Google set to sell satellite business and cool connectivity ambitions
Google is reportedly continuing its retreat from the connectivity segments via talks to sell its Skybox Imaging satellite business.
Google is reportedly continuing its retreat from the connectivity segments via talks to sell its Skybox Imaging satellite business.
While the majority of us were working our ways through a mountain of turkey, some poor sods were still in work making sure everything still worked.
The UK government has had the nerve to repackage £440 million clawed back from BT for fixed-line investment as a ‘windfall’.
Sky has unveiled its latest attack on the UK broadband market with what it claims is the lowest priced fibre offer and a new approach to advertising.
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has embarked on a frenzy of pre-Christmas publication and had concluded our broadband is still not good enough.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced the launch of a new fund which that aims to raise €500 million for network deployments in underserved areas throughout Europe.
Although Internet access has long been ridiculed as a first world problem new research from Which? has shown broadband is now considered as important as running water and a dry place to sleep.
Ofcom has unveiled its masterplan to reduce the UK’s reliance on Openreach, allowing CSPs greater access to BT’s ducts and poles to encourage rivals to lay their own ‘full-fibre’ networks.
It’s been in the pipeline for what seems like forever but Sky has finally put us out of our misery and launched its assault on the UK mobile segment.
In light of Ofcom’s attempts to prize Openreach from BT, the wider telecoms industry has reacted. Some with glee, some with scepticism, and some with cynicism.
Ofcom has finally decided that BT is to separate from its Openreach business. The regulator has, after much deliberation, concluded the long running saga, and it’s not good news for BT.
Seemingly not content with the noise been made by the ‘Fix Britain’s Internet’ campaign, Three has stepped up its whining this Christmas with a new crusade known as ‘MakeTheAirFair’.
Deutsche Telekom and its friends with benefits have helped joined the mile-high club following trials to bring LTE-based connectivity to the skies.
Huawei has announced three new products which it claims will help customers move towards the ‘full cloudification of wireless networks’.
Huawei reckons the early success of 5G lays with successfully interoperating new radio infrastructure with existing LTE.
After months of what looked like empty rhetoric, the UK government is finally getting its act together and will announce a £1.1 billion investment lottery for fibre and 5G.
LTE has the potential to revolutionise emergency services communications, but it needs to be nothing less than 100% reliable, according to CEO of the TCCA, Phil Kidner in an interview with Telecoms.com at AfricaCom 2016.
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has set the telco industry in its sights as it looks into the language used in broadband speed marketing campaigns.
With the quarterlies crazy season over and done with Telecoms.com had a look back over the last couple of weeks to decide who the winners and the losers were out of the European telcos.
Basic electricity for Africa’s 600 million disconnected citizens will always be more important than internet, according to AfricaCom 2016’s keynote speakers.