Broadband

Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol, natch

Networks22 May 2024 | 98

BT delays deadline for digital landline switch off date

Telco told they must protect vulnerable in race to turn off Public Switched Telephone Network

Networks21 May 2024 | 109

Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program

A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all

Networks02 May 2024 | 17

America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway

Damn you, network virtualization

Networks17 Apr 2024 | 22

US broadband internet: Now with mandatory 'nutrition' labels

ISPs are just going to have to swallow it

Personal Tech10 Apr 2024 | 20

UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground

The NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year

Networks15 Mar 2024 | 61

Stuck paying for your apartment's crummy internet? FCC boss Rosenworcel wants to help

Proposed regulation would bar building owners from forcing internet services on tenants

On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 21

UK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog's crosshairs

Union claims corporate greed behind alliance, firms claim it is about helping customers

Networks26 Jan 2024 | 23

Virgin Media comes top of the flops for customer complaints

Clean sweep across broadband, landline, and pay TV

Networks26 Jan 2024 | 38

Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband

Claims FCC's justification for ditching Starlink 'utterly false'

Networks23 Jan 2024 | 63

BT to spell out contract price hikes in pounds and pence

Updated None of this inflation-linked percentage nonsense, says Ofcom

Networks17 Jan 2024 | 28

FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program dangles by a financial thread

On the wrong side of the digital divide in America? The clock is ticking

Public Sector09 Jan 2024 | 8

Openreach hits halfway mark in quest to hook up 25M premises with fiber broadband

12.5 million teased with speedy internet, only 4 million take the bait

Networks08 Dec 2023 | 70

Amazon hitches a ride with SpaceX for Project Kuiper launches

Working rockets are needed, and only a direct rival can provide for now

Science04 Dec 2023 | 9

Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet

Take that, Elon

Off-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 1

China lobs tech demo into orbit for People's Republic version of Starlink

Another mega-constellation incoming

Networks24 Nov 2023 | 3

Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites nail online orders from orbit

Late-stage capitalism ... in spaaace

Networks17 Nov 2023 | 22

Amazon's Project Kuiper thrusters deliver Prime orbit adjustments

Custom Hall-effect propulsion system makes sure satellites won't trip over space junk – like Starlink

Networks10 Nov 2023 | 1

Musk's broadband satellite kingdom Starlink now cash flow positive – or so he claims

Meanwhile, Boeing's constellation dreams crash back down to Earth

Networks03 Nov 2023 | 39

FCC throws an $18B bone to rural broadband

Funds intended to support carriers for more than 15 years

Networks31 Oct 2023 | 10

UK to crack down on imported Chinese optical fiber cables

5.7 million fiber kilometers of the stuff could be worth £88M to Brit players, claims government

Networks25 Oct 2023 | 73

Progress towards 'Gigabit Europe' is slow, with UK also lagging

Fiber to the Premises just a premise for many

Public Sector24 Oct 2023 | 68

Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites prepare for testing after one late Prime delivery

If all goes well, production to start 'before the end of the year'

Networks17 Oct 2023 | 8

EU consultation on future telecoms cools on having big tech pay for network builds

€1.5 trillion needed in the next five years – some to turf Huawei – and nobody's quite sure where to find it

Networks12 Oct 2023 | 11

Two Project Kuiper prototype satellites finally reach orbit

Hey – gotta start somewhere

Science09 Oct 2023 | 6

FCC plans to restore net neutrality rules tossed out under Trump

Discriminatory handling of data and paid internet fast lanes could again be disallowed

Networks26 Sep 2023 | 29

22 million Brits suffer broadband outage blues and are paying a premium for it

Southampton top for connectivity flops, says Uswitch research

Networks08 Sep 2023 | 71

Biden to bolster boondocks broadband with a billion bonus bucks (barely)

ISPs in 22 states and Marshall Islands get to split nine-figure pot

Networks22 Aug 2023 | 20

ISP's ads 'misleadingly implied' existence of 6G, says watchdog

Biz says folks know the difference between fixed and mobile broadband. Do they, though, asks ASA

Networks17 Aug 2023 | 49

BT hires chartered management accountant and telco veteran as next CEO

Got to keep up with those FTTP builds and the tens of thousands of staff that will leave

Networks31 Jul 2023 | 6

FCC boss says 25Mbps isn't cutting it, Americans deserve 100Mbps now, gigabit later

First refresh of minimums in eight years for the country that invented the internet

Networks26 Jul 2023 | 54

BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28

More puffins than people on Lundy, and no one wants to say how much it cost

Networks24 Jul 2023 | 36

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Ofcom launches investigation into whether telco is making it difficult for people to cancel services

Networks13 Jul 2023 | 78

BT CEO Jansen confirms he's quitting within 12 months

FTTP builds? 25M homes target on track. 68% coverage of 5G in UK. Mega redundancies programme initiated. He's off

Networks10 Jul 2023 | 15

Brit broadband subscribers caught between crappy connections and price hikes

Survey suggests 'mediocre services' now cost 14% more

Networks05 Jul 2023 | 99

UK government hands CityFibre £318M for rural broadband builds

Openreach rival promises first live connections by next summer

Networks03 Jul 2023 | 30

Cisco buys SamKnows to give ThousandEyes a look at millions of endpoints

Packets you make at home or on mobile devices are in Switchzilla's sights, to make hybrid workers happy

Networks27 Jun 2023 | 10

Biden lines up $42.5B for US broadband boost

You get funding, you get funding, everybody gets funding

Networks26 Jun 2023 | 14

FCC questions ISPs' selective memory about data caps

Why were they so easy to lift during the pandemic but not now?

Networks19 Jun 2023 | 35

Starlink's rocket speeds hit a 50 megabit wall for large downloads

Disgruntled customers claim throttling happens any time of the day or night

Networks07 Jun 2023 | 42

UK watchdog won't block Openreach’s discount fiber pricing

Nation's overwhelmingly dominant broadband plumber can run copper migration promo, despite rivals' pleas

Networks24 May 2023 | 19

BT is ditching workers faster than your internet connection with 55,000 for chop by 2030

FTTP build to be done by then, network will be more 'efficient,' AI to take over in customer services

Networks18 May 2023 | 112

Amazon CEO says AWS staff now spending ‘much of their time’ optimizing customers’ clouds

Annual shareholder letter warns of ‘softening’ growth for cloud biz, likely lift-off for Kuiper satellite broadband

Off-Prem17 Apr 2023 | 23

UK govt wants standalone 5G by 2030 but won't shell out to help hit target

Instead tech department working on 'range of measures' to foster investment

Networks12 Apr 2023 | 105

Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet

Project Kuiper satellite broadband coming next year, maybe

Networks15 Mar 2023 | 15

Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract

We don't need to trap customers to force loyalty, says boss

Networks13 Mar 2023 | 45

What's really up with data disconnects in the deep blue sea?

Opinion There's always a catch if you blame it on trawlers

Networks27 Feb 2023 | 40

Europe to consult on making Big Tech pay for the networks it floods

Continental bloc also greases the skids to usher in the gigabit age in two or three years

Networks24 Feb 2023 | 32

Starlink performance sees a bump, and so do prices

Still not quite as fast as it was in the halcyon days of 2021

Networks23 Feb 2023 | 12

BT keeps the faith in 'like fury' fiber broadband buildout as revenues dip

Almost 10 million premises hooked up but cost-cutting campaign continues

Networks02 Feb 2023 | 44

Openreach offers more wholesale fiber discounts, rivals call foul

CityFibre seethes that move comes straight out of 'dominant operator ... playbook'

Networks19 Dec 2022 | 45

With pay strikes ending, BT merges divisions to save £100m in annual costs

A day after Openreach engineers overwhelmingly accept new compensation, telco says it will merge Enterprise and Global businesses

Networks16 Dec 2022 | 18

This is the best pay offer you'll get without more strikes, union tells BT workers

Tens of thousands of engineers and call center staff can vote on negotiated pay settlement on 15 December

Networks07 Dec 2022 | 29

UK to test Starlink satellite broadband for those hard to reach areas

But why Elon Musk's satellite broadband biz and not govt-funded OneWeb?

Networks01 Dec 2022 | 26

BT performs U-turn, agrees to up wages for 85% of UK staff

Cost of Living Pay Rise due in January, if unionised workers vote for it in consultative ballot

Networks29 Nov 2022 | 20

Waiting for speedy broadband? UK's Openreach prioritizing existing work over fiber expansion

Broadband plumber's BT Group parent is determined to cut costs

Networks23 Nov 2022 | 51