UK slips to 47th place globally in Broadband speed

Annual rankings of global broadband speed based on 557 million tests conducted across 221 countries and compiled by Cable.co.uk showed it typically takes twice as long as to download a film in the UK than the average for Western Europe, as the UK has fallen 13 places to 47th, down from 34th a year ago.…

Face scans mandatory for new mobile phone users in China

  A regulation announced in September 2019, was due to come into effect on Sunday when all people in China are required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of hundreds of millions of internet users. China has for years been trying to…

Juniper and Telefonica prepare for 5G roll out

Juniper Networks a leader in AI driven networks announced first phase of Telefonica UK’s successful services migration to the Telefonica UK Fusion Network, a brand new infrastructure for which Juniper Networks  is the strategic IP network provider. both designed the Fusion Network to transform the customer experience for mobile, residential and business services globally. This…

5G network auction raised £1.36bn

Regulator Ofcom said “an auction of frequencies, for the next generation of mobile phone networks has raised £1.36bn with Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three all winning the bandwidth needed for the future 5G mobile internet services and faster connections which is expected to be launched in 2020. Ofcom auctioned two spectrum bands 3.4 GHz, which…