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Living
1 min read

Singapore raises alarm over speeding violations

Singapore will impose stricter penalties for speeding from next year, following a sharp rise in road accidents, fatalities, and violations over the past years. Singapore’s Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam said on Feb. 15 that the number of road…

telstra
Telecom
1 min read

Telstra Boasts Fastest Speed in Australia

Telstra is Australia’s fastest mobile network for the first half of 2022, based on results from the Ookla Speedtest Awards from January to June 2022. Telstra has a median download speed of 81.57 Mbps and median upload of 11.38 Mbps, representing an improved…

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Research
3 min read

Global broadband less affordable in 2021

Internet connectivity became less affordable around the world in 2021, according to the latest statistical analysis by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI). The share of people’s incomes spent on…

satellite
Telecom
1 min read

TRAI releases consultation paper on satellite gateway

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has extended an invitation to industry stakeholders to gather inputs on a framework for satellite gateways in India. This will facilitate the launch of satellite communication services in India. Prior to this, the…

UBS Bank scaled
Finance
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UBS to Double Software Engineering Speed

Slowly but surely isn’t good enough principle for the development of software in times of rapid technological progress. UBS, therefore, found a partner that will help it double the speed of development by using a dedicated cloud solution. Switzerland’s No. 1…

Vietnam Internet
Telecom
2 min read

Taiwan overtakes Singapore in broadband speed

The global average in terms of broadband speed is 11.03Mbps since May 2019, compared to it being 9.14 at the same time last year. The data from this new research was gathered by a US-based open-source project called Measurement Lab (M-Lab). “With average…

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General
1 min read

Apple agrees to notify users when iOS updates impacts performance

Following the last year debate about whether or not Apple should have informed consumers that some of its updates will slow down their iPhones, the UK Competition and Markets Authority kicked off an investigation to learn more about the matter. The…

720S Spider low rear wallpaper
Automotive
1 min read

McLaren Took 260 Hours To Paint This 720S Spider

McLarens are always special, aren’t they? All of them look dramatically beautiful and of course, all of them are fast. But when you know that McLaren has taken 260 hours to paint one, its special quotient reaches another level. The Paint Job on the McLaren…

KT 5G bus
Telecom
1 min read

Korea’s KT 5G bus hits the road

Are you curious about all the hype over 5G? A ride on a 5G-powered bus may answer some questions. Mobile carrier KT announced Tuesday that people can sign up for free rides on its 5G bus. The bus will be connected to its ultra-fast 5G wireless network and…

hyundai factory
Telecom
2 min read

Factories, tractors and robots benefit from 5G in Korea

All three of Korea’s mobile carriers launched their 5G networks on Saturday, the first day of December, officially kicking off an era of the high-speed network. SK Telecom started transmissions from its Bundang network management center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi;…

browsing
General
1 min read

Ministry working on faster internet with private sector

Korea is pushing to commercialize 10-gigabit transfer speeds that are 10 times faster than Giga Internet, the fastest broadband service currently available in the country, the Ministry of Science and ICT said Sunday. The ministry would work closely with local…

Healty internet usage
Telecom
2 min read

Australia plans to mandate 25Mbps broadband speeds

The Australian government has introduced new legislation that would mandate the supply of broadband services with peak speeds of at least 25Mbps to all premises in the country. The proposed Telecommunications Reform Package would require that services…

internet
Telecom
1 min read

Vietnam, Indonesia have much faster internet speed than India

Ranked 89 globally, India’s average internet connection speed of 6.5 Mbps is slower than Vietnam and Indonesia, which are much faster, a report said on Friday. While Vietnam, ranked 58, had an average internet speed of 9.5 Mbps, Indonesia at rank 77 provided…

NBN Rollout
Telecom
1 min read

NBN achieves 1.1Gbps speeds in fixed wireless trial

Australia’s nbn, the state-owned company building the National Broadband Network, has achieved speeds of over 1Gbps during a trial of fixed wireless technology. The company used carrier aggregation to combine seven 3.4-GHz carriers with four in the 2.3-GHz…