The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry body dedicated to improving Wi-Fi standards and services, has released the WBA Industry Report 2025, with 81 per cent of respondents to its annual industry survey planning deployments of WBA OpenRoaming, an 18.9 per cent increase on 2024. Of those, 25 per cent were already rolling out the […]
According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks and data centre industries, total global revenue for the Broadband Access equipment market increased to $4.6 billion in Q3 2024, up 1 per cent QoQ and 5 per cent YoY. “Fixed wireless providers in select markets continue to […]
More than 100,000 households in the Czech Republic are set to benefit from faster and more reliable fibre connectivity thanks to a multi-million Euro partnership. Wholesale Czech operator CETIN has partnered with Kontron Transportation and will deliver broadband routers and modems from Slovenia’s Kontron, a Kontron Group company and sister company of Kontron Transportation. Slovenia’s […]
Freshwave, a UK mobile infrastructure provider, has secured a committed credit facility of up to £100 million (€120.8m) from Guggenheim Investments, on behalf of certain clients, to fund its continuing growth trajectory. Guggenheim Investments is the global asset management and investment advisory division of Guggenheim Partners. This funding builds on the investment made to date […]
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry body dedicated to improving Wi-Fi standards and services, has released an updated Operator Managed Wi-Fi (OMWi): Reference Architecture and Requirements technical report. This update includes enhanced technical and operational requirements and introduces open-source, OMWi-compliant implementations from partners such as the prpl Foundation, and RDK-B. It delivers a a […]
Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has introduced SatPack, a communications solution designed for rapid deployment in the most challenging environments across the Asia-Pacific. Building on the success of the CommsBox and recently released CommsBox Ultra, Kacific reaffirms its leadership in satellite innovation with a solution that combines affordability, portability, and reliability for urgent and interim […]
Point Topic has provided an update on fixed broadband availability in the UK, tracking the progress between the end of June 2024 and the end of September 2024. The analysis is based on the ThinkPoint broadband availability dataset which includes 1.7 million postcodes. At the end of Q3 2024, the overall FTTP coverage was 23.2 […]
Community Fibre, the UK broadband provider, has signed a new finance facility provided and/or arranged by JP Morgan, Barclays, LBBW, SIMCo (Sequoia Investment Management Company) and Alpha Bank raising a total of £125 million (€150.2m), overachieving planned targets and bringing total investment in the company to £1.1 billion. The company also announced it has been EBITDA positive since […]
The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (the GCRA) has been monitoring broadband speeds in Guernsey and found that they now exceed the last reported UK average broadband download speed, released by Ofcom late in Q4 2023. The median average fixed broadband download speed for the island was 74.1Mbps vs. 69.4Mb in the UK, for the […]
Hyperoptic, the alternative UK full fibre broadband provider, has appointed Geoff Heddle as its Director of Product. In his new role, Heddle will lead Product Management & Design, focusing on enhancing the end-to-end customer experience. He will shape the product strategy to ensure Hyperoptic continues to meet the evolving needs of its customers. With over […]