In the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) annual Measuring Digital Development: Facts and figures report, the gap between urban and rural home internet access was small in most developed countries. In developing nations, however, around 2.3 times more households in urban locations had access than in rural zones.

In its latest Mobility Report released this week, telecommunications giant Ericsson estimates there will be around 220 million 5G subscriptions by the end of 2020, and 5G deployments are expected to cover around 1 billion people worldwide within the same timeframe.

Amazon has already shifted about 80% of Alexa processing onto Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Inf1 instances, which use the new AWS Inferentia chips. Compared to the G4 instances, which used traditional GPUs, the Inf1 instances push throughput up by 30% and costs down by 45%. Amazon reckons that they’re the…

With every new Wi-Fi generation come new devices that take advantage of all the new standard capabilities. Today we’re testing Wi-Fi 6 systems from Asus, Netgear, Arris, TP-Link and Linksys to see how they perform.

Technology is always moving forward, and as telecoms companies are still rolling out 5G networks across the world and Apple recently released its first 5G iPhone, China has just sent a 6G satellite into orbit.