UK joins China and UAE in global race for hyperfast broadband Openreach and Nokia show how fibre networks can scale from 10G today to 50G Telemedicine and AI-driven healthcare will benefit from 50Gbps broadband The UK’s first live 50Gbps fibre broadband connection has been successfully tested in a trial by Nokia and Openreach, delivering speeds up to twenty times faster than existing services. Openreach revealed more on the test, which was conducted in Ipswich over Openreach’s full-fibre network using Nokia’s 50G PON technology, and achieved download speeds of 41.9Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6Gbps. To put this speed into perspective,...