India's 6G ambition faces a 5G monetization reality check
India has world-class 5G infrastructure, but low ARPU, a tiny base of premium users and digitally immature enterprises could threaten its 6G aspirations.
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India has world-class 5G infrastructure, but low ARPU, a tiny base of premium users and digitally immature enterprises could threaten its 6G aspirations.
After a bit of a false start a couple of years ago, mobile network operator Lyca Mobile, which in the UK is a virtual operator (MVNO) on EE’s national network, has now finally confirmed that they’ve enabled the Wi-Fi Calling (VoWiFi – Voice over Wi-Fi) feature across “all” of their SIM plans. VoWiFi enables consumers […]
At the start of 2026 we reported on how West Midlands Police had arrested a gang of three men who were in the process of trying to steal Openreach’s (BT) copper UK broadband and phone cables – worth £50k – from an underground site in central Birmingham (here). Yesterday the Birmingham Crown Court jailed each […]
Crown Castle has closed the sale of its fiber business to Zayo Group and its small cell business to Arium Networks. #pressrelease
Network access provider Openreach has announced the launch of an interesting new “Near-net” trial, which sounds like a different approach to their old FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD / FoD) broadband product. The trial aims to confirm the feasibility of building full fibre broadband to business footprint which is currently outside of build plans on a […]
Inseego CEO Juho Sarvikas discusses deal to buy Nokia's FWA business that will see it double revenues, expand beyond the US and enter the consumer CPE market.
Cable One is seeing haphazard competition from Starlink, as pricing and offers have varied from market to market, but views satellite broadband as a 'formidable competitor,' says CEO Jim Holanda.
A year has now passed since Rochdale-based UK broadband ISP Zen Internet launched its ‘Fibre Hub’ – a platform that essentially aggregates access to a number of full fibre networks, while offering that up to their partners (e.g. other ISPs) at the wholesale level. Zen now says they’ve seen a 52% increase in monthly gross […]
Vistance Networks, the former CommScope, is selling its Ruckus unit to Belden for $1.84 billion. Vistance will retain its cable and PON unit, Aurora Networks, and look to grow it via possible M&A.
This week in broadband builds: WideOpenWest (WOW) connects 17,000 more locations in Michigan; Comcast comes to Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania; Arvig to extend Minnesota fiber lines; New York names its BEAD winners – and more.
Inaugural cohort gains exclusive access to Canada’s fastest supercomputer and hands-on commercial expertise to build advanced AI solutions The post TELUS and L-SPARK give Canadian startups access to AI supercomputer appeared first on Total Telecom.
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Proximus and friends collaborate on Flanders fiber; Eutelsat, Station Satcom reach maritime deal; retrans ruling from EU court.
Revenues fall one quarter at Samsung's networks business, which blames 'headwinds' and says 'cost discipline' is needed.
Execs from Vodafone Intelligent Services and Hrvatski Telekom shed light on some of the cloud challenges faced by telcos, and the common mistakes that are made when deploying the tech.
Network operators Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today published their latest Q1 2026 results and revealed that their gigabit broadband network increased its UK coverage by just 6,400 premises in the quarter (down from 115.1k in Q4), while related customers fell dramatically to a total of 5,446,100 (down by -241.5k in Q1 2026 vs […]
The Government has published a Project Gigabit contract modification notice for Quickline’s deployment of gigabit broadband across ‘West and Parts of North Yorkshire’ (Lot 8) in England. The change expands the number of contracted premises due to be covered by full fibre (FTTP) to 28,952 (up by 2,642) and increases the public subsidy to £65.47m […]
The UK Government has given approval for Jersey linked telecoms operator JT Group and CVC DIF, the infrastructure strategy of global private markets manager CVC, to jointly proceed (under ‘Dunlop Bidco‘) with their proposed acquisition of broadband and mobile operator Manx Telecom (MT) – the primary network operator for the remote Isle of Man. At […]
Alternative internet provider Airband, which has deployed both a Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based broadband network to cover rural parts of England and North Wales, has followed up this week’s departure of its CEO (here) by announcing a new “operating model” and further redundancies to support their “next phase of growth“. […]
Persistent inflation has compressed household discretionary budgets, creating a widening gap between channel sell-in and underlying sell-out. #pressrelease
European operators are largely converging on D2D solutions that enable unmodified smartphones to connect directly to satellites using existing mobile technologies. #pressrelease