More than 8.3 million US homes and businesses still do not have access to high-speed broadband Internet services. This was reported by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC noted that following a detailed study of national broadband coverage maps, it revised its estimates of the number of homes and… Read More »More than 8 million US households do not have access to broadband internet
A team of researchers from the National Institute for Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI), together with employees from Eindhoven University of Technology, L’Aquila University and Macquarie University, has developed a 19-core optical fiber with a record high bandwidth. Potentially, it is able to… Read More »New speed record set for standard fiber networks
In Germany, they set a goal to provide train passengers with the opportunity to access gigabit Internet. Telefonica Deutschland, Ericsson and Vantage Towers have teamed up on a partially government-funded project to bring high-quality 5G wireless communications to the German railway network. The trio of… Read More »German railway network to get gigabit internet
Orange Belgium has announced its intention to begin phasing out its 3G networks next January. At the same time, the process of decommissioning these networks will occur region by region and should be completed in 2025. According to the schedule published on the operator’s website, the municipality of… Read More »Orange Belgium will start shutting down 3G networks in January 2024
SpaceX received a contract to supply Starlink terminals to Ukraine. Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, received a contract from the US Department of Defense to supply Starlink terminals and services to Ukraine. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to the Pentagon. Funds for the purchase of Starlink terminals… Read More »The Pentagon will pay for Starlink services for Ukraine
The Portuguese government plans to ban the use of Huawei equipment for the development of the national 5G network. The Portugal Resident writes about this , citing a document developed by the Portuguese Cybersecurity Council. The authors of the publications claim that the government is concerned about the… Read More »Portugal to ban Chinese companies from building national 5G network
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has published a new technical report. It can form the basis for the development of a roadmap to establish standards for space distribution multiplexing (SDM) in the transmission of signals in fiber-optic cables of broadband networks. This, in turn, will increase the… Read More »The International Telecommunication Union is preparing a standard to increase the capacity of fiber optic cables
The European Union plans to lay a submarine cable to improve communication with Georgia and reduce dependence on lines passing through Russia. This is reported by the Financial Times with reference to the policy document of the European Commission. The cost of the project, which involves laying a… Read More »The European Union will lay a cable along the bottom of the Black Sea to reduce Internet dependence on Russia
The Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) has issued licenses for the development of 5G networks in the 24.7-27.1 GHz band. The Department’s official statement says that three telecommunications companies, Elisa, Telia and Tele2, took part in the frequency competition. Each of them received two frequencies. In… Read More »Estonia issues licenses to 5G network operators
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (which recently made headlines for blocking Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard) will focus on learning large language models and generative AI similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT . Large language models are artificial intelligence systems that learn from massive amounts of data to… Read More »UK investigates impact of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems on consumers, business and economy