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Vodafone Idea and AST SpaceMobile Partner to Bring Satellite Broadband Connectivity to India

Telecom Talk

Indian telecom service provider Vodafone Idea (Vi) and satellite-based cellular broadband network provider AST SpaceMobile announced a strategic partnership to expand mobile connectivity across India’s unconnected regions. billion mobile subscribers.

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Six Lakh Villages in India to Be Connected with Fibre Network in Three Years: Report

Telecom Talk

The Centre plans to connect as many as six lakh villages with high-speed optical fibre-based broadband over the next three years, a senior government official said on Monday. He further highlighted that India’s median broadband speed stands at approximately 138 Mbps and that 99.6 5G Footprint Almost Nationwide “We cover 99.6

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Dean Bubley: Does AI Drive Demand for Mobile Spectrum?

Broadband Breakfast

But some in the mobile industry have gone further. On a recent Broadband Breakfast webinar, a CTIA speaker suggested that a lack of suitable 5G spectrum might somehow hinder AI development and usage. In addition, looking at the mobile market today, 100s of millions of people are using mostly text-based AI applications.

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Signal for Every Indian: Vi’s Big Step with Satellite Connectivity

Telecom Talk

based company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed to connect standard mobile phones directly to satellites. How Vi Satellite Connectivity Works AST SpaceMobile’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation is designed to function like a network of mobile towers in the sky.

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VodafoneThree sets big goals for 5G standalone and broadband services

Total Telecom

The move creates the UK’s largest mobile operator, with 27 million customers, and reduces the number of national operators from four to three. This will allow customers to access mobile services anywhere in the country, essentially eliminating not spots entirely. billion merger of Vodafone UK and Three finally closed. Roughly £1.3

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How MDU connectivity is becoming more competitive

Total Telecom

By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Speaking to Beyond the Cable at Broadband Communities Summit last month in Houston, Maravedis’ chief researcher, Adlane Fellah, says he sees a big opportunity for MDU brownfield deployments in the coming months and years. Additionally, he called MVNOs a “super segmentation of mobile services.”

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BSNL Asked to Grow Mobility Business by 50%: Report

Telecom Talk

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-run telecom operator, has been tasked by the telecom minister to grow its mobility business by 50%. The mobility businsess for BSNL should grow with rising tariffs and faster 4G networks which are now present in many parts of India. This is for next year.