rural connectivity
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Africa Mobile Networks unique business has seen strong growth and helped connect Africa’s unconnected -
Three UK has built 100 new cell sites as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) project.
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After US$700 million was announced by the Biden administration to connect people in rural areas in the US, more investment needs to fall into the hands of wireless infrastructure providers.
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EE will bring 4G connectivity to a further 1,500 remote countryside communities across the UK, including Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
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The Kenyan government has started a project to build a 100,000km national fibre network.
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Latin America is the most urbanised region in the world, but its rate of digitisation is low. Cambridge Management Consultants’ Elisabeth Simão tells Alan Burkitt-Gray what challenges operators in the region are facing
Forthcoming events
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Satellite company OneWeb is to provide Veon with mobile internet connectivity and digital services in emerging markets.
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BT is following its German rival and shareholder Deutsche Telekom in looking at using aircraft to deliver broadband to remote areas.
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The new head of the International Telecommunication Union is putting connectivity at the heart of the world’s sustainability goals.
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The price of internet access is going down, but 2.7 billion people – roughly one-third of the global population – remain unconnected to the internet.
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Liberty Broadband’s Alaskan operation, GCI, is expanding its fibre operations in the Arctic state with the aid of US$73 million in government grants.
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Internet speed monitor Ookla has found that speeds from SpaceX’s broadband satellite service Starlink is slowing down.
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The US government is giving the Alaska Telephone Company US$33 million to expand fibre connectivity in rural south-east Alaska.
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The UK’s 5G providers will face an investment gap of as much as £12-£14 billion as they seek to meet government commitments to provide nationwide coverage.
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Owners of ageing suburban coaxial cable networks are saying they can be good providers of broadband. Others say fixed wireless access is as good as fibre. Alan Burkitt-Gray says they’re both wrong
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Inmarsat is donating satellite airtime worth US$1.2 million to the ITU's Partner2Connect Coalition (P2C).
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Hughes has completed a three-month pilot of its Community LTE service in five villages across Brazil, demonstrating a quick and inexpensive way for MNOs to extend their reach.
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Ukrainian operator Ukrtelecom has started work on its €12 million fibre investment programme across the country.
