Starlink suffers massive outage
Tens of thousands lose service
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet was hit by a major outage, knocking tens of thousands of users offline just as the company celebrated a key milestone in its partnership with T-Mobile.
French beginning to surrender on ADSL
Three-quarters of French internet now runs on fibre
Optical fibre has taken over the French broadband market, with three out of four internet subscriptions now delivered over fibre connections, according to figures released by telecoms regulator ARCEP.
Huawei crows over China’s FTTR lead
Ultra-connected workforce
Huawei chair Xu Zhijun [pictured] reckons China’s fibre-to-the-room rollout is leaving the rest of the world in the dust.
Greenerwave wins big with French military
Breakthrough antenna tech scores major defence contract
Greenerwave has landed a plum deal with the French Armed Forces, thanks to some rather natty satellite communication wizardry.
No surrender as France doubles down on OneWeb
The French government has decided to lob €717 million into struggling satellite outfit Eutelsat, more than doubling its stake in a bid to prop up OneWeb and stake a bigger claim in the low Earth orbit space race.