BT recently hosted an event at their Madley Communications Centre, drawing a mix of public and private sector guests to explore the influence of satellite technologies in today’s communication networks. The Madley site, nestled in the Herefordshire cou…
Category: Telecoms
Optus appoints NBN boss as chief executive six months after outage
Australia’s second-largest telco Optus has appointed a new chief executive, with NBN Co boss Stephen Rue to take the reins six months after a mass outage that affected some 10 million Optus customers.
AT&T’s new ‘Turbo’ charge raises net neutrality concerns
AT&T is now charging mobile customers an additional $7 per month for faster wireless data speeds with a new “Turbo” add-on. AT&T says the add-on is “built to support high-performance mobile applications, like gaming, social vi…
AT&T’s new ‘Turbo’ charge raises net neutrality concerns
AT&T is now charging mobile customers an additional $7 per month for faster wireless data speeds with a new “Turbo” add-on. AT&T says the add-on is “built to support high-performance mobile applications, like gaming, social vi…
AT&T’s new ‘Turbo’ charge raises net neutrality concerns
AT&T is now charging mobile customers an additional $7 per month for faster wireless data speeds with a new “Turbo” add-on. AT&T says the add-on is “built to support high-performance mobile applications, like gaming, social vi…
T-Mobile closes acquisition of Mint owner
T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of Ka’ena Corporation, the parent company of the direct-to-consumer prepaid wireless brands Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile, as well as the wholesale wireless provider Plum. The Un-carrier announced the complet…
Satellite heavyweights SES and Intelsat to combine in $3.1B merger
Two of the commercial satellite industry’s biggest players are joining forces to fortify their position against the onslaught of emerging low-Earth orbit broadband constellations led by SpaceX’s Starlink network. In a $3.1 billion deal anno…
FCC fines major telcos for selling users’ location data
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined major US telcos for illegally selling their subscribers’ location data to third-party data brokers. According to an FCC statement, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile US – the latter two h…
FCC fines major telcos for selling users’ location data
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined major US telcos for illegally selling their subscribers’ location data to third-party data brokers. According to an FCC statement, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile US – the latter two h…
Industry veteran Bill Barney launches new cable station, data centre developer
CEO Bill Barney is launching a new company targeting the development of cable landing station and edge data centre facilities in emerging markets and underserved […]