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• Three launches ‘plug and play’ 5G FWA package for business

  17-10-2022 18:46
  UK operator Three is pitching a ‘plug and play’ 5G alternative to fixed line broadband for business customers, promising next day installation.
  The ‘plug and play’ solution is called Business Broadband, straightforwardly enough, and is being offered for £14.17 per month. Download speeds in excess of 100Mbps are promised, and the router can be plugged in anywhere 5G Broadband is available.
  The release specifies this solution might be of particular relevance to those
  
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• Setting the scene for Network X 2022

  17-10-2022 16:42
  The telecoms industry is seeing a significant amount of innovation, with new trends and acronyms emerging all the time. 5G standalone, 6G, private networks, Open RAN, RIC, PON, FTTX, the list goes on. This is all happening at a time when the role of the public cloud hypserscalers is taking on greater importance, and the convergence between telecoms and cloud gathers pace. Over the next year, the telecoms industry is going to see more change, driven by a desire to monetise and maximise these tren
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: BT, chip wars and fair contribution

  17-10-2022 16:41
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · BT, chip wars and fair contribution
  
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• Reliance Jio’s 5G network is made in Europe, not India

  17-10-2022 16:12
  Nokia and Ericsson will share the spoils of Reliance Jio’s nationwide 5G deployment.
  Reliance Industries (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani is a firm backer of the Modi government’s ‘Make in India’ policy, and he is well on his way to creating an end-to-end 5G solutions provider in Jio Platforms. However, it seems the product portfolio is not quite ready for the big leagues, because his mobile arm Jio has gone with two big foreign players.
  Nokia on Monday announced that it will
  
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• Vodafone and Altice team up on €7 billion German fibre rollout

  17-10-2022 16:08
  Vodafone and Altice have announced the creation of a fibre joint venture in Germany that will spend as much as €7 billion on network rollout in the coming years.
  The telcos are setting up FibreCo, a 50:50 joint venture tasked with deploying fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to up to 7 million homes in Germany, and operating the infrastructure on a wholesale basis.
  This looks like a great move for Vodafone, in particular. Not only does it secure a highly credible partner to share the physical and fin
  
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• Beyond 10Gb/s, the next step will be 50G-PON

  17-10-2022 15:37
  Frank EffenbergerRapporteur, ITU-T Q2/15 – Optical Systems for Fiber Access NetworksFellow IEEE, OSA, and Futurewei
  One of the most remarkable trends in optical network in recent years has been the rapid replacement of copper access with fiber. The vast majority of these new fiber optic access networks are built using passive optical network (PON) topologies, and to date, more than 700 million subscribers worldwide are enabled by PON-based technologies for high-speed broadband services. Gi
  
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