Spark acquires Adroit environmental monitoring businessSpark says it has agreed to buy the remaining shares in Adroit, an environmental Internet of Things business. The company provides tech… Read More

TDR complaints reach new high after awareness campaignIt's been a busy year for the Telecommunications Dispute Resolution scheme. In the 12 months to June 2023 it handled 3725 consumer compl… Read More

SpaceX has achieved much since it launched its Starlink low earth orbit satellite broadband service in 2020.Commercial service started in February 2021. At the last count, Starlink said it h… Read More

TM, a Malaysian telecommunications company, has increased the prices of its Unifi fibre broadband plans. The 1Gbps plan, which includes Unifi TV, now costs RM378.90 per month, while the 2Gbp… Read More

Today, Jio AirFiber was officially launched in India. Reliance has introduced it in a total of eight Indian cities that would have access to the wireless internet service allowing users acce… Read More

Professor Umar Dambatta, EVC Deputy Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission NCC, said the telecommunications sector's contribu… Read More

Mighty Ape swings into mobile marketOnline retailer Mighty Ape has launched Mighty Mobile, a mobile phone business, on the back of a MVNO agreement with One New Zealand.Mighty Mobile offers… Read More

One New Zealand has received a record fine for the FibreX marketing campaign the company ran between 2016 and 2018 when it was known as Vodafone.Last week Justice Moore handed down a $3.675… Read More

Budget broadband provider Plusnet is set to launch a new fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) package for residential customers in the UK today. Known as “Full Fibre 300,” the plan is ba… Read More

Ericsson’s perspective is worth hearing. With Huawei shut out of many international markets, the Swedish telecoms equipment giant plays an important role building 5G networks for telco… Read More

What next if the technology rally loses steam? By Garry White, Chief Investment Commentator at Charles Stanley Shares in technology companies have led the charge this year. But, as a mixed… Read More

The rising demand for and subsequent rollout of high-speed broadband continues to surge, and ISPs (web service supplier) are discovering themselves in a perpetual cycle of deploying furth… Read More

Telecommunications is getting better for rural users, but outside the UFB fibre footprint it is more expensive and of a lower quality.This is highlighted in the Commerce Commission’s 2… Read More

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) focuses this year on “Empowering the least developed countries through information and communication technologies.&rdqu… Read More

We are starting the week from Nigeria where the lawmakers might pass the controversial NITDA bill that has been opposed by stakeholders in the ecosystem. In letter 161, we told you that loca… Read More

The Benefits of High-Speed Internet in Burnley Burnley, a town in Lancashire, England, is experiencing a digital revolution. With the recent rollout of high-speed internet, residents are now… Read More

In early 2020, at the peak of the Corona Virus outbreak in Nigeria, there were updates about the installations of scary 5G networks. A lot was said about the implications and other informati… Read More

Chorus halts copper services salesChorus no longer sells new copper broadband services in areas where fibre is available.The change, which the company describes as 'stop-sell', came into eff… Read More

First half results show challenging times for New Zealand telcos who now also need to deal with the consequences of Cyclone Gabrielle. Spark turned in a huge $837 million profit for the firs… Read More

Spark, Ericsson and Red Hat say they have successfully completed New Zealand trials of 5G standalone technology.Until now New Zealand’s 5G networks have offered greater speeds and capa… Read More

As we sit on the cusp of 2023, with the pandemic seemingly behind us, yet still threatening to mutate anew, and reportedly set to infect a million a day in China now the lockdowns there ha… Read More

Amidst uncertainty about Vodafone Idea's capabilities and financial stability, Airtel remains the only Indian telco competing with Reliance Jio for a countrywide 5G rollout. One of the oldes… Read More

When RIL Chairman and MD Mukesh Ambani staged a series of announcements in 2016 with the goal of revolutionising India’s digital ecosystem, the outcome was JIO. “Reliance Jio&rs… Read More

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 14 November 2022 – Thrilled by the display and software upgrades in the latest iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro family? Here is the icing on the… Read More

Reliance Industries will invest Rs 2 lakh crore for the rollout of its much-awaited 5G service which promises to offer low latency and faster download speeds.Addressing the 4… Read More

Telecommunications jargon buster | Sift through the complex abbreviations and terminology Telecommunications jargon buster4ESS Class 4 toll switch made by Lucent. 5ESS End office switch made… Read More

The first Big Bash League 2022-23 game will be played on Dec. 13, 2022, when Sydney Thunder plays the Melbourne Stars, according to a news release. In Australia, free-to-air television broad… Read More

The Internet was defined as a basic human right by the United Nations General assembly back in 2016, and ever since then, the need for high-speed Internet has been on the rise as our economi… Read More