FCC looks to raise minimum broadband to 100/20

The FCC is kicking off an inquiry into the state of broadband across the United States, as required by section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, including universal deployment, affordability, adoption, availability, and equitable access to services. As part of the inquiry, the FCC will consider the current benchmark for defining broadband.“During the pandemic and even before it, the needs of internet users surpassed the FCC’s 25/3 standard...

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BT cites increasing strength in FTTP

BT reported revenue of £10.4bn for the six month period to 30-September, in line with the prior year; adjusted revenue £10.4bn, up 3% on a pro forma basis due to increased fibre-enabled product sales, inflation-linked pricing and improved lower margin trading in Business partially offset  by legacy product declines.  Adjusted EBITDA amounted to £4.1bn, up 6%; and up 4% on a pro forma basis with revenue flow through and strong cost control...

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Dell’Oro: RAN Investments to Top $0.4 Trillion by 2030

After growing at a 2% CAGR in the 4G era, global RAN revenues are projected to increase at a 1% CAGR  between 2020 and 2030. The base case scenario is built on the assumption that RAN revenues peaked in 2021 and will continue to trend downward before picking up momentum in the outer part of the forecast period. Despite the current uncertainties, Dell'Oro Group remains optimistic about the long-term growth prospects of the RAN market. The...

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UK funds £225m “Isambard” AI supercomputer

The University of Bristol and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have been awarded a £225m grant by the UK government to deliver the nation’s fastest supercomputer.To be known as Isambard-AI, it will be 10 times more powerful than the UK’s current fastest supercomputer and among the most powerful in the world when it opens at the National Composites Centre (NCC) in the summer of 2024.Isambard-AI will be designed with cutting-edge technologies to drive AI-driven...

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Airtel offers seamless interconnect for other carriers

Bharti Airtel introduced a  wholesale, unified platform for global interconnect with other operators.“Airtel Advantage” will offer International Voice, A2P, P2A, P2P SMS, Direct Inward Dialing (DID) and International Toll Free Service (ITFS) to other carrier partners.Airtel promises faster customer onboarding and seamless commencement of interconnects for multiple global locations. Customers can also view real-time traffic statistics and other...

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BT and Ericsson deliver Private 5K for UK's Port of Tyne

The Port of Tyne, one of the UK’s biggest and most important ports, has gone live with a Private 4G and 5G network supplied by Ericsson and BT.The installation is the UK’s first site-wide deployment of 4G and 5G standalone connectivity for smart port applications. The first set of live use cases will begin in November, including video and sensors installed at each gate on the site to use automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) to securely...

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Edgeworx launched enterprise edge on Google Cloud

Edgeworx, a start-up based in Berkeley, California, released its enterprise-focused edge native platform on the Google Cloud Marketplace. Edgeworx Cloud provides an enterprise-grade foundational edge platform without customer-managed Kubernetes clusters, complicated networking, or custom infrastructure. A secured and decoupled data plane carries all data from device-to-device, microservice-to-microservice, and host-to-client over on-demand private...

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