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Introducing the MobileX Gold Network: First-of-its-Kind On-Demand Priority Access On-Demand or Monthly Options Put Customers in Control of Speed

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 4h

2.1 USD per GB with priority vs. 1.9 USD per GB without. From this Saturday on MobileX. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

/PRNewswire/ -- MobileX, the most customizable wireless service designed to save consumers money, today announced the upcoming launch of the MobileX Gold...

www.prnewswire.com

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 7h

*flanker

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 7h

T-Mobile USA introduces 5G FWA also on its recently acquired Mint Mobile brand. The introductory 3 month price is just a one-time price, though. T-Mobile took 5G FWA to its other flaker brand, Metro, years ago. www.mintmobile.com/5g-home-inte...

Justerer pengebruken fra dekning til sikkerhet og oppetid i mobil- og bredbåndsnettene

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 7h

T-Mobile USA introduces 5G FWA also on its recently acquired Mint Mobile brand. The introductory 3 month price is just a one-time price, though. T-Mobile took 5G FWA to its other flaker brand, Metro, years ago. www.mintmobile.com/5g-home-inte...

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 14h

Norway with a target of 100% of households having access to 1 Gbit/s broadband by 2030 seems to be in conflict with that now: It redirects 400 MNOK from fibre rollout support to support for safety and resilience www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/j...

Den skjerpede sikkerhetssituasjonen gjør at regjeringen omprioriterer. Tilskudd til sikkerhets- og beredskapstiltak økes, og bredbåndsmidlene foreslås redusert i statsbudsjettet for 2026.

www.regjeringen.no

On 16 and 17 September 2025 we will accept applications to participate in the auction of licences authorising use of 26 GHz and 40 GHz spectrum in ‘High Density Areas’. We then expect to begin the pri...

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 1d

Bouygues, Iliad and Orange now agree how to chop up SFR (Altice France) www.iliad.fr/media/CP_141...

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 1d

UK: The mmWave auction in 26 and 40 GHz between EE, O2 and VodafoneThree will start tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see what the valuation of the 5.4 GHz auctioned spectrum will be. www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/spe...

mmWave Auction

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 2d

TDC NET and Nuuday (both ex-TDC) now have one and the same chairman. She says that Danish telcos face to spend billions of DKK on capacity and resilience. To afford it, authorities will have to cut regulation, while consumers have to accept higher prices. www.berlingske.dk/virksomheder...

Telegigant slår alarm: Slæk på reguleringen – ellers får vi ikke råd til enorme investeringer i sikkerhed | Berlingske

Bestyrelsesformanden for Danmarks største telekoncern, TDC, er svært bekymret for, om den måde, myndighederne vil styre priserne på i de næste fem år, vil betyde færre investeringer. TDC har ellers af...

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 4d

It rather seems to be a general low interest for 'digital' as such in Germany, see e.g. digital-decade-desi.digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/datasets/des...

Digital Decade DESI visualisation tool

The Digital Decade DESI visualisation tool gives an overview of the progress towards the 2030 Digital Decade targets and on DESI indicators which for years have helped in tracking Europe’s Member Stat...

digital-decade-desi.digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 5d

The German government launched a "Das beste Internet" campaign promoting fibre. Background: The fibre take-up in Germany has been surprisingly low even though fibre now is available to 53% of the households. das-beste-internet.de

Alle Infos über Glasfaser | Das beste Internet

Schnelles Internet per Glasfaseranschluss: Tipps vom Digitalministerium für den Umstieg, Vergleich mit DSL und Kabelinternet, FAQ und Kontakt.

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting: Verizon buys Starry, a provider of mmWave FWA to multi-dwelling units (MDUs) with 100,000 customers. Maybe there's life in mmWave after all in spite of failures in e.g. South Korea and with smartphone manufactures opting out? www.verizon.com/about/news/v...

Verizon accelerates fixed wireless broadband expansion with acquisition of Starry

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Starry, a leading provider of next-generation fixed wireless broadband services.

www.verizon.com

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 7d

Sweden with the fastest train Wi-Fi in Europe www.ookla.com/articles/tra...

