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Image: Chorus New Zealand broadband wholesaler Chorus has said it now has 105,000 users on 1Gbps connections, which it will wholesale for NZ$60 per month. During its third quarter, the company added 18,000 extra 1Gbps plans, and said the new total represents 15% of its fibre connections. Across all fibre connections, it added 32,000 customers […] More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is offering more than $2 billion in financing and cash management programs for customers struggling with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. HPE, which counts its financial services unit as a key cog in its asset management and everything-as-a-service efforts, said the financing is designed to offer customers both large and […] More
Singapore has unveiled several initiatives aimed at helping the local population, particularly the elderly and underprivileged, stay online during the coronavirus outbreak. These include boosting existing schemes to provide more subsidies for students from low-income households who require digital access for home-based learning. The country’s ICT regulator, Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), on Wednesday said […] More
Cisco has announced that it plans to acquire Fluidmesh Networks, makers of a wireless backhaul system for Industrial Internet of Things deployments. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Featured stories Fluidmesh’s technology aims to provide zero loss of data transfer when assets such as trains and subways are moving at high speed. The […] More
The average amount of time smartphone users have spent connected to Wi-Fi networks has jumped in Brazil in late March as a result of social isolation measures related to the coronavirus outbreak. According to data released by mobile analytics firm Opensignal on South America, a significant week-on-week increase was observed in the amount of time […] More
Image: Sky and Space Global ASX-listed nanosatellite company Sky and Space Global informed the stock market on Tuesday afternoon that it had entered voluntary administration the previous day. In an announcement from accountancy firm Hall Chadwick, the administrators said a meeting with the company’s creditors would be held within eight days from Monday. At the […] More
Networking Once upon a time, besides the star-endpoint network model, many small networks used a peer-to-peer (P2P) model. You may recall it from such network operating systems as LANtastic and Windows for Workgroups. Now, new company Tailscale is taking that old idea and adding in the new open-source Wireguard Virtual Private Network (VPN) to create a […] More
Any medical clinics that are currently able to operate and are sitting on 25/5Mbps or 12/1Mbps NBN plans will receive a free upgrade to 50/20Mbps for six months. Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher cited the ability of 50Mbps plans to “comfortably support” the bandwidth requirements of multiple simultaneous video conferences. “Telehealth services require a fast, […] More
