TL;DRGlobal mobile data traffic reached 28 exabytes per month by end of 2018, doubling roughly every two years, driven by video, smartphones, and machine-to-machine connections.WhatsApp had 1.5 billion monthly active...
Commercial 5G services went live globally in 2019, with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile launching their first mobile offerings that year. By early 2025 the technology had settled into a pattern...
Broadband labelled superfast and ultrafast names two distinct service tiers, but those labels map to specific infrastructure choices, not just marketing. Superfast broadband, defined by Ofcom and the EU as...
Fifth-generation cellular technology changes healthcare only where 4G LTE physically could not deliver. That is a narrower set of applications than the marketing suggests, but the ones that work are...
Ofcom's Chief Technology Officer sat down with LeadMonitor in mid-2021 to answer a question that mobile operators were spending heavily to avoid: when will 5G actually change anything for the...
UK telecoms provider TalkTalk has introduced a data monitoring and analytics platform for its business and wholesale customers. The platform gives those clients real-time visibility into network performance, traffic patterns,...
The Smart Town project in Lelystad, Netherlands, was conceived as a large-scale, real-world testing ground for 5G and smart-city technologies. It was to be built on a site near Lelystad...
Kingston upon Hull is the only UK city where a single company still controls almost every phone line and broadband connection. KCOM, formerly Kingston Communications, has held that position since...
Helmut Reisinger became CEO of Orange Business Services in May 2018. Over the next four years, he positioned the B2B division of Orange S.A. to treat 5G not as a...
