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23 Mar 2023

Mobile

AT&T 5G coverage reaches 290m people; fibre now available to 24m in 100 metro areas

US telecoms giant AT&T Communications has announced that its 850MHz 5G network now reaches 290 million people in nearly 24,000 towns and cities across the US. The telco’s mid-band (3.7GHz)... more

Anatel approves a further 195 municipalities for 3.5GHz 5G

Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes, Anatel) has confirmed that 3.5GHz licensees are able to activate 5G services in a further 195 municipalities from Monday 27 March, as... more

EKIP reports significant improvement in mobile data speeds

A new survey on the quality of mobile networks conducted by Montenegro’s Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (EKIP) has found that Crnogorski Telekom's (CT's) mobile network offers the... more

Fixed Broadband

Vodafone Qatar, Nokia announce 25Gbps fibre for Msheireb Smart City; demoing 100Gbps soon

Vodafone Qatar in collaboration with Nokia has deployed 25Gbps-capable PON-based fibre broadband access technology in the Msheireb Smart City district, with the partners announcing that they will demonstrate speeds of... more

Dimension Data brings OneWeb to Mozambique

Dimension Data Mozambique (formerly Internet Solutions) has expanded its partnership with South Africa-based solutions provider Q-KON Africa to offer OneWeb low earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to business customers in... more

County Broadband begins FTTH rollout in nine Suffolk villages

British pure fibre provider County Broadband, which is focused on deploying its infrastructure in rural communities, has announced that ‘thousands’ of home are set to benefit as it begins construction... more

Corporate/Financial

China Telecom books 6.3% uptick in annual net profit

Chinese full-service provider China Telecom has announced its financial results for the year to end-December 2022, booking net profit of CNY27.59 billion (USD4.01 billion) for the period, an increase of... more

Rostelecom to merge its consumer division with Tele2 Russia

Russian state-backed telecoms giant Rostelecom has decided to merge its consumer (B2C) division with its mobile network operator subsidiary Tele2 Russia, according to a letter from Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky... more

PLDT’s FY22 income plunges 60% following budget ‘overrun’

PLDT Inc. reported that net income for the year ended 31 December 2022 fell by 60% to PHP10.49 billion (USD192.55 million), down from PHP26.37 billion in FY21, as the company... more

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