FTTx

via Flickr © Victor Camilo (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Mobile

Oi's plan to sell out of mobile makes some sense with 5G around the corner

© BT

Broadband

UK plans are afoot to phase out copper network by 2027

via Flickr © Bill Ward (CC BY 2.0)

FTTx

Sky's big broadband deal is a good deal but not that big of a deal

via Flickr © NIAID (CC BY 2.0)

4G LTE

UK mobile operators face bloody noses on rural roaming

Cable Ship Rene Descartes © Flickr/cc-licence/Mark Stainton

Submarine Network

Dark days for the Pacific Light Cable Network

via Flickr © Beth Cortez-Neavel ( CC0 1.0 Universal )

Policy & Regulation

Vodafone takes Ofcom to court, or rather, to tribunal

via Flickr © Tim Green (CC BY 2.0)

FTTx

Free's fibre figures show French market marching on

via Flickr © Groman123 (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Fixed Access

Sky undercuts BT on 'ultrafast' broadband

Transformation

People who use tech feel 11 years younger research reveals

Source: Hargreaves Lansdown attributing Lipper IM to 31/07/2019

Business Models

The telecom death trap: is there an easy way out?

Optical

ADTRAN Expands Fiber Broadband Portfolio with Innovative New ONTs

5G

Vodafone Together - The UK's first 5G mobile and broadband bundle

via Flickr © theilr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

FTTx

Consumer group claims victory as Italy takes hard line on fibre advertising

OSS/BSS

XL Axiata Goes Live with Qvantel Digital BSS for Fixed Line (FTTH) Broadband Services

Submarine Network

Superloop Deploys the Cisco NCS 1004 for Two Deployments of 4600km at 400G

Optical

BOnline harnesses ADVA FSP 3000 for scalable nationwide network

via Flickr © Jeff Hart (CC BY 2.0)

Broadband

Irish broadband plan: stop bickering and get on with it

Broadband

Watch Communications and Microsoft announce partnership to bring broadband internet to Indiana, Ohio and Illinois

via Flickr © Loris Silvio Zecchinato (CC BY 2.0)

FTTx

Competition comes to Estonia with new wholesale fibre network build

FTTx

Ericsson enables Liberty Global’s Access Network Expansion over high-capacity wireless trunk link

via Flickr © Merritt Boyd (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Policy & Regulation

Could Openreach one day mark its own independence day?

FTTx

ZTE launches industry-first 5G/FTTH dual-mode home gateway

via Flickr © cwwycoff1 (CC BY 2.0)

Broadband

US agriculture increasingly affected by lack of broadband

via Flickr © Beth Cortez

Telco & CSP

CEO of Alaskan telco jailed for US$1 billion fraud