Traffic management could be key to the future of the open internet, so what proportion of UK consumers takes such policies into account when choosing a broadband deal? A whopping one… Read more »
Microsoft’s latest white space broadband pilot is in Limpopo Province, South Africa. It may not prove anything earlier pilots in Kenya and Tanzania didn’t, but it will help Microsoft lobby the… Read more »
Google is involved in a groundbreaking trial of “white space” technology, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa. Just a few months in, it’s already making a real difference for local… Read more »
It looks like Wednesday’s internet slowdown in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia may have been the result of sabotage, rather than the sort of accident that usually knocks… Read more »
The EU still wants to meet its lofty fast-broadband goals despite having had to slash funding, and it sees simplification of roadworks and 4G mast planning as key to achieving this. Read more »
In a massive blow to Europe’s plans of getting everyone – even in rural areas – on at least 30 Mbps by 2020, a $9.36 billion fund for stimulating broadband deployment has been axed. Read more »
The combined operation will have 25 million customers in 14 countries. It will also take John Malone’s Liberty Global head-to-head with Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB. Read more »
The European Commission has green-lit a vast chunk of UK state aid for a rural deployment of superfast connectivity. Most of it will probably go to one company – BT -… Read more »
Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs researchers have successfully demonstrated a 512 Gbps transmission over a single fiber channel — more than quadrupling the maximum bit-rate possible on today’s backbone networks. Read more »