rural connectivity
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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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A Swiss private equity investor is to acquire a 75% stake in Eolo, the Italian fixed wireless company that last week agreed a wholesale deal with TIM.
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Any US operator with up to 10 million customers that bought Huawei or ZTE kit before the end of June 2020 is eligible for compensation to replace it.
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Italy’s TIM is to use a community-owned wholesale wireless provider, Eolo, to improve its rural broadband coverage.
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BT and OneWeb have finally confirmed a report in Capacity in March that they are exploring using the satellite network for rural coverage in the UK.
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Huawei has lost two court appeals within a few days that together set back its desire to return to supplying European and US telcos with its equipment.
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The biggest shareholder in mobile operator Veon is to spend £1 billion building a fibre network in two rural English counties.
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The Australian Government is to make AU$90 million in funding available for connectivity projects in regional communities.
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Egypt has started a project to connect 1,300 villages to fibre in the first stage of a scheme priced at US$32 billion.
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Prominent US politicians in the Democratic Party are calling for spending of US$94 billion on improving rural internet coverage.
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As Michael Armitage, CEO of Broadway Partners, writes the UK Government’s 2025 target is as achievable as national and local governments want it to be.
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El Salvador is to build a broadband network to connect communities along its Pacific coast.
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If there’s one thing that the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s how fundamental technology is to modern day life.
