en.Wedoany.com Reported - The UK communications regulator Ofcom conducted mobile network performance tests on 24 sections of major railway lines in England, Scotland, and Wales, finding that signals on trains are generally poor. The regulator defines "good performance" as a minimum download speed of 5 Mbit/s, upload speed of at least 1.5 Mbit/s, and a response time of no more than 50 milliseconds. Results showed that between 58% and 83% of measurements from different operators failed to meet the standard. Vodafone performed the worst, with only 17% of sections meeting the standard; EE performed the best, with a compliance rate of 42%. Onboard Wi-Fi provided by train companies performed even worse, meeting the good standard only 1% of the time, which Ofcom attributes mainly to outdated technology and speed limitations.
The ViaTunisia submarine fiber optic cable segment connecting Marseille, France, and Bizerte, Tunisia, has been declared ready for service. This segment is part of the Medusa submarine cable system, with offshore operations carried out by the cable ships Sophie Germain of Orange Marine and Teliri of Elettra TLC, and system design and equipment provided by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN). The ViaTunisia project has received co-funding from the European Union's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) program.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has granted publishers the power to prevent their content from being used to support AI features in Google Search, such as "AI Overviews." Google must ensure that publisher content is properly attributed and accompanied by clear links, even in AI-generated search results. Publishers can also choose not to have their content used for fine-tuning AI models. CMA Chief Executive Sarah Cardell stated that as features like AI Overviews rapidly reshape online search, content publishers, including news organizations, must have appropriate bargaining power to decide how their content is used.
The General Court of the European Union dismissed Meta's appeal against the designation of its messaging app Messenger as a "digital gatekeeper" under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). However, the decision to designate Meta's Marketplace app as a gatekeeper was annulled. Online platforms designated as gatekeepers must comply with certain rules under the DMA that their owners consider overly burdensome, making the designation unpopular.
UK alternative network (altnet) operator CityFibre announced it has reached the milestone of 1 million connections. Founded a decade ago, the company stated that its achievement clearly proves that a decade of policies and regulations aimed at promoting network competition are working.
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