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| 23 February 2021 UK mobile network O2 has picked up the Best Network for Coverage award for the fourth year running at the Uswitch Broadband and Mobile awards. The O2-owned mobile virtual network operator giffgaff was awarded Network of the Year, and O2 was also highly commended in the categories of Best SIM Only Network and Most Popular Mobile Network. The awards are decided in part by a survey of over 10,000 users. Plusnet has scooped the Broadband Provider of the Year award,...

Also in todays EMEA regional roundup: French village says "non" to Starlink ground station; KPN buffs up green credentials; MVNO specialist returns to Three UK. Telefónica has notched up 600G and 800G transmission speeds on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) photonic meshes in a pilot with Huawei in Madrid. The tests used Huawei OSN 9800 devices over the 47km network. Telefónica intends to begin implementing 400G speeds this year and subsequently tweak its Fusion IP network to meet the ne...