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 7d

This is for business customers, not consumers.

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 7d

Telenor Sweden launches 5G FWA with an availability guarantee of at least 99% as complement to existing best effort 5G FWA offers. No price points indicated. Seems not to be based on 5G standalone or slicing as neither is mentioned. news.cision.com/se/telenor-s...

On 16 and 17 September 2025 we will accept applications to participate in the auction of licences authorising use of 26 GHz and 40 GHz spectrum in ‘High Density Areas’. We then expect to begin the pri...

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 7d

Telenor Sweden launches 5G FWA with an availability guarantee of at least 99% as complement to existing best effort 5G FWA offers. No price points indicated. Seems not to be based on 5G standalone or slicing as neither is mentioned. news.cision.com/se/telenor-s...

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 8d

The usual suspects are the only qualified to participate in the upcoming mmWave (26 and 40 GHz) auction in the UK.
www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/spe...

mmWave Auction

www.ofcom.org.uk

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 9d

Vestberg steps down as Verizon CEO immediately www.verizon.com/about/news/v...

PTS skjuter upp beslut om fibernätsreglering

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 9d

Rather disastrous customer satisfaction results in Swedish SKI for consumer mobile in 2025: Lowest overall in ten years. Main brands, particularly @3sverige.bsky.social collapsing while flankers Vimla, @comviq.bsky.social, and Fello break the trend and improve. www.kvalitetsindex.se/branschunder...

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 14d

Swedish regulator PTS delays its decision on new regulation of fiber access to 2026 after heavy criticism from most of the 60 network owners that were proposed to be SMP designated. pts.se/nyheter-och-...

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 14d

The Nordics countries do not do as great in 5G as it does for mobile overall incl. 4G, but in Opensignal's new 5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards, DNA and Tele2/Telenor Sweden are global winners. www.opensignal.com/2025/09/30/5...

(+) Lyse Tele lager Altibox- og Ice-divisjoner for privatmarkedene

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 15d

With this, Finland in 2024 spent the highest proportion of total investments on fixed in the Nordics, 63%. The proportion is similar in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, though.

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 15d

Finland: Investments into fixed networks continued to grow quickly in 2024, with 29% more invested compared to 2023. Fibre rollout is the main driver.

Whereas investments into fixed network (497 MEUR) never was higher, mobile network investments peaked in 2021 and fell 12% in 2024.

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 19d

One more Norwegian operator separates its fixed and mobile business: Lyse Tele will split its consumer business in two parts: One Altibox division for fixed broadband and one Ice division for mobile, reports Telecom Revy. www.telecomrevy.no/altibox-fibe...

Lyse Tele planlegger en strategisk organisasjonsendring for å styrke konkurransekraften i et marked preget av økt modenhet og nye rammevilkår. Selskapet etablerer separate divisjoner for Altibox og Ic...

www.telecomrevy.no

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 20d

Norlys today communicates that it will lay off 137 employees in its customer organisation responsible for energy and telecom: via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

Compared to what was communicated just a month ago - 10% of 2450 employees, i.e. 245 - today's number is much lower.

Microtrenching Should Be Used in Finland Too

Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 21d

"In practice, Finnish municipalities do not grant permits for microtrenching at all" ficom.fi/news/microtr...

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Tefficient🚥 @tefficient.bsky.social · 21d

In an interview with ITWatch, Sinal's (new name of Norlys fiber network biz) CEO says it will invest about 800 MDKK per year although the total investments of the Danish industry fell in 2024 compared to 2021, 2022, 2023. He wants to see the take rate grow from 50% to 80%.
itwatch.dk/ITNyt/Strate...

Sinal vil investere 800 mio. kr. i fibernet om året

Opennet, der også er Norlysejet og platform til åbning af fibernet, har netop indgået aftale med Stadtwerke Flensburg; samarbejde er også konsolidering.

itwatch.dk