Broadband

Ofcom: Telecom Firms Must Do More To Help Struggling Customers

Despite falling average telecom prices, two million UK homes are struggling to afford internet access, comms regulator finds

3 years ago

Keep Virgin Media O2 Routers Out Of Direct Sunlight

Hot hot hot. Virgin Media O2 warns customers to keep their home broadband routers out of sun during the UK's…

3 years ago

Japan Sets Data Transfer Speed Record Of 319Tbps

Researchers in Japan have set a stunning data transmission speed record of 319Tbps, over a long distance of 3,001km or…

3 years ago

Amazon Acquires Facebook’s Satellite Internet Team

Amazon pays Facebook an undisclosed sum of money to acquire the social networking giant's satellite Internet team of specialists

3 years ago

BT Confirms 3G Service Will Be ‘Retired’ In 2023

BT 3G connectivity will be retired in 2023, as carrier pledges to make 5G connectivity available in 90 percent of…

3 years ago

OneWeb Gains Additional $500m Funding From Bharti

Busy period for OneWeb with additional funding, launch of more satellites, and signing deal with BT for rural broadband provision

3 years ago

Shared Rural Network Update Issued By Government

Progress report on £1 billion Shared Rural Network shows Scotland, Wales, North East England benefiting from 4G rural coverage

3 years ago

EE First Operator To Reinstate European Roaming Charge

EE has become the first UK mobile operator to reinstate roaming charges for customers in Europe, but only for new…

3 years ago

Starlink Will Go Public When Cash Flow Stabilises – Elon Musk

SpaceX's Elon Musk confirms the Starlink broadband satellite venture will eventually apply for an initial public offering (IPO)

3 years ago

SpaceX Starlink To Provide Global Coverage By September

SpaceX's Starlink fleet of satellites is to deliver continuous global coverage by around September, its president has revealed

3 years ago

Sir Tim Berners-Lee To Auction Web Source Code As NFT

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to auction off the original source code for World Wide Web as a NFT later this…

3 years ago

Biden Urged To Appoint FCC Commissioner To Speed Net Neutrality Return

US President Biden has been urged to appoint a fifth commissioner to “ensure a fully functional Federal Communications Commission"

3 years ago

Vodafone Chooses Samsung For 5G, Open RAN

Watch out Nokia, Ericsson? Samsung gains 5G foothold in Europe after Vodafone UK opts for equipment from South Korean giant

3 years ago

French Telecoms Giant Altice Acquires Stake In BT

France's second largest telecoms firm Altice purchases 12 percent stake in British carrier BT, but denies takeover intentions

3 years ago

US Senate Passes Bill To Counter China Tech Threat

US Senate passes $250bn US Innovation and Competition Act that seeks to counter global influence of Chinese technology, and encourage…

3 years ago

Major Websites Down After Global Outage

Major internet outage knocks oflline big name websites such as UK Government, Amazon, CNN, Bloomberg, Financial Times offline

3 years ago

Openreach Doubles Rural Full Fibre Deployment Target

Good new for rural broadband as Openreach doubles its target for 1Gbps full fibre to 6.2 million rural homes and…

3 years ago

White House Signals Compromise On Broadband Funding

Biden administration indicates willingness to accept Republicans' lower funding offer for broadband plan, amidst negotiations over broader $2tn package

3 years ago

Virgin Media, O2 Merger Achieves Final Clearance By CMA

CMA gives its official blessing to merger of O2 and Virgin Media, after being 'reassured that competition … will remain…

3 years ago

BT Targets Hull To Begin Removal Of Huawei Kit – Report

BT begins program to remove Huawei equipment from its 4G and 5G mobile network, with Hull in East Yorkshire being…

3 years ago

Google Cloud, SpaceX Sign Deal For Enterprise Cloud Services

Elon Musk's SpaceX is to deliver Google Cloud services to enterprises at the 'network edge', via the Starlink constellation

3 years ago

BT Raises FTTP Target To 25 Million Premises

Despite a tough financial year, an extra five million premises has been added to BT's deployment of FTTP broadband, creating…

3 years ago

Virgin Media Ranked Worst For Broadband, Mobile Wait Times

Virgin Media kept customers waiting longest on customer service calls for both mobile and broadband, while giffgaff and EE ranked…

4 years ago

Old Routers Pose Security Risk, Warns Which?

Elderly routers that can no longer receive firmware updates posed security risk to millions of people, consumer group Which? warns

4 years ago

Starlink Signs Up 500,000 Pre-Orders For Satellite Internet

Elon Musk space venture SpaceX has already signed 500,000 customers on pre-order for its Starlink satellite broadband service

4 years ago

BT Half Price Fibre Broadband For Low Income Households

More than four million households on Universal Credit could benefit after BT confirms at-cost social tariff for fibre broadband

4 years ago

Eutelsat Buys 24 Percent Stake In OneWeb For $550m

French satellite operator Eutelsat joins British government and Bharti, with investment so as to access to its LEO broadband constellation

4 years ago

OneWeb Grows Total Constellation To 182 satellites With New Launch

Latest satellite launch in Russia by government-owned OneWeb, increases total number of in-orbit constellation to 182 satellites

4 years ago

Telephone Landline Usage In ‘Terminal Decline’, Uswitch Finds

As usage of WhatsApp, Zoom etc soars, the humble telephone landline declines, with 26 percent not even bothering to connect…

4 years ago

Rural Mobile Phone Masts To Be Heightened By 20 Percent

Government efforts to tackle rural not spots will see mobile phone masts being up to five metres taller than existing…

4 years ago