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ChatGPT developers OpenAI are behind the apparent eight-figure purchase of the chat.com domain. -
A French startup developing a constellation of satellites to provide low-latency internet services for telecom operators has raised €9.3 million in funding.
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Data from Cloudflare showed that yesterday’s eclipse caused a drop in internet traffic in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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What to look forward to in Asian digital infrastructure as our consumption habits evolve
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UK investment vehicle Zegona has reached an agreement with Vodafone to purchase its Spanish business for 5 billion euros.
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The Coalition for Digital Africa, set up in December 2022, is to work with leading internet organisations to strengthen the digital infrastructure across Africa.
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Windstream has submitted its application to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction to receive $147 million in funding.
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HGC Global Communications confirmed that it has successfully returned services to its customer in Myanmar, five hours after a major telecoms outage.
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Virgin Media is promising its customers Wifi speeds "up to three times faster in more locations in the home" through its new Intelligent WiFi Plus.
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African nations are uniting to buy data capacity in bulk with the aim of halving the cost of internet access.
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Internet speeds in the Philippines may have increased 477% since Q3 2016, but they still lag the speeds recorded in other countries.
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Hannes Gredler, CTO at RtBrick, reflects on the evolution of the not so humble router
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University College London (UCL) has recorded the world’s fastest data transmission speed, reaching 178 terabits a second – or 178,000,000 megabits a second – by using a bandwidth of 16.8 THz.
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Disruptions to the internet have seen an unprecedented rise because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new survey by ThousandEyes, a research company owned by Cisco.
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President Donald Trump has blocked the nomination of a telecoms regulator who disagreed with him over freedom of speech.
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Israel’s largest telecoms group, Bezeq Israel Telecom, has received the green light to deliver internet speeds of up to 200 megabits per second.
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Technology is going to become regionalised, but “that does not mean that a full splinternet is inevitable”, says a new report from Fitch Solutions.
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Vodafone New Zealand has become the country’s first provider to deploy technology with a transmission capacity of 800 billion bits per second.
