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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…
Asia-Pacific further increased its lead in the fourth quarter in terms of the average bandwidth of residential broadband services, as well as the best value for money in terms of cost per megabit, according to Point Topic. The research firm said average…
The global average connection speed increased 2.3% sequentially and 21% year on year to 6.3 Mbps in the third quarter of 2016, Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report shows. South Korea maintained its lead with the highest average connection speed at…
The Indonesian government will give preference to Japan to build a Jakarta-Surabaya semi-high speed train project, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said. “Japan will receive preference,” he said after a coordination meeting at the Coordinating…
Nokia and Singapore’s StarHub have jointly demonstrated speeds of 4.3Gbps and 1ms latency using 5G centimeter wave (cmWave) frequencies. The company’s have been trialing Nokia’s AirScale integrated radio access network platform over StarHub’s live mobile…
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has instructed the market’s fixed line operators to guarantee a minimum download speed of 512kbps at all times. In a new directive, Trai set the minimum required speed to be considered broadband at…
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks and Nokia Bell Labs have set a new transmission record over a 6,600km single mode fiber for transoceanic cable systems. The lab trial achieved a total transmission speed of 65Tbps using submarine grade dual band erbium doped…
Global average internet connection speeds grew 12% sequentially during the first quarter to 6.3Mbps, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report. The report aslso shows that the global average peak connection speed increased 6.8% to 34.7 Mbps…
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