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SES-17 delivers free internet over Mexico

SES has struck a deal with Mexico’s federal agency CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (CFE TEIT) to deploy more than 1,100 broadband hotspots as part of the Federal Government’s initiative ‘Internet para todos’ (Internet for everyone). These sites are enabled by the very high throughput Ka-band SES-17 satellite and will benefit communities across the […]

March 9, 2023By Chris Forrester

Ofcom tackles broadband tech consumer confusion

Broadband customers could get clearer and more consistent information about their service when signing up to a new deal, under proposals announced by UK comms regulator Ofcom. Under the planned new guidance, broadband providers would only be able to use the terms ‘fibre’ and ‘full-fibre’ on their websites and in contracts if their network uses […]

March 8, 2023By Colin Mann

New OpenVault patent helps operators optimise in-home networks

OpenVault, a market-leading source of revenue and network optimisation solutions and data-driven actionable broadband industry analytics, has announced that it has been awarded a patent for techniques that can help broadband operators diagnose and automatically remediate issues in subscriber Wi-Fi and Ethernet networks. U.S. Patent No. 11,477.072, “System and Method for Prescriptive Diagnostics and Optimisation […]

March 7, 2023

Forecast: IPTV to grow in LatAm

Latin America’s pay-TV subscriber base will stay steady at 61 million, although this is down from the peak of 73 million in 2017, according to the Latin America Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Brazil’s decline has bottomed out. Its pay-TV total will remain at 12.5 million – or less than […]

March 2, 2023

Study: Southampton has fastest UK broadband

Southampton is home to the fastest average broadband speeds in the UK, exceeding 160Mbps on average, according to an internet speed study from Uswitch.com. The broadband experts analysed broadband speed data in local authorities across the country to find the areas with the quickest connections across the UK. Local authorities with the fastest broadband speeds […]

February 22, 2023

Study: 8 out of 10 Europeans get Internet at ‘fair price’

Surfshark has released its Global Internet Value Index (IVi), which uncovers countries overpaying for their Internet connection plan. The UK is in 20th place in the world with an index 96 per cent higher than the global average. Oceania and Europe lead the world in Internet value, while Internet affordability in North America, South America, […]

February 21, 2023

Report: Average monthly broadband usage nears 600GB

Average broadband consumption approached a new high of nearly 600 GB per month and the percentage of subscribers on gigabit speed tiers has more than doubled, according to the Q4 2022 edition of the OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI) report. According to the report, the average per-subscriber consumption was 586.7 GB at the end of 2022, […]

February 9, 2023

Fibrus launches “fastest broadband” in Northern Ireland

Full fibre broadband operator Fibrus has launched what it says is Northern Ireland’s fastest broadband service at 2 Gigabits per second (Gbps) following the first upgrades to its cutting-edge broadband network. The provider has been rolling out its upgrades that will see its network now support 10 Gbps, some 50 times faster than Northern Ireland’s […]

February 6, 2023

Forecast: Sustained broadband spending to 2027

According to a report by Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data centre industries, predicts that sales of PON equipment for fibre-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will all increase from 2022 to 2027, as service providers continue to expand their fibre and DOCSIS […]

February 1, 2023

Canada: Galaxy secures OneWeb capacity

OneWeb and Galaxy Broadband Communications, the Ontario-based satellite service company that provides telecommunications services to enterprise customers, have announced a $50 million (€45.8m) multi-year deal to deliver OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity solutions across Canada including the northern territory of Nunavut. Powered by OneWeb’s LEO satellite communications network, Galaxy offers connectivity services designed specifically […]

February 1, 2023