that supports Cloud-based virtual reality servicesFeatures decoding and rendering capabilitiesCan lower the cost of VR services by around 60 per centWill still require...
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Here's an idea for 2018: a tax on the revenues ISPs make from private user data
© Flickr/cc-licence/ImagesMoney Getting into the guts of the money-making machinesA 2 per cent tax would raise at least $5 billion a year…… To be spent on improving security of private dataData...
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British boffins in broadband breakthrough! Internet access over wet string!
Just add water for Fibrous to the Home connectivity... © Flickr/cc-licence/Stuart B Blighty still has backbone!We have a home-grown solution to a knotty problemBack to the future with British twine...
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Life in the fast lane: Internet download speeds up globally by 31 per cent...
© Flickr/cc-licence/nchenga nchenga Average fixed broadband download speed is now 40Mbit/sFor mobile it is 20Mbit/sIn Laos mobile download speed increased by 249.5 per centIn Puerto Rico it fell by...
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Divine intervention? Adonis flexes his muscles to improve UK mobile broadband
© Flickr/cc-licence/Institute for Government Head of National Infrastructure Commission bangs heads togetherRegulator told to work with government to ensure country gets decent coverageMobile...
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UK government weasels out of election broadband commitment
© Flickr/cc-licence/San Sharma Broadband Universal Service Obligation promise abandonedReplaced by a legal right "to demand" a broadband connectionNo indication how - or even if - that can be...
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Global mobile data traffic up by 115 per cent in a year
via Flickr © Tayloright (CC BY 2.0) India's Reliance Jio and China Unicom account for more than half of worldwide increaseUnlimited mobile data packages driving huge (and probably unsustainable)...
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Is the US Municipal Broadband movement about to gather pace?
via Flickr © danxoneil (CC BY 2.0) First the repeal of net neutrality, now the municipal reactionOne Colorado city council votes 7 to 0 to build its own broadband networkAre there like to be more...
View ArticleDeutsche Telekom leads TIP's work on mmWave solutions for FWA and mobile...
Salil Sawhney, Facebook and Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom The Millimetre Wave (mmWave) project group is a recently-launched initiative of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), which aims to define and...
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The digital voice assistant is here to stay, but how disruptive is it likely...
Amazon's Echo Spot 2018 proclaimed the year of the digital voice assistantAnalysts expect a surge this yearOwners say they use their smartphones less since their DVA purchaseIt looks very much as...
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Big names continue to dominate the optical networking Premier League
via Flickr © isfullofcrap (CC BY 2.0) Same Top Three as in 2016 but relative league positions changedNo immediate challenge to the established order envisaged...… but players lower down the league...
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Can community fibre do America a better job at a cheaper rate than the...
via Flickr © USDAgov (CC BY 2.0) Study finds US Community Broadband almost always offers better prices than incumbent broadband providersThe researchers reached this conclusion despite a huge lack of...
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UK achieves 95 per cent "superfast" broadband coverage
© BT BDUK Government says it has delivered on its election pledge for broadband24Mbit/s broadband now available to 19 out of 20 UK homes and businessesOpenreach says it covered 27m properties between...
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BT squeezed between the rock of awful results and the hard place of more...
via Flickr © Chatham House, London (CC BY 2.0) BT almost simultaneously firing and hiringGoing to take fibre to three million homes by 2020Winning Premier League football rights not crucialBT finds...
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Rzeszów, Poland, a smart city surfing the millimetre wave
via Flickr © centralniak (CC BY 2.0) Haven't heard about it? You soon willCity shows how millimetre wave can transform urban connectivityRzeszów's annual telecoms costs down by 60 per centInitiative...
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SpaceX is rekindling memories of Iridium and the multi-billion dollar LEO...
© CC licences/TTV montage Wednesday is expected to see the launch of SpaceX’s broadband test birdsIt’s Elon Musk vs Masayoshi Son in the clash of the tech titansThe winner gets a global ISP in space;...
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Nokia & Facebook work on gigabit wireless; Radisys open sources its 4G RAN...
Nokia and Facebook work together to expand ecosystem for Fixed Wireless Access over 60 GHzRadisys Open Sources its 4G RAN Software on the road to 5GMore in this series tomorrow Nokia and Facebook work...
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Lower latency is one of the big gains on offer from 5G. Turns out it’s fairly...
via Flickr © Janitors (CC BY 2.0) As it becomes apparent that the top-end access speeds generated by LTE Advanced are as good as the speeds expected by initial 5G deployments, there have been cries of...
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It’s still OK to call this stuff fibre, says the UK’s advertising watchdog
via Flickr © brewbooks (CC BY-SA 2.0) When the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority green flagged BT’s misleading broadband advertising in late 2014, we concluded that to do so they were either...
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Competition: German ‘Internet tycoon’ challenges DT to join his fibre venture
Angela Merkel: a politician with money to spend on fibre to the home via Flickr © EU2017EE (CC BY 2.0) Despite Deutsche Telekom’s recent flurry of announcements concerning its broadband activities in...
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Free money for ‘full fibre’ connections: the UK government chips in
via Flickr © wwarby (CC BY 2.0) UK government responding to cries of pain over fibre penetrationOffers voucher scheme especially targetted at creating gigabit SMEsScheme will last until March 2021 or...
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Vendors get serious about tackling WiFi's notspot problem
OK, who's interfering with my WiFi? Dense housing in Guangzhou, via Flickr © xiquinhosilva (CC BY 2.0) 5G may be hogging the headlines, but inside homes and offices nothing is likely to oust WiFiNow...
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UK's Virgin Media ups its data rate, CityFibre names its third city and the...
UK ultra-fast broadband market seems to be movingTwo announcements today and talk of a government rethinkUK cable TV company, Virgin Media, today announced that it was upping the competitive heat in...
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Ericsson tie-up with Amlogic will enable further ‘personalisation’ via...
via Flickr © flickingerbrad (CC BY 2.0) Ericsson claims TV operators can add personalisation for customersCustomers get speedy and easy access to range of content, including High Dynamic Range...
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Huawei sees growth potential close to home with the $1 trillion ASEAN market
© ASEAN Huawei seeks to support ASEAN digital connectivity growthLaunch of new connectivity solutions for a unified digital marketCollectively, ASEAN is the sixth largest economy in the worldPotential...
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Altnets are building up to pass half the UK’s population by 2025
Source: INCA UK Altnets have fibred past double the number of premises passed by OpenreachExpect to 'reach' half the UK population by 2025How much has the BT 'fibre broadband' naming row affected...
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