UK chancellor Philip Hammond is to announce that local authorities will be allowed to bid for part of a £740 million fund to trial super-fast 5G mobile networks in his Autumn Statement. The statement is set to be announced in full ...
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Despite ruling out offline playback in the past, Netflix now admits it is “looking at” the long-requested feature. Boosting the hopes of millions of Netflix viewers around the world, Netflix has teased that video downloading ...
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Premier League 2016/17 TV and Live Streaming Guide: We breakdown the best deals and cheapest packages across Sky Sports, BT Sports and Virgin Media to help you watch every match live on your TV, iPhone, iPad, Android device or PC. ...
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If you're moving house, or going to stay somewhere and want to know if you can stay connected, then this new tool is for you. It's an interactive map that lets you check broadband speeds and mobile reception levels in an area. Just head ...
Tags: Ofcom, Interactive Map Tool, Broadband Speeds, Mobile Reception Levels
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has unveiled its suite of 75Ω low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) and high-performance switches supporting higher data rates across ...
Category 9 or Category 10 LTE modems, which enable mobile broadband speeds in the downlink of up to 450Mbps, are expected to reach 64 million in 2019, according to ABI Research. Recently, Qualcomm unveiled its Gobi 9x45, the first mobile ...
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After Chinese researchers successfully connected four computers to the internet through the use of a LED bulb with broadband speeds of 150Mbps, UK researchers have gone a step further, saying they have achieved high data transferring speeds ...
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The government needs to regulate high-speed broadband networks to end the dominance of BT, according to rival telecoms group TalkTalk. BT is currently responsible for rolling out the national broadband fibre network, which - according to ...
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Broadband speeds across the United Kingdom are on the up, according to the industry's watchdog. Back in November 2008 the average speed of the country's broadband was a sluggish 3.6Mbit/s, now five years on this has rocketed to 12Mbit/s. ...
BT has created more than 1,000 engineering jobs at the company's infrastructure arm Openreach. The vast majority of the roles will be installing broadband in customers' homes, BT said, with the roles being occupied by a mix of ...
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Annual direct investment in fiber to the home (FTTH) networks will reach $4.7 billion by 2017 and total investment in FTTH over the next five years will be $18 billion, according to a recent report by RVA LLC, titled North American Fiber to ...
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A lack of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband in the UK and abroad is holding back the video games industry, according to the president and CEO of Eidos, Ian Livingstone. In an exclusive interview at the FTTH Council's Conference 2013, ...
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2,341,113,000 Euro was raised although the auction was expected to generate at least 3.5bn Euro. After more than 50 rounds of bidding Vodafone, Telefónica UK, EE, Hutchison 3G UK and Niche Spectrum Venutres have won spectrum. ...
Tags: Ofcom, mobile spectrum auction, broadband
U.S. broadband providers deliver nearly the residential broadband speeds they advertise, with a handful of large providers exceeding the promised service, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said in a new report. On average, U.S. ...
According to new research from Cisco, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, exceeding the amount of data initiated over fixed lines by three to one by 2017. Cisco estimates that mobile data traffic ...
Tags: mobile data, fixed lines, 2017