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China signs up 400 million new 5G subscribers in a year, more than doubling user population

730 million 5G services active in Middle Kingdom, while another 100 million 4G services came online too

21 Jan 2022 02:54 | 4

Networks

Indian government tells Starlink to refund pre-orders placed before licences approved

Elon Musk's satellite internet company 'remains excited to serve' the country

05 Jan 2022 12:57 | 26

In brief

Infosec bods: After more than a year, Sky gets round to squashing hijacking bug in 6m home broadband routers

Plus: DNS cache poisoning again, cops probe property conveyancing group's IT outage, Azure hole addressed, and more

23 Nov 2021 07:31 | 15

Networks

Brits complained a bit less about connectivity when they were allowed to go outside and see people in the flesh

Top of Ofcom's table for broadband whinges? It rhymes with BorkBork

17 Nov 2021 09:30 | 12

Networks

Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know

Infrastructure bill brings $65bn to freshen up American internet

10 Nov 2021 01:57 | 25

Networks

Amazon hasn't launched one internet satellite yet, but it's now planning a fleet of 7,774

Low Earth orbit is going to be chockablock with broadband-beaming birds

05 Nov 2021 22:44 | 59

Networks

Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government

Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register

20 Oct 2021 10:45 | 89

Interview

UK altnet CityFibre's boss on its hopes to capitalise on market churn as fibre broadband rolls out

Openreach out and touch a rival

29 Sep 2021 08:30 | 21

Networks

Ofcom unveils broadband switching plans, but providers claim it's not so easy

‘One Touch Switch’ is great, but logistics are an issue for BT, while Virgin cites data protection worries

28 Sep 2021 16:30 | 22

Networks

Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of

'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired

24 Sep 2021 02:58 | 9

Networks

3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection

ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G

21 Sep 2021 06:35 | 16

Networks

Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet

Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment

17 Sep 2021 00:22 | 39

Networks

G7 countries outgun UK in worldwide broadband speed test

Ofcom: You know, superfast broadband is available if you'd care to take it up

14 Sep 2021 13:01 | 50

Security

New Zealand internet outage blamed on DDoS attack on nation's third largest internet provider

Here in the UK, Sky broadband users back online

03 Sep 2021 13:13 | 9

Networks

BT says it's trading in line with expectations as revenue slides and pre-tax profit shrinks

Former state monopoly talks up FTTP build out, as does Virgin Media

29 Jul 2021 14:03 | 3

Networks

Remember the bloke who was told by Zen Internet to contact his MP about crap service? Yeah, it's still not fixed

Fear not! Issue is at the 'highest level of escalation,' says ISP

26 Jul 2021 15:10 | 69

Networks

Subcontractors working on CityFibre's £45m Derby rollout threaten to 'rip up tarmac' in dispute over payments

Main contractor J McCann insists it takes its obligations 'very seriously'

23 Jul 2021 15:15 | 45

Networks

India changes tack and tenders for public-private partnerships to complete national broadband rollout

Tender issued to wire 361,000 thousand more villages, with $2.5bn subsidies dangled

23 Jul 2021 04:30 | 3

Feature

In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere

We've come a long way from Terry Wogan's celeb interviews

22 Jul 2021 09:15 | 90

Personal Tech

BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers

Cos 4G and 5G will be all hunky-dory by then, yeah?

15 Jul 2021 07:31 | 84

Networks

Why won't you copper-ate? Openreach offers capped fibre line rental to wholesalers in bid to shift all that FTTP

Nation's broadband plumber increasingly desperate to ditch its copper network

01 Jul 2021 14:31 | 22

Networks

Openreach to UK businesses: Switch is about to hit the fan. Prepare for withdrawal of the copper-based phone network now or risk disruption

PSTN to be axed in 2025

01 Jul 2021 08:30 | 53

Networks

Price-capped broadband on hold for New York State after judge rules telcos would 'suffer unrecoverable losses'

