August greetings from Cedar Rapids and Kansas City. This week’s opening picture comes courtesy of the 49th Annual St Jude’s Sweet Corn Festival held from August 9-11 in Cedar Rapids. The weather and food were quintissential Iowa. Next up: experiencing Iowa Hawkeye football – stay...
During the first half of 2024, Globe had activated 356 new 5G sites across the Philippines
Globe Telecom, which is the largest mobile network operator in the Philippines, said it deployed 894 new 5G sites nationwide during the course of 2023.
During the first half of...
Bell now offers "5G+" coverage to more than 40% of the Canadian population
Canadian carrier Bell is on track to reach 85% of the country’s population with its 5G service by the end of 2023, the company’s President and CEO Mirko Bibic said during a...
The report noted that despite the progress in 5G networks and FTTH deployments, the European continent risks falling short of its “gigabit for all by 2030” target by 10%
5G technology was available to 73% of the European population by the end of 2022, up...
Nokia said that the test showed that 25G PON can co-exist with Telefonica’s existing GPON solution
Nokia announced that Spanish operator Telefonica has successfully trialed 25G PON technology.
The Finnish vendor said in a release that the trial, the first in Spain to demonstrate symmetric speeds...
Deutsche Telekom highlighted that more than 80,000 antennas are currently transmitting 5G
German carrier Deutsche Telekom said its 5G network already reaches 94% of the country’s population.
In a release, the European carrier noted that it expects its 5G technology could reach 99% of the Germany...
Residential broadband — it’s certainly not a new concept, but it is one that’s receiving a lot of attention these days. The global pandemic shone a spotlight on the great digital divide and lack of reliable connectivity for vast swaths of the global population...
The passive optical components in the Corning solution complements the active components in the Nokia solution, said the companies
Wesco International, which provides business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, says that it will be the first to launch a new fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) kit featuring components provided...
Vodafone and Altice will each own 50% of the 7-billion-euro joint fiber venture
Vodafone has partnered with Amsterdam-based Altice to launch a 7-billion-euro ($6.8 billion) fiber broadband network in Germany. Each company will own 50% of the joint venture, which they are calling FibreCo.
According to Vodafone,...
Editor’s note: We are very thankful for friends like Jennifer who are there when parental moves come into the picture. Today’s opening picture was snapped last night as we prepared for the last leg of the “Planes, Automobiles, Hurricane, U-Haul, Trains” variant of the...
Swisscom's midband "5G+" service uses frequencies at 3.5 GHz
Swiss operator Swisscom said it has turned up its midband-spectrum-based "5G+" service on 2,230 antennas in 985 locations.
During the first half of the year, Swisscom added a total of 255 midband-enabled antennas nationwide.
The telco’s 5G+ service...
The three governments want content providers to subsidize EU 5G and broadband buildouts.
The European Commission is under increasing pressure to make tech giants pay for the buildout of telecom infrastructure in the EU, Reuters reports. A new paper signed by representatives of France, Germany, and Italy...
Orange said that the transaction is based on an enterprise value of 18.6 billion euros
Spanish mobile operators Orange and Masmovil have signed a binding agreement to combine their operations in Spain.
The telcos had started negotiations in early March of this year. The transaction is...
Rakuten Mobile’s FWA will run on both Sub-6 GHz and mmWave spectrum
Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile expects to launch fixed wireless access (FWA) services in Japan in December, the telco’s CEO Tareq Amin said during a call with journalists.
“I’m just waiting for our CPE...
In terms of fiber build, the "Gigabit Strategy' aims to increase acceptance of new construction techniques such as microtrenching
Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV) unveiled its latest "Gigabit Strategy" that outlines a number of key goals, including the supply of at...
Swisscom plans to double FTTH availability by 2025
Swiss operator Swisscom said it closed 2021 with 1,975 antennas in 888 locations with its mid-band-based 5G+ technology.
The telco said that its 5G service using 3.5G Hz spectrum currently reaches 62% of the Swiss population. Swisscom also...
Belgian mobile operator Proximus hopes to cover 70% of the country’s households with fiber by 2028, a plan that involves extending the life of its copper-based VDSL, or very high bit-rate digital subscriber line, broadband infrastructure using a technology it has developed in partnership...
Cost: it stays on top of mind. Whether it’s pricing a project, estimating for the quarter or budgeting for the next year, cost looms large.
So when a survey of WISPs from Clearfield this year revealed that deploying in a cost-effective manner is important, it...
Bandwidth usage of access networks (or the last mile) continues to grow as service providers migrate to all-IP services (IP Video, 4K Video, and other business services). Traffic from on-demand services also continues to skyrocket while total Internet usage increases 50 percent year over...
As the endless thirst for data drives a continuous push for more network capacity, fiber remains the principle transmission technology underpinning all of our core, fixed line and mobile backhaul communications infrastructure. And yet, service providers still face numerous challenges when rolling out fiber...
The Spanish telco said initial 5G launch in the United Kingdom will be followed by deployments in Spain and Germany
SHANGHAI--The U.K. will likely be the first market to see 5G services from Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica, the operator’s global CTO Enrique Blanco told reporters...
MTS said the cloud-based offering is based on VMware cloud platform.
Russian telecommunications operator MTS unveiled a cloud offering to target large enterprises. The cloud-based services are based on a VMware cloud platform and MTS’ data centers, and includes computing and data storage...
The 5G trial took place in a laboratory environment in Finland
Finnish vendor Nokia carried out what it claims to be the world's first connection based on the 5GTF 'pre-standard', the company said in a statement.
The 5G trial took place in a laboratory environment in...
