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THE first trial of ultra speedy 25G PON technology has successfully been trialled in Spain on Telefonica’s existing fibre network, Nokia announced. The trial demonstrated nose-bleed-inducing speeds of 20 gigabits per second - around 60 times faster than current high-speed internet. Such speeds are considered necessary for some cutting edge cloud computing technology, as well as future applications such as Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse. Unfortunately 25G is not a five order jump in technology for 5G mobile networks; the two are separate technologies - 25G refers to home broadband.

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government inspectors investigating potentially abusive practices. The ministry said it was concerned about compliance with both labour and social security law at the consulting giants. The big four host 20,000 employees in their Madrid skyscrapers, many of whom are new graduates eager to get their accounting accreditation and a big name company on their CV.