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Articles Openreach goes live for 80K premises in Edinburgh Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 7/7/2020 BT-backed Openreach announced yesterday that FTTP service is officially live for 80,000 homes and businesses in Edinburgh. BBWN Bites: RIP to FCC pledge to Keep Americans Connected Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 7/3/2020 Also in this roundup: Virgin Media launches gigabit services in Edinburgh and Liverpool; rural Mississippi gets the "equivalent of the initial delivery of electricity" with broadband legislation; and the Georgia Broadband Availability Map reveals huge disparities. - Virgin Media made progress on its plan to bring "gigabit-capable" speeds to more ... Podcast: What’s the story with mobile data in Africa? Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 7/3/2020 Sub-Saharan Africa is on track for mobile data traffic to skyrocket in the next five years, according to Ericsson's June 2020 Mobility Report. Meanwhile, fixed-broadband subscribers in South Africa have been declining. Podcast: US Ignite touts brave new broadband business models Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, 7/1/2020 The pandemic has been a wake-up call to broadband's overall importance in the US economy. While some big telcos are waiving data caps and other penalties to make it easier for consumers to stay connected, those companies are not necessarily speeding up their efforts to connect underserved and rural communities. LR's Cable Next-Gen event is going virtual Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/1/2020 With COVID-19 still rampaging through the US, Light Reading plans to convert this year's Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies conference into a free, virtual event later this summer. Emergency Broadband Connections Act enters frame as pandemic drags on Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/30/2020 A new bill backed by Democratic lawmakers aimed at keeping US consumers connected during the pandemic emerged this week as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's voluntary Keep Americans Connected Pledge with hundreds of ISPs approached its expiration date. Comcast uses AI smarts to boost cable network performance Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/29/2020 After deploying a new AI-powered system to boost downstream performance on the cable access network last year, Comcast fast-tracked a version of it focused on the upstream amid a pandemic that caused a spike in usage as consumers hunkered down at home. BBWN Bites: Nokia named MVP of NBP Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 6/26/2020 Also in this roundup: Ofcom breaks down UK Internet activity during pandemic; some ISPs extend some of their COVID-19 measures; and the EFF urges US lawmakers to pass a universal fiber plan. Virgin Media sees a day of downtime, delays and hiccups Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, 6/25/2020 Virgin Media said it has fixed an hours-long broadband network outage in London and surrounding areas affecting several thousand customers and keeping many of them from work all day. And that wasn't even the only outage affecting Virgin's UK network today. Cox Business rises to the remote workforce challenge Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/24/2020 Cox Business has joined a group of cable operators and telcos that have tailored their commercial service offerings to support a remote workforce that has been expanding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Female representation in fiber must improve Lisa R. Youngers, President & CEO, Fiber Broadband Association, , 6/22/2020 It is the industry's worst kept secret that women are underrepresented in STEM fields. We make up less than 20% of the US tech labor force and an even smaller percentage of corporate board seats. These statistics are far from welcoming for young women contemplating college majors and entering into the workforce. BBWN Bites: Civil rights leaders call out US 'broadband emergency' Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 6/19/2020 Also in today's roundup: High-speed projects get rolling in Leicester and Wells; fiber drives telecom investment in France; global broadband market sees significant growth; and cable's upstream is still working overtime in the COVID-19 era. Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles The 'Agile Titan' – an Advanced Supplier Model to Meet the Needs of 21st Century Networks Josh Hirschey, General Manager, Amphenol Broadband Solutions and Mette Brink, General Manager, Amphenol Procom & Amphenol Antenna Solutions EMEA & APAC, , 5/7/2020 The need to stay ahead of the technology curve is integral to developing networks that can meet or exceed the bandwidth demand of consumers. Within the broadband industry, we've seen first-hand the approach leading equipment providers have taken, which is to acquire companies that will help fill product or service voids and absorb them into their ... All blogs		Industry Announcements FiberRise, ADTRAN help Alcorn County Electric deliver multi-gigabit rural broadband Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Pineland, Calix to deliver enhanced Wi-Fi experience to fiber subscribers Tuesday, July 7, 2020 NetIX expands its US East Coast presence Tuesday, July 7, 2020 L3Harris launches US Air Force satellite Monday, July 6, 2020 Virgin Media launches gigabit services in Edinburgh and Liverpool Thursday, July 2, 2020 Arm, Silicon Labs join Wi-SUN Alliance board Thursday, July 2, 2020 Ufone touts savings, customer satisfaction with netElastic vBNG Wednesday, July 1, 2020 More Industry Announcements Sponsored Video Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN CTO, EMEA & APAC, shares his thoughts on the regulatory and government policy, technology adoption and consumer services ... Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN CTO, EMEA & APC, shares his thoughts on industry operators leveraging virtualization, disaggregation and open SDN control, ... Network slicing promises to be a panacea, but the biggest hurdles are not technological. The grand ambition of enabling intelligent, adaptive, ... F-Secure has been providing security for endpoints for 30 years, and using AI and machine learning algorithms, for example in the labs to automate ... Fahri Diner, CEO and Co-founder of Plume, unveiled a new open source initiative, OpenSync, at Broadband World Forum 2018. Announced together with ... All Videos Information Resources >> Spring Showers Bring Lightning Surges – Learn How to Protect Your Network >> Fixed Wireless – Broadband over the Air >> Home Networking Applications Outpacing your Wi-Fi? >> Accelerate Your Time to Revenue by Simplifying Your OSS/BSS Integration with AXOS >> Open for Business: Future Flexibility for Smart Home Services >> Improving Wi-Fi capacity and efficiency in the Connected Home with Wi-Fi 6 >> Tracking Critical KPIs to Improve the Subscriber Experience >> When Less is More… the Power of Aggregation Simplified. >> Harbour ISP Supports Three Times as Many Users With netElastic >> Telpin Saves 70% With netElastic All resources Video The US government has moved to block Huawei's access, not only to US technology but to any technology made with US expertise. Light Reading's Iain ... OBS CEO Helmut Reisinger and SVP of Customer Services and Operations Aliette Mousnier Lompre discuss keeping customers connected and adapting ... The lines are blurring between streaming media and pay-TV devices and CSPs need to figure out how to manage that change, says Omdia analyst Paul ... Omdia's principal research analyst, John Kendall, discusses whole home solutions and the importance of WiFi strategies to communications service ... Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Omdia's principal research analyst, John Kendall, talks about developments in the broadband CPE market as WiFi 6.0 ... All Videos Webinars ARCHIVED Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m London Transforming Your Network Through Virtualization Over the next two years, approximately 60% of service providers (both large and small) will adopt virtualization on a wide scale across their networks, according to the latest survey report from Ovum. Why are providers making these moves? Is there an easy way to start? Learn how and why service providers are using virtualization to transform their networks. This webinar will look at how providers are leveraging virtualization to create more flexible and agile networks while also providing a better customer experience. Expert speakers from netElastic and Heavy Reading will address the industry drivers for network virtualization, the benefits that can be realized, the challenges to face and the results of virtualization being achieved by providers today. Key topics will include: Current network infrastructure and the move to virtualization Benefits and challenges of network virtualization How providers can get started Service provider success stories: the decision to virtualize, the solution, and results More Webinars Webinar Archives Partner Perspectives - from our sponsors The 'Agile Titan' – an Advanced Supplier Model to Meet the Needs of 21st Century Networks By Josh Hirschey, General Manager, Amphenol Broadband Solutions and Mette Brink, General Manager, Amphenol Procom & Amphenol Antenna Solutions EMEA & APAC Evolving unlicensed 5G applications: Closing the divide in mobile and last-mile connections By Sivers IMA What Service Providers Should Know About WiFi 6 By Greg Owens, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Calix Turning the Keys to State-of-the-Art 5G mmWave By Sivers IMA Necessity Is the Mother of Invention By Mark Weller All Partner Perspectives Broadband World Forum Perspectives 9/27/2019 BBWF Interview: Rogers Communications' Lindsey Omelon on the Evolving Customer Digital Experience As the Senior Digital Experience Strategist at Canadian operator Rogers Communications, Lindsey Omelon build on her years of marketing experience to approach her strategy with a hybrid ... Post a Comment 9/11/2019 BBWF Interview: KT's JP Lee on AI in Telecoms There's certainly no shortage of hype around the use of AI in the telecoms sector, but fewer instances of real-world deployments. South Korean national operator KT is one of those ... Post a Comment 9/9/2019 BBWF Interview: MyRepublic's Jay Shah Cuts Through the AI Hype Do a Google search of 'artificial intelligence broadband' and you'll get more than 9 million results in less than a second: The sheer volume of content out there shouldn't surprise anyone ... Post a Comment 8/30/2019 BBWF Interview: Comcast's Michael Soileau on Tackling Transformation Comcast, like any other major communications service provider, is undergoing significant changes in the way it grows its business, how it runs its business and the technologies it uses to ... Post a Comment 8/19/2019 BBWF Interview: NOS's Manuel Eanes on the Smart Home Opp for Telcos Five years ago, NOS board member Manuel Ramalho Eanes banked big on smart homes and smart cities. Post a Comment All Broadband World Forum Perspectives