A new fibre extension certification programme is streamlining the deployment of high-performance networks by broadband service providers (BSPs) via a collaboration between two leading standards development organisations. Positron Access Solutions and ReadyLinks have become the first certified system vendors to officially pass the Broadband Forum and HomeGrid Forum’s GHNA (G.hn Access) Certification Programme. The programme […]

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry body dedicated to improving Wi-Fi standards and services, has released the WBA Industry Report 2025, with 81 per cent of respondents to its annual industry survey planning deployments of WBA OpenRoaming, an 18.9 per cent increase on 2024. Of those, 25 per cent were already rolling out the […]

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks and data centre industries, total global revenue for the Broadband Access equipment market increased to $4.6 billion in Q3 2024, up 1 per cent QoQ and 5 per cent YoY. “Fixed wireless providers in select markets continue to […]

Freshwave, a UK mobile infrastructure provider, has secured a committed credit facility of up to £100 million (€120.8m) from Guggenheim Investments, on behalf of certain clients, to fund its continuing growth trajectory. Guggenheim Investments is the global asset management and investment advisory division of Guggenheim Partners. This funding builds on the investment made to date […]

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry body dedicated to improving Wi-Fi standards and services, has released an updated Operator Managed Wi-Fi (OMWi): Reference Architecture and Requirements technical report.  This update includes enhanced technical and operational requirements and introduces open-source, OMWi-compliant implementations from partners such as the prpl Foundation, and RDK-B.  It delivers a a […]

Point Topic has provided an update on fixed broadband availability in the UK, tracking the progress between the end of June 2024 and the end of September 2024. The analysis is based on the ThinkPoint broadband availability dataset which includes 1.7 million postcodes. At the end of Q3 2024, the overall FTTP coverage was 23.2 […]

Community Fibre, the UK broadband provider, has signed a new finance facility provided and/or arranged by JP Morgan, Barclays, LBBW, SIMCo (Sequoia Investment Management Company) and Alpha Bank raising a total of £125 million (€150.2m), overachieving planned targets and bringing total investment in the company to £1.1 billion. The company also announced it has been EBITDA positive since […]

The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority (the GCRA) has been monitoring broadband speeds in Guernsey and found that they now exceed the last reported UK average broadband download speed, released by Ofcom late in Q4 2023. The median average fixed broadband download speed for the island was 74.1Mbps vs. 69.4Mb in the UK, for the […]