More UK homes are set to benefit from ultrafast Internet speeds, after a draft decision by comms regulator Ofcom that it says will will halve the upfront cost of building ‘full-fibre’ broadband networks. Full-fibre broadband is many times faster – and around five times more reliable – than today’s superfast internet services. But it is […]
Consumer dependency on WiFi routers has surpassed the smartphone as the #1 technology US adults cannot live without for more than one day, according to findings from the Customer and Product Experience 360 (CPX 360) Survey by global managed services provider iQor. As the life-blood for the connected ecosystem, a functioning WiFi router is necessary […]
Deutsche Telekom has confirmed the availability of AirTies’ ultra-performance in-home Wi-Fi solution for Deutsche Telekom residential subscribers in Germany. AirTies’ Managed Mesh Solution is designed to improve customers’ in-home Wi-Fi coverage and speeds, and intelligently route data connections to optimise performance of connected devices around the home. “Deutsche Telekom continues to be a global leader […]
Church spires across the UK will be used to boost digital connectivity in rural areas following an agreement between the Government and the Church of England. The accord, signed by the National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for the Environment, […]
EE, part of BT Group, has unveiled a new 4G home broadband solution which could connect 580,000 homes across the UK, especially those in rural areas that are currently only able to access broadband slower than 10Mbps. The service will provide customers with superfast broadband speeds at home using the power of EE’s 4G network. […]
Comporium, a provider of Internet, TV, home security monitoring and automation (SMA), and phone services to customers in South Carolina and North Carolina, has chosen AirTies, the most widely deployed provider of managed WiFi Mesh solutions to global service providers, to deliver ultra-performance, whole-home WiFi Mesh to its subscribers. Unlike traditional WiFi, which relies on […]
At the 2018 RDK Americas Summit, RDK Management and Broadcom entered into a strategic development agreement to closely integrate chipset-level software development kits (SDKs) from Broadcom with RDK’s open source software. This new effort will provide a common software porting layer to simplify and standardise RDK deployments across CPE suppliers used by video and broadband […]
Quantenna Communications, a specialist inWi-Fi solutions, and Canal+, the French pay-TV group, have announced a partnership on Canal+’s two new platforms, the G9 and G9-mini, based on Quantenna’s QSR1000 and QSR2000 chipsets. The newly announced Canal+ satellite STB “G9” integrates Quantenna’s QSR1000 based 802.11ac 4×4 solution to redistribute HD video to its companion “G9-mini” wireless […]
According to research firm Parks Associates, more than 60 per cent of US broadband households with a networking router received that device from their broadband service provider. The findings are part of a new whitepaper, Staking a Claim in the Connected Home: Service Provider Solutions, sponsored by Calix, which addresses operator strategies to enhance this […]
UK multiplay telco Virgin Media is offering existing Virgin TV customers a free upgrade to its V6 box, giving them access to what the operator says is the very-best connected entertainment experience alongside ultrafast broadband. In what is one of the largest customer upgrade programmes ever carried out in the UK, Virgin Media is accelerating […]