Openreach has announced that 20 million homes and businesses can now access the UK’s most reliable broadband technology, thanks to its nationwide infrastructure upgrade. From Fair Isle in Scotland’s far north to the far reaches of Cornwall in England’s South West, Openreach’s engineers have now laid full fibre cables in cities, towns and villages throughout […]

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued its Spectrum Approval authorisation for Starlink. But, separately, there’s a major sting in the tail. The DoT approval allows Starlink to initiate its services in India. This reportedly marks the first time any company will be providing satellite-based broadband internet to Indian consumers. However, India’s Minister of State […]

In the first half of 2025, a new wave of geopolitically motivated cyber activity swept across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). According to NetScout’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, hacktivists launched more than 8 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally in H1 2025, with the majority of these attacks targeting EMEA. Looking at the […]

Netomnia, the UK’s second-largest alternative network provider (Alt-Net), has unveiled its new brand identity centred on the idea ‘Where the most powerful Internet lives’.  Netomnia says the evolution positions the company as “a fibre network built for whatever comes next – capturing the company’s scale, ambition, and readiness to power the future”. Since its 2024 […]

Parks Associates has announced a new white paper, A Guide to Connectivity Innovations in Multifamily Housing, in partnership with Cox Communities, with research showing that nearly one in five multifamily residents with home internet in the US reported receiving gigabit or faster download speeds. The research explores key connectivity options available for multifamily properties, including legacy bulk […]

CEOs of a number of Europe’s leading telos have used the occasion of the Connect Europe public event in Brussels to issue an open letter affirming their support for European industrial leadership in Artificial Intelligence and security technologies. The letter reads: “Today, we gather in Brussels to mark our support for European industrial leadership in […]

Carlos Slim, the billionaire Mexican owner of América Móvil, is reportedly investing more cash in AST SpaceMobile. Slim is already an investor in AST and his daughter sits on AST’s board of directors. The total amount involved is said to be an overall $22 billion (€18.6bn) spread over a period of time although some of […]

Mobile UK, the trade body for the UK’s mobile operators, has urged the government to prioritise the industry as a critical engine for national competitiveness. In an article originally published on Politics Home, it suggests that world-class mobile infrastructure will play a key role in achieving the government’s ambitions for economic growth, innovation and inclusion. […]

A detailed report from analysts at Bank of America (BoA) says that the global Total Addressable Market (TAM) is currently worth around $200 billion (€169.5bn) annually for the planet’s telcos. The bank suggests that the satellite operators with global coverage with their low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites are potentially targeting every dollar’s worth of these […]

Executives from Rivada Space Networks were present last week at the World Space Business Week in Paris and, as ever, were diligently explaining what their planned ‘Outernet’ highly-secure, laser-linked satellite scheme could provide. However, there was no news from the event as to how the billion-dollar constellation could be financed, nor on whether Rivada would […]