According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, total global revenue for the Broadband Access equipment market increased to $4.6 billion (€42.bn) in Q1 2023, up 7 per cent year-over-year (Y/Y). Spending on infrastructure remained robust. However, ONTs. Modems, and other CPE units to connect broadband subscribers, dropped 7 per cent Y/Y. “For many service providers, […]
Virgin Media Ireland is launching 2Gbps fibre broadband in towns including Tralee, Killarney and Letterkenny, and continuing fibre network upgrades in areas such as Dublin, Cork and Louth. It says this is a milestone in its three-year transition to a full fibre network: at the end of 2021, it pledged to invest €200 million to […]
Personalised communications services pioneer Plume has issued its latest Plume IQ report for May 2023, revealing a significant and global increase in the number of neighbouring WiFi networks that each Plume HomePass-powered smart home network can see. These neighbouring signals have the potential to create interference when communicating with devices. When comparing the second half […]
Broadband provider Fibrus has announced that the first homes have been connected as part of the new £108 million gigabit-capable broadband scheme to improve connectivity in rural Cumbria. This comes after the UK government entrusted the Northern Ireland company with the delivery of the breakthrough initiative late last year. Fibrus was awarded the Project Gigabit […]
Harmonic has announced the expansion of its fibre broadband portfolio with the new Wharf hardened switch for high-density remote optical line termination (R-OLT) applications. The Wharf switch delivers reliable, ultra-fast broadband speeds to high-density service areas and accelerates time to market of XGS-PON or 10G-EPON fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services alongside 25/40/100G business-class services from outdoor cabinetry. […]
Virgin Media O2 is increasing upload speeds for even more of its broadband customers at no extra cost. The boost will see the average upload speed for Virgin Media’s M500 service increase from 36Mbps to 52Mbps, with the average upload speed for Gig 1 services rising from 52Mbps to 104Mbps – six times faster than […]
Communications provider Inmarsat has announced the next chapter of its Jet ConneX (JX) inflight broadband solution, introducing a new range of service plans which it says will redefine gold standard connectivity in the business aviation market and satisfy even the most data-hungry users for many years to come. Launched as part of Inmarsat’s JX Evolution […]
Ofcom data, analysed by BroadbandUK, has shown that despite the UK Government’s push to deliver Project Gigabit, uptake doesn’t match the increased availability of full-fibre, gigabit-capable broadband. The Connected Nations 2022 report by Ofcom, which uses data collected in May 2022, shows that there has been a shift away from Standard connections (<30 Mbit/s) to […]
Harmonic has announced that Malta-based telco operator Melita has selected Harmonic’s CableOS Broadband Platform to deliver multi-gigabit broadband services. Harmonic’s CableOS Platform virtualises the access network, providing Melita with a sustainable broadband architecture that will enable continuous improvements to upstream and downstream bandwidth capacity. “Harmonic’s CableOS Platform will complement our existing network, giving us a […]
Teleste’s Distributed Access technology is helping Telia expand coverage of its ultra-high-speed broadband services in the Nordics and Baltics region. Rollouts of the DOCSIS 3.1 Distributed Access-based broadband are currently under way in Telia’s networks, and Teleste’s Remote PHY Distributed Access devices have already been widely implemented in Finland and Norway. “Teleste’s Distributed Access technology […]