Municipal broadband | 5G and Fibre

A rare procurement arrangement will open vendors to bid on chunks of the network, which will serve the city on an open-access model.

Bell hits a wall every time it tries to stop Canadians from accessing cheaper high-speed Internet. First the federal cabinet shot them down. Now the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications C...

El Instituto Municipal de Informática proporciona servicios tecnológicos al Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Concretamente, desarrolla las siguientes tareas:

Immediate actions under the Australian government's 5G directions paper include actively contributing to international standardisation efforts, making spectrum available, and modernising telco regulations.

Two cities in Texas and Georgia’s capital are getting AT&T’s faster mobile internet

Broadband planning for economic development

Smart operators will consider seven no-regrets moves to position themselves for advantage amid radically changing industry dynamics.

Don't want refrigerator-sized wireless boxes on the streetlight on your street? If SB 649 passes, then too bad.

Dedicated 10Gbps connections to lure enterprises back to city.

The City of Adelaide is getting ready to construct a transformational ten gigabit fibre-optic network that will deliver lightning fast data speeds to the...

Crown Fibre Holdings Limited (CFH) has been established to manage the Government’s $1.5 billion investment in Ultra-Fast Broadband infrastructure. The Government’s objective is to accelerate the roll-out of Ultra-Fast Broadband to 75 percent of New Zealanders over ten years, concentrating in the first six years on priority broadband users such as businesses, schools and health

A city isn’t smart because it uses technology. A city is smart because the technology it uses is digitally accessible and purposefully inclusive — so that every citizen’s’ life is better

Local governments and residents fight to retain control over millions of new small cells

Arqiva is to continue its 5G preparations by attaching small cells to 15,000 lamp posts in The London Borough of Lambeth

Partner Content: Upgrading U.S. wireless networks has been called our most important infrastructure project. It’s actually happening.

The telecoms are waiting for the Department of Innovations, Science and Economic Development to set out a framework.

The race to 5G technology in China would become a US$410-billion business over the next decade.

There is a heated fight about when, where and how the next generation of cell service gets delivered.

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the hottest topics in privacy, as 5G is within communications. Interestingly, both the EU GDPR and the first release of a 5G standard will arrive in 2018. In this blog post we discuss important impacts of the EU GDPR on 5G. This blog post includes …

Equipping lamp posts with 5G base stations will be key to enabling next generation technologies and smart cities says Dr. Jan Järveläinen, R&D Manager at Premix Group.

Rolling out high speed mobile phone coverage and internet to the forgotten corners of rural Britain will require at least 400,000 extra masts, many of which will need to be 80ft high, experts have predicted.

Following on from my earlier post on 'Small Cells & Wi-Fi in the pavements & roads', here are some more details about these underground small cells, see video below. From Ericsson's press release: Swisscom and Ericsson have deployed the world’s first vault site for LTE and small cells in Switzerland. Some 250 further rollouts are due in the country’s cities during 2016. Swisscom and Ericsson have proved that city manholes can be used worldwide to improve capacity with small cells – even below street level – using the Ericsson Vault Remote Radio Unit and Kathrein’s Street Connect, an ...