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20 Jul 2023

Starlink : baisse des prix pour les mécontents de la fibre en France

L’internet filaire français est de plus en plus concurrencé par les satellites de Starlink. L’entreprise américaine réduit encore ses prix, de l’ordre de 20 %. En un an à peine, la grille tarifaire s’est métamorphosée et le service premium d’antan devient l’un des plus accessibles. Le CNES ne cautionne pas. Profiter du haut débit, l’antenne plantée façon « plug and play », dirigée vers le ciel. Dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi, Starlink a procédé à une nouvelle réduction des prix pour le marché français, une décision à contre-courant des opérateurs télécoms pris à court par l’inflation galopante. À l’heure où les fournisseurs cherchent à rembourser leurs dépenses en 5G et en fibre, la division de SpaceX mène une [...]

13 Jul 2023

Connect Fibre adds Netgem-powered TV bundles

Looking to add further value to its gigabit connectivity bundles, UK altnet Connect Fibre has chosen TV-as-a-service provider Netgem to complement its full-fibre broadband service with video products based on Netgem’s streaming solutions for UK ISPs. Netgem 6July2023 Founded in 2019, the Cambridgeshire-based UK ISP Connect Fibre focuses on providing broadband offers at what it claims are “reasonable prices” to compete with fibre ISPs on the networks of Openreach, CityFibre or Virgin. The new TV service includes over 215 live channels including 100 channels in addition to Freeview - with 45+ channel dedicated to sport such as MBL.TV, The Rugby Network and Pop kids. There are also 100.000 hours of included content with 25 Freeview Play catch-up such as ITVX [...]

07 Jun 2023

VNPT launches 10G fiber broadband service in Vietnam with Nokia

Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT) has deployed its 10G fiber broadband service in collaboration with Nokia. The initial phase of the rollout will connect 10,000 homes and businesses across eight major provinces in Vietnam. Nokia will provide fiber access nodes for the operator's exchanges and fiber modems for end users' premises. Source telecompaper.com (pour les abonnés).

15 May 2023

Deutsche Telekom reaches over 12 mln customers with fibre in Germany…

Deutsche Telekom said that the number of customers opting for a fibre connections in Germany grew by 15.6 percent year-on-year in the first three months of 2023 to 12.23 million. The number of mobile customers rose by 3.9 percent to 56.06 million, including 24.03 million with a contract and 32.03 million prepaid customers. The number of customers with subscriptions for the fixed-line network declined by 0.7 percent to 17.34 million. Broadband customers increased to 14.78 million and TV customers were up by source telecompaper.com (pour les abonnés).

29 Jan 2023

Internet

The internet of the future could download Red Dead Redemption 2 in nanoseconds Get ready for blisteringly fast internet, folks. But don’t rush; you’ve got plenty of time to prepare for it. A team of researchers in Europe has developed a new way to transmit data(opens in new tab) at speeds that dwarf the fastest internet connections in the world - and they’ve done so using just a simple chip and light beam. The team - comprised of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden - designed a system that uses a photonic chip to split a beam of light into more than 8,000 different color frequencies, with each color isolated and [...]