The FCC has announced the approval of nearly $800 million from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) that will go to providers including Nextlink and Starry.
Fixed wireless access (FWA) providers are the main beneficiaries of the RDOF fund as the FCC bets on their ability to...
Virgin Media O2, NEC, and Rakuten have activated their first commercial sites as part of an Open RAN partnership.
Open RAN helps to break up the relative monopoly held by a handful of telecom equipment vendors and provides greater diversity in national infrastructure.
“The...
SpaceX is partnering with T-Mobile on an ambitious plan to offer “satellite-to-cellular” service.
Connectivity will be provided by SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink satellites in combination with T-Mobile’s mid-band 5G spectrum.
T-Mobile says the “vast...
Nokia and Safaricom have trialled Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network slicing on a live 4G and 5G network in Africa.
Network slicing enables operators to divide their networks into multiple virtual slices that can be optimised for a specific application or service. Each slice can be...
The Solomon Islands has secured a $66 million loan from China to build 161 mobile towers built and supplied by Huawei.
Under the terms of the deal, the island nation will receive a 20-year concessional loan from the state-linked Exim Bank of China. The government of the Solomon...
The US Air Force has awarded SpaceX with a $1.9 million contract for its now battle-tested Starlink satellite broadband services.
As part of the contract, the US Air Force will use Starlink to support operations at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. SpaceX will provide Starlink...
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) is organising further BT and Openreach strikes over the coming months.
Around 40,000 Openreach engineers and BT call centre staff undertook strike action last month over “weak, insulting” below-inflation pay rises.
“Workers will...
The FCC has rejected Starlink’s bid for a share of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF).
“After careful legal, technical, and policy review, we are rejecting these applications. Consumers deserve reliable and affordable high-speed broadband,” said Chairwoman...
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a probe into the merger of Viasat and Inmarsat.
Viasat first announced its intention to acquire Inmarsat for $7.3 billion in November 2021. To no surprise, the proposal attracted plenty of attention.
The...
MoneySavingExpert’s Martin Lewis wants roaming charges to be regulated amid rocketing living costs.
UK RPI inflation has reached 11.7 percent, the highest in the G7, and is set to increase further later in the year. People up and down the country are increasingly struggling to make...
Akamai says that it halted what would have been a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in Europe.
Another month comes another report of a would-be record DDoS. Last month, Cloudflare detailed a record-breaking DDoS attack that it thwarted in June. This time,...
BT staff have begun strike action across the country in a row over below-inflation pay rises.
UK RPI inflation has reached 11.7 percent and is set to increase further later in the year. Many employers have offered pay rises to help ensure their staff aren’t left substantially worse...
Mobile network performance measurement firm RootMetrics has named EE the UK’s leader for the ninth year running.
Overall, EE came out on top for all UK-wide RootScore categories ('Reliability', 'Accessibility', 'Speed', 'Data', 'Call', and 'Text').
Marc Allera, CEO of...
The UK Government has announced plans to “unleash” 5G and 6G innovation, including through a partnership with South Korea.
Up to £25 million has been set aside for the ‘Future Open Networks Research Challenge’. Academics and industry players can apply for funding to support...
French satellite firm Eutelsat has confirmed plans to merge with British low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite innovator OneWeb.
Eutelsat operates 36 geostationary (GEO) satellites, of which the first launched in 2000. The high altitudes of GEO satellites cover large geographic areas but...
Ericsson has finally completed its $6.2 billion acquisition of cloud communications provider Vonage after clearing some major hurdles.
The Swedish vendor first announced its biggest-ever acquisition in November last year.
Börje Ekholm, President and CEO of Ericsson, said:...
Virgin Media O2 has boosted its list of services that customers can access for free as part of its efforts to support people during the cost-of-living crisis.
Virgin Media O2 customers will now be able to access the National Debtline, Business Debtline, Turn2us, Debt Advice...
A telecoms union has confirmed that over 40,000 BT staff will go on strike at the end of July due to below-inflation pay rises.
Earlier this month, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned that it would move forward with plans to strike over a “weak, insulting” pay deal unless...
A botnet called Mantis has been linked to record-breaking attacks targeting Cloudflare customers.
Last month, Cloudflare said that it successfully mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack of 26 million requests per second. Just a couple of months earlier, Cloudflare reported that it...
Ericsson, Thales and Qualcomm Technologies plan to take 5G out of this world and across a network of Earth-orbiting satellites.
After having each conducted detailed research which included multiple studies and simulations, the parties plan to enter smartphone-use-case-focused testing...
Global satellite communications firm Viasat has been selected by Virgin Atlantic to provide in-flight connectivity for its new aircraft.
Three of Virgin Atlantic’s newest planes, the A330neo (Airbus A330-900), are due to be delivered in September. The company ordered 14 of the...
Customers of all four UK mobile network operators (MNOs) will enjoy 4G/5G connectivity across the London Tube.
Shashi Verma, CTO at Transport for London (TfL), said:
“Mobile connectivity across the stations and tunnels across the Tube network will help our customers stay...
ABI Research predicts that 75 percent of 5G networks will be upgraded to 5G-Advanced by 2030.
Global mobile network standards collaboration project 3GPP approved Release-18, the first release of the 5G-Advanced standard, in December 2021. The stage two functional freeze is planned for...
BT employees will go on strike following a “weak, insulting” pay deal that fails to counter the impact of high inflation.
Earlier this year, BT offered a £1,500 pay increase for employees. With RPI inflation levels hitting 11.7 percent, it’s been labelled a “dramatic...
The FCC has granted SpaceX provisional clearance to provide its Starlink satellite connectivity to moving vehicles.
Starlink has been delivering impressive broadband speeds to static ground terminals for some time, including in Ukraine.
SpaceX hasn’t been officially...
A new survey highlights the growing appetite for O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) technologies.
Jabil commissioned SIS International Research to conduct this year’s 5G Technology Trends Survey. 193 stakeholders that are directly involved “in the development, implementation, or...
Research shows that 89% of purchasers want two-way discussions with organizations by means of various channels. However, more than half (53%) said they were disappointed at how they frequently can't answer to a message sent from a business, whether to pose an inquiry, get an update, or complete...
China has gained a fourth mobile operator as China Broadnet begins offering services in the country.
The operator was established in 2020 as the China Broadcasting Network (CBN) but never offered any services.
Earlier this month, there was a sign that something was afoot...
Jurassic Fibre, a broadband internet network developer, has announced ambitious plans to increase the rollout of its ultrafast fibre network to cover 500,000 homes and businesses across 30 towns and villages in the South West by 2026.
The announcement coincided with a visit from The...
Lumine Group, a division of Volaris Group focused on the communications and media vertical, has acquired TOMIA, an innovator in global connectivity monetisation solutions.
TOMIA’s software optimises and orchestrates critical inter-carrier business processes including data and...
