Internet
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The Internet Society has announced the expansion of its partnership with Meta at MWC, with the pair launching a new Connectivity Co-Funding Initiative aimed at accelerating affordable and sustainable Internet access. -
Salam has teamed up with CDNetworks to deliver enhanced internet services across Saudi Arabia.
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr has thrown out a Biden administration proposal that would have regulated broadband providers' ability to ‘bulk bill’ — where building owners could negotiate directly with ISPs on services for their entire building.
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Nokia has secured a trifecta of contracts with internet exchange (IX) providers to improve network performance.
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Pro-Assad forces sabotaged fibre links in Syria as the former regime's supporters look to target critical infrastructure following December's sudden collapse of the Assad regime.
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British internet users have moved away from watching events with loved ones to become a nation of split-screeners, according to BT’s annual usage data.
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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.
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In a first for the Australian market, Telstra Wholesale customers will now see traffic switch to the 4G mobile network if fibre connectivity fails.
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Internet exchange operator DE-CIX saw revenues increase 10% worldwide over the course of 2019 to reach €39.6 million, as the global customer base across all locations grew 20%.
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Cisco has announced its intention to buy ThousandEyes, the internet and cloud intelligence platform.
