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Data from Cloudflare showed that yesterday’s eclipse caused a drop in internet traffic in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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What to look forward to in Asian digital infrastructure as our consumption habits evolve
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UK investment vehicle Zegona has reached an agreement with Vodafone to purchase its Spanish business for 5 billion euros.
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The Coalition for Digital Africa, set up in December 2022, is to work with leading internet organisations to strengthen the digital infrastructure across Africa.
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Iceblue Internet, an internet aggregator formerly called Blue Planet Networks, has published its publicly accessible, global internet access price book at Capacity Europe.
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The Internet Society, which monitors and campaigns for internet access, has welcomed a report from the United Nations (UN, pictured) that condemns shutdowns.
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38% of Germans struggle with noticeable delays in internet use several times a week, a survey from DE-CIX has revealed.
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Internet usage patterns in majority Muslim countries changed drastically as they observed Ramadan according to research from Ookla.
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Italian wholesale fibre provider, Open Fiber, has selected a centralised optical test solution from VIAVI to support its goal of delivering 100% gigabit broadband coverage in Italy.
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Market imbalances between operators and service providers may stunt the growth of multiple sectors across the internet-based economy, a GSMA report has warned.
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The origin story of today’s infrastructure lies in the high-speed, high-capacity networks used in academic and scientific research. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to the people behind two providers of these: Géant in Europe and Internet2 in the US
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Rogers has successfully completed tests in both lab and customer trials of download and upload speeds of up to 8Gbps on its fibre network.
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As the world moves to isolate Russia from business, finance, culture and sport, calls have been made for the measures to extend to the internet.
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Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) reports that it exchanged over 26,85 exabytes of data in 2021, up 18% from 2020.
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#ICYMI - Capacity shares five key telecoms stories that were making headlines in December!
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Juniper Networks (Juniper) has been selected by Bharti Airtel (Airtel) to deliver network upgrades for the expansion of Airtel’s nationwide broadband coverage across India.
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The Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has turned to Zella DC to launch a new edge data centre solution in the market, DX edge.
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Meet Subspace, the ambitious start-up that aims to optimise the internet for real-time services. Natalie Bannerman speaks to its co-founder and CTO, William King, on how the idea for the business came about, and what it means for telcos and the gaming sector
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Frontier Communications has partnered Nokia to connect 100,000 homes to XGS-PON broadband technology.
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Virgin Media O2 confirms the addition of 1.5 million homes to its gigabit network, as such more than half of its footprint can now access ultrafast broadband speeds.
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Verizon Business confirms the expansion of 5G Business Internet to five new cities bringing the total number to 47.
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Verizon and AT&T have reported growth across key business units in their Q2 financial results.
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Cox Business confirms the launch of its new Internet continuity service, Cox Business Net Assurance.
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SoftBank and Smart Africa Secretariat (Smart Africa) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop solutions that enable affordable broadband across Africa.
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Alaskan telco GCI is planning to deliver 2Gbps internet access to 77% of the state in 2022 and is on track to provide 10Gbps speeds in the next five years.
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China's Communist Party is said to be trialling a social credit system that could see slowed internet connectivity as a possible punishment.
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ESG funds – equities and bonds that focus on environmental, social and governance factors – should be leveraged to provide a solution for South Africa's digital divide.
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President Joe Biden has unveiled his much-anticipated $2 trillion infrastructure plan, entitled the American Jobs Plan.
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Windstream has submitted its application to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction to receive $147 million in funding.
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HGC Global Communications confirmed that it has successfully returned services to its customer in Myanmar, five hours after a major telecoms outage.
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Virgin Media is promising its customers Wifi speeds "up to three times faster in more locations in the home" through its new Intelligent WiFi Plus.
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African nations are uniting to buy data capacity in bulk with the aim of halving the cost of internet access.
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Internet speeds in the Philippines may have increased 477% since Q3 2016, but they still lag the speeds recorded in other countries.
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Hannes Gredler, CTO at RtBrick, reflects on the evolution of the not so humble router
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University College London (UCL) has recorded the world’s fastest data transmission speed, reaching 178 terabits a second – or 178,000,000 megabits a second – by using a bandwidth of 16.8 THz.
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Disruptions to the internet have seen an unprecedented rise because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new survey by ThousandEyes, a research company owned by Cisco.
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President Donald Trump has blocked the nomination of a telecoms regulator who disagreed with him over freedom of speech.
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Israel’s largest telecoms group, Bezeq Israel Telecom, has received the green light to deliver internet speeds of up to 200 megabits per second.
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Technology is going to become regionalised, but “that does not mean that a full splinternet is inevitable”, says a new report from Fitch Solutions.
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Vodafone New Zealand has become the country’s first provider to deploy technology with a transmission capacity of 800 billion bits per second.
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In a first for the Australian market, Telstra Wholesale customers will now see traffic switch to the 4G mobile network if fibre connectivity fails.
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Internet exchange operator DE-CIX saw revenues increase 10% worldwide over the course of 2019 to reach €39.6 million, as the global customer base across all locations grew 20%.
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Cisco has announced its intention to buy ThousandEyes, the internet and cloud intelligence platform.
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The number of internet users in Bangladesh exceeded 100 million for the first time to reach 103.253 million users, according to newly released data from the country’s regulator, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
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Technological literacy and a lack of relevant content are muting global internet penetration rates, despite the cost of services reducing across the board.
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Internet outages around the world reached new record levels last week, despite relatively strong performance from global networks during the first weeks of Covid-19 lockdowns.
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In its quest to deploy the world’s most advanced broadband internet system, SpaceX has launched its seventh Starlink mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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According to the latest findings from the GSMA’s The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2020, women are 20% less likely to use mobile internet than men.
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Myanmar based internet service provider Frontiir has acquired US based big data storage company Termaxia and its cloud storage technology.
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The Peruvian project to deliver mobile broadband across the country has given details of how it plans to use open architecture to achieve its aims.
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Turk Telecom restored internet access earlier this month after a cyber-attack caused connectivity problems for the company.
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Ethiopia, Sudan and Tanzania are reportedly in the midst of a major internet outage caused by cuts to the FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network (FALCON) in Yemen.
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Africa Data Centres has extended its partnership with China Telecom Global through the deployment of a China Telecom point of presence (PoP) at an Africa Data Centres’ facility in South Africa.
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West African solar-based wireless internet service provider Tizeti has launched its high-speed 4G LTE network in Nigeria.