Written by Saf Malik for CapacityMedia.com
EnSilica, a leading ASIC and mixed-signal chip maker has announced a contract to develop a new chip to address the next generation of mass-market satellite broadband user terminals.
The contract has been awarded through the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems Core Competitiveness programme (ARTES), through the support of the UK Space Agency.
Written by Mark Jackson for IPSReview.co.uk
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today used its latest data to predict that the country will finally achieve 50% coverage of full fibre (FTTP/B) broadband ISP networks in March 2023, which is actually slightly down from the prior prediction of 55% that they issued in December 2022.
Written by Alfred Osiko for GSMA.com
Reflections from the Global Off Grid Solar Forum & Expo 2022
Between 18 and 21 October 2022, the GSMA ClimateTech joined the seventh edition of the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo in Kigali, Rwanda hosted by GOGLA (the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry) in collaboration with Lighting Global. In this blog, we summarise our learnings around the issue of circularity – a key thematic focus for the GSMA ClimateTech team.
New Delhi, India – Nokia today announced in its annual Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report that mobile data traffic in India has risen 3.2 times over the last five years.
Nokia Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report finds mobile data traffic in India jumped 3.2x in the last five years, reaching over 14 exabytes per month.
Written by Mary Lennighan for Telecoms.com
Big telcos will spend on average US$1 billion each on network cloud transformation in the next few years, according to new forecasting from Capgemini.
While that might seem like a huge sum – and indeed it is – the consultancy is upbeat on return on investment, essentially predicting that those who spend early will make half their money back pretty quickly.
Prototype is built on a Raspberry Pi chipset.
Vodafone has invented a nano 5G network on a computer the size of a credit card. The prototype 5G network is built on a tiny Raspberry Pi personal computer chipset and will be demoed at Mobile World Congress. The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Broadcom.
Traquair in Peeblesshire and Balmacara in Ross-shire have benefited from a partnership between Vodafone, Virgin Media O2, the Shared Rural Network and the Scottish Government.
Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone have expanded their 4G networks to two rural Scottish communities, Traquair (Peeblesshire) and Balmacara (Ross-shire), as part of a collaboration between the Scottish Government’s Scottish 4G Infill Programme (S4GI) and UK Government’s Shared Rural Network (SRN).
Written by Nick Wood for Telecoms.com
UK incumbent BT has the UK delivery sector in its sights with its new IoT national roaming SIM.
Launched on Thursday, it can connect to cellular networks ranging from 2G right the way up to 5G from any of the country’s mobile operators. It is also compatible with low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN).