The French government will provide E2 billion of soft loans to improve the country’s high-speed access, as part of a national loan programme to boost the economy through investment in infrastructure. Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the government would make a series of low-interest loans to telecommunications groups, to encourage them to develop fibre-optic networks […]

Deutsche Telekom has applied to the German Federal Network Agency to approve the charges for use of three elements of its fibre-optic infrastructure. The Group is offering access in multi-function cabinets for a monthly unit price. Telecommunications companies who use slots in the multi-function cabinet pay a corresponding portion of the unit price. Niek Jan […]

Britain has been ranked 26th in the world by Akamai's 'The State of the Internet' report, with an average download speed of just 3.5 Mbps South Korea has the fastest broadband by a large margin, recording a 14.6 Mbps average speed, while Japan occupies the second spot with an average speed of 7.9 Mbps. Sweden […]

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has unsurprisingly supported the Federal Communications Commission's recognition that its Internet policies should be subject to 'reasonable network management' and urged the Commission to continue to allow the industry to establish appropriate management techniques to meet evolving consumer needs. ATIS cited the ongoing work of its Next Generation […]

A report by CCS Insight predicts explosive growth for Mobile Broadband across Europe. Despite varying environments across Europe's five major markets, the one common factor is growth, underpinned by HSPA and HSPA+ Mobile Broadband technology. According to CCS the European Mobile Broadband market will see subscriber and revenue numbers nearly double by 2011: Total Mobile […]

Four months before its opening, ANGA Cable, Europe's leading Trade Fair and Congress for Cable, Broadband and Satellite is nearly fully booked. The organiser has received more than 300 exhibitor registrations – demand for floor space is higher than that of the previous year at the corresponding point in time. The registrations already account for […]

Slovak Telekom has expanded the coverage of its Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network by 100,000 homes over the past 12 months, and now reaches over 315,000 homes in Slovakia. The FTTH network, which covers 19 cities including Banska Kosice and Bratislava, is utilised to deliver the company’s IPTV service ‘Magio TV’ and its high-speed broadband services. Slovak […]

Dish Network has introduced TV Everywhere – a unique suite of integrated products designed to maximise the convenience and ease of watching TV anytime and anywhere. “Dish Network is proud to introduce the first and only comprehensive solution for consumers to pay once for content and then remain connected to their TV everywhere,” said Ira […]

According to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), by 2014 more than 360 million households worldwide will own the components necessary to enjoy Over-the-Top (OTT) video services on their TV, with more than half actively receiving OTT services. This and other themes are discussed in TDG's latest digital media analysis, Broadband-Enabled TV: Evolution of OTT […]

BBC is using Witbe’s quality of experience (QoE) technology to complement its existing quality of service (QoS) measurements with end-user experience data, based on actual visual clues, for the BBC.co.uk web site. Witbe robots technology continuously reproduces user behaviour on the BBC.co.uk web site, in particular on the Home page, the Weather page, the News […]