Openserve upgrades data speeds

Openserve fibre and DSL customers will have upgraded data speeds for a three-month period, effective 1 May 2020. Covid-19 has forced communities, businesses and governments to embrace the centrality of technological advancements to connect, communicate, and conduct...

Frogfoot offers free FTTH speed upgrades for three months

In light of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement 21-day lockdown and closure of non-essential businesses to combat the Covid-19 epidemic, more South African companies have no choice but to let their employees work from home – and Frogfoot is looking to...

Nokia Bell Labs posts fibre records

Nokia Bell Labs researchers have set the world record for the highest single carrier bit rate at 1,52 Terabits per second (Tbit/s) over 80 km of standard single mode fiber – the equivalent of simultaneously streaming 1,5-million YouTube videos – which is...

Ericsson Spectrum Sharing commercially available

Ericsson has announced that its unique dynamic spectrum sharing solution is commercially available, allowing communications service providers to quickly and cost-effectively launch 5G on a nationwide scale. Ericsson Spectrum Sharing allows both 4G and 5G to be...

Nokia debuts end-to-end slicing

Nokia has launched new end-to-end slicing network functionality for 4G and 5G New Radio (NR). The solution will support connectivity from 4G and 5G devices over the sliced network to applications running in private and public clouds and will be available later this...