rural broadband
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The Kenyan government has started a project to build a 100,000km national fibre network. -
Latin America is the most urbanised region in the world, but its rate of digitisation is low. Cambridge Management Consultants’ Elisabeth Simão tells Alan Burkitt-Gray what challenges operators in the region are facing
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Satellite company OneWeb is to provide Veon with mobile internet connectivity and digital services in emerging markets.
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BT is following its German rival and shareholder Deutsche Telekom in looking at using aircraft to deliver broadband to remote areas.
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The new head of the International Telecommunication Union is putting connectivity at the heart of the world’s sustainability goals.
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The price of internet access is going down, but 2.7 billion people – roughly one-third of the global population – remain unconnected to the internet.
Forthcoming events
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OneWeb showed the first signs that it is ready to move into the southern hemisphere with a new distribution deal covering Australia and New Zealand.
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Liberty Broadband’s Alaskan operation, GCI, is expanding its fibre operations in the Arctic state with the aid of US$73 million in government grants.
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Internet speed monitor Ookla has found that speeds from SpaceX’s broadband satellite service Starlink is slowing down.
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The US government is giving the Alaska Telephone Company US$33 million to expand fibre connectivity in rural south-east Alaska.
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The UK’s 5G providers will face an investment gap of as much as £12-£14 billion as they seek to meet government commitments to provide nationwide coverage.
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T-Mobile paid US$303.4 million to secure the majority of the 2.5GHz spectrum on offer in latest 5G auction in the US.
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Broadband company Quickline Communications is to use 5G-based fixed wireless access (FWA) to expand its rural coverage.
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State-owned electricity company Kenya Power is to compete with Safaricom and other operators to offer fixed internet services.
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Open Fiber, the independent wholesale fibre company, is to supply its network to TIM’s FiberCop to connect at least 500,000 homes.
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SoftBank is setting up a high-altitude platform company to improve rural mobile coverage, in Australia with Lendlease, a multinational construction, property and infrastructure company.
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Owners of ageing suburban coaxial cable networks are saying they can be good providers of broadband. Others say fixed wireless access is as good as fibre. Alan Burkitt-Gray says they’re both wrong
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The US telecoms regulator is ready to authorise more than US$640 million of aid to rural broadband projects in 26 states
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Inmarsat is donating satellite airtime worth US$1.2 million to the ITU's Partner2Connect Coalition (P2C).
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Vantage Towers is working with a Portuguese company to build wireless infrastructure into street lamps
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Ukrainian operator Ukrtelecom has started work on its €12 million fibre investment programme across the country.
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service is offering a faster service, at 150-500Mbps, with deliveries starting in the second quarter of this year.
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Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract in a move that will bring speeds of up to 100Gbps to the legacy network operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband satellite project is giving faster speeds than fixed broadband from local telcos, according to research from Ookla.
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A rural carrier in Colombia has tied up with satellite company SES to improve coverage of small communities in its area.
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Egypt’s telecoms regulator is to spend the equivalent of US$32.6 million improving services in the Sinai peninsula.
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The Australian federal government is allocating almost US$79 million to boosting digital connectivity in rural and remote areas of the country.
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New standards are required to stimulate the deployment of "cyber-physical systems" in agtech to feed a fast-growing global population.
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NTT DOCOMO has collaborated with Airbus to trial solar-powered Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) for wireless connectivity and, based on the results, will assess the application of HAPS "in 5G evolution and 6G".
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Viasat, the US company that this week announced a planned merger with Inmarsat, is to build a satellite-enabled community internet system covering Latin America and the Caribbean.