Injunction halts introduction of $15-a-month fee for low-income households

14 Jun 2021 19:11 | 14

Networks

UK launches consultation on forcing landlords to allow gigabit broadband upgrades

We want to give your property better internets for free, pls respond

09 Jun 2021 13:46 | 20

Networks

UK's BT starts trials of new hollow-core optical fibre networks

Promises lower latencies, higher power thresholds

01 Jun 2021 15:17 | 41

Networks

10.8 million UK homes now have access to gigabit-capable broadband, with much of the legwork done by Virgin Media

That's 37% of the country covered, and BT is expected to pick up the pace too

14 May 2021 14:27 | 47

Networks

Openreach slaps another 5 million premises on top of FTTP connection target, expects to pay 'minimal tax in the UK' over next few years

We'll hire 7,000 to get it done by 2026, says boss

13 May 2021 14:39 | 10

Networks

Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years

Our plan is better than President Biden's, they claim, with few details

23 Apr 2021 18:32 | 24

Personal Tech

FCC urges Americans to run internet speed app to counter Big Cable's broadband data fudging

Effort to get accurate info gets more serious under new chairwoman

12 Apr 2021 22:57 | 32

Networks

Openreach out and hike prices on legacy fixed-line products: Broadband plumber pulls trigger after Ofcom gives the nod

BT Group arm says it'll 'encourage' switch to modern kit; ISP says consumers on legacy CAN'T switch

01 Apr 2021 09:05 | 68

Networks

Biden's $2tn infrastructure plan includes massive broadband rollout, equates internet access with water and power as essential utilities

Plus $50bn pledge to boost chip R&D and fabbing in Land of the Free

31 Mar 2021 19:45 | 19

Networks

Grotesque soundbyte alert: UK government opens wallet to help rural areas get 'gigafit'

Tough luck if you're in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales

19 Mar 2021 16:19 | 46

Networks

Ofcom says no price controls on full-fibre broadband until 2031, giving BT's Openreach the kick to 'build like fury'

Analyst: 'Ultimate winner is BT as it's avoided cost-based regulation for next half decade'

18 Mar 2021 14:25 | 38

Networks

ISP industry blasts UK Telecoms Security Bill for vague requirements, high costs of compliance

'They're dictating how to monitor networks, without fully understanding the impact on the sector'

12 Mar 2021 11:32 | 20

Networks

Copper broadband phaseout will leave UK customers with higher bills and less choice, says comparison site

It seems people are OK with paying more for faster internet, though

25 Feb 2021 16:46 | 93

Networks

House Republicans introduce legislation for outright ban on municipal broadband in the US

Doomed bill seems to forget municipal broadband exists due to failures of private sector

19 Feb 2021 22:57 | 84

Networks

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Well, that's a new one

18 Feb 2021 09:30 | 66

Networks

Virgin Media adds 200% to its new broadband contracts in 2020, slips back in black (just)

But the growth can't last forever...

16 Feb 2021 17:10 | 19

Networks

UK's Superfast Broadband programme delivered value for money, says report, just don't ask about rural deployments

Which are – you guessed it – behind schedule

03 Feb 2021 15:47 | 19

Networks

Get off my lawn: UK.Gov looks to reform land access laws for network operators weeks after PAC savages full-fibre gigabit targets for 2025

What do we want? Better coverage! How do we want it? Without actual infrastructure

27 Jan 2021 16:25 | 10

In Brief

The UK's first industrial contribution to the ISS: An end to sneakernet for spacefarers

Also: First all-commercial crew named, Boeing readies Starliner again and NASA's ex-boss is off to private equity

27 Jan 2021 12:15 | 10

Networks

Google's Alphabet sticks a pin in its Loon internet broadband service

It never really took off (commercially), apparently

22 Jan 2021 14:02 | 35

Networks

Surprising everyone, spending watchdog says the UK's 2025 deadline for nationwide gigabit broadband is 'unreachable'

Regulatory hurdles, funding, pandemic, and Huawei have made this a big ask – but industry remains determined

08 Jan 2021 14:15 | 20

Networks

UK on track to miss even its slashed full-fibre gigabit coverage goals, warn MPs

Plus: Govt has no targets at all for 5G deployment, claims telco insider

22 Dec 2020 12:20 | 96

Networks

UK comms regulator: Could we interest sir in a bespoke broadband speed estimate?

