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BBWN Bites: EU calls for HD restraint![]() Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/19/2020
Also in this roundup: RDK's popular; WBA assumes control of Cisco's OpenRoaming; Virgin Media offers Gigabit to 1 million homes; and more.
For more, see this Reuters article. Operators have been reporting an increase in data traffic volumes but nothing they haven't been able to handle so far, though Vodafone has noted a 50% rise in data traffic in some markets. (See Vodafone proposes five-point plan to fight COVID-19, With COVID-19 comes the real dawn of the digital age and Home Internet data usage surges amid COVID-19 crisis.) BT appears to handling data volumes OK so far: Here's a tweet from Neil McRae, the operator's chief architect, from Wednesday:
— Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, special to Broadband World News |
Also in this roundup: Streamers ease off; Danes boost broadband availability; Veego teams up with Amdocs; Ukrtelecom takes GPON rural with Iskratel; and more.
Also in this broadband sector roundup: European operators ask for the improbable; Calix boasts new deals; US firms react to COVID-19; UK new builds to get Gigabit minimum.
Also in this broadband sector roundup: Why the UK needs more than just fiber investment promises; CityFibre tackles 'white finger'; FTTH dominates Portugal's fixed broadband lines.
Vendor is well placed to benefit from 5G network investments in South Korea and Japan, where Rakuten Mobile is a customer.
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Thursday, August 4, 2022
11:00 a.m. New York / 4:00 p.m. London The digital divide in North America is leaving millions without adequate broadband. Incumbents operate in “islands” of connectivity, serving densely populated areas and, at a national scale, perpetuating the digital divide in the gaps in between their service footprints. Regional ISPs have a clear role in closing that gap. These regional ISPs operate in a highly fragmented landscape, including smaller wireless and FTTH incumbents, satellite ISPs, electric co-ops, tribal communities, and municipalities in public/private partnerships. These regional ISPs face the same cyber threats and operational challenges as their Tier 1 counterparts, but with far fewer resources and revenue-generating population density. As a result, many regional ISPs have developed highly innovated business models for access and core technology, partnerships, financing and services. The discussion will cover:
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