rural connectivity
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Three UK has built 100 new cell sites as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) project.
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After US$700 million was announced by the Biden administration to connect people in rural areas in the US, more investment needs to fall into the hands of wireless infrastructure providers.
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EE will bring 4G connectivity to a further 1,500 remote countryside communities across the UK, including Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
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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
Forthcoming events
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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.
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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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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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Inmarsat is donating satellite airtime worth US$1.2 million to the ITU's Partner2Connect Coalition (P2C).
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Hughes has completed a three-month pilot of its Community LTE service in five villages across Brazil, demonstrating a quick and inexpensive way for MNOs to extend their reach.
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Ukrainian operator Ukrtelecom has started work on its €12 million fibre investment programme across the country.
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Orange is putting its €350 million Spanish spectrum investment to use, pioneering what it describes as the "largest 5G network deployment plan on the 700 MHz frequency band in Spain".
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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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Major satellite operators have confirmed new reach for their coverage over recent days, which will benefit the industrial and logistics sectors, while claiming a world first for IoT connectivity.
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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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Airtel Africa and UNICEF have signed a five-year "multi-million dollar" partnership to scale-up digital learning for children across 13 African countries.
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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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The world needs to increase food production by up to 70% in less than 30 years. It’s a significant challenge which, if not overcome, could push millions into famine. The answer involves IoT and, as Melanie Mingas finds out, a vast web of edge infrastructure that many other industries could tap
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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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The government of Tanzania is to use the country’s national electricity grid to extend its nationwide fibre network.
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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.