New Ofcom rules require ISPs to give more personalised measures

15 Dec 2020 16:31 | 16

Networks

Up yours, Europe! Our 100% prime British broadband is cheaper than yours... but also slower and a bit of a rip-off

Stop us if you've heard this one before

15 Dec 2020 13:01 | 153

AI + ML

Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code

Maybe this might work after all

03 Dec 2020 12:30 | 21

Networks

Virgin Media had a flat Q3, managed to roll out gigabit internet to 3 million more premises across Northern Ireland and London

ISP reckons it can hit national coverage by end of next year

05 Nov 2020 16:30 | 2

Networks

SpaceX’s Starlink finally reveals its satellite broadband pricing for rural America: At $99 a month, it’s a good deal

The $499 equipment cost and laggy latency give room for pause

28 Oct 2020 00:33 | 71

Networks

UK's National Audit Office warns full-fibre rollout strategy is leaving rural Britain behind. Again

Tough luck, bumpkins! Broadband speed gap misery to widen, says report

16 Oct 2020 13:00 | 67

Networks

India racks up seven hundred millionth broadband user, with only 20 million tied to wires

955 million mobile phones used on single day in July

14 Oct 2020 04:28 | 8

Comment

AT&T’s CEO has a solution to US broadband woes despite billions sunk into the problem. You’ll never guess what it is

There is no good money after bad if you’re the person receiving it

09 Sep 2020 22:57 | 24

Networks

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

Meanwhile, UK languishes in 47th according to Cable.co.uk rankings

03 Sep 2020 08:07 | 96

Networks

India to run optic fibre to 450,000 villages in 1,000 days and give 1.3bn a digital Health ID

Which may be why PM Narendra Modi has also announced a cyber security policy

17 Aug 2020 00:06 | 15

Networks

Virgin Media CEO says Brit broadband biz 'performed well' in Q2, which is a weird way to say losses almost tripled

More customers, more coverage, but profit proves elusive

04 Aug 2020 15:00 | 16

Networks

Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31%

You can guess why – but in some places internet actually got faster

04 Aug 2020 08:30 | 31

On-Prem

Congratulations Peebles. Felicitations Queenzieburn. Openreach is bringing you FTTP (yes, they're real places)

Full-fibre connections coming to (some of) the UK's 'final third' by 2026

30 Jul 2020 09:25 | 46

Networks

Community Fibre to splash £400m on FTTP connections as it races to cover a million London properties by 2023

10Gbps upgrade from challenger ISP backed by private equity

30 Jul 2020 06:29 | 14

Personal Tech

As the FCC finally starts tackling its dreadful broadband maps, Georgia reveals just how bad they are

Spoiler alert: Cable companies are ripping Americans off

15 Jul 2020 01:56 | 26

Networks

Customers of Brit ISP Virgin Media have downloaded an extra 325GB since March, though we can't think why

That's a lot of... Netflix. Yes, that's it

18 Jun 2020 10:01 | 53

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China signs up 400 million new 5G subscribers in a year, more than doubling user population

Indian government tells Starlink to refund pre-orders placed before licences approved

Infosec bods: After more than a year, Sky gets round to squashing hijacking bug in 6m home broadband routers

Brits complained a bit less about connectivity when they were allowed to go outside and see people in the flesh

Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know

Amazon hasn't launched one internet satellite yet, but it's now planning a fleet of 7,774

Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government

UK altnet CityFibre's boss on its hopes to capitalise on market churn as fibre broadband rolls out

Ofcom unveils broadband switching plans, but providers claim it's not so easy

Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of

3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection

Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet

G7 countries outgun UK in worldwide broadband speed test

New Zealand internet outage blamed on DDoS attack on nation's third largest internet provider

BT says it's trading in line with expectations as revenue slides and pre-tax profit shrinks

Remember the bloke who was told by Zen Internet to contact his MP about crap service? Yeah, it's still not fixed

Subcontractors working on CityFibre's £45m Derby rollout threaten to 'rip up tarmac' in dispute over payments

India changes tack and tenders for public-private partnerships to complete national broadband rollout

In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere

BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers

Why won't you copper-ate? Openreach offers capped fibre line rental to wholesalers in bid to shift all that FTTP

Openreach to UK businesses: Switch is about to hit the fan. Prepare for withdrawal of the copper-based phone network now or risk disruption

Price-capped broadband on hold for New York State after judge rules telcos would 'suffer unrecoverable losses'

UK launches consultation on forcing landlords to allow gigabit broadband upgrades

UK's BT starts trials of new hollow-core optical fibre networks

10.8 million UK homes now have access to gigabit-capable broadband, with much of the legwork done by Virgin Media

Openreach slaps another 5 million premises on top of FTTP connection target, expects to pay 'minimal tax in the UK' over next few years

Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years

FCC urges Americans to run internet speed app to counter Big Cable's broadband data fudging

Openreach out and hike prices on legacy fixed-line products: Broadband plumber pulls trigger after Ofcom gives the nod

Biden's $2tn infrastructure plan includes massive broadband rollout, equates internet access with water and power as essential utilities

Grotesque soundbyte alert: UK government opens wallet to help rural areas get 'gigafit'

Ofcom says no price controls on full-fibre broadband until 2031, giving BT's Openreach the kick to 'build like fury'

ISP industry blasts UK Telecoms Security Bill for vague requirements, high costs of compliance

Copper broadband phaseout will leave UK customers with higher bills and less choice, says comparison site

House Republicans introduce legislation for outright ban on municipal broadband in the US

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Virgin Media adds 200% to its new broadband contracts in 2020, slips back in black (just)

UK's Superfast Broadband programme delivered value for money, says report, just don't ask about rural deployments

Get off my lawn: UK.Gov looks to reform land access laws for network operators weeks after PAC savages full-fibre gigabit targets for 2025

The UK's first industrial contribution to the ISS: An end to sneakernet for spacefarers

Google's Alphabet sticks a pin in its Loon internet broadband service

Surprising everyone, spending watchdog says the UK's 2025 deadline for nationwide gigabit broadband is 'unreachable'

UK on track to miss even its slashed full-fibre gigabit coverage goals, warn MPs

UK comms regulator: Could we interest sir in a bespoke broadband speed estimate?

Up yours, Europe! Our 100% prime British broadband is cheaper than yours... but also slower and a bit of a rip-off

Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code

Virgin Media had a flat Q3, managed to roll out gigabit internet to 3 million more premises across Northern Ireland and London

SpaceX’s Starlink finally reveals its satellite broadband pricing for rural America: At $99 a month, it’s a good deal

UK's National Audit Office warns full-fibre rollout strategy is leaving rural Britain behind. Again

India racks up seven hundred millionth broadband user, with only 20 million tied to wires

AT&T’s CEO has a solution to US broadband woes despite billions sunk into the problem. You’ll never guess what it is

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

India to run optic fibre to 450,000 villages in 1,000 days and give 1.3bn a digital Health ID

Virgin Media CEO says Brit broadband biz 'performed well' in Q2, which is a weird way to say losses almost tripled

Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31%

Congratulations Peebles. Felicitations Queenzieburn. Openreach is bringing you FTTP (yes, they're real places)

Community Fibre to splash £400m on FTTP connections as it races to cover a million London properties by 2023

As the FCC finally starts tackling its dreadful broadband maps, Georgia reveals just how bad they are

Customers of Brit ISP Virgin Media have downloaded an extra 325GB since March, though we can't think why

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