rural broadband
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The Kenyan government has started a project to build a 100,000km national fibre network.
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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.
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Almost 10 months into its £8 million nationwide edge project across the UK, Pulsant CTO Simon Michie tells Melanie Mingas that things are right on track
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Across the UK, local ventures – some funded by private equity, others by the community – are in a race with BT’s Openreach unit to connect rural homes to full fibre broadband. by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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OneWeb changes teams; Adamo switches owners; Orange's 5G showcase; and Aqua Comms' Nigel Bayliff
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Sahel Telecom has started operations as a fixed-wireless broadband operator in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania in west Africa.
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Customers in remote areas of Italy will be able to connect to TIM’s broadband services from today thanks to a deal with Eutelsat.
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Broadway Partners has secured £145 million to deliver full fibre broadband to rural areas across Scotland and Wales, UK.
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Pension investor TIAA has backed Arcadian Infracom's new, long-haul fibre backbone with "up to US$140 million".
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More than six million US households have enrolled in a government scheme to share US$3.2 billion in broadband subsidy.
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China is lending the west African republic of Benin US$40 million to help fund a broadband project.
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The government of Tanzania is to use the country’s national electricity grid to extend its nationwide fibre network.
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Egypt is to upgrade internet speeds for 60 million people in rural areas, the minister of communications and information technology announced at a conference in Cairo.
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AT&T has signed a wholesale deal with OneWeb to use its satellites to deliver services to poorly covered parts of the US.
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hiSky Ltd is to use Avanti's HYLAS fleet to expand its Smartellite™ IoT network for Africa, the Middle East and the UK.
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Kenyan operator Safaricom has teamed up with Nokia, UNICEF, and the country’s ministries of education and ICT to connect close to 90 primary schools serving 33,000 pupils to the internet in rural and informal urban settlements.
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Irish operator Eir is to expand its gigabit fibre network to a further 200,000 homes and businesses, the company announced today.
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service is providing better broadband than fixed rivals in Europe and Canada, and comparable to fixed in the US.
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The UK's Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) has added 32 members year to date.
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A Swiss private equity investor is to acquire a 75% stake in Eolo, the Italian fixed wireless company that last week agreed a wholesale deal with TIM.
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Any US operator with up to 10 million customers that bought Huawei or ZTE kit before the end of June 2020 is eligible for compensation to replace it.
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Italy’s TIM is to use a community-owned wholesale wireless provider, Eolo, to improve its rural broadband coverage.
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BT and OneWeb have finally confirmed a report in Capacity in March that they are exploring using the satellite network for rural coverage in the UK.
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The UK needs to speed up its attempts to provide full fibre to 100% of the population, a leading politician said at a Capacity and Data Economy conference.
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Huawei has lost two court appeals within a few days that together set back its desire to return to supplying European and US telcos with its equipment.