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BT says it has removed all caps on home broadband plans, in order to provide customers with unlimited data as companies increasingly turn to home working and schools close in the face of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. BT Consumer CEO Marc Allera said the telecoms giant was removing all caps on home broadband plans so […] More
This week, Europe’s largest telco, Deutsche Telekom, announced it is playing its part in the global fight against the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19. The company said it is handing 5GB of customer data over to the Robert Koch Institute, the organization tasked with coordinating a national response in Germany. The institute, RKI for short, […] More
The European Union is in talks with Netflix and other streaming platforms about ways to prevent the internet from breaking due to the unprecedented pressures placed on it by the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has forced millions to work from home, and as schools and colleges close and move their operations online, the […] More
SpaceX has successfully launched another 60 Starlink satellites, boosting its internet-beaming space network to 360 satellites. Networking The latest launch on Wednesday, SpaceX’s sixth Starlink mission to date, puts it much closer to the minor coverage of North America that SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk expects to achieve when the network reaches […] More
Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom has skirted around Huawei to select Ericsson and Nokia technology for its 5G network. Ericsson will be used in the network core. It will also supply radio kit for the 3.5GHz and 28GHz spectrum bands, while Nokia said it will be responsible for 5G radio deployment in central […] More
Will the internet survive the “record traffic peaks” it is currently experiencing? If the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has you working from home, learning from home, or just practicing social distancing or self-isolation, then chances are that you are using the internet more. Much more. But can the internet cope with the increased demand, especially as […] More
Image: NBN The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia announced on Wednesday it would be providing pricing relief to Australian telco retailers in the wake of people increasingly working from home as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the planet. From Monday, retail service providers (RSPs) will be able […] More
(Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet) Users of Australia’s government-owned national broadband wholesaler are set to receive up to 15% extra layer 2 capacity so that the tests the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) run at layer 7 can match the speeds claimed by internet service providers (ISPs). In a test agreement [PDF] that appeared earlier this week, […] More